Legal News, Alerts, and Current Affairs

This is a guide to legal news sources.

It provides resources for reading legal news, which covers topics such as developments in legislation or case law, legal issues, and opinion. Depending on the source, these articles are written by subject experts, practitioners, or legal publishers. 

It also provides resources for finding legal blogs and podcasts, as well as highlighting award winning examples. These can be useful to learn about specific areas of interest, such as trauma-informed lawyering or Indigenous legal issues. 

For staying current with the law and learning about developments as soon as they happen, alerts and newsletters are great resources. Alerts can be set up for many legal databases, allowing you to receive automatic updates on citations or keyword search results. 

Recent developments in the law are often covered through conference materials and professional development resources.

This guide also describes how to use newspapers to learn about the history, context, and public opinion surrounding legal issues and developments in the courts and legislature, with access to the newspaper guides that provide access to a huge variety of news resources. 

Finally, it includes a link to learn about legal citation. 

Date Updated: July 2025

This guide has been created by the Toronto Metropolitan University Library and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License unless otherwise marked.