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If you require items that are not available through the University of Pennsylvania (via either Search Center or Franklin), consult the Biddle Law Library's Interlibrary Loan (ILL) procedures:
Biddle Law Library Interlibrary Loan Services
Dissertations offer students excellent research starting points. They both demonstrate the format that the dissertation requires and also provide detailed subject matter bibliographies current to the date of the dissertation.
To search dissertations across many universities, enter key words into the search box at the Proquest link below. Add "S.J.D." as a keyword and it will only search for SJD dissertations.
To find theses submitted to Penn Law in partial fulfillment of the SJD degree, click here to search Search Center, Biddle's online catalog. Other Penn Law dissertations may be found online in the Law School's institutional repository.