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ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct (Bloomberg BNA)
This manual offers news and analysis relating to attorney conduct and legal ethics. It includes full text access to ABA and state ethics opinions, the ABA model rules and standards, and state ethics rules. It contains all of the indexes and finding aids available in the print version located at KF306 .A71.
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ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct, Current Reports (Bloomberg BNA)
This biweekly publication complements the ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct by providing news and analysis on developments in legal ethics, malpractice, and other professional issues. Available online back to February 4, 1998.
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ABI/INFORM Global
A searchable index of business periodicals covering advertising, marketing, economics, human resources, finance, tax, and more. Provides access to the full text content of many of these periodicals including coverage of the Wall Street Journal since 1984.
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Academic Search Elite
This multidisciplinary database indexes 3500 periodicals and provides full text coverage for more than 2000. Covering virtually every area of academic study, Academic Search Elite offers full text information dating as far back as 1985.
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Access World News
Provides access to full text articles from the electronic editions of U.S. and international newspapers. Includes the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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AccessUN
Indexes documents issued between 1945 and the present by the six main bodies of the UN; the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat, and International Court of Justice. Selected statements, resolutions, and reports are available in full text. Provides bibliographic citations that facilitate access to the Roy J. Carver United Nations Documents Collection in room 130.
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AccessUNDP
The United Nations Development Programme endeavors to build more productive societies and economies in low-income nations by helping them develop their natural resources and human capabilities. This resource indexes the reports of UNDP-funded projects from 1972-1988. The full text of the reports are available in the Main Library's Media Collection.
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Accounting Policy & Practice Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This publication provides information on accounting rules and practices, financial statements and disclosures, and auditing standards. Published biweekly and available online back to October 21, 2005.
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Accounting Policy & Practice Series (Bloomberg BNA)
This series features Portfolios, which provide in-depth analysis and practical guidance on income tax accounting, audits, disclosures, and related topics.
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Acts of the U.K. Parliament
Provides the full text of all UK Parliament Public General Acts back to 1988 with selected coverage extending as far back as 1837; all Local Acts back to 1991 with selected coverage back to 1857; and all published Statutory Instruments back to 1987. Legislation from Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales can also be accessed through this website.
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Afghan Laws (WorldLII)
Provides full text access to unofficial English translations of selected Afghan laws back from 1933-2008.
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Africa-Wide: NiPAD
Allows searching across 40 multidisciplinary databases covering Africa from the 19th century through the present. Results typically contain links to full-text information.
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African American Newspapers: The 19th Century
Includes the complete texts of major 19th century African American newspapers. Includes first-hand reports of events and issues of the day as well as biographies, vital statistics, essays, editorials, poetry, prose, and advertisements.
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Africana Conference Paper Index
An index to Africana conference proceeding papers published in Western European languages that are part of the Melville J. Herskovits Library of African Studies at Northwestern University.
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AgeLine
Produced by the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), AgeLine contains citations and abstracts to journal articles, books and chapters, research reports, dissertations, gray literature, and educational videos in the area of social gerontology, i.e. the study of aging in psychological, health-related, social, and economic contexts.
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Agricola (National Agriculture Library)
Agricola is a catalog and index to the collections of the National Agricultural Library. The database covers materials in all formats and periods, including printed works from as far back as the 15th century. It has two primary components: the NAL Online Public Access Catalog contains citations to books, audiovisuals, serials, and other materials, most of which are in the Library's collection; the Article Citation Database indexes journal articles, book chapters, and reports.
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AILALink
This product from the American Immigration Lawyers Association is an online immigration law library providing full text access to the Immigration and Nationality Act, relevant regulations from the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Register, Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals and Board of Immigration Appeals decisions, immigration related court cases, agency memos and minutes, forms, government manuals, and much more. It also provides full text access to AILA publications including AILA's Asylum Primer, Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook, and Litigating Criminal Cases in Federal Court.
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Alt-Press Watch
Indexes and provides full text access to articles from over 200 newspapers, magazines, and journals published by alternative and independent presses.
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Alternative Investment Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly publication examines securities regulation and enforcement, tax developments, accounting rules, futures regulation, corporate law, and pension fund issues to provide up to date information on the legal and regulatory developments affecting hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative investment vehicles. Available online since May 14, 2008.
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America: History and Life
Focuses on the history and culture of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present. Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book reviews, dissertations, and other materials published since 1954.
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American Association of Law Libraries (HeinOnline)
Provides access to Law Library Journal, AALL Spectrum, and other AALL publications.
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American Bibliography of Slavic and East European Studies (ABSEES)
ABSEES indexes books, journals, dissertations, and other materials published in the U.S. and Canada that examine the anthropology, culture, arts, economics, education, and geography of East-Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. Coverage extends back as far as 1939 for some publications but coverage varies by title.
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American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I
Based on the American Antiquarian Society's collection, this fully searchable database contains digitized images of broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900 and ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. The collection contains a wide variety of materials including contemporary accounts of the Civil War, autobiographies, town meeting reports, advertisements, playbills, stock certificates, and criminal confessions.
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American Indian Law Collection (HeinOnline)
This collection comprises more than 700 unique titles related to American Indian law. Access a vast digital archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence related to the law of American Indians. This collection also includes select legislative histories, scholarly articles, and other related works. Some notable titles include the Decisions of the Department of the Interior from 1883 to 1995 and the Opinions of the Solicitor of the Department of the Interior Relating to Indian Affairs from 1917 to 1974, and Felix S. Cohen's Handbook of Federal Indian Law. Also, available for the first time in digital format is Felix S. Cohen's Statutory Compilation of the Indian Law Survey. A Compendium of Federal Laws and Treaties Relating to Indians, Pts. 1 - 46 (1776 - 1938). This collection contains all of the resources that were included in HeinOnline's U.S. Department of the Interior Collection; the latter has been removed from the Electronic Resources A - Z list.
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American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)
Consists of full runs of the Institute's annual reports, proceedings, annual meeting speeches, and the ALI Reporter newsletter. Also includes archival material from the Second Restatement of Torts, the Model Penal Code, and the Statement of Essential Human Rights.
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American Periodicals Series Online 1740-1900
A digitized collection of special interest and general magazines, literary and professional journals, children's and women's magazines, and many other historically significant periodicals that began publication between 1740 and 1900.
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American Presidency Project
This collection from the University of California Santa Barbara provides full text access to a wide variety of presidential materials dating back to 1789 including Executive Orders, the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, election data, approval ratings, candidates' remarks, press briefings, party platforms, and transcripts of weekly radio addresses, speeches, and transition remarks. Materials on the site can be browsed or searched using a variety of limits.
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American State Papers, 1789-1838
This searchable, digitized collection contains the legislative and executive documents of Congress from 1789-1838. These primary source materials provide insights into significant events in American history and are considered the precursor to the U.S. Congressional Serial Set.
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Americans with Disabilities Act Manual (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides news and analysis relating to the ADA and reprints primary source materials including legislation, regulations, and cases. It also includes practice tools such as forms and checklists. Click on the "site map" link at the top of the page to access this title within the Labor & Employment Law Library. Also available in print at KF3469.A6 B63.
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Ancestry Library Edition
Contains coverage of the U.S. and the U.K. data including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada and other areas. A collection of more than 4,000 databases and 1.5 billion names including U.S. federal census images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Center containing more than 1,000 historical maps; American Genealogical Biographical Index (over 200 volumes), Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage (over 150 volumes), The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-1630, Social Security Death Index, WWI Draft Registration Cards, Federal Slave Narratives, and a Civil War collection.
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Anglo-American Legal Tradition
Provides background information on the development of the English legal system since 1176 and access to digitized images of primary legal documents from medieval and early modern England that are owned by the National Archives in London.
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Annual Reviews
Provides full text access to analytical reviews in the biomedical, life, physical, and social sciences. Specific titles include the Annual Review of Law and Social Science, Annual Review of Environment and Resources, Annual Review of Sociology, and Annual Review of Public Health.
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Antitrust & Trade Regulation Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Contains current news and analysis of antitrust and trade issues including franchising, mergers and acquisitions, unfair competition, price fixing, marketing, and trade liberalization. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly publication examines federal, state, and international competition and deceptive trade practices law. It follows proposed domestic legislation, monitors the international enforcement initiatives of U.S. trading partners, and tracks cases brought by the Justice Department's Antitrust Division, the Federal Trade Commission, and state attorneys general. Available online since February 8, 1996; also in print at KF1606.3 .B87.
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Archive Finder
Indexes the holdings of archival repositories and primary source collections in the United States. Its use is restricted to one researcher at a time, who may be bumped off after 15 minutes if another UI searcher begins a search. Includes the entire collection of the National Union Catalog of Manuscript Collections since 1959 and finding aids published in ProQuest UMI's microfiche series.
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Armed Conflict Database
Covers international and internal armed conflicts including terrorism by providing data on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons, weapons used, fatalities, and the historical background of the conflict. Conflict coverage begins in 2001 and updates are added annually. The site also permits users to generate customized statistical reports.
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Art Full Text
Provides indexing of periodicals since 1984, abstracts since 1994, and selected full text access since 1997. Includes periodicals, yearbooks, and museum bulletins in English and other Western European languages covering a broad subject range.
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ASILEX Publication Search
A searchable bibliographic index of journal articles, books, occasional papers, and other content from ASIL publications including the American Journal of International Law, ASIL Insights, ASIL Newsletter, ASIL Proceedings, and International Legal Materials. Coverage varies by title but generally extends back to 1990.
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Association of American Law Schools (HeinOnline)
Provides archival access to the Association of American Law Schools Directory of Law Teachers, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting, the Clinical Law Review, and the Journal of Legal Education.
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Associations Unlimited
Provides information on international and domestic associations using data drawn from the Encyclopedia of Associations and IRS information on non-profit organizations.
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ATLA Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
Indexes articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers. Coverage dates back to 1981.
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ATLA Religion Database + ATLAS
Contains Religion Index One, an index to journal literature in religion since 1949; Religion Index Two, an index to multi-author works such as Festschriften, conference proceedings, and volumes of collected articles and essays since 1960; and the Index to Book Reviews in Religion. The ATLAS component provides access to the full text of selected journals indexed by the ATLA Religion Database.
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Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
Provides free internet access to legal materials including legislation, court judgments, and secondary resources for New Zealand and the Australian commonwealth, states, and territories.
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Avalon Project
Contains digitized documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government. Documents can be accessed by time period or through an alphabetical listing of document collections.
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Banking Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Analyzes legislation and litigation affecting deposit insurance, electronic commerce, fiduciary standards, international finance, fair lending, and other banking topics. It covers U.S. state and federal law as well as international developments. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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Banking Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This publication offers news and analysis of banking legislation, regulatory policy, litigation, and investment at the state, federal, and international levels. It covers regulations from the Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Treasury Department, Securities and Exchange Commission, and other federal agencies. Available online since February 5, 1996; also in print at KF967 .W37.
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Bankruptcy Law Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Tracks significant legislative and regulatory developments and analyzes points of law addressed in federal appellate and bankruptcy court opinions. Available online since July 7, 1998. This title is no longer being updated. See the Bankruptcy Law Reporter for current coverage.
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Bankruptcy Law Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides in-depth coverage of developments in state and federal bankruptcy law by analyzing proposed legislation, regulatory developments, and court opinions. Available online since March 7, 1996; also in print at KF1507 .B63.
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Benefits Practice Center (Bloomberg BNA)
This resource covers employee benefits, ERISA compliance and enforcement, and executive compensation. It provides access to analysis, news, and primary materials including judicial opinions, rulings, and memoranda. Includes electronic access to a variety of BNA's titles including the treatise Employee Benefits Law and the ERISA Compliance & Enforcement Strategy Guide.
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Bepress Legal Repository
Provides access to abstracts and PDF images of working papers on a wide variety of legal topics.
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Bibliography of Asian Studies (BAS)
Indexes books, journal articles, chapters in edited volumes, conference proceedings, anthologies, and Festschriften pertaining to East, Southeast, and South Asia. Focuses on western-language materials published since 1971.
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Bibliography of Early American Law (BEAL)
A finding aid for locating resources that discuss American law and American legal development since the beginning of American history through 1860, regardless of the language or place of publication. It also includes selected works on foreign, comparative and international law that were published in the United States. Includes more than 14,000 citations to a wide variety of information sources including treatises, commentaries, digests, lectures, biographies, administrative and legislative proceedings, legal manuals, and more. The Law Library also has the seven volume print version of this title at KF1 .C58 1998.
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Bibliography of Native North Americans
This online index covers all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. The database contains more than 137,000 citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada dating from the sixteenth century to the present.
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BioTech Watch (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers developments in biotechnology by examining new and proposed laws and regulations, litigation, and the regulatory enforcement activities of agencies including the Department of Agriculture, Environmental Protection Agency, National Institutes of Health, Patent & Trademark Office, and Office of the U.S. Trade Representative. Published daily and available online since April 23, 2001.
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Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg Law integrates business news and legal content. Access U.S. federal and state primary laws and secondary resources, case dockets, SEC filings, and model forms. University of Iowa Law students, faculty, and staff may register for access online by clicking on the link above, and on the website select "Request a Law School Account." If you require assistance, please contact Student Computing.
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BNA Law School Professional Information Center (Bloomberg BNA)
This collection provides electronic access to over 100 of BNA's information services, which cover a variety of legal, regulatory, economic, and international topics.
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British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
Provides full text access to court decisions and legislation from England, Ireland, Northern Ireland, Scotland, and Wales as well as decisions from specialized UK tribunals. Also includes decisions from the Court of Justice of the European Communities and European Court of Human Rights.
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British Newspapers, 1600 - 1900
Includes the Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers and 19th Century British Library Newspapers, which together contain over 3 million pages of historic national and regional newspapers from the British Isles.
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British Parliamentary Papers 18th, 19th, and 20th Centuries
The Parliamentary Papers collection provides access to the House of Commons sessional papers from 1688 to the 2003/04 session. This collection features bills, house papers, and command papers with full-text searching and subject indexing.
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British Periodicals
Provides full text, PDF images of more than 460 periodicals published between the 1680s and 1930s. The collection consists of two parts: British Periodicals Collection I consists of 160 journals on literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts, and the social sciences; British Periodicals Collection II consist of more than 300 journals covering literature, music, art, drama, archaeology, and architecture.
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Broker/Dealer Compliance Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Monitors federal and state securities laws, regulations from the Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agencies, industry standards, and developments in federal and state courts that affect brokers and dealers. Published weekly and available online since January 10, 2001.
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Business Source Complete
Indexes and abstracts scholarly business journals dating as far back as 1886. Full text coverage is available for many titles.
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C19, The Nineteenth Century Index
Indexes millions of books, articles, and archival materials by integrating several indexes including the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue, The Wellesley Index, Poole's Index, and Periodicals Index Online.
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Cambridge Journals Online
A full text collection of journals covering diverse subject areas including law, economics, cultural studies, medicine, and religion.
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Canada Supreme Court Reports (HeinOnline)
This collection contains the primary source for the official, bilingual series of published decisions of Canada's highest court, including more than 9,400 cases from 1876 - present.
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Canada Treaty Information
This website contains information on the status of bilateral and multilateral treaties affecting Canada. The records provide particulars such as the date and place of signature; the dates of tabling in, or approval by, Parliament; the dates of ratification, accession, entry into force and termination; its relation to other treaty instruments; details of such implementing legislation as might be required; judicial interpretations; and references to published texts. In some instances, the record contains a link to the full text of the treaty.
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Canadian Human Rights Reporter
Provides full text, electronic access to reported and unreported decisions from 2006 to the current year. Click on "sign in" to search by year, jurisdiction, adjudicator, or keywords. For older cases, consult the print version at KE4381.A45 C245.
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Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
This website from the Federation of Law Societies of Canada provides free access to Canadian federal and provincial legal information including legislation and the decisions of courts, boards, and tribunals.
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Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Find the full title of an English language legal publication, including those covering international and comparative law, by entering an abbreviation. The database mainly covers law reports and legal periodicals, but some legislative publications and major textbooks are also included.
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Case Law of Zimbabwe
Provides searchable, full text access to the Zimbabwe Law Reports from 1980-2000, Juta's Law Reports of Zimbabwe from 1996, Extracts from the South African Appellate Division Reports from 1910-1946, Extracts from the South African Law Reports from 1947-2007, and Extracts from the South African Criminal Law Reports from 1990-2007. To search the collection, use the "choose search form" drop down menu at the top of the screen. According to the Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World, South African law reporters were and are sometimes the only source for case law from neighboring jurisdictions, including Zimbabwe (previously known as Southern Rhodesia and Rhodesia).
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Cases of Namibia
Namibia has been ruled by Germany and later by the Union of South Africa and the Republic of South Africa (the latter two pursuant to mandates by the League of Nations and later the United Nations). According to the Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World, South African law reporters were and are sometimes the only source for case law from neighboring jurisdictions, including Namibia (previously known as German South West Africa and later South West Africa under the aforementioned mandates).
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Casetrack
Provides full text access to U.K judgments from the Criminal and Civil Divisions of the Court of Appeal since 1996; the Administrative Court since 1996; all divisions of the High Court since 1998; and the Employment Appeal Tribunal since 1998. It also contains selected judgments from the VAT Tribunal, the House of Lords and Privy Council, the European Court of Human Rights, and the European Court of Justice.
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Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
A finding tool for electronic and print publications from the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of the U.S. government. The records date from July 1976 to the present. Search for U.S. governmental publications by agency, title, subject, or keyword. Use the advanced search for more searching options. If the full text of a publication is available for free on the internet, the catalog will provide a link to it.
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CCH Accounting Research Manager
Provides full text access to accounting and auditing standards including those from the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB), American Institute of CPAs (AICPA), International Accounting Standards Board (IASB), and Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB) along with proposal stage literature and implementation guidance. It also provides full text access to Securities and Exchange Commission standards along with interpretations and explanations.
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CCH IntelliConnect
Provides access to full text primary and secondary materials in the areas of human resource management, payroll, pensions, benefits, employment law, OSHA, health care reimbursement, corporate governance, mergers & acquisitions, intellectual property, government contracts, antitrust and trade regulation, and transportation law. Also contains federal and state tax materials including codes, regulations, forms, IRS letter rulings, and current news. This new interface merges the resources formerly known as CCH Internet Research Network, CCH Business and Finance, and CCH Tax Research Network.
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Central and Eastern European Online Library (CEEOL)
An online archive of full text PDF articles from 576 humanities and social science journals pertaining to Central, Eastern and South-Eastern European topics in the original language of publication.
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Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (American Memory Project)
Provides full text, PDF images of Congressional resources from 1774-1875 including the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Journals of the House of Representatives and the Senate (1789-1875); debates as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State Papers (1789-1838) and much more.
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Checkpoint RIA
A web-based research tool for tax and accounting information. Contents include the Federal Tax Coordinator, U.S. Tax Reporter, Worldwide Tax Laws, Worldwide Commercial Laws, and Corporation and Partnership Tax Return Guide. To save searches or organize research into folders, visit http://ria.thomson.com/cploginids using a computer in the law building and create a personal account.
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Chemical Regulation Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Offers news and analysis on legislative developments, regulatory changes, agency actions, and court decisions related to chemicals and chemical regulation. It provides guidance to help businesses comply with requirements under the Toxic Substances Control Act; the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act; the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act; and the Pipeline Safety Act. Available online since July 7, 1998. This title is no longer being updated. See the Chemical Regulation Reporter for current coverage.
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Chemical Regulation Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Examines legislative and regulatory proposals, agency actions, enforcement efforts, industry activities, and court decisions related to chemicals, pesticides, and hazardous materials transport. Available online since February 2, 1996; also in print at KF3958.A6 C54.
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Chicano Database
A comprehensive index for locating information published about Mexican-Americans from the 1960s to the present, with selected titles indexed back to the early 1900s. Since 1992, it has included resources on the broader Latino experience, including Puerto Ricans, Cuban Americans, and Central American immigrants.
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China Academic Journals (CAJ)
A full text collection of Chinese journals with coverage extending as far back as 1915. The University Libraries subscribe to three components; series F covering Literature/History/Philosophy; series G covering Politics/Military Affairs/Law; series H covering Education and Social Sciences.
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China Data Center (ProQuest Statistical Datasets)
This module of the LexisNexis Statistical Datasets product provides access to national, provincial, county, and municipal level Chinese statistical data. Time coverage varies by the type of data but generally extends back to 1949.
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China Guiding Cases Project (CGCP)
Access English translations of Chinese guiding cases released by the Supreme People's Court of the People's Republic of China pursuant to the Court's November 2010 provisions on "guiding cases" (i.e., seminal cases). The People's courts at all levels are to refer to these cases for guidance as they try similar cases. The Supreme People's Court is currently drafting further guidelines. The CGCP is an initiative of Stanford Law School.
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China Legal Knowledge Database
Chinese-language legal database integrating content officially sanctioned by the People's Republic of China. Offers the following legal information: Chinese laws/regulations (1949 - ) (includes laws, administrative rules/regulations, local rules/orders, court rules, and selected judicial interpretations); judicial decisions (1979 - ) in selected civil, criminal, administrative, and arbitral cases; and secondary sources (1994 - ), including law reviews and a huge selection of dissertations, theses, and conference proceedings.
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Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
This project from the Library of Congress allows you to search and view newspaper pages from 1860-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. The exact dates of coverage vary by publication.
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Civil Rights Digital Library
Promotes an enhanced understanding of the civil rights movement through a digital video archive of historical news film, a civil rights portal connecting related digital collections nationwide, and a collection of secondary web-based resources that provide context for the film and digital collections.
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Class Action Litigation Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This publication tracks pending class action and multiparty lawsuits and also offers expert guidance and tactical approaches for litigating class action suits. Published semi-monthly and available online since April 28, 2000; also in print at KF8896.A15 C56.
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Code of Federal Regulations (HeinOnline)
Provides access to digitized images of the CFR from 1938 through the present, including supplements.
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Collective Bargaining Negotiations & Contracts (Bloomberg BNA)
Offers practical guidance on how to prepare for, negotiate, and administer collective bargaining agreements. It provides electronic access to the Collective Bargaining Newsletter, national and local economic data, and sample contract clauses. It also summarizes state and federal laws and regulations affecting collective bargaining and analyzes court and National Labor Relations Board decisions. Click on the "site map" link at the top of the page to access this title within the Labor & Employment Law Library.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Includes a wide range of international affairs scholarship generated since 1991 including working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs.
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Commercial Laws of the World (RIA)
Provides English language translations of commercial codes, financial regulations, and business laws from countries around the world. This resource is available through the Checkpoint RIA interface; click on "Table of Contents" and choose "International Tax Library."
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Computer Technology Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Examines liability and insurance coverage issues relating to computers. It tracks laws, regulations, and litigation relating to a range of topics from network security to packaging and protecting digital assets. Published semi-monthly and available online since May 5, 2000; also in print at KF390.5.C6 A153.
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Congress and the Courts (HeinOnline)
A selected collection of documents related to the purpose, organization, structure, and legislative history of the federal courts and judiciary in the United States. This collection includes William H. Manz's Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787 - 2010. It also includes Federal Judicial Center Publications, scholarly articles, and other related works.
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Congress.gov
The new beta website from the Library of Congress slated to replace THOMAS.gov. Access federal legislative information from the United States Congress, including legislation from the 107th Congress (2001) to the present, member profiles from the 93rd Congress (1973) to the present and select profiles from 1947-1972, and the Congressional Record. Content will be added on an ongoing basis.
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Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories Online
Provides English translations and commentary on the constitutions of 40 countries and their 170 dependencies and territories, as well as the federal constitutional provisions that define the relationship between a state and its dependencies or territories.
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Construction Labor Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Follows labor and employment issues relevant to union, non-union, or dual shop construction firms. It explains statutes, regulations, policies, and legal procedures; provides current benchmarking statistics; and analyzes key National Labor Relations Board and court decisions. Published weekly and available online since February 14, 1996.
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Corporate Accountability & Fraud Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Monitors federal statutes, regulations, cases, enforcement policies, and industry trends concerning corporate officers and directors, executive compensation, financial reporting, corporate disclosure, and shareholder rights. Available online since November 1, 2002. This title is no longer being updated. See the Corporate Accountability Report for current coverage.
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Corporate Accountability Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Analyzes legal developments affecting a wide range of corporate accountability topics such as executive compensation, directors' responsibilities, benefit plans, and whistleblower protections. Examines developments in a variety of federal agencies and assists readers in complying with the Sarbanes-Oxley Act and similar measures. Published weekly and available online since January 24, 2003; also in print at KF1446.A15 C67.
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Corporate Compliance Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides access to the Corporate Compliance Manual, which provides an overview of compliance programs, due diligence guidelines, and potential criminal liability. It examines specific risk areas and provides sample ethical codes and compliance programs. Also includes the monthly publication Prevention of Corporate Liability: Current Reports since 1999.
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Corporate Counsel Weekly (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides up-to-date coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory issues of concern to corporate counsel including antitrust, intellectual property, securities, trade, and labor law. Available online since October 23, 1996; also in print at KF1397 .B871.
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Corporate Governance Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Includes the monthly newsletter Corporate Governance Report, reprints Title 8 of the Delaware Code covering corporations, and provides full text access to the Corporate Governance Manual. The manual analyzes corporate governance as it relates to boards of directors, annual meetings of shareholders , audit committees , compensation committees, and corporate minutes. The Report and Manual are also in print at KF1422.A15 C67.
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Corporate Law Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Examines judicial, legislative, regulatory, and tax issues that affect corporate practice including corporate criminal liability, products liability, occupational safety and health, and securities. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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Corporate Practice Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides electronic access to the Corporate Practice Series, also in print at KF1397 .B86. Each publication in the series addresses a specific legal area of interest to corporate practitioners such as corporate political activity, types of legal entities that can be used to conduct business, and state corporate law. This library also provides access to the full text of Title 8 of the Delaware Code covering corporations, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and the newsletter Corporate Counsel Weekly, which is also in print at KF1397 .B871.
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CountryWatch.com
Provides full text access to CountryWatch data and publications including: CountryReviews, an up-to-date series of publications for each country including demographic, political, economic, business, cultural, and environmental information; CountryWire, which provides daily news coverage for every country in the world as well as a significant news archive; and statistical data sets that allows the creation of customized charts.
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CQ Press Electronic Library
CQEL provides independent non-partisan analysis and coverage of selected topics for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. Researchers can access nineteen research modules on a single platform, including access to CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher, and CQ Weekly, and five subject-specific reference databases: CQ Press Congress Collection, CQ Press Supreme Court Collection, CQ Press Public Affairs Collection, CQ Press Voting and Elections Collection, and CQ Press Encyclopedia of American Government. CQEL also features digital editions of essential reference books: CQ Almanac, Congress and the Nation, Political Handbook of the World, Supreme Court Yearbook, Washington Information Directory, and several other reference books.
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Criminal Law Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers significant federal and state court decisions and federal legislative activities that relate to criminal law as well as administrative developments from the Justice Department, U.S. Sentencing Commission, and other federal agencies. Features a Circuit Split Roundup that summarizes conflicts in the federal courts of appeals on questions of federal criminal law. Published weekly and available online since August 7, 1996; also in print at KF9615 .C7.
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Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)
This topical index to legal publications is published weekly by the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library.
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Current Index to Statistics
The Current Index to Statistics is a resource for locating information on statistics and probability. References are drawn from 160 fully indexed core journals, as well as selected content from other journals, proceedings, and edited books.
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Current Law Journal Content
This searchable database from Washington and Lee Law School provides table of contents information, primarily for English language law journals, from 2005 onwards. This service will not be updated after May 15, 2011.
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Current Legal Information
An index to British cases and other legal materials including: Current Law Cases, a case digest with coverage back to 1947; Law Journals Index with coverage back to 1986; Financial Journal Index with coverage back to 1992; Legal and Regulatory Developments Index with coverage back to 1994; Case citator with coverage back to 1947; and Legislation citator with coverage back to 1989.
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Customary International Humanitarian Law Database
This database from the International Committee of the Red Cross provides access to the rules of customary international humanitarian law that provide legal protection to victims during armed conflicts. Part One analyzes the customary rules that apply in international and non-international armed conflict. Part Two summarizes state practices that relate to these rules as expressed in national legislation, military manuals, case law, and other publications. This database is an updated, online equivalent of the print publication with the same name that is located on the Ground Floor at KZ6462 .C87 2005.
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Daily Environment Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Analyzes legislative and regulatory developments, court and administrative decisions, compliance news, government policies, and international standards on a wide variety of environmental law topics including chemical regulation, climate change, pesticides, hazardous materials transport, and pollution sources. Available online since September 20, 1994.
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Daily Labor Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Reports on employment-related developments nationwide including coverage of the National Labor Relations Board, Congress, courts, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, states, and government agencies. It also provides economic news and labor statistics. Available online since January 3, 1996; also in print at KF3302 .D25.
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Daily Report for Executives (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides legal and policy analysis in a wide range of areas including tax, trade, the environment, health care, pensions, safety, and transportation. It aims to assist executives in making business, lobbying, and legal decisions. Available online since January 2, 1998.
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Daily Tax Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Includes detailed reports on key legislative, regulatory, and judicial tax developments in the areas of taxation, budgeting, accounting, state taxes, and tax rulings and decisions. Available online since January 3, 1994.
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Dalloz.fr
Dalloz is a French-language legal database offering access to 33 annotated French codes, numerous French secondary treatise resources, and selected French legal journals. The codes-loi include: Code Civil; Code de Procedure Civile; Code Penal; Code de Procedure Penale; Code de Commerce; Code de Travail; and Code de la Proprite Intellectuelle. This database has restricted access. See a Reference Librarian for Login and Password.
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Declassified Documents Reference System
Indexes and provides full text access to post-World War II declassified U.S. government documents obtained from presidential libraries. Document types include Cabinet meeting minutes, National Security Council policy statements, CIA intelligence studies, presidential conferences, State Department political analyses, and Joint Chiefs papers.
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Digital Discovery & e-Evidence (Bloomberg BNA)
Offers practical tips on managing and responding to requests for electronic data; how to present electronic evidence in court; and services and technologies that help obtain, manage, and present electronic evidence. It also provides explanations and commentary on recently issued court and administrative decisions, regulations, and legislation. Available back to January 2001.
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Digital Library of Tobacco Documents
Provides full text, PDF access to over 10 million documents created by major tobacco companies regarding their advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities. It includes documents from the late nineteenth century through the present, with the majority dated 1950 through 2002.
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Digital National Security Archive
DNSA contains the most comprehensive collection of primary documents available. The database includes more than 80,000 of the most important declassified documents regarding critical U.S. policy decisions.
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Directory of American Firms Operating in Foreign Countries
Comprehensive coverage of over 200 countries in which American corporations have foreign operations. Allows searching by country, region, state, company, zip codes, NAICS code, and revenue.
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Dissertations and Theses (ProQuest)
Indexes U.S. doctoral dissertations and master's theses from 1861 to the present. The database provides full text access to most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older works. To obtain dissertations from other institutions, please consult the Interlibrary Loan Department.
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Dissertations and Theses at CIC Institutions (ProQuest)
Provides full text access to dissertations from Committee on Institutional Cooperation universities since 1997. The CIC includes the University of Iowa, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, Indiana University, University of Michigan, Michigan State University, University of Minnesota, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Pennsylvania State University, Purdue University, and University of Wisconsin-Madison. Abstracts are available for earlier dissertations. To obtain dissertations from other institutions, please consult the Interlibrary Loan Department.
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Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution
This digital collection compiles over 60,000 primary document sources dealing with the debate over the ratification of the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights between 1787 and 1791. It includes convention and legislative records, private papers, newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets and provides access to the full text of these materials in both html and PDF. Users can access materials by browsing or searching. This set is also available in print at Law Library KF 4502 .D63 and in microform at Law Audiovisual Microfiche 5.
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E-Commerce Law Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Tracks legal developments in a variety of areas that impact electronic commerce including database protection, electronic signatures, privacy, licensing, and free speech. Available online since April 23, 2001. This title is no longer being updated. See the Electronic Commerce & Law Report for current coverage.
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E-Commerce Tax Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Monitors the activities of tax authorities in the U.S. and international business and financial centers around the world. Provides in-depth examination of value added taxes, sales taxes, telecommunications taxes, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, Internal Revenue Service, European Commission, and similar topics. Updated daily and available online since February 5, 2001.
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Early American Case Law (HeinOnline)
This historical collection provides full-text searching of federal and state case law from the 1800s. The 30 volume set Federal Cases Comprising Cases Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Federal Reporter, Arranged Alphabetically by the Titles of the Cases, and Numbered Consecutively is fully searchable and indexed, as well as Abbott's National Digest: A Digest of the Reports of the United States Courts. Historical state case reporters include: American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports providing coverage from 1760 through 1911, and several more.
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Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639 - 1800
This collection of full text materials covers every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America including agriculture, auctions, foreign affairs, literature, music, religion, temperance, and witchcraft.
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Early American Newspapers, Series 1-3 and 6-7
For searching and browsing American newspapers published in the 17th, 18th, 19th and 20th centuries, Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922 is the most comprehensive online resource available. This expanding collection offers fully searchable digital facsimiles of more than 1,500 titles from all 50 states.
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Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Contains digitized versions of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America, as well as works in English printed elsewhere, from 1473-1700. It includes most of the titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue, 1475-1640 and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue, 1641-1700.
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Early European Books
A diverse array of printed sources from early modern Europe. Upon completion, this collection will include all material printed in Europe or European languages from 1455 to 1700. The materials for the three initial collections are part of library collections in Denmark, Italy, the Netherlands, and England. This collection builds on and complements Early English Books Online (EEBO).
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Easy Analytic Software Inc. Data (ProQuest Statistical Datasets)
The Easy Analytic Software Inc. (EASI) module of the LexisNexis Statistical Datasets product provides current data and future projections about consumer demographics and usage and spending patterns for products and services within every U.S. state, county, census tract, and block group.
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EBIA Benefits Compliance Library
This product is available through the Checkpoint RIA interface. Upon entering Checkpoint, you can search the EBIA materials by selecting "All Practice Areas" from the Practice Area menu in the upper left. You can browse the EBIA materials by selecting the "Table of Contents" link in the upper right corner, then exploring the titles under the heading "Pension and Benefits Library." The library provides in-depth analysis of legal issues relating to health care reform, privacy, insurance, and related topics. It also provides full text access to excerpts of Congressional Committee Reports that relate to health care and insurance, sample documents and forms, and the publication EBIA Weekly dating back to the year 2000.
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EBSCOhost
A collection of databases including the ATLA Religion Database, ERIC, EconLit, and others that provide indexing and full text access to scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, general science, multicultural studies, education, and more.
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EconLit
Indexes journal articles, essays, research papers, books, dissertations, book reviews, and working papers from 1969-present. Subjects covered include accounting, consumer economics, monetary policy, labor, marketing, demographics, modeling, economic theory, and planning.
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Economics Research Network
Distributes research in 44 subject areas relevant to economics. It provides access to working papers and article manuscripts that have been accepted for publication, often a year before they appear in print. If an article requires a fee for downloading, the Law Library will not pay the fee but will attempt to obtain the article from another source free of charge. Please consult a Reference Librarian or the Interlibrary Loan Department for assistance.
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Economist Historical Archive 1843-2006
Contains a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from the magazine's inception in 1843 through 2003. The archive includes full-color images, exportable financial tables, and a gallery of front covers.
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
Contains digitized versions of English and foreign-language books published in Great Britain and the Americas between 1701 and 1800.
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EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law
EISIL is a project of the American Society of International Law (ASIL) that facilitates access to high quality primary materials, authoritative web sites, and helpful research guides to international law that are freely accessible on the Internet.
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Electronic Commerce & Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers a diverse range of e-commerce topics at the federal, state, and international levels including online gambling, information licensing, cryptography, telecommunications regulation, and consumer protection. Available online since April 12, 1996; also in print at KF2763.36 .B53.
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Elsevier ScienceDirect
A full text collection of journals published since 1995 in a variety of disciplines including biochemistry, business, earth sciences, economics, engineering, computer science, and social sciences.
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Employee Benefit Research Institute
Provides PDF access to a wide variety of the institute's publications including the Databook on Employee Benefits, policy books back to 1979, issue briefs back to 1982, and the results of their annual Retirement Confidence Survey back to 1996.
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Employment Discrimination Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly newsletter features judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity. It provides details about important jury verdicts, monetary settlements, and consent decrees and analyzes legal theories, emerging trends, and circuit splits. Available online since January 3, 1996; also in print at KF3464.A15 B53.
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Employment Discrimination Verdicts & Settlements (Bloomberg BNA)
This publication reprints the verdicts and settlements portion of the Employment Discrimination Report. It provides details about important jury verdicts and monetary settlements and awards. Available online since January 1996.
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Encyclopaedia of Islam (Brill)
Includes articles about distinguished Muslims, tribes and dynasties, crafts and sciences, political and religious institutions, geography, ethnography, history, topography, and monuments. Its geographical and historical scope encompasses the old Arabo-Islamic empire, the Islamic countries of Iran, Central Asia, the Indian sub-continent and Indonesia, the Ottoman Empire, and all modern Islamic states.
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English Reports, Full Reprint, 1220 - 1865 (HeinOnline)
Contains all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its Index of Cases and Index Chart. This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865.
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English Short Title Catalogue
Indexes works printed in any language in Great Britain or its dependencies from 1473-1800. Also see Early English Books Online.
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Environment & Safety Library (Bloomberg BNA)
In addition to providing expert analysis and commentary on federal and state environmental law issues, this library contains the full text of applicable U.S. state and federal laws and regulations, as well as thousands of legal decisions issued by federal, state, and administrative courts. It also includes interactive forms, guidance documents, agency memoranda, and international treaties and agreements.
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Environment Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Reports on federal and state laws, rules, standards, court developments, and agency activities that impact environmental law. Reprints selected primary materials in full text. Published weekly and available online since January 26, 1996; also available in print at KF3775.A6 E49.
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Environmental Due Diligence Guide Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Helps practitioners assess the risk of liability in real estate and other business transactions. Covers topics such as brownfields redevelopment; multi-family, commercial, and industrial real estate transactions; environmental site assessments; securities and insurance issues; and cleanup efforts and costs. Published monthly and available online since March 18, 1999.
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Environmental Law Reporter
Covers environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, energy, health/safety, and land use law. Contains original source documents (including federal and state laws, regulations, and decisions), editorial summaries, and expert analysis on state, federal, and international issues.
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ERIC
ERIC indexes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books on education-related topics published since 1966.
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ERIC Collection
Provides bibliographic information about journal articles and documents relating to education. It also provides full text access to a growing collection of these publications.
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ESCR-Net Caselaw Database
The International Network for Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights (ESCR) promotes social justice and human rights. The ESCR Caselaw Database provides searchable, full text access to ESCR-related pleadings, commentary, and decisions in English and Spanish.
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Essential European Union Law Websites
A portal to major EU institutions and legal information including the European Court of Justice, EU legislation through Eur-Lex, and pending EU legislation through Pre-Lex.
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Ethnic NewsWatch
Indexes and provides full text access to articles in more than 315 newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press dating back to 1990.
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ETHXWeb (Ethics Web)
This bibliographic database searches the holdings of Georgetown University's Bioethics Research Library, which contains journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics. Entries in the database provide full citation information and abstracts, and may also provide links to full text content.
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EU Tracker
Tracks the implementation of key EU Directives in over 20 member states, each with its own legislative framework and parliamentary timetable. The service provides the full text of EU Directives in English, analytical summaries of the directives in English, the full text of implementing legislation of member states in the original language of publication. Additionally, researchers can build customized reports comparing the implementation status in selected countries.
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EUR-Lex
EUR-Lex provides access to current and pending European Union legislation. Access is also available to the European Union's Official Journal, which contains both legislation and judicial decisions. EUR-Lex provides links to EU treaties, including the EU's constituent treaties that are considered a part of the EU's "constitutional law." There are also practitioner aids, such as: Summaries of EU Legislation; a research guide on The ABC of European Union Law; and a guide to all document types available on EUR-Lex.
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Europa World Plus
Provides full text access to the Europa World Year Book (also available in print at JN1 .E85) and the nine-volume Europa Regional Surveys of the World series. Contains detailed country profiles that include an introductory survey, an in-depth statistical survey, and a directory of governmental, political, business, social, and media entities. Also offers a directory of 1,900 International Organizations such as the United Nations and its agencies, the European Union, the International Criminal Court, and the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries.
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European Center for Minority Issues (HeinOnline)
Allows access to the full text of ECMI reports, working papers, and the Journal on Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe.
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European e-Justice
Portal provides access to primary and secondary legal information for the European Union and its member states.
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Expert Evidence Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides federal and state news and guidance on all aspects of expert evidence including the discoverability, admissibility, and sufficiency of expert evidence, Daubert hearings, legislative proposals, and changes to the federal rules. Available online since August 1, 2001; also in print at KF8961.A15 E96.
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Export Reference Guide (Bloomberg BNA)
The country profiles in this library summarize import and exchange controls, tariff systems, labeling regulations, and entry procedures for over 200 countries. The trade blocs component summarizes common tariffs, customs procedures, and standards in trade blocs. The library also provides information about traveling and working internationally and U.S. Export Administration Regulations. It contains the full text of relevant international agreements as well as computerized forms required for international commerce, selected country-specific forms, and samples of basic commercial documents.
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Factiva
Contains a wide variety of business and economic information including news, stock market quotes, industry reports, market research profiles, and financial data.
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Family Law Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly newsletter offers brief summaries of state divorce laws, prints the text of uniform acts adopted by the states, and selectively reprints federal statutes and regulations. It also analyzes appellate court cases, legislation, and regulations to help family law practitioners develop effective litigation strategies and arguments. Available online since August 6, 1996; also in print at KF501.A3 F3.
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Family Studies Abstracts
Indexes and summarizes journal articles that focus on family studies topics including marriage, divorce, family therapy, child development, delinquency, and more.
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Fastcase
Fastcase provides comprehensive access to United States federal and state primary law, which includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. Also access a newspaper archive, legal forms, and federal court filings.
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FDsys
GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys) is a digital repository that authenticates, preserves, versions, and provides permanent public access to information from all three branches of the federal government. It allows users to browse or search a wide variety of Congressional and administrative agency publications including the Statutes at Large, Federal Register, Congressional Reports and Bills, and the Compilation of Presidential Documents. The content available through FDsys was formerly accessible through GPOAccess.
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Federal Contracts Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers a wide range of issues impacting the federal acquisition of goods. It provides information about current procurement policies at various federal agencies and monitors changes in legislation, regulations, and policy. It also provides analysis of Comptroller General rulings and decisions. Available online since July 7, 1998. This title is no longer being updated. See the Federal Contracts Report for current coverage.
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Federal Contracts Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Monitors what is happening in the courts, agency boards of contract appeals, and General Accounting Office and explains how these events impact the federal acquisition of goods. It covers federal agency procurement policies and rulings from the Comptroller General. Available online since February 5, 1996; also in print at KF849.A1 B85.
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Federal Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Summarizes every proposed and final rule issued by the Environmental Protection Agency, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration, the Department of Transportation's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration, and other relevant federal agencies. Published biweekly and available online since January 10, 2005.
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Federal Register Library (HeinOnline)
Consists of the digitized Federal Register since 1936, the Federal Register Indexes since 1939, and the CFR's Lists/Compilations of Sections Affected dating back to 1949.
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FedStats
Provides researchers with a centralized portal for searching and browsing federal statistics generated by over 100 federal agencies on a diverse range of topics.
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Financial Economics Network
Distributes financial research in areas including corporate finance, banking and financial institutions, capital markets, derivatives, and real estate. It provides acess to working papers and article manuscripts that have been accepted for publication, often a year before they appear in print. If an article requires a fee for downloading, the Law Library will not pay the fee but will attempt to obtain the article from another source free of charge. Please consult a Reference Librarian or the Interlibrary Loan Department for assistance.
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FLARE Index to Treaties
Searchable index of over 2,000 of the most significant multilateral and selected bilateral treaties concluded between 1353 to the present.
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Foreign & International Law Resources Database (HeinOnline)
This collection provides access to international yearbooks and periodicals, law digests, and decisions from international tribunals.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996 (Readex)
Provides English translations of intercepted radio broadcasts from foreign governments, official news services, and clandestine broadcasts from occupied territories that provide a local perspective on historical events. This searchable, full text collection of FBIS Daily Reports published between 1974 and 1996 is comprised of eight parts: Part 1: Middle East, Africa, Near East and South Asia; Part 2: Sub-Saharan Africa & South Asia; Part 3: China; Part 4: Asia, Pacific and East Asia; Part 5: Latin America; Part 6: Eastern Europe; Part 7: Soviet Union and Central Eurasia; and Part 8: Western Europe.
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Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index
Indexes the FBIS daily reports issued by the U.S. government from 1975-1996. Drawn from translations of foreign broadcasts, newspapers, government statements, and other sources, these reports cover political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world.
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Foreign Firms Operating in the United States
A directory of information on foreign firms with operations in the U.S. Allows searching by country, region, state, keyword, zip codes, NAICS code, and postal code.
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Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World
Often referred to as Reynolds and Flores, this online service provides citations to official sources of foreign laws and alerts researchers to English translations of foreign codes, laws, and other relevant materials. Selected references to secondary resources published in English are also included.
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Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS)
This series is the official documentary history of U.S. foreign policy. This digital collection from the University of Wisconsin contains an incomplete run of the FRUS from 1861 to 1960. Additional volumes are available through the Department of State website or HeinOnline.
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Foreign Relations of the United States (HeinOnline)
This is the official historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. The series began in 1861 during the Lincoln administration and Hein's full-text coverage currently extends through 1976.
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FRANCIS
A multilingual resource covering international scholarly literature in the humanities and social sciences. Covers articles, books, and other documents published since 1984. Citation descriptions appear in both English and French while most abstracts are in English.
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French Codes in English Online (LegiFrance)
This website from the Government of the French Republic provides English translations of the following French Codes: Civil; Civil Procedure; Penal; Criminal Procedure; Commercial; Intellectual Property; Intellectual Property; Consumer; Monetary and Financial; Insurance; Environmental; and Public Procurement Contracts. Also includes the Constitutional Bylaw on Budget Acts and the Law on Subcontracting.
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Gallica
Digital Library of the Bibliotheque nationale de France.
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Gallica, Bibliotheque Numerique de la Bibliotheque Nationale de France
A collection of digitized periodicals, texts, audio files, images, and other materials from the collections of the National Library of France.
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GenderWatch
Includes abstracts and full text coverage of academic journals, newsletters, magazines, regional publications, and government reports that support gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender (GLBT) studies as well as gender and women's studies.
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German Codes in English Online
This website from the German Federal Ministry of Justice provides English translations of the German Civil (BGB), Criminal (StGB), Criminal Procedure (StPO), and Fiscal (AO) Codes as well as the Introductory Act to the Civil Code (EGBGB), Courts Constitution Act (GVG), German Judiciary Act (DRiG), and Youth Courts Law (JGG).
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Gerontological Society of America Journals
Contains all of the journals published by the Gerontological Society of America. Full text coverage is available from 1996-present; citations are available prior to 1996.
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Ghana Law Reports
Allows researchers to search, browse, and retrieve the full text of the Ghana Law Reports from 1959 through 2002.
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Global Courts
Access to Supreme Court decisions for 129 countries or information on how to find the decisions. There is a complete country index and region index.
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Global Development Finance (GDF) Online
Contains statistics for the 136 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. Includes data on over 200 debt and financial indicators since 1970.
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Global Health
Indexes and summarizes journal articles, books, and reports relating to international public health from 1973 to the present. It includes publications from over 150 countries and published in 50 languages as well as a large collection of grey literature not indexed elsewhere.
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Global Health Archive
Indexes and summarizes journal articles, books, and reports relating to international public health from 1910 to 1972. By examining topics such as bioterrorism during World War I and II, epidemiology, human migration, and malnutrition, it provides a historical context for ongoing public health concerns.
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Global Jurist
Contains PDF images of the Global Jurist journal from 2001-present.
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Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
A searchable database of the laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources from countries around the world. Documents are contributed by member governments from the original, official legal texts and are maintained on a server presently located at the U.S. Library of Congress. While many documents are available in full text, only summaries are available for certain materials.
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GlobaLex
Information and articles focused on international and foreign law research. The guides and articles published are written by scholars well known in their respective fields.
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Google Books
This service from Google searches against the full text of books that Google has scanned and stores in its digital database. Researchers can access the table of contents and bibliographic information for every item retrieved in a search result list. If an item in the result list is in the public domain, the full text will be freely accessible. Other items may provide snippets of the full text so researchers can see their search terms in context or may permit full text access to a few chapters of the work. When viewing a record from the result list, use the "Find in a Library" link on the left side of the screen to determine if the University of Iowa Libraries own the title.
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Google Scholar
Google Scholar searches scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources including peer-reviewed papers, theses, books, abstracts, articles, and more. Google Scholar also allows you to search and read opinions for US state appellate and supreme court cases since 1950, US federal district, appellate, tax, and bankruptcy courts since 1923, and US Supreme Court cases since 1791.
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Government Employee Relations Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Reviews federal, state, and local decisions by courts, administrative agencies, and arbitrators that affect government employees; summarizes Merit System Protection Board and Federal Labor Relations Authority rulings; and details recent collective bargaining settlements involving municipal, county, and state employees. The Collective Bargaining Roundup segment covers salary and benefit trends. Available online since February 12, 1996; also in print at HD8008.A1 B8.
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Government Gazettes of South Africa
Provides full text access to the Government Gazettes from 1994 to the present. Search for regulations, proclamations, and notices by date, gazette number, or keywords.
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GreenFile
Indexes and summarizes scholarly journals, general interest magazines, and government publications that examine the relationship between human beings and the environment. It examines the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines including law, education, health, and technology. Full text access for some titles is available through open access resources.
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Hague Justice Portal
Provides access to information from Hague organizations in the fields of international peace, justice, and security. Contents include the Hague Justice Journal, news, and country specific court documents, transcripts, and fact sheets.
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Handbook of Latin American Studies
This bibliography on Latin America has been published since 1936. Scholars select the materials to be included and author the annotations. Annual coverage alternates between the social sciences and the humanities.
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Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement Online
Access key resources for international trade law research, including updated summaries for more than 300 WTO/GATT panel, Appellate Body, and arbitrator reports. Comprehensive indexes provide access points by keyword, article, country, subject, panelist, and more.
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Hansard (House of Lords Official Report; House of Commons Official Report)
Hansard, also known as the Official Report, provides full text access to edited verbatim reports of proceedings in both houses of the U.K. Parliament. The House of Commons Hansard covers proceedings in the main Chamber of the House of Commons, Westminster Hall, and Standing Committees. It provides access to debates and oral and written questions back to November 1988. The House of Lords Hansard covers proceedings in the Lords Chamber and its Grand Committees, and provides access to debates and oral and written questions back to November 1995. Selected information back to 1803 is also available through the Historic Hansard link on the page.
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HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
HAPI indexes journal articles on Central and South America as well as Hispanics/Latinos living in the U.S. It covers articles published since 1970 in a variety of languages including English.
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Harvard Law School Library Digital Collections
Harvard is digitizing and providing online access to selected rare book and special collections materials from their law library. The digital collections include the Ames Foundation Digital Collection of Legal History; the Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Digital Collection; French Coutumes; the Nuremberg Trials Project and much more.
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Harvard Research in International Law (HeinOnline)
A digitized version of Harvard Research in International Law, a series of draft international conventions originally published in the American Journal of International Law between 1929 and 1939. The collection also provides access to the series Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal, which analyzes the basis of the proposed conventions and their continuing impact today.
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Health Care Daily Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Reports on developments in health care policy and law, including focused coverage of Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care. Available online since October 1, 1996.
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Health Care Fraud Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Monitors health care fraud and abuse issues in the private insurance industry, managed care organizations, and federal and state programs. Available online since January 15, 1997; also in print at KF1183.A15 B53.
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Health Care Policy Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Follows federal, state, and private-sector health care policy proposals, debates, and responses. Available online since January 29, 1996; also in print at KF3605.A15 .B55.
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Health Insurance Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Tracks state and federal laws, regulations, court decisions, administrative rulings, and policies that affect health plans and providers. Published weekly and available online since February 14, 1996.
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Health IT Law & Industry Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides news and analysis on the regulatory, legal, and compliance issues surrounding the transition to interoperable electronic health records. Examines federal and state regulations and standards on topics such as privacy, data breaches, grants and funding opportunities, and more. Available online back to October 13, 2009; published each business day in html and weekly in PDF.
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Health Law & Business Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides access to a series of portfolios, each of which focuses on a specific health law and business topic. Areas of emphasis include antitrust, contracts, fraud, operations, and tax-exempt health care entities. The State Legislation Summaries component provides a survey of enacted state legislation of interest to the health care industry.
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Health Law Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly newsletter provides updates on legal developments in the health care industry by discussing new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends. Available online since February 1, 1996; also in print at KF3821.A15 B55.
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Health Law Resource Center (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides news, legal analysis, and practice tools addressing topics of interest to the health care industry as well as full text access to statutes, regulations, agency publications, and case law relating to health law. Information can be browsed or searched and is organized under the topical headings business and taxation; fraud, abuse, and compliance; health information and technology; health insurance and benefits; hospital and provider regulation; Medicare and Medicaid; and pharmaceuticals and life sciences.
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Health Policy Tracking Service Issue Briefs & Snapshots Combined (Westlaw)
The Snapshots examine trends and unique state actions in a given category over a two week period. Snapshot topics cover eight topical areas of health care issues, overviews of state budget actions affecting health care services, summaries of governor's addresses, and other content relating to state Health Care legislation. The Issue Briefs cover developments on the most critical state legislative health care topics. Because each quarterly Issue Brief cumulates throughout the year, only the year-end Issue Briefs are retained for each year. They contain 50-state baseline charts, definitions, pros and cons of an issue, trend and impact analysis, and background information. Coverage extends back to 2004. Log into Westlaw with your personal password to gain access.
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HeinOnline
A collection of databases containing the full text of both domestic and international primary and secondary legal materials. A variety of browsing and searching options are available to facilitate the retrieval of materials.
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Historical Abstracts
Indexes journal articles, books, and dissertations examining world history back to 1450. (For U.S. and Canadian history see the companion index America: History and Life). Includes citations and abstracts to materials published since 1955.
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Historical Newspapers Online
Includes Palmer's Index to the Times, 1790-1905; The Official Index to the Times, 1906-1980; The Historical Index to the New York Times, 1851-1922; and Palmer's Full Text Online, 1785-1870.
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Historical Statistics of the United States
A searchable, expanded, and revised edition of the print title Historical Statistics of the United States, Colonial Times to 1970, which was originally published by the U.S. Government in 1975. Data tables may be viewed in html or PDF and may also be customized by users. The print version is available at Law Documents Reference C 3.134/2:H62/789-970.
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History Cooperative
A variety of associations, presses, and journals collaborated to develop this searchable collection of full text history resources.
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History of International Law Collection (HeinOnline)
This collection provides access to full text PDF images of over 500 titles and 550,000 pages of materials dating back to 1690 on subjects such as war & peace, the Nuremberg Trials, law of the sea, International arbitration, the Hague Conferences and Conventions, and much more. It includes classic books from famous authors such as Hans Kelsen, Samuel Pufendorf and James Brown Scott. It includes significant serials such as the International Law Studies Series [U.S. Naval War College], International Conciliation, Studies in Transnational Legal Policy, and many others. In addition, researchers will find links to scholarly articles discussing the history of international law and a bibliography of other works.
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History of Supreme Court Nominations (HeinOnline)
This collection includes the Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee providing coverage from Louis Brandeis's nomination in 1916 up to the present. It also includes scholarly articles and works about past and present Supreme Court Justices beginning with the first Supreme Court Justice John Jay.
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Homeland Security Briefing (Bloomberg BNA)
This daily publication covers significant federal and state developments in all branches of government that relate to security and antiterrorist policies. Special emphasis is devoted to the Department of Homeland Security and the PATRIOT Act. Available online since January 22, 2003.
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Homeland Security Digital Library
This database from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security includes full text U.S. policy documents, national strategy documents, theses, research papers, executive orders, and presidential directives relevant to homeland security.
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Human Resources Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly newsletter alerts readers to important employee relations trends and developments. It provides guidance on establishing policies, handling personnel matters, and ensuring compliance with the law. Available online since February 5, 1996.
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Human Rights Library (University of Minnesota)
Contains more than sixty thousand core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also links to four thousand websites and provides a special human rights search engine.
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i.lex: The Legal Research System for International Law in U.S. Courts
A searchable collection of selected U.S. court cases and related materials that provide an understanding of how international law is interpreted and applied by U.S. courts at both the federal and state level. Permits searching by topic, jurisdiction, treaty, or statute.
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IBISWorld United States
The Industry Market Research reports provide information on industry performance and conditions, segmentation, statistics, market characteristics, and key competitors. The Company Research reports provide company contact information, personnel data, and quarterly and annual financial statements for publicly traded companies. Key financial data is standardized to enable comparisons across companies. IBIS allows searching by NAICS or SIC codes.
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IBZ Online - International Bibliography of Periodical Literature
An international, interdisciplinary bibliography of periodical literature published since 1896. The search interface and subject classification are available in English or German.
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IDZ - Index of German Journals, 1750 - 1815
An index to articles published in 195 journals between 1750-1815. The search interface is in English.
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Index Islamicus
A bibliography of journal articles, books, reviews, essays, and papers from multi-author volumes published in European languages on all aspects of Islam and the Muslim world.
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Index to Canadian Legal Literature (Westlaw)
ICLL indexes more than 200 Canadian legal periodicals as well as selected monographs, essays from edited collections, federal and provincial government publications, and law-related theses. For the practitioner, it indexes publications from law societies and associations, including CLE materials. Coverage begins in August 1985.
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Index to Early American Periodicals
Consists of three indexes that collectively cover the years 1741 to 1935 and are thought to include all known periodical publications that had their inception and ending during this time period. The actual periodicals are accessible through three microfilm collections referred to as APS I, APS II and APS III, or through American Periodicals Series Online, the digitized version of the microfiche sets.
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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (HeinOnline)
Indexes selected legal periodicals and essay collections published worldwide from 1960 to current. IFLP provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative law, and foreign law in all jurisdictions other than the U.S., U.K., Canada, and Australia.
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Index to International Statistics
Indexes and abstracts statistical publications issued by international governmental organizations since 1983. Organizations include the United Nations system and its regional commissions and affiliated organizations; the European Community; the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development; the Organization of American States; and commodity organizations, development banks, and other intergovernmental regional and special purpose organizations. Accessible through LexisNexis Statistical Insight. Also available in print at Main Reference Desk FOLIO AI1 .I49.
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Index to Jewish Periodicals
Indexes English-language articles, book reviews, and feature stories from journals devoted to Jewish affairs. Most references are not found in standard periodical literature guides. Coverage dates back to 1988.
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Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (EBSCO)
This online index includes coverage for over 1,000 journal titles from 1981 to the present and provides full text access to over 300 of these titles.
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Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (EBSCO)
This online index includes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand between 1908-1981.
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Index to the Iowa Appellate Court Briefs
Searchable index of Iowa Supreme Court and Court of Appeals abstracts and arguments (briefs and appendices) from the October term 1870 to the Spring term of 2008. Search by case name, docket number, legal citation, date, or volume number.
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Index to United Nations Documents and Publications
Indexes documents issued between 1945 and the present by the six main bodies of the UN; the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat, and International Court of Justice. References from this index facilitate access to the Roy J. Carver United Nations Documents Collection in room 130. The index can also be accessed via the web through AccessUN.
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Infrastructure Investment & Policy Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This publication, which is published weekly in a PDF format but updated daily in html, tracks the flow of federal, state, local, and other infrastructure funds into large-scale investment projects in the U.S. It includes coverage of transportation projects, high speed rail initiatives, and appropriations for a variety of agencies including the Army Corps of Engineers, Bureau of Reclamation, EPA, DOE, and DOT. Available online since March 10, 2009.
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Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin America and the Caribbean (IDATD)
This UN supported database offers information on the trade dispute systems in which Latin American and Caribbean countries participate including the WTO, MERCOSUR, CARICOM, the Andean Community, NAFTA, and CACM. It provides full text access to the documents establishing each organization's dispute settlement mechanisms and the rulings issued under them. It also provides statistics on the number of disputes brought before each organization and explanations and analysis of the various dispute settlement systems. The majority of the primary documents are in Spanish but explanations are available in English.
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Intellectual Property Law Collection (HeinOnline)
This collection provides access to full text PDF images of a variety of IP related materials including books, journals, compiled legislative histories, and federal agency decisions and bulletins. It also provides access to the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations, and Titles 17 and 35 of the U.S. Code.
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Intellectual Property Law Resource Center (Bloomberg BNA)
The IP Law Resource Center is categorized into four practice areas: Patent Law, Trademark and Unfair Trade Practice Law, Copyright Law, and Judicial Practice and Procedure. Resources include the Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal and the World Intellectual Property Report, as well as all decisions reported in United States Patents Quarterly (1929 - present), which includes patent, copyright, trademark and trade secret cases. The IP Law Resource Center also provides the full-text of IP laws and regulations, current news, analysis, and treatises in all areas of IP law practice.
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InterAm
This electronic resource from the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade is a collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas. Materials appear in their original language but the number of English translations is growing. The collection is updated daily and arranged into 26 topical areas related to trade and investment.
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International Bibliography of Book Reviews
An interdisciplinary index to book reviews published in scholarly journals, primarily in the social sciences and the humanities, including many European journals. The database contains over one million entries from 1985 to the present, and each entry includes German and English subject classifications. Around 50,000 new entries are added each month.
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International Business & Finance Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers the activities of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and regulatory bodies worldwide whose regulations and policies impact domestic and international business and financial environments. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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International Comparative Legal Guides
International Comparative Legal Guides (ICLG) is a website devoted to basic question and answer outlines of over 30 commercial-oriented legal topics from over 110 jurisdictions worldwide. Topics include Aviation Law; Cartels & Leniency; Competition Litigation; Corporate Governance; Enforcement of Competition Law; Lending and Secured Finance; Mergers & Acquisitions; Oil & Gas Regulation; Patents; Trade Marks [sic]. Drill down searching can be done either by topic or jurisdiction. This free website has a simple search engine, which usually is not needed because of the well-organized drill-down capability.
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International Environment Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers legal developments relating to the environment, natural resources, and chemicals in industrialized and developing nations as well as international governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Available online since July 7, 1998. This title is no longer being updated. See the International Environment Reporter for current coverage.
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International Environment Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Tracks directives from the European Union, United Nations, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, and other intergovernmental and nongovernmental organizations. It also monitors domestic and foreign laws, regulations, and policies that relate to the environment. Available online since February 7, 1996; also in print at K3585.4 .I57.
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International Justice Tribune Newsletter and Archive
This bi-weekly online magazine covers international criminal justice issues by publishing investigative articles and interviews about worldwide efforts to try alleged war criminals at the International Criminal Court as well as in domestic courts. Individuals may register for a free online subscription at http://www.rnw.nl/int-justice/article/subscribe-international-justice-tribune.
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International Law & World Order: Weston's & Carlson's Basic Documents
International Law & World Order is a searchable database of international legal documents such as treaties, agreements, conventions, declarations, and draft international legal documents. Faculty and students researching international law (law between states or law of nations), humanitarian law (law of war), human rights, and international cooperative efforts (trade, finance, and arbitration) will find this database invaluable. Searching can be done by text, titles, and fields. The document collection is categorized according to Constitutive/Organic; War/Peace; Human Rights/Social Justice; Trade/Finance/Development; and Earth/Space/Environment. Editorial enhancements include continuously updated status and party information and extensive cross-referencing to other documents. The editors are internationally renowned veteran law professors Burns Weston and Jonathan Carlson of the University of Iowa College of Law.
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International Law Reports (Justis)
The International Law Reports cover all significant cases of public international law from 1919 to the present day by reporting decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts in English. This electronic archive permits searching or browsing the reports in an html format. Also available in print at Law Library JX68 .A65.
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International Monetary Fund Data (ProQuest Statistical Datasets)
There are four specialized IMF data modules within the LexisNexis Statistical Datasets product: Balance of Payments, showing the amount of money flowing into and out of countries dating back to 1948; Direction of Trade, reflecting the value of a country's imports and exports dating back to 1980; Government Financial Statistics, detailing government revenues, expenses, assets, and liabilities back to 1990; and International Financial Statistics, showing international transactions, exchange rates, and selected economic indicators for member countries back to 1948.
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International Tax Monitor (Bloomberg BNA)
This daily publication follows the activities of Congress, the Treasury Department, the Internal Revenue Service, and the courts to provide up-to-date information on legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments. It also covers tax developments in the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia, Brazil, and other countries. Available online since February 6, 2001.
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International Trade Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers U.S. and foreign trade policy with an emphasis on topics such as export incentives, financing, licensing, foreign investments, limits on imports, import relief, and adjustment assistance. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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International Trade Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Examines trends in U.S. trade policy with in-depth coverage of domestic regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments including opinions of the U.S. Court of International Trade, International Trade Administration, and International Trade Commission. It also monitors the activities of the Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce; the World Trade Organization; and the European Union. Published weekly and available online since January 24, 1996; also in print at K3943.A13 I52.
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Investment Claims Online (Oxford)
Provides full text access to investment claim awards and decisions, treaties, commentaries, institutional rules, and selected national arbitration laws. The treaties component provides access to bilateral investment treaties to which the US is not a party. When an official English version of the treaty is available, that is the version included in the database. If no official English version is available, the treaty is published in the language of the key jurisdiction being reported on.
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Iowa Criminal Law Handbook (3d ed.)
A comprehensive guide to Iowa criminal law that provides analysis of statutes, case law, and court rules. Incorporates and enhances the Iowa Charging Manual, OWI and Traffic Offenses Manual, and Iowa Search and Seizure Manual. Passages include hyperlinks to unofficial sources of Iowa cases, statutes, and rules.
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Iowa Legal Aid Manual
This manual is meant to provide Iowa attorneys with an overview of state and federal laws that are of greatest importance when representing low-income Iowans. Among the topics covered are consumer law, domestic relations, rights of disabled persons, and public benefits.
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Irish Penal Laws: Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery
Provides access to the Irish Penal Laws that were passed between 1691 and 1760 during the reigns of William and Mary, William III, Anne, and George I and II to regulate the status of Roman Catholics. Before the two countries united at the beginning of the nineteenth century, England and Ireland had separate parliaments, although the English parliament had the power to pass laws applying to Ireland. Unless otherwise noted, the statutes on this site are acts of the Irish parliament.
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Irish Reports and Digests (Justis)
The Irish Reports database contains the full text of case reports from 1838 to the present day. These reports are available as printable PDFs that replicate the exact pagination and appearance of the hard copies. The Irish Digests database provides a summary of each case reported in the Irish Reports, Northern Ireland Reports, Irish Law Reports Monthly, Irish Law Times Reports, Irish Jurist Reports, Irish Law Journal, and Irish Special Reports.
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Israel Law Reports (HeinOnline)
This digitized collection of the Israel Law Reports, and its predecessor title the Selected Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel, contains English language translations of Israeli court decisions back to 1948. A variety of research aids accompany the collection including a table of cases, table of legislation, and index. The collection also provides access to PDF images of the Israel Law Review back to 1966.
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Issues and Controversies
Provides electronic, full text access to the Facts on File News Service's biweekly publication Issues and Controversies. This publication draws upon editorials, news stories, and primary source materials to explain and analyze controversial topics.
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Journal Citation Reports on the Web
This multidisciplinary journal evaluation tool uses statistical data to provide a systematic, objective way to determine the relative importance of journals within their subject categories. By compiling cited references, JCR helps to measure research influence and impact at the journal level, shows the relationships between citing and cited journals, and assesses how quickly articles are cited after publication.
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Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and Archives
The American Medical Association provides online access to JAMA & Archives journals from January 1998 forward. The full text articles are indexed by topic and available for download in PDF format. Abstracts and tables of contents are available for older issues.
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Journals at Ovid
A full text, electronic collection of scientific, technical, and medical journals from over 50 publishers and societies.
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JSTOR
Provides full text access to selected scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, philosophy, mathematics, and other fields of the humanities and social sciences. Note that this database contains ONLY back issues, the JSTOR database does not include issues for the most recent 3 to 5 years. Consult the online tables of contents for specific holdings information as coverage varies for each title.
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Judicial Nominations Database
This resource from the Yale Law Library tracks every federal judicial nomination from the 103rd Congress to the present.
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Juricaf
Francophone database compiling the most recent Supreme Court decisions from 42 countries.
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Juris Spectrum
Provides full text access to EU laws and regulations, German federal and state laws, EU and German case law, and legal journals and commentaries. The contents and search interface are in German. This product can only be accessed within the law building.
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Justis
Provides full text access to international and UK legal materials including Statutory Instruments; the Irish Reports and Digests; Scottish Session Cases Archives, 1821-1872; State Trials, 1163-1858; and the International Law Reports.
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Jutastat
Juta provides full text access to case law and statutory materials from a number of African countries including the Case Law of Zimbabwe, Government Gazettes of South Africa, Namibian Law Reports, Statutes of Namibia, Statutes of Zimbabwe, Laws of Tanzania, and Zambia Law Reports.
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Kluwer Arbitration
Permits searchable, full text access to primary source materials and analytical commentary relating to international arbitration including over 500 laws, 5,000 court decisions, 1,750 arbitral awards, and 1,700 bilateral investment treaties. It also provides access to the International Council for Commercial Arbitration's International Handbook on Commercial Arbitration and ICCA Congress Series, as well as the Institute for Transnational Arbitration's Monthly Report.
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Kluwer Manual IP
Provides online, full text access to the Manual for the Handling of Applications for Patents, Designs and Trademarks throughout the World, which profiles over 200 countries and regional systems. Also includes IP related conventions, agreements, and protocols and a special section on the European Patent System. The "Smart Charts" workflow tool within the product allows users to create customized charts comparing information from multiple jurisdictions on patents, trademarks, utility models, and industrial designs and models
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Kodeks
Kodeks is a full text Russian legal research database comprised of two components. The English archive contains translations of the acts of the Russian Federation and the USSR from 1971-2008. The Russian language component includes both national and regional legislation with coverage beginning in 1971 and continuing through the present. It also includes selected treaties, commentary on legislation and the budgetary process, various publications relating to taxation and business, and some news and magazine publications. Coverage of the news publications varies but typically extends back to the mid-1990s.
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Labor Relations Reporter/Labor & Employment Law Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides in-depth analysis of employment law decisions, statutes, regulations, and trends in the areas of fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration. It provides full text access to cases in these areas and a useful classification system to guide you to cases on point for your issue. It also provides access to the full text of the HR Policy Handbook as well as checklists, forms, and sample letters. Also available in print at KF3365 .L26.
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Labor Relations Week (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides coverage of legislative and regulatory developments in labor law and summarizes rulings from the National Labor Relations Board and the courts. Available online since January 31, 1996.
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Latin America Data Base
A searchable collection of full text articles from LADB news publications (including SourceMex, NotiSur, and NotiCen). Also includes articles in Spanish from Latin American economics journals and publications.
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Law Journal Library (HeinOnline)
Provides full text access to selected legal periodicals. Coverage typically begins with a publication's first issue; recent issues are added approximately 3-12 months after they are published in print.
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Law, Lawyers & Popular Culture DVD Collection (Lex Populi)
The Law, Lawyers & Popular Culture DVD Collection, informally known as Lex Populi, consists of features and documentaries in all genres. Each DVD must meet one of the following criteria to be included: contains a significant trial scene; has a lawyer as a significant character; focuses on a current legal "hot topic;" explores a socio-legal theme; or, depicts a story about the law, legal systems, or legal education. Circulation is limited to members of the law school community.
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LawInfoChina
Contains English-language versions of Chinese legal information such as laws (statutes/legislation) and regulations (including related interpretations by the Supreme People's Court); selected judicial decisions of the Supreme People's Court and Supreme People's Procuratorate; legal news articles since 2000; gazettes containing useful documents and legislative histories; and selected leading law journals. The English-language homepage allows for searching in both English and Chinese.
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Laws of Ghana
Allows researchers to search, browse, and retrieve the full text of the constitution, statutory acts, and repealed acts with coverage beginning in the 1880s and continuing through 2008.
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Laws of Tanzania
Provides full text access to the 2002 revised edition of the Laws of Tanzania including principal and subsidiary legislation along with their indexes and finding aids. To search the collection, use the "choose search form" drop down menu at the top of the screen.
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Legal Classics (HeinOnline)
This full text collection of classic legal works may be searched or browsed by author, title, or subject.
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Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
A free, full text, searchable database of U.S. federal primary materials including the U.S. Code, every U.S. Supreme Court case issued since 1990 and selected earlier decisions, and the Code of Federal Regulations. The site also serves as a portal to additional federal and state legal materials including statutes, cases, and administrative regulations.
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Legal Journals Index (Westlaw)
LJI indexes articles from more than 430 legal journals published in the United Kingdom and Europe as well as journals covering topics pertaining to the laws of the European Community and its member countries. Coverage begins in 1986.
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Legal Scholarship Network
Distributes research related to law, economics, and business in 61 different subject areas. It provides access to working papers and article manuscripts that have been accepted for publication, often a year before they appear in print. If an article requires a fee for downloading, the Law Library will not pay the fee but will attempt to obtain the article from another source free of charge. Please consult a Reference Librarian or the Interlibrary Loan Department for assistance.
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LegalTrac
Indexes law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals with coverage beginning in 1980. It also covers law-related articles from business and general interest titles.
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LexisNexis
Use your personal password to log-in to the system. Only members of the law school community may establish personal passwords.
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LexisNexis Academic
Provides full text access to US state and federal legal cases, statutory and administrative codes, selected federal agency decisions, Shepards for cases, and topical secondary legal materials. It also contains full text news from a variety of newpapers and wire services and some international legal materials.
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Life Sciences Law & Industry Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This biweekly publication defines the life sciences industry as using advanced and emerging technologies to develop solutions that enhance human health and combat disease. This publication covers the U.S. federal government's regulation and enforcement within the industry, current legislation and litigation, and international policies and standards. Available online since March 16, 2007.
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LLMC Digital Library
This collection contains digitized full text images of federal and state legal materials and government publications from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches. Some materials from foreign governments and international organizations are also included.
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Lloyd's Law Reports
Browse or search the full text of insurance and reinsurance cases published by Lloyd's Law Reports during the last 12 months.
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Making of America
This collection from Cornell University allows researchers to browse or search the full text of books, journal articles, and primary documents published during the 19th century that focus on American social history from the antebellum period through reconstruction.
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Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600 - 1926
A unique digital collection of Foreign Law, International Law, Comparative Law, Roman Law, Jewish Law, Islamic Law, and Ancient Law with full text search capabilities in English and languages of origin. The Forein Law collection includes dozens of countries; principal countries include: Argentina, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, India, Italy, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, and Switzerland. The International Law collection includes notable works of renowned legal theorists, such as Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, and Wheaton. These materials were sourced from Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.
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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800 - 1926
A fully searchable collection of digitized casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches from Great Britain, Ireland, and the United States. In contains over 22,000 titles published from 1800 through 1926.
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Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources I & II, 1600 - 1970
This historically rich, full text collection of primary legal documents contains constitutional convention materials including reports, journals, proceedings, debates, rules of order, and information for the use of delegates; the text of enacted and proposed city charters and ordinances; legal dictionaries; Native American & U.S. government relations; African American and women's right to vote; military and veterans affairs; welfare and labor; crime & punishment; early U.S. state codes; and colonial records from the microfilm collection Published Records of the American Colonies. The database is available in two parts but is cross-searched as the default search mode. In the "Advanced Search" mode, one may choose the primary source collection (MML - Pt. 1 1620 - 1926 or MML - Pt.2 1763 - 1970), the jurisdiction, the publication type (American colonial records, Constitutional Conventions and Compilations, federal codes, law dictionaries, municipal codes or state codes), language or number of pages. Each image is a PDF and is fully searchable by several means, including subject, author, title, geographic subject or publisher, to name a few.
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Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832 - 1978
Digital archive of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court from 1832-1978. Enables full text searching of 350,000 documents from 150,000 cases.
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Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600 - 1926
This collection provides access to digitized versions of published trial collections, official trial documents including briefs and arguments, and records of legislative and administrative proceedings that examine historically important trials. Most of the titles were orginally published in English in the U.S. or Great Britain but the collection also contains selected non-English language materials from other jurisdictions.
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Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (HeinOnline)
Hein has digitized all eight editions of this title. The original publication for each edition can be viewed along with its revisions. Users can also view the completely interfiled version of each edition.
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Manupatra
Manupatra provides full text access to India's High and Supreme Court cases, tribunal and commission orders, the Bare Acts, notifications, circulars, bills, forms, and more. Coverage varies by collection, extending back to the 1960s for some publications but as far back as the 1860s for others. Users can browse the content or can search by subject area, citation, or keywords. Please note: after connecting to Manupatra, select "I.P. Access" to the right of the log-in boxes.
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Martindale-Hubbell Law Digest
Summarizes laws on a variety of legal topics. Jurisdictions are divided into five parts as follows: Digest of Laws of the States, District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and U.S. Virgin Islands; Digests of U.S. Federal, Copyright, Patent, and Trademark Laws; Appendix of U.S. Uniform and Model Acts (contains the complete full text of the acts); Digest of Laws, International Section (covers 80 countries and European Union law); and Selected International Conventions.
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online (Oxford)
This resource is a fully revised version of the 1992 print edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law currently on Law Course Reserve at JX1226 .E5 1992. This new electronic edition contains 1,700 articles and includes over 700 new topics not addressed in the previous edition. It also expands coverage in the areas of international criminal law, international dispute settlement, trade law, and environmental law.
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Media Law Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides analysis of pending legislation and the points of law addressed in significant state and federal court opinions. Provides full text access to court decisions and provides tools such as a classification outline and headnotes to facilitate case law research. Also in print at KF2750 .A513.
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Medical Devices Law & Industry Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Monitors the Food and Drug Administration's regulation of medical devices, clinical trials, recalls, oversight of manufacturing practices, and advertising guidelines. It follows the enforcement activities of federal agencies and summarizes significant litigation, including products liability and patent infringement law suits. Published biweekly and available online since February 28, 2007.
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Medical Research Law & Policy Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Assesses the impact of new rules and regulations, changes in enforcement and compliance, significant legislative activities, and major court decisions in all areas of medical research. Published twice per month and available online since March 20, 2002; also in print at KF3821.A15 M43.
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Medicare Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Analyzes legislative, regulatory, judicial, and health care industry developments. Covers a wide range of topics including accreditation, fraud, nursing homes, and reimbursement policies. Published weekly and available online since February 2, 1996; also in print at KF3608.A4 A132.
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MedlinePlus
Connects consumers to authoritative health information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health, and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Includes extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, and links to care provider directories.
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Mergent Horizon
Provides stock and financial data for over 6200 publicly traded US companies. Allows users to perform industry comparisons and peer-group analyses, evaluate a company's business based on its products and services, and identify its competitors, major customers, suppliers and partners. Covers all companies actively traded on the NYSE, AMEX, and NASDAQ exchanges.
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Mergent Online
Provides financial data for over 1 million companies worldwide with up to 4 years of key financial information on over 400,000 global private companies. Allows integrated searching and screening of information for both public and private companies. Permits searching by NAICS or SIC codes and the creation of customized reports. Provides specialized search engines for information on executives, industry reports, equity reports, and EDGAR filings.
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Mergers & Acquisitions Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Examines the impact of corporate, securities, environment, tax, health care, employment, and intellectual property law developments on mergers and acquisitions. Covers the state, federal, and international level. Published weekly and available online since January 11, 1999; also in print at KF1477.A15 M47.
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Money & Politics Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This daily examines Federal Election Commission filings, reports, advisory opinions, decisions, and enforcement actions to provide up-to-date coverage of campaign finance reform, new lobbying regulations, and government ethics. Available online since October 15, 1997.
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National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (HeinOnline)
This archive contains transcripts from the Proceedings of every Annual Meeting, as well as the transcripts of the discussions of each Uniform and Model Act. Also included are the approved "successive drafts" of each Uniform and Model Act.
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National Moot Court Competition (HeinOnline)
Provides full text access to the winning records and briefs from the annual National Moot Court Competitions, back to the very first competition held in 1950.
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National Technical Information Services (NTIS)
The National Technical Information Service is a federal agency that collects technical, scientific, business, health, and social sciences research materials produced by the U.S. government, foreign governments, and other organizations throughout the world. The NTIS database allows you to search summaries of these items from 1964 to the present, with some materials dating back to the late 1940s.
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Native Health Database
The Native Health Database contains citations to and summaries of health-related articles, reports, surveys, and other resource documents pertaining to the health and health care of American Indians, Alaska Natives, and Canadian First Nations.
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New Electronic Titles: A GPO Access Finding Aid
NET includes full text publications recently released by the U.S. government on topics such as health, environment, education, consumer guides, business statistics, foreign affairs, government information, and social policy.
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New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
This searchable, electronic equivalent of the 8-volume print title contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. New articles and updates to existing articles are added to the online edition four times per year.
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New York Court of Appeals Records & Briefs (HeinOnline)
Provides coverage back to the first volume of NY3d along with select coverage of volumes of NY2d. Future releases will include retrospective coverage and new records and briefs as they are published.
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New York Legal Research Library (HeinOnline)
Provides searchable, full text access to the PDF images of a wide variety of New York primary resources including New York Tax Cases back to 1988, the New York State Register back to 1993, New York Attorney General Reports and Opinions back to 1890, state session laws back to 1777, and superseded statutory codes published prior to 1923. The collection also provides access to secondary resources including the New York State Bar Association Journal dating back to 1928 and a collection of law reviews from the state of New York.
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New York Times
The New York Times (June 1, 1980 - current) full-text is available from Factiva. Factiva provides comprehensive same-day and archival coverage of NYT. LexisNexis Academic, LexisNexis, and Westlaw also provide full-text access to NYT from 1980 to the present.
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New York Times - Historical
Provides access to full-text articles from The New York Times from 1851 through 2007. All articles are displayed as PDF images.
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Newspaper Source
Updated daily, this full text collection provides access to articles from regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns, and other sources.
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Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
Contains full runs of 48 newspapers specially selected by the British Library to best represent nineteenth century Britain. It includes national and regional newspapers published in England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. There is an emphasis on newspapers that helped lead particular political or social movements such as Reform, Chartism, and Home Rule. The penny papers aimed at the working and clerical classes are also represented.
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Nineteenth Century Collections Online
Comprised of distinct topic-specific collections of primary source documents from the 19th century. NCCO features: British Politics and Society; Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; European Literature, 1790 -1840: The Corvey Collection; and British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture.
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Nineteenth Century Historical United States Newspapers
Contains full text content and images from newspapers that were published in a variety of urban and rural areas throughout the U.S. during the 1800s.
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Nineteenth Century Masterfile
Integrating over 60 subject indexes to books, articles, U.S. patents, and governmental publications, this is the largest index available for historical research prior to 1925. It includes Jones and Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature 1786 - 1922.
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Nineteenth Century U.K. Periodicals Series
Includes 600 titles from England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales selected for their influence in terms of content, circulation, editorial policy, contributors, and importance within their field. The collection focuses on periodicals that capture the industrial and social changes of the time period and includes women's periodicals as well as professional journals in the areas of science, trade, medicine, travel, humor, politics, and social reform. Colonial and missionary publications, originating both in Britain and the empire, are also included.
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North American Indian Thought and Culture
This project integrates autobiographies, biographies, Indian publications, oral histories, personal writings, photographs, drawings, and audio files to provide a representation of historical events as told by the individuals who lived through them. The collection provides information on nearly 500 nations and covers the entire history of North America dating back to 17th century accounts of the first encounters involving Indians and European colonists.
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Occupational Safety & Health Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Tracks the activities of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission to help employers anticipate health and safety needs and apply new rules, regulations, and guidelines. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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Occupational Safety & Health Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly report helps employers comply with workplace safety and health requirements. It tracks Occupational Safety and Health Administration related bills in Congress, proposed and final regulations, and Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission orders and notices. Available online since February 7, 1996; also in print at KF3568.A2 B86.
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OCLC FirstSearch
Provides access to WorldCat, a database containing the merged online catalogs of thousands of libraries worldwide. WorldCat allows you to search across millions of records representing titles in all formats. This is helpful if you are trying to verify the existence of a publication that cannot be found through InfoHawk, or for preparing a bibliography of publications by a particular author.
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Oxford Companion to American Law
Includes essays on state and federal legal institutions in the U.S.; the intersection between law and other disciplines such as sociology and medicine; controversies such as abortion and reproductive rights, the right to bear arms, affirmative action, and freedom of speech and the press; biographies of important lawyers, judges, and legal educators; and the historical origins and contemporary developments in doctrinal areas such as property and torts.
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Oxford Companion to Law
Provides 1,700 alphabetically arranged entries covering all major areas of the law including criminal law, tax, social security law, human rights, family and employment law, education law, sports law, and international law; the role and workings of legal institutions such as parliaments, courts, law schools, and international bodies; leading cases, famous trials and distinguished lawyers; major events in legal history; and major debates in legal theory.
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Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia
The 435 entries in this work examine the way the court operates, its historical development, the people who have contributed to its development, its leading cases, and the institutional role the court plays in Australian society.
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Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
Consists of over 1,200 entries on key cases and constitutional legal issues including abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.
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Oxford Dictionary of Law
Contains over 4,200 entries that define the terminology, concepts, processes, and organization of the English legal system. The seventh edition reflects recent changes in the law and legal system and includes full citation references to important new cases.
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Oxford Dictionary of Law Enforcement
Defines over 3,400 UK law enforcement terms that relate to law, accountancy, insurance, shipping, commerce, trade, pathology, forensic medicine, criminology, and psychology. Entries include citations to relevant legislation. The dictionary also contains five appendices: abbreviations and acronyms; recordable offences; disclosure code; disclosure guidelines; and disclosure protocol.
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Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Provides concise articles on noteworthy people in all walks of life who were born and lived in the British Isles, people from the British Isles who achieved recognition in other countries, people who lived in territories formerly connected to the British Isles at a time when they were in contact with British rule, and people born elsewhere who settled in the British Isles for significant periods or whose visits enabled them to leave a mark on British life. The Dictionary's articles are confined to people who died before December 31, 2000 and primarily focus on individuals, though some entries on families or groups (the Grey family; the Tolpuddle Martyrs) are also included.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History
Includes 900 original articles ranging from 500-word entries on inventors, theoreticians, and industry leaders to overarching, 8,000-word essays on markets, industries, and labor. The encyclopedia is international in scope and covers all periods of human history.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World
This eight volume encyclopedia contains over 2,000 entries examining ethnic groups, social history, demography, family life, politics, economics, religion, education, technology, culture, and major events such as wars. It covers all major world developments from 1750 to the present and includes extensive coverage of the United States.
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Oxford Encyclopedia of Women in World History
Provides over 650 biographies of influential women and over 600 topical articles in areas such as geography, history, culture and society, organizations, movements, and gender studies in an effort to comprehensively cover the role of women throughout world history.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The OED is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It covers words from across the English-speaking world, offers etymological analysis, lists variant spellings, and shows pronunciation using the International Phonetic Alphabet. For each word in the OED, meanings are presented in chronological order and are supported through quotation evidence.
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Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
Individually analyzes more than 450 of the most important cases in the court's history, and in the process provides an overview of the evolution of constitutional law in the U.S. and insight into the nation's underlying social, cultural, and political dynamics.
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Oxford Handbook of Political Science
Provides full text access to the following Oxford Handbook e-books: American Elections and Political Behavior, American Political Parties and Interest Groups, American Presidency, British Politics, Comparative Politics, Contextual Political Analysis, International Relations, Law and Politics, Political Behavior, Political Economy, Political Institutions, Political Methodology, Political Theory, Public Policy, and the United Nations.
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Oxford Journals
Full text access to Oxford University Press journal titles covering law, the humanities, math, social science, medicine, and science.
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Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Provides access to searchable, comprehensive bilingual dictionaries including French/English, German/English, Italian/English, Spanish/English, Russian/English, and Chinese/English.
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Oxford Reference Online
This collection of dictionaries, encyclopedias, and reference works published by Oxford University Press lets you search across multiple titles with one search. Titles cover a variety of languages and subjects and include the Oxford Companion to American Law, Oxford Dictionary of Law, and Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction
Provides access to decisions and awards from the International Court of Justice, Permanent Court of International Justice, Permanent Court of Arbitration, and International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea.
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Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law
Provides updates on pending cases and access to decisions on substantive and procedural law from the International Criminal Court, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, and Special Court for Sierra Leone.
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Oxford Reports on International Human Rights Law
Includes the full text of decisions and awards from the European Court of Human Rights, Inter-American Commission and Court of Human Rights, African Court of Human and Peoples Rights, and the UN's Human Rights Committee, Committee Against Torture, Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women.
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Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts
Reprints and analyzes important cases from domestic courts around the world that impact public international law. Cases are drawn from over 75 jurisdictions. For non-English cases, translations of key passages appear alongside the full text of the judgments in the original language.
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Oxford Scholarship Online
Provides access to Oxford University Press e-books and in law and related disciplines, such as political science, economics and finance, business, and many more. Selected titles are abstract only.
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Oyez Project
This multimedia archive provides access to audio recordings of the proceedings of the U.S. Supreme Court since October 1955. The project also provides a brief summary of each case decided by the court, authoritative information on each justice, and a virtual tour of portions of the Supreme Court building.
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PACER
PACER is the U.S. federal court system's portal to U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide.
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PAIS International
Indexes journal articles, books, government documents, research reports, and other literature relevant to political science and public affairs. Coverage extends back to 1972 and includes publications from over 120 countries.
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Parliament Rolls of Medieval England 1275 - 1504
The rolls of parliament were the official records of the meetings of the English parliament from the reign of Edward I from 1272-1307 until the reign of Henry VII from 1485-1509. The rolls were first edited and published in 1783 in six folio volumes entitled Rotuli Parliamentorum (RP) under the general editorship of the Reverend John Strachey. This new edition reproduces the rolls edited in RP in their entirety, plus those subsequently published by Cole, Maitland, and Richardson and Sayles. It also includes a substantial amount of material never previously published, together with a full translation of all the texts from the three languages used by the medieval clerks (Latin, Anglo-Norman, and Middle English).
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Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases
Provides access to full page images of patents issued since 1790.
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Patent, Trademark & Copyright Law Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers U.S. and international intellectual property law developments. It reports on cases before the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and the U.S. Court of Claims. It also covers regulations promulgated by federal agencies such as the International Trade Commission, Copyright Office, and Patent & Trademark Office. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly examines intellectual property legislation, regulations, litigation, industry news, and international developments. It covers U.S. federal laws and regulations; policy statements from trade and professional organizations; and decisions from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, and U.S. Court of Claims. Available online since February 15, 1996; also in print at KF3091.A3 P37.
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Pension & Benefits Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Summarizes state and federal legal developments impacting pensions, benefits, and ERISA compliance. Reprints major Internal Revenue Service, Labor Department, and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation rules, announcements, notices, and letters, plus major court and agency decisions. Available online since September 2, 1997.
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Pension & Benefits Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Monitors the laws, regulations, cases, and issues that influence pension and benefits policy, design, and administration. Prints the full text of major documents from the Internal Revenue Service, Labor Department, Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and the courts. Published weekly and available online since January 15, 1996; also in print at HD7106.U5 B78a.
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Pentagon Papers (HeinOnline)
The Pentagon Papers comprise the Vietnam Relations, 1945 - 1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense. The Pentagon Papers chronicle the history of the United States Department of Defense's political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Access the complete 7,000 page report with no redactions. This collection also includes supplemental back-documentation and a complete account of peace negotiations.
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Periodicals Archive Online
Offers electronic access to backfiles of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences that have been indexed in its sister database, Periodicals Index Online.
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Periodicals Index Online
Indexes periodical articles in the humanities and social sciences covering each title from its first issue, which may be as early as 1665. The scope is international, including journals in English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, and other languages.
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Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides breaking coverage of regulatory actions and litigation in the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Available online since September 15, 2008. This title is no longer being updated. See the Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report for current coverage.
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Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly monitors state and federal activities that impact the pharmaceutical industry including developments in intellectual property law, drug pricing and reimbursement, Food and Drug Administration oversight, and Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcement. Available online (including its predecessor title) since July 12, 2001; also in print at KF2036.D7 A182.
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Philip C Jessup Library (HeinOnline)
Contains problems, winning memorials, official rules, competition results, and judges' briefs, when available. The collection dates back to 1960.
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Philosopher's Index
Provides indexing and abstracts for books, journal articles, and anthologies in all fields of philosophy including ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, and metaphysic logic as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, education, and language. Coverage begins in 1940.
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Piracy Trials
Provides full text access to a digitized collection of pre-1923 piracy trials held by the Law Library of Congress. This historical collection is critical for understanding how the various nations of the world handled piracy issues before the year 1900.
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PolicyFile (ProQuest)
The PolicyFile service regularly reviews the websites of think tanks, research organizations, and advocacy groups in an effort to identify and index gray literature. Each PolicyFile record contains basic information including the publication's title, author, issuing organization, and date of publication. The records also provide the email address and phone number for the author and a URL that connects researchers to the full text document, which is typically available in a PDF format. Researchers may use the PolicyFile subject index to locate information on a specific topic or may enter a keyword search. Coverage varies by organization and may extend as far back as the year 1990.
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Political Database of the Americas
Provides information on the political processes, institutions, constitution, branches of government, and elections in every country in the Americas. It contains chronological listings of leaders, details about the current cabinet members of each country, and a comparison of the constitutional articles authorizing various governmental offices and bodies.
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Political Science Network
Distributes research in more than 100 topical areas that relate to political science scholarship. It provides access to working papers and article manuscripts that have been accepted for publication, often a year before they appear in print. If an article requires a fee for downloading, the Law Library will not pay the fee but will attempt to obtain the article from another source free of charge. Please consult a Reference Librarian or the Interlibrary Loan Department for assistance.
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Polling the Nations
A database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 500,000 questions and responses from more than 14,000 surveys conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world. Searches can be conducted in one of six fields -- topic, question text, universe, date, polling organization, and response.
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Poverty Law Library
This online library from the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law contains a collection of over 500,000 documents of interest to legal aid attorneys. The collection provides access to PDF images of selected court documents and decisions as well as the publication the Clearinghouse Review. Use Internet Explorer for best results when accessing this resource.
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Privacy & Security Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly newsletter tracks legislative developments in the area of privacy and data protection and monitors the regulatory and enforcement activities of agencies such as federal banking regulators, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, state insurance commissioners, and the Federal Trade Commission. It also summarizes European Union privacy protections. Available online since January 7, 2002; also in print at KF1262.A15 P65.
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Privacy Law Watch (Bloomberg BNA)
A daily update on state, federal, and international developments impacting privacy law. It monitors the regulatory and enforcement activities of federal agencies including the Federal Trade Commission, Federal Communications Commission, and Securities and Exchange Commission. It also summarizes legislation and cases relating to public and private access to personal information such as medical files, job records, and credit card transactions. Available online since April 23, 2001.
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Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913
Provides access to a digitized collection of all surviving editions of the Old Bailey Proceedings from 1674 to 1913 and of the Ordinary of Newgate's Accounts from 1679 to 1772. The proceedings were published upon the conclusion of each session of the Old Bailey and satisfied the public's demand for details about the criminal trials of ordinary men and women. The accounts are biographical narratives of the lives and deaths of convicts executed at Tyburn.
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Product Liability Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Alerts readers to changes in relevant regulations and statues such as the Consumer Product Safety Act. It also describes litigation strategies and reports on pre-trial filings and decisions, evidentiary rulings, and verdicts. Available online since July 7, 1998. This title is no longer being updated. See the Product Safety & Liability Reporter for current coverage.
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Product Safety & Liability Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
This weekly publication analyzes legislative proposals, regulatory changes, agency actions, and court decisions relating to product safety and liability. It also offers practical litigation strategies and provides news about product recalls. Available online since January 19, 1996; also in print at KF1296.A6 P76.
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Project Muse
A full text collection of peer-reviewed journals in the humanities, arts, and social sciences. All articles are available in html and as PDF images.
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ProQuest
A collection of databases including ABI/INFORM Global, Dissertations and Theses, and various newspaper indexes and collections.
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ProQuest Congressional
Congressional features all public and private bills and resolutions from 1789 to the present. Also access laws, committee prints, House and Senate documents and reports, the Congressional Record, and more. Users can search by subject, keyword, document number, and public law number. This resource also allows full text access to Congressional Research Service reports published since 1916 and full text Congressional hearings from 1824-2003. Congressional is based on indexes created by the Congressional Information Service and is particularly useful for compiling legislative histories and tracking bills.
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ProQuest Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
This collection contains PDF images of the full text of published and unpublished Congressional hearings from 1824-2003. To search the collection, use the standard LexisNexis Congressional search interface, then look under the heading Hearings-Digital Collection in your result list to access full text documents.
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ProQuest Congressional Record Permanent Digital Collection
Provides searchable, full text access to the PDF images of the permanent bound edition of the Congressional Record (1873-1997) and its predecessor titles the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873). This resource is accessible through the LexisNexis Congressional interface. Select the Congressional Record Only tab within the interface to limit your search to these publications.
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ProQuest Congressional Research Digital Collection
The Congressional Research Service provides Congressional members, committees, and staff with nonpartisan, objective research and analysis on a variety of public policy issues. A digital collection of their reports published from 1916 to the present is searchable through LexisNexis Congressional by clicking on the Advanced Search tab within that interface.
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ProQuest Government Periodicals Index
Helps you locate articles from journals and magazines published by U.S. government agencies from 1988 to the present on issues relating to public policy, commerce, and science-based topics of general interest for both consumers and researchers. The index is updated quarterly and is searchable by subject, keyword, author, and title.
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ProQuest History Vault: Black Freedom Struggle in the 20th Century
This ProQuest database, from its History Vault, consists of 37 collections from the records of federal government agencies, including Department of Justice Classified Subject Files on Civil Rights, 1914 - 1949, New Deal Agencies, Records of the Tuskegee Airmen, President Truman's Committee on Civil Rights, records from the civil rights files of the Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter and Bush administrations, FBI files on Martin Luther King, Jr., the Black Panther Party and other civil rights organizations, and records of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. The collection includes PDF images of correspondence, reports, photographs, telegrams, advertisements and pamphlets, among others. One may search by browsing the collections or browsing events, through a basic search or advanced search, or by person, subject, agency or organization within the search results. Results may be sorted by date or relevance and records may be e-mailed or included in a bibliography created through RefWorks or EndNote.
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ProQuest History Vault: Slavery and the Law, 1777 - 1867
Archive of primary sources related to slavery in the United States, including state slavery statutes from 1789 - 1865, petitions to state legislatures and county courts, and judicial cases. This collection includes scholarly works on slavery: Judicial Cases Concerning American Slavery and the Negro (1926) by Helen Tunnicliff Catterall and James John Hayden and The Law of Freedom and Bondage in the United States (1862) by John Codman Hurd.
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ProQuest Legislative Insight, 1929 - 2012
This collection includes 18,000 complete legislative histories with access to all related full text publications. This collection features comprehensive coverage of all CIS histories from 1970 - 2010 with updated research and indexing, as well as 9,000 selected new histories from 1929 - 1969. Locate fully searchable PDFs of full text publications related to an act, including the Public Law, all versions of related bills, excerpts of the Congressional Record, committee hearings, reports, and prints, Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications.
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ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States
The ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the United States is the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic conditions of the United States. The online version includes monthly updates to tables, deep searching at the line-item level, powerful facets for narrowing search results, image and spreadsheet versions of all current and historical tables, along with links to provider sites.
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ProQuest Statistical Datasets
This web-based tool permits researchers to access more than 14 billion current and historical data points from licensed and public domain datasets and use that data to create customized maps, graphs, charts, and spreadsheets. Data can be output into a variety of file formats including PDF, xls (excel), delimited text, and xml. In addition to the basic product, the Law Library's license also provides access to specialized data from the China Data Center, Easy Analytic Software Inc., and the International Monetary Fund.
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ProQuest Statistical Insight
Allows searching of indexes and abstracts of statistical information compiled and published by the U.S. government from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and international organizations from 1983. Full text content is available for some materials, including PDF images of all statistical documents indexed by the American Statistics Index since 2003.
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PsycARTICLES
A collection of full text articles from psychology journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group.
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PsycINFO
Indexes the professional and academic literature in psychology and related disciplines from 1806 - present. PsycINFO covers journal articles in a variety of languages, as well as book chapters and books published in English.
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PubMed
Indexes biomedical and life science articles. Coverage typically extends back to 1950 but varies by title.
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Qfinance
Qfinance is an internet portal to international finance information created by the Qatar Financial Centre and Bloomsbury Publishing. It provides full text access to articles contributed by subject experts and a news blog. It covers Islamic finance topics but focuses on modern financial theories and best practices in corporate finance and investments. For full access, users must register for a free account.
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Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature
An index of over 300 periodicals published in 29 African countries since 1991.
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Quicklaw
Access full text primary and secondary Canadian legal materials. Coverage includes tribunal decisions, federal and provincial cases and legislation, Halsbury's Laws of Canada, and quantums that summarize judgments and monetary awards.
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Quote It Completely
Contains over 5,500 legal and law-related quotes arranged by subject.
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RAMBI: Index of Articles on Jewish Studies
Indexes articles covering all fields of Jewish studies that have been published in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages since 1966.
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Readers' Guide Retrospective
A comprehensive index to the most popular general interest periodicals published in the United States from 1890-1982.
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Real Estate Law & Industry Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This biweekly news service covers all aspects of commercial real estate including finance, equity and leasing, taxes, litigation, legislation, and regulation. Available online since September 23, 2008.
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Reference Universe
A searchable database of back-of-the-book indexes from subject encyclopedias and other reference works in a wide variety of subject areas.
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RefWorks
A web-based tool that allows you to import references from online resources to create a personal citation database, which can then be used to produce bibliographies for your research projects.
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Regulations.gov
Allows the public to search for and review proposed and final rules from nearly 300 U.S. federal agencies as well as submit and read comments on proposed rules.
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Revised Statutes of Canada (HeinOnline)
The Revised Statutes of Canada provide complete coverage of the six revisions (1886, 1906, 1927, 1952, 1970, and 1985) of the federal laws of Canada passed by the Canadian Parliament, from the first revision in 1886 to the last in 1985. This set is the consolidation of the Statutes of Canada incorporating amendments and Acts that have been added since the last revision. Canadian laws passed since the last revision through 2011 are available in the Session Laws Library on HeinOnline.
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Right-To-Know Planning Guide Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Designed for managers who interact with the community on right-to-know issues, this newsletter provides guidance on complying with right-to-know requirements by summarizing federal and state developments. It covers a wide range of topics including chemical safety, community relations, workplace safety, and recordkeeping. Published biweekly and available online since February 4, 1999.
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Rise of American Law
A digital archive of legal texts published from 1840 - 1970 including more than 1,700 out-of-print secondary law volumes. Provides access to the original editions of national and state legal encyclopedias including AmJur and Florida Jurisprudence, treatises such as Pomeroy's Equity and Jurisprudence and Bogart's Law of Trust and Trustees, and a variety of commentaries and legal histories. International materials, dictionaries, casebooks, and other instructional resources are also included in the collection. Access the collection by logging into Westlaw with your personal username and password, then enter the database identifier ROAL.
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Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts
This project reports on the legal norms relating to human rights, crimes, refugees, and other topics relevant to armed conflicts that apply in each state and disputed territory as well as the extent to which they are respected by the relevant actors. For each state/territory, the project endeavors to provide in English: an overview of the legal system; access to the text of the constitution, statutes, judicial decisions, and treaties the country adheres to; reports generated by international and regional organizations such as the UN, Council of Europe, Inter-American Council on Human Rights, and the African Union.
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Russian Academy of Sciences Bibliographies
These bibliographies cover the social sciences and humanities from 1980 to the present. They include citations and abstracts to journal articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe. Citations and abstracts match the language of publication but subject descriptors and the interface are in English.
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Sage eReference
A collection of full text encyclopedias and reference books published by Sage on a range of topics including African American studies, aging and gerontology, communication and media studies, criminology and criminal justice, economics, education, gender and sexuality studies, history, politics, social issues, and social policy. Researchers can search for information using keywords or can browse the entries within a specific work by title or by using the work's subject index.
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SAGE Journals Online
A full text collection of business, humanities, social science, science, technology, and medical journals.
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Scottish Legal History (HeinOnline)
The Stair Society promotes knowledge of Scottish legal history by publishing original documents and reprinting significant historical works. This digitized collection provides searchable access to PDF images of the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series since its inception in 1936 as well as the society's three volume Supplementary Series. It also includes such works as the Collection and Abridgement of Celebrated Criminal Trials in Scotland, from A. D. 1536 to 1784; Ecclesiastical Records of England, Ireland, and Scotland, from the Fifth Century Till the Reformation; and Lord Chancellors of Scotland from the Institution of the Office to the Treaty of Union.
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Scottish Session Cases Archives, 1821-1872 (Justis)
This full text database provides searchable, PDF images of all key civil and criminal appellate decisions from the Court of Session and High Court of Justiciary in Scotland as well as selected cases decided at first instance and all Scottish appeals to the Privy Council and the House of Lords. The database includes Shaw's Session Cases from 1821 to 1837, Dunlop's from 1838 to 1861, and Macpherson's from 1862 to 1872. The Session Cases are also available in print at Law Library KDC 116 .S38. Online coverage is continued in the SESSION-RPTS database in Westlaw and the SESCAS database in Lexis.
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Securities Law Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides guidance on the proper preparation of proxy materials, financial statements, and other annual meeting materials filed with the SEC. It also covers developments in the regulation of securities, futures trading, and accounting by monitoring the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, federal and state courts, and Congress. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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Securities Regulation and Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Examines federal and state developments in the regulation of securities, futures trading, and accounting with coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, the courts, and Congress. Published weekly and available online since January 5, 1996; also in print at KF1436.5 .S4.
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Selden Society Publications/History of Early English Law (HeinOnline)
Provides full text access to the Selden Society's Annual Series, which publishes common law source materials including law reports dating back to the Middle Ages (also known as the Year Book series), plea rolls, court records, selected leading cases, and more. Also includes the full text of the Selden Society's Supplementary Series commenced in 1965, the English Reports Full Reprint, 1220-1865 (Vols. 1-176, 1694-1867), and the Statutes of the Realm (Vols. 1-11, 1235-1713).
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Serial Set (US Congressional Serial Set)
The goal of this database is to digitize the entire contents of the US Serial Set, which contains House and Senate reports, documents, and journals, as well as a variety of other primary source materials. Materials are currently available from 1817-1990. For earlier Congressional information, consult the American State Papers.
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Session Laws (HeinOnline)
Includes the session laws of all 50 U.S. states, as well as the Canadian and Australian Acts of Parliament. Also contains the U.S. Statutes at Large back to 1789.
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Seventeenth-Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers
The British Library digitized this collection of 17th and 18th century newspapers and pamphlets originally gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney. Most were published in London but some English provincial, Irish, Scottish, and colonial newspapers are also included. The database allows you to search against the full text or browse the publications by their geographical location.
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Siku Quanshu
This is the electronic version of the Wenyuange edition of Siku Quanshu. It features a collection of 3,460 Chinese classical works on philosophy, history, literature and art, political systems, social studies, economics, astronomy and geography, mathematics, medical studies, and technology. As the largest encyclopedic collection of Chinese classical works, it is the single richest source for Chinese studies.
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Singapore Law Reports (Justis)
Justis provides access to the Singapore Law Reports, a case reporter published by the Singapore Academy of Law, which includes all significant decisions from the Singapore Court of Appeal and High Court, the Constitutional Tribunal, and the Council of Law Reporting from 1965 to the present. Justis also includes access to the Singapore Academy of Law Journal and the Singapore Academy of Law Annual Review.
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Slavery, Abolition and Social Justice, 1490 - 2007
Provides access to thousands of original manuscripts, pamphlets, books, paintings, and maps with extensive coverage of the African coast, the Middle Passage, the varieties of slave experience, religion, revolts, the Underground Railroad, the abolition movement, legislation, and slavery today. Researchers can search against the full text of all printed items in the collection and all manuscripts have document level indexing to facilitate research.
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Social Media Law & Policy Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This online only reporter provides access to legal and policy developments about social media law. It provides in-depth analysis of social media legal developments related to Labor & Employment, Intellectual Property, Health, Litigation, Securities, Privacy, Advertising/Marketing, and more in a fully searchable platform. It includes news, hot topics, analysis, practice aids, and relevant primary sources, including full-text state and federal case law and statutes, federal regulations, state bar ethics opinions, federal agency enforcement actions and guidelines, administrative decisions, and more.
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Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
Distributes research related to law, economics, and business. It provides access to working papers and article manuscripts that have been accepted for publication, often a year before they appear in print. Includes the Accounting Research Network, Economics Research Network, Entrepreneurship Research & Policy Network, Financial Economics Network, Legal Scholarship Network, and Political Science Network. If an article requires a fee for downloading, the Law Library will not pay the fee but will attempt to obtain the article from another source free of charge. Please consult a Reference Librarian or the Interlibrary Loan Department for assistance.
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Social Sciences and Humanities Journals (UDB-EDU)
Allows searchable, full text access to the content of leading Russian periodicals in the social sciences and humanities. Includes journals of the Russian Academy of Sciences, popular literary editions, and independent scholarly publications. Most of the materials included are translated into English.
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Social Services Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts current research in social work, human services, and related areas including social welfare, social policy, and community development. Major areas of coverage include community and mental health services; crisis intervention; the family and social welfare; gerontology; poverty and homelessness; support groups/networks; violence, abuse and neglect; and welfare services. Coverage extends back to 1979.
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Social Work Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts social work and human services journals dealing with all aspects of the social work field including theory and practice, areas of service, and social issues and problems. Coverage extends back to 1965.
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Sociological Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journal articles, book reviews, books, book chapters, dissertations, and conference papers in sociology and related disciplines in the social and behavioral sciences from 1952 to the present.
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SourceOECD
SourceOECD is an electronic collection of books, journals, and statistical databases that provide comparative statistics on the 30 industrialized member countries of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development, as well as development statistics for 100 other countries. Includes an interactive data browser as well as downloadable PDF files.
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Space Law: Basic Legal Documents
A collection of basic legal documents on space law for use in the formulation, implementation, and operation of space law and policy. It includes international conventions and domestic legislation from various countries. After accessing the title, click on "content" to access full-text PDF images.
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Spinelli's Law Librarian's Reference Shelf
This collection collects hundreds of reference works and tools for law librarians into one central database. The reference shelf includes more than 100 legal dictionaries from the 15th to the 21st centuries, the Bibliography of Early American Law, more than 75 bibliographies, more than 75 state bibliographies, the AALL Publication Series and runs of law library serials, including AALL Spectrum, American Association of Law Libraries Newsletter, Canadian Association of Law Libraries Newsletter-Bulletin and Trends in Law Library Management. The collection also includes links to nearly 300 relevant law review articles that discuss various aspects of legal education and law librarianship.
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SpringerLink
Provides full text access to Springer journals, including former Kluwer Academic journal titles, in a variety of disciplines including medicine, behavioral science, economics, and law. Also includes books and reference works.
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State Attorney General Reports and Opinions (HeinOnline)
This collection includes access to the State Attorney General Reports and Opinions for all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Also includes access to the Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice and the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States. Years of coverage vary.
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State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Offers weekly summaries of proposed, interim, and final regulations, notices, and hearings in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Each summary includes citations to the state administrative code, date of register publication, hearing schedules, effective dates, comment deadlines, and names and telephone numbers of state government contacts. Available online since January 1, 1996.
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State Environment Daily (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers major environmental legislation, regulations, and litigation in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Available online since July 7, 1998.
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State Health Care Regulatory Developments (Bloomberg BNA)
Each issue summarizes two weeks worth of developments in health care regulation in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Each summary includes citations to the state administrative code, administrative register, hearing schedules, effective dates, comment deadlines, and names and telephone numbers of state government contacts. Available online since December 25, 1996.
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State Statutes: A Historical Archive (HeinOnline)
This collection includes historical superseded state statutes for all fifty states. Coverage varies depending on jurisdiction, but dates as far back as 1717. This collection does not include current state statutes.
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State Trials, 1163-1858 (Justis)
Contains PDF images of over seven centuries of higher criminal jurisprudence covering English trials relating to offences against the State or trials illustrative of the law relating to State Officers. The offence in most cases is high treason but bigamy, sedition, seditious libel, murder involving high-ranking officials or peers, riot, piracy, witchcraft, bribery, and corruption are also covered. The collection comprises Howell's/Cobbett's State Trials, 1163-1822; the New Series (Macdonell's), 1822-1858; and additional material sourced from National Collections and the English (Nominate) Reports.
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Statistical Abstract of the United States
This annual publication of the U.S. government provides statistics on the cultural, social, political, and economic aspects of the country. The site provides a search engine for the current edition but prior editions, which are available in PDF format back to 1878, must be browsed. A subject index is available at the back of each edition.
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Statutes of Namibia
Offers full text access to the Statutes of Namibia updated through September 2009. Also provides access to repealed acts, ordinances from 1952-1976, regulations from 1951-2008, and repealed regulations. To search the collection, use the "choose search form" drop down menu at the top of the screen.
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Statutes of the Republic of Korea
This website from the Korea Legislation Research Institute provides full text access to unofficial English translations of Korean legislation. Individuals must complete a free registration process and establish a personal ID and password to access the site. The Statutes of the Republic of Korea are also available in print at Law Library KPA13 1997.
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Statutes of Zimbabwe
Offers full text access to the revised statutes of 1996 and the updates to the revised statutes consolidating changes through July 2002. This collection also provides access to selected regulations, statutory instruments, and reportable Supreme Court decisions. To search the collection, use the "choose search form" drop down menu at the top of the screen.
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Subject Compilations of State Laws (HeinOnline)
An annotated bibliography of articles, books, government publications, looseleaf services, court opinions, and websites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.
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Sunday Times Digital Archive (1822 - 2006)
Archival collection of the weekly newspaper The Sunday Times. Completely separate from the Times of London, The Sunday Times is known for its investigative journalism, commentary, and analysis of news and society.
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Supreme Court Database
The database contains 247 pieces of information for each U.S. Supreme Court case dating back to 1953 including citation, docket number, how the Court took jurisdiction, the origin and source of the case, the reason the Court agreed to decide it, the date of decision, the term, the issues examined, the disposition of the case, the winning party, how individual justices voted, and who wrote opinions. The site provides a sophisticated set of parameters to enable researchers to retrieve data on a subset of cases that meet specific criteria.
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Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832 - 1978
Digital archive of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court from 1832-1978. Enables full text searching of 350,000 documents from 150,000 cases.
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Swedish Statutes in Translation
Selected translations of Swedish laws and ordinances. The English texts available are not official translations.
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Tax Laws of the World (RIA)
Provides English language translations of tax laws and regulations from countries around the world. This resource is available through the Checkpoint RIA interface; click on "Table of Contents" and choose "International Tax Library."
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Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal (Bloomberg BNA)
This monthly journal covers diverse compensation planning issues including qualified plan compliance, employment taxes, health care, and non-qualified deferred compensation plans. Click on the "site map" link at the top of the page to access this title within the Tax & Accounting Center. Also available in print at KF6289.8.E9 E96.
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Tax Management Estates, Gifts & Trusts Journal (Bloomberg BNA)
A bimonthly publication covering estate planning topics such as marital deduction planning, estate and trust administration, charitable gifts, and valuation. It also contains a digest of new developments and provides guidance on planning techniques. Click on the "site map" link at the top of the page to access this title within the Tax & Accounting Center. Also available in print at K24 .A936.
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Tax Management International Journal (Bloomberg BNA)
This monthly resource covers tax developments affecting international transactions, includes reports on the status of all U.S. tax treaties, and gives a cross-border view of tax issues between the U.S. and Canada. Click on the "site map" link at the top of the page to access this title within the Tax & Accounting Center. Also available in print at K4456.3 .T39.
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Tax Management Memorandum (Bloomberg BNA)
The Memorandum includes biweekly commentary from the BNA Tax Management Advisory Boards on current trends and strategies. Click on the "site map" link at the top of the page to access this title within the Tax & Accounting Center.
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Tax Management Portfolios - Federal Collection: US Income; Estates Gifts and Trusts; and Foreign Income (Bloomberg BNA)
The portfolios contain in-depth analysis of the taxation of individual and business income in the U.S. from domestic and foreign sources, as well as the taxation of estates, gifts, and trusts. The analysis is supported by citations to primary authority and features clarifying examples and practice aids including checklists and sample documents. Click on the "federal tax" tab at the top of the page to access this title within the Tax & Accounting Center. Also available in print at KF6289.A1 T35.
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Tax Management Real Estate Journal (Bloomberg BNA)
This monthly journal covers real estate tax planning, including passive loss rules, tax-free exchanges, and workouts. It provides analytical articles, practitioners' comments, and analysis of recent developments. Click on the "site map" link at the top of the page to access this title within the Tax & Accounting Center.
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Tax Management State Tax Portfolios (Bloomberg BNA)
Offers expert analysis of state corporate income and franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, property taxes, and miscellaneous taxes such as gross receipts taxes or telecommunications taxes. Topics covered include limitations on states' authority to tax, business and non-business income, apportionment, credits and incentives, taxation of electronic commerce, and pass-through entities. Click on the "state tax" tab at the top of the page to access this title within the Tax & Accounting Center. Also in print at KF6730.A6 T39.
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Tax Management Transfer Pricing Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This biweekly service provides news and analysis on U.S. and other governments' tax policies regarding intercompany transfer pricing and helps companies structure their operations to avoid double taxation. It provides analytical news and feature articles on recent transfer pricing developments in U.S. courts, at the IRS, in Congress, and worldwide. Available online since May 13, 1992.
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Tax Management Weekly Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides concise reports on legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments from the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, the courts, and Congress. It also provides articles on new and emerging areas of taxation. Published weekly and available online since June 21, 1999.
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Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides analysis of state laws and regulations, court and administrative decisions, and state administrative pronouncements. It covers income and franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, property taxes, and miscellaneous taxes. Available online since January 10, 1997.
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Tax Planning International Asia-Pacific Focus (Bloomberg BNA)
Features country surveys covering recent developments and decisions and provides in-depth articles on legislative updates and tax planning in specific countries in the region. Updated at least twice per week and available online since May 13, 2003.
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Tax Planning International Corporate Restructuring - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides tax guidance to transactional attorneys overseeing mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, securitisation, debt, and foreign investment. This title is no longer being updated; available online from March 2006 through November 2009.
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Tax Planning International European Tax Service (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides analysis, case reports, technical articles, and news on European Union tax legislation and its implementation within member states. Published monthly and available online since June 15, 2003.
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Tax Planning International Indirect Taxes (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers news, cases, and legislation relevant to indirect taxation worldwide with particular emphasis on sales taxes, customs regulations, the European value added tax, and the UK stamp duty. Published monthly and available online since July 2003.
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Tax Planning International Review (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides news and analysis on legislation, rulings, cases, and policies worldwide that impact cross-border tax planning. Published monthly and available online since June 2003.
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Taxation & Economic Reform in America, Parts I & II: A Historical Archive, 1781-2009 (HeinOnline)
This HeinOnline Library provides access to over 900 volumes and one million pages of tax and economic reform legislative history documents. It includes the 146 volume Carlton Fox collection covering internal revenue laws from 1909-1950. You can search or browse the materials in numerous ways including by the title of the act, the bill number, and the public law number.
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Taxation and Economic Reform in America, Part III: History of Bankruptcy (HeinOnline)
Contains full text, PDF images of legislative histories, treatises, books, rules, and other publications relating to the history and development of bankruptcy law in the United States. The collection includes Collier on Bankruptcy (1st-12th editions); Gould and Blakemore's Bankruptcy Act of 1898, Annotated and Explained; Bankruptcy Reform: The Legislative History of the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act of 2005; and much more.
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TaxCore (Bloomberg BNA)
Archives the full text of hundreds of official reports, statements, transcripts, memoranda, rulings, and other materials from the Internal Revenue Service and other public and private sector sources. Dates of coverage vary with the type of document. Available back to November 3, 1997.
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Teacher Rules, Roles and Rights
This database from the National Council on Teacher Quality is designed to help the public understand rules governing the day-to-day operations of teachers and schools. It provides data from 100 school districts and all 50 states. The site can be used to build a customized report from a selection of over 300 research questions and also provides access to the full text of collective bargaining agreements, school board policies, teacher evaluation handbooks, district calendars, and teacher salary schedules.
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Telecommunications Monitor (Bloomberg BNA)
Surveys the current judicial, legislative, and regulatory environment so that business entities can assess the impact of legal developments on their operations and lobby effectively. A daily publication available online since February 6, 2001.
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Television News Archive
A searchable archive of abstracts of ABC, CBS, and NBC news broadcasts back to 1968, CNN broadcasts back to 1995, and selected PBS and FOX News broadcasts. Video content from CNN is viewable with RealOne media player. Loan copies of videotapes in 3/4 inch U-matic and 1/2 inch VHS format are available for a fee from the Archive.
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THOMAS
This website from the U.S. Library of Congress permits researchers to browse or search for full text access to bills, public laws, roll call votes, the Congressional Record, session calendars, timelines of legislative action on a bill, and committee reports. The information on the site is interlinked, so by pulling up information on a public law you can link directly into all the bill versions, reports, and other resources that relate to that law.
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Times Digital Archive, 1785 - 1985
A digitized collection of The Times (London) covering 1785-1985. Keyword searching and term highlighting within results allow users to retrieve full facsimile images of either a specific article or a complete page. The entire newspaper is captured, including all articles, advertisements, and illustrations/photos, which are divided into categories to facilitate searching.
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Toxics Law Daily - Archive (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers litigation in the areas of toxic tort, hazardous waste, and related insurance litigation. Monitors enforcement actions under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act; Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act; and state and local hazardous waste laws. It also provides information on recent settlements and verdicts. Available online since July 7, 1998. This title is no longer being updated. See the Toxics Law Reporter for current coverage.
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Toxics Law Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers personal injury, property damage, and insurance litigation involving exposure to toxic and hazardous substances, including civil and criminal suits brought by private parties or governments regarding cleanup costs or harm to natural resources. Tracks major lawsuits from pretrial preparation to final disposition; provides information on proposed legislation, new regulations, statements and activities of professional organizations; offers litigation strategies and legal theories. Published weekly and available online since January 24, 1996; also in print at KF3945.A59 T69.
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Trade Law Guide
Permits searchable, full text access to a wide variety of World Trade Organization (WTO) information including: panel reports; annotated texts of the six principal WTO agreements; procedural documents for disputes; dispute board minutes; WTO and General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) jurisprudence, agreements, and instruments; and GATT Uruguay Round negotiating history documents.
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Transfer Pricing International Journal (Bloomberg BNA)
The increase in transfer pricing regulation and enforcement has made transfer pricing a major tax compliance issue for multinational companies seeking to minimize taxation when transferring assets across borders. This monthly publication examines the tax and economic issues involved in preparing a successful transfer pricing strategy. Available online since June 26, 2003.
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Transnational Dispute Management (TDM)
TDM Journal is a "comprehensive and innovative information service on the management of international disputes, with a focus on the rapidly evolving area of investment arbitration, but also in other significant areas of international investment (such as oil, gas, energy, infrastructure, mining, utilities etc.). It deals both with formal adjudicatory procedures (mainly investment and commercial arbitration), but also mediation/ADR methods, negotiation and managerial ways to manage transnational disputes efficiently." TDM Journal includes laws, regulations, contracts, guidelines, and tribunal/court awards, as well as authoritative "soft" regulatory materials - voluntary codes, guidelines, standards, resolutions and declarations. It also includes an extensive series of concise abstracts; most abstracts contain hyperlinks to more extensive and full articles, notes, comments and primary law, written by expert lawyers and specialists. Each issue can be downloaded as a pdf-file from the website.
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Transportation Watch (Bloomberg BNA)
Examines federal transportation policy, regulation, litigation, and spending. Topics covered include airline mergers, federal highway spending, mass transit, transportation taxes, and trucking. Published daily and available online since June 7, 1999.
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Treaties & Agreements Library (HeinOnline)
Provides full text access to published and unpublished treaties drawn from: the Statutes at Large; United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST); Treaties and International Act Series (TIAS); KAV Agreements; Indian Affairs, Laws, and Treaties; International Legal Materials; and more. This collection also contains related books and texts including the American Diplomatic Code and the Department of State Bulletin.
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Treaties and International Agreements Online (TIARA)
Updated monthly, this database provides full text access to treaties and international agreements. It includes international tax treaties and major treaties still in the ratification process.
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Trial Pamphlets Collection
Contains digitized trial pamphlets that provide contemporary accounts of trials from 1600s to 1800s that involved prominent citizens or that dealt with especially controversial or lurid topics. Most include valuable information not available elsewhere, such as verbatim transcripts of testimony and arguments of counsel, depositions of parties, and illustrations or copies of evidence used in the trial. This digital collection was created by Cornell University Law Library.
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Tribal Law Library (Westlaw)
This collection provides electronic access to West's Tribal Law Reporter and a variety of other tribal cases, codes, journals, and news publications. Log into Westlaw with your personal password to gain access.
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U.K. Statute Law Database
Provides access to the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom through an alphabetical title listing, a chronological listing, or a keyword search. Researchers can view amended legislation as it has changed over time, how legislation will be affected by amendments not yet in force, and how legislation has been amended for different jurisdictions.
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U.K. Statutory Instruments (Justis)
Statutory instruments are generated under the authority of enabling Acts of Parliament and provide detailed regulations that have the force and effect of law. This full text collection contains statutory instruments from 1949 through the present; draft statutory instruments; and legislation published in the Statutory Rules & Orders and Statutory Instruments Revised to December 31, 1948, which includes regulations that date back as far as 1671.
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U.S. Attorney General Opinions (HeinOnline)
Contains the official opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States as well as the opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice. Also included are the annual reports of the Attorney General.
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U.S. Congressional Documents (HeinOnline)
Contents include the American State Papers, Journals of the Continental Congress, and the Congressional Record and its predecessor titles.
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U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals Library (HeinOnline)
Provides PDF access to full text decisions from selected federal agencies including the Decisions and Orders of the National Labor Relations Board (1935-Current), Federal Communications Commission Record (1986-Current), Internal Revenue Cumulative Bulletin (1919-Current), Nuclear Regulatory Commission Issuances (1975-2008), and Securities and Exchange Commission Decisions and Reports (1934 -2003). It also contains popular agency publications including the U.S. Sentencing Commission Guidelines, Principles of Federal Appropriations Law, Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book, Freedom of Information Act Guide, and Manual for Courts-Martial.
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U.S. Federal Legislative History Library (HeinOnline)
The "Sources of Compiled Legislative History Database" is a legislative history finding aid based on Nancy Johnson's award winning looseleaf title Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories. The "U.S. Federal Legislative History Title Collection" contains full text legislative histories on historically significant federal legislation.
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U.S. Presidential Library (HeinOnline)
Includes the Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and a variety of other titles related to U.S. Presidents.
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U.S. Statutes at Large (HeinOnline)
Provides complete coverage of the Statutes at Large back to 1789.
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U.S. Supreme Court Library (HeinOnline)
Contains complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
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Ulrich's Periodical Directory
Provides information about U.S. and foreign magazines, newspapers, and scholarly journals including circulation figures, publication frequency, referee status, subjects covered, and indexing sources.
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UNData
UNData is a gateway to statistical information from databases maintained by the UN and its member states. It consists of 60 million data points covering a wide range of themes including agriculture, crime, education, employment, energy, environment, health, human development, industry, information technology, population, and trade. This product replaces the United Nations Common Database (UNCDB).
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Uniform Law Commission
Researchers can use the Find an Act feature to retrieve the full text of uniform laws, view the states that have adopted or are considering adopting uniform acts, and can access a legislative information kit for each act that summarizes the act and details why states should adopt it. The Legislation tab allows researchers to access bills pending before a state legislature that would amend acts already adopted by that state. The site also provides information about the study and drafting activities of the various committees within the National Conference of Commissioners of Uniform State Laws.
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United Nations Audiovisual Library of International Law
The Audiovisual Library of International Law provides access to multimedia resources for current and historic international legal topics. This collection consists of the Historic Archives, Lecture Series, and Research Library. The Historic Archive includes audiovisual materials and documents related to the UN's founding at the end of World War II. The Lecture Series features lectures by world-renowned international legal scholars on a multitude of international legal topics. The Research Library provides access to international legal documentation, jurisprudence, and scholarship.
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United Nations Bibliographic Information System (UNBISNET)
UNBISNET is an online catalog of books, documents, articles, and other publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjold Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Coverage extends back to 1979 but older documents are being added on an ongoing basis. Many of the items indexed are available in full text in the six official languages of the UN including resolutions adopted by the General Assembly, the Economic and Social Council, and the Security Council back to 1946. UNBISNET provides a separate database for searching the voting records of the General Assembly back to 1955 and the Security Council back to 1946, as well as an index to speeches made in the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and Trusteeship Council back to the early 1980s.
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United Nations Diplomatic Conferences
Provides access to the official records of a series of diplomatic conferences convoked by the United Nations in order to negotiate and adopt several treaties based on drafts worked out by the International Law Commission and considered by the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the General Assembly. Among the conference topics included are the Law of the Sea, the Succession of States, and the International Criminal Court.
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United Nations Documentation: Research Guide
The guide describes the types of documents the General Assembly, Security Council, and Economic and Social Council issue and discusses how their numbering systems work, explains the symbols used in UN documentation, and describes UN produced indexes that can be used for research.
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United Nations International Law
United Nations International Law provides access to the major international tribunals, such as the International Court of Justice and the International Law Commission. It also provides access to international legal thematic issues, including: Codification and Progressive Development of International Law; Oceans and the Law of the Sea; Treaties; and Other Legal Areas (linking to various UN websites that have major or minor treatment of international legal issues). International legal research guides and bibliographies are also available.
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United Nations Master Treaty Index
Indexes current treaties and international agreements registered or recorded with the UN Secretariat. Includes but is not limited to treaties and agreements published in the United Nations Treaty Series. The index does not include information on subsequent activities impacting the treaties.
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United Nations Official Documents System
Provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards; covers all other types of official UN documentation back to 1993. The database does NOT include press releases, the UN Treaty Series, or sales publications. For an index to UN documents covering a broader time period, consult the electronic resource AccessUN.
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United Nations Statistics Division
Provides electronic access to the full text of many Statistics Division publications and reports. Also connects users to UN statistical databases in the areas of economics, demographics, the Millennium Development Goals, and more.
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Among the materials included in this collection are:
Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, which provides information on the status of over 500 major multilateral instruments; United Nations Treaty Series, containing treaties and agreements registered or filed between December 14, 1946-January, 2005; League of Nations Treaty Series, containing the treaties published by the League of Nations between July 5, 1920-October 3, 1944.
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United Nations Yearbook Collection
The Yearbook is the most authoritative reference work on the UN System and provides an overview of the organization's annual activities. The Yearbook is fully indexed and searchable from 1946 - 2006.
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United Nations Yearbook Collection 1946 - 1976 and 1977 - 2000
Provides details about the annual activities of the UN's organs, programs, and bodies. Summarizes resolutions, statements, and reports and provides references to related resources. This title is also accessible in print at JX1977.A37 Y4.
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United States Law Week (Bloomberg BNA)
Summarizes federal and state court and administrative cases that establish new precedent, address new statutes, contribute to emerging legal doctrines, tackle controversies, or further splits in the Circuits. It also tracks every Supreme Court petition and case on the docket, from filing to final disposition. The Supreme Court Today component is a searchable database providing summaries of certiorari petitions filed since the 1995 October Term. The database also contains the full text of Supreme Court opinions, oral argument schedules, selected oral argument summaries, and annual reviews of the Court's decisions. Available online since July 1, 1997; also in print at KF105 .U54.
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United States Patents Quarterly/Intellectual Property Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Contains the full text of all decisions reported in the United States Patents Quarterly since 1929, along with an index, classification outline, and other finding aids. This library also provides full text access to Title 35 (Patents), Title 17 (Copyrights), and Chapters 22 (Trademarks) and 63 (Technology Innovation) of Title 15 of the U.S. Code as well as regulations found in Title 37 of the Code of Federal Regulations. It includes full text access to the publications Harmon on Patents: Black-Letter Law and Commentary and Patents and the Federal Circuit.
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University of Chicago Press Journals
A full text collection of journals published by the University of Chicago Press covering the social sciences, humanities, physical sciences, education, biology, and medicine.
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vLex
Provides full text access to cases, legislative codes, books, journals, and other primary and secondary materials from countries around the world in the original language of publication. The service's embedded translation software produces automatic translations that provide guidance but do not produce reliable, official translations. The content is continuously updated and can be browsed or searched.
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Web of Knowledge (ISI)
Includes electronic versions of the Science Citation Index, the Social Science Citation Index, and the Arts and Humanities Citation Index, as well as the Journal Citation Reports. The "cited reference" search feature provides researchers with a list of articles that cite back to an article they are working with, thereby updating and continuing their research.
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Webster's Third New International Dictionary, Unabridged
Consists of 450,000 vocabulary definitions, each with etymological and phonological descriptions, as well as approximately 8,000,000 usage examples. This online edition is periodically updated to reflect current usage.
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Westlaw
Use your personal password to log-in to the system. Only members of the law school community may establish personal passwords.
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Westlaw Business
Westlaw Business is a specialized legal research service aimed at practitioners engaged in sophisticated business transactions in the areas of corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, securities, and private equity. It allows researchers to search the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR service, UK Financial Services Authority listings and reports, and Canadian Securities Administrators' SEDAR system. Westlaw Business provides full text access to analysis, primary materials, and Aspatore and West produced checklists and guides. It provides timely access to corporate reports, filings, disclosures, financial information, stock data, press releases, and Investext analyst reports to allow researchers to create customized due diligence reports. Please see a reference librarian for access.
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Westlaw China
Provides full text access to Chinese laws and regulations promulgated at the national, provincial, and municipal levels. The database also contains cases from the Supreme People's Court, provincial and municipal courts, and special courts such as maritime courts. Westlaw China provides a digest system that allows researchers to locate information on specific legal topics and is creating headnote summaries for the cases it contains. All content is available in both Chinese and English.
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Westlaw Gulf
Westlaw Gulf provides an array of English language legal resources and legal news reports. Westlaw Gulf includes: translated Dubai and Abu Dhabi cases; business laws of the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Qatar, and Lebanon; legislation from Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia; Middle Eastern legal news and current events reporting. Coverage is current, with archival coverage varying by country and by type of legal materials. The interface supports US Westlaw's familiar natural language and terms and connectors searching.
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White Collar Crime Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Reports on judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments on fraud, money laundering, financial crimes, procedural issues, and other topics relevant to white collar crime. It offers practical tips for prosecutors and defense attorneys working in this area and guidance for corporations seeking to conduct internal investigations and avoid wrongdoing in complex financial dealings. This biweekly publication is available online since February 3, 2006.
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Wiley Online Library
A full text collection of journals covering law, business, behavioral science, health, humanities, and other disciplines.
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WilsonWeb
Provides access to the following indexes: Art Full Text, Art Retrospective, Education Full Text, ERIC, Essay and General Literature, Library Literature and Information Science Full Text, Readers' Guide Retrospective, and Short Story Index.
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Witchcraft in Europe and America
A digital collection of texts relating to witchcraft dating from 1500-1930. Includes rare manuscripts containing eyewitness accounts, court records, dissertations, and selected works examining the theological, legal, and social implications of witchcraft. Allows researchers to compare and contrast the pronouncements of persecution advocates such as Binsfeld, Boguet, Del Rio, and Remi to the writings of critics including Bekker, Loher, Loos, Scot, and Spee. The majority of texts are in Latin, English, or German with selected items in French, Italian, Portuguese, Danish, Dutch, and Spanish.
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Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 - 2000
A collection of learning modules, each of which poses an interpretive question and provides a collection of documents that address the question. Each module contains fifteen to twenty documents drawn from the papers of women's reform organizations such as the Women's Trade Union League, the National Association of Colored Women, the National Consumers' League, and the National Woman's Party. Researchers can run keyword searches against the full text of documents or can browse the collections by author, subject, or social movement.
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Workplace Immigration Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Analyses proposed and final federal and state legislation and regulations, court decisions, administrative rulings, and immigration enforcement actions in various industries to provide immigration guidance to employers. Available online since October 22, 2007.
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Workplace Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides weekly coverage of important federal and state court rulings examining employment and labor laws, plus information on pertinent regulatory actions and administrative rulings. Includes online access to all issues of the Workplace Law Report published since September 26, 2003 (also available in print at KF3455.A15 W67) and all issues of Wage Hour & Leave Report published since January 2002.
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World Bank Documents and Reports
A collection of data sets, research publications, and news releases from the World Bank Group. Includes statistical overviews for specific countries, global economic and financial data, full text access to annual reports and working papers, access to World Bank journal issues more than 18 months old, and more.
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World Bank e-Library
A collection of over 5,000 World Bank publications and policy working papers in a full text, PDF format. Users can search for titles or browse them by subject or region. New titles are added as they are published.
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World Climate Change Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers international and domestic climate change legislation, regulation, policy, legal developments, and trends. Content is organized by geographic region, company, and is also searchable by keyword. Also provides links to breaking news coverage and conference information. Continuously updated.
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World Communications Regulation Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Reports on developments in the international regulation of communication technologies covering such topics as electronic signatures, data privacy, Internet governance, domain names, measures to prevent file sharing, antitrust, and wiretapping. Published monthly and available online since January 2006; also in print at K4301.3 .W63.
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World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline)
Provides full text access to current and historical constitutions for more than 190 countries. It provides the original text in the original language, amending laws, consolidated texts, and English language translations. The collection also includes the World Fact Book back to 1981, the Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia, the Country Studies Series from the U.S. Library of Congress, the British and Foreign State Papers from 1812 - 1968, the Annual Human Rights Reports submitted to Congress by the U.S. State Department back to 1976, more than 800 books on constitutional law, and links to scholarly articles and web resources on constitutional law and political development.
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World Data Protection Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Offers commentary and news on legal developments in the areas of direct marketing, identity theft, encryption, data interchange standards, cross-border data transfers, network security, outsourcing, data protection audits, and other topics relating to data security. Published monthly with online coverage dating back to January 2006.
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World Intellectual Property Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Covers IP-related judicial, legislative, and regulatory trends from around the world, including developments in protection and enforcement. It also monitors the activities of the World Intellectual Property Association, World Trade Organization, and other international bodies. Published monthly and available online since January 1997; also in print at K1401.2 .W67.
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World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
Provides an engine for searching across full text legal information resources hosted by a variety of Legal Information Institutes and organizations such as the Australasian Legal Information Institute; British and Irish Legal Information Institute; Canadian Legal Information Institute; Cornell's Legal Information Institute; Droit Francophone; Global Legal Information Network; Hong Kong Legal Information Institute; Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute; South African Legal Information Institute and more. The emphasis is on providing access to the court decisions and legislation of specific countries but some treaties and other international legal materials are also included.
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World News Connection
WNC provides access to translated and English language news sources originating outside the U.S. Information is obtained from the full text and summaries of newspaper articles, conference proceedings, television and radio broadcasts, periodicals, and non-classified technical reports.
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World Newspaper Archive
Provides full text access to digitized newspapers published in English and a variety of other languages in Africa, Latin America, Slavic and Eastern Europe, South Asia and other regions. Through eyewitness reporting, editorials, legislative updates, letters, advertisements, obituaries and more, this collection provides a diverse range of cultural perspectives on national and global issues during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
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World Securities Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
This monthly newsletter monitors developments in the regulation of securities transactions world-wide with an emphasis on cross-border transactions. It examines laws and regulations in individual countries as well as bilateral agreements and the actions of international bodies including the International Organization of Securities Commissions and the European Union Committee of European Securities Regulators. Available online since September 2004; also in print at K1114.A13 W67.
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World Trials (HeinOnline)
Consists of trial transcripts, books that analyze and debate famous trials, and biographies of some of the greatest trial lawyers in history.
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WorldCat (FirstSearch)
A database containing records from the merged online catalogs of thousands of libraries worldwide. This resource is particularly helpful if you are trying to verify the existence of a publication that cannot be found through InfoHawk, or for preparing a bibliography of publications by a particular author.
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WorldCat.org
The freely accessible version of WorldCat on the Web. WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of local libraries and thousands more around the world.
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Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
Indexes and abstracts journals in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy. Coverage generally extends back to 1975, but may extend back to the 1920s for selected titles.
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Worldwide Tax Summaries Online
This resource, developed by PricewaterhouseCoopers, provides an up-to-date overview of the corporate and individual tax rates and rules in effect in over 100 countries.
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WTO Reporter (Bloomberg BNA)
Analyzes changes in the World Trade Organization's trade rules, tracks the progress of major cases pending before the WTO, and explains how WTO actions impact specific countries. Provides details about multilateral trade negotiations, negotiating positions of parties, policy decisions, dispute settlement activities, accession of new members, and reactions of countries to major developments. Published daily and available online since March 11, 2000.
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YearBooks: An Index and Paraphrase of Printed Year Book Reports 1268 - 1535
Year Books, the law reports of medieval England, provide insight into the development of legal doctrines, concepts, and methods. The Law Library owns the Vulgate edition of the Year Books, which are located in the Oversize collection at KD194 1307 2007, as well as several Year Books in the Rare Books collection. This database is a finding aid that allows researchers to locate information within the printed Year Books based on a search for a party name, place, court, writ, etc.
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Zambia Law Reports
Includes the full text of the Zambia Law Reports, along with chronological and alphabetical case listings, from 1963 - 1997. To search the collection, use the "choose search form" drop down menu at the top of the screen.
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