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Browse Database List by Subject -- Law
Academic Universe (LexisNexis)
Full text access to a variety of publications, including newspapers, magazines, legal journals, business journals, as well as state and federal primary legal materials such as statutes, regulations, and case law.
Access UN
The premier index to United Nations documents from 1966 to present including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.
American Banker
Daily newspaper for professionals in the banking and financial services industries, providing news, data, research, and analysis of issues. Coverage from 1991 to the present.
Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report (BNA)
Federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law.
bepress (Berkeley Electronic Press)
Provides a series of full-text electronic peer-reviewed journals. Legal journals include Global Jurist, Theoretical Inquiries in Law, and Issues in Legal Scholarship.
BNA Core Online
Includes six publications from BNA: Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report, Criminal Law Reporter, Family Law Reporter, Labor and Employment Law Library, Securities Regulation and Law Report, and US Law Week. ***Please note that for technical reasons, the Labor and Employment Law Library is not available off-campus.
CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction)
Collection of interactive, computer-based lessons covering 32 legal education subject areas. Email the Help Desk or call the Reference Desk (570-5068) for the authorization code.
CCH Internet Tax Research Network
Comprehensive database of federal and state tax materials, including the CCH Standard Federal Tax Reporter; the Federal Tax Service; tax citator; state tax reporters; and various tax journals.
CCH Trademark Law Guide
Comprehensive trademark reporter that includes federal and state laws and regulations, court and agency decisions, and treatise-type explanations. *Once connected, you must click on the "log in" box and then select the "IP/IT" tab at the top of the screen.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)
Research reports, conference proceedings, and working papers on international affairs.
Coverage includes human rights issues and the United Nations.
Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories Online
Contains the full text of the constitutions of 144 dependencies and territories, in a searchable format.
Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online
Contains the full text of the constitutions of 192 countries in a searchable format, along with introductory and comparative notes.
CQ Electronic Library
Includes full text access to CQ Weekly and CQ Researcher from 1983 to current. Content is devoted
to congressional news, analysis, summaries of events and bibliographies.
Criminal Law Reporter (BNA)
Current reports of significant developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law.
Criminology: A SAGE Full Text Collection
Full text of 15 criminology journals, with coverage from 1984 to the present.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals
Weekly topical arrangement of newly published legal periodical articles from 1999 to present.
Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)
Provides links to over 1,000 free online scientific and scholarly journals, covering a variety of subjects.
Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)
Provides links to primary documents, useful web sites, and online research guides covering 13 international law subjects.
ELR - Environmental Law Reporter
Currently updated environmental law database that includes court decisions, statutes, treaties, regulations, and articles.
Family Law Reporter (BNA)
Current reports of significant new federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues relating to family law.
Foreign Law Guide
Provides essential information on the sources of law for over 200 foreign juridictions, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations, and selected references to secondary sources.
Hein Online
Archival database of full page images from legal journals (from the first issue published to a few years before present). Also provides digital backfiles of the U.S. Federal Register; U.S. Reports; the Code of Federal Regulations; the U.S. Statutes at Large; the Congressional Record; and more.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in approximately 520 legal journals published worldwide, with coverage from 1985 to the present. Covers public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
Index to Legal Periodicals
Index to articles from over 840 legal periodicals published in the U.S., Puerto Rico, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, from 1918 to the present
INSource
Full text of state and federal insurance statutes and regulations, along with insurance-related advisory publications. You must use your law school e-mail address to log on.
Labor and Employment Law Library (BNA)
Federal and state coverage of all major areas of labor and employment law. Includes the BNA Labor Relations Reporter and all its components.
Lawtel
This European legal database includes Lawtel EU, which offers access to every type of European Union document from all the official sources; Lawtel UK, which offers access to case law and legislation from the United Kingdom; and Lawtel Human Rights, a comprehensive information service on the Human Rights Act of 1998.
Legal Scholarship Network
Abstracts of legal papers or articles currently in progress or recently accepted for publication. Provides authors with a means to communicate responses and share ideas about current research.
Legaltrac (Legal Resource Index)
Index to 900 legal publications, including law reviews, bar journals, and newspapers, from 1980 to present.
LexisNexis Academic Universe
Full text access to a variety of publications, including newspapers, magazines, legal journals, business journals, as well as state and federal primary legal materials such as statutes, regulations, and case law.
LexisNexis Congressional
Legislative history indexing, bill tracking, and documents from the United States Congress from the 91st Congress to the present. Years of coverage vary among types of documents included in the database. Also contains indexing and abstracting of historical congressional publications
(1789-1969) and of transcripts of unpublished hearings (1823-1972).
LLMC Digital Library
Collection of digitized full-text images of legal works and U.S. government documents from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches.*PLEASE NOTE: THIS DATABASE CANNOT BE ACCESSED FROM OFF CAMPUS*
LOIS - Legal Online Information System
Loislaw publishes case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and D.C. plus the 18 most important Federal law libraries.
Making of Modern Law
Provides digital images of more than 21,000 American and British legal treatises from the 19th and 20th centuries. Includes full text and keyword searching.
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online
Searchable digitized versions of historical British and Irish source material published from the 11th to the 18th centuries.
NAFTA Online
Full text of NAFTA dispute resolution panel decisions, from 1990 to the present.
Pooles Index to Legal Periodical Literature
Index to legal articles from over 900 legal and general periodicals, with coverage from 1786 to 1922. You must select "Index to Legal Periodical Literature" from the dropdown menu of periodical indexes.
RIA Checkpoint (Tax)
Major tax research database that includes tax looseleaf sets, tax cases, tax treaties, state and local tax materials, tax journals, and treatises. LAW SCHOOL USERS MUST REQUEST A PASSWORD AT http://www.riahome.com/cploginids
USING AN ON-CAMPUS COMPUTER.
Securities Regulation and Law Report (BNA)
Current reports of federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting.
STAT-USA
Current U.S. and international business, economic, and trade statistics from the Department of Commerce.
Treaties and International Agreements Online
Formerly TIARA - U.S. Treaties Researcher. Contains indexing and full text of U.S. treaties and international agreements in force since 1783. Using the drop down menu below "Online Direct Links," select "Treaties and International Agreements" to begin search.
United Nations Treaty Collection
Full text of over 34,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties deposited
with the United Nations and their current status, including some treaties
not yet published in the United Nations Treaty Series.
United States Law Week (BNA)
Current reports of significant cases and key legislative and regulatory developments in all areas of the law.
Vault Online Career Library
The Vault Career Library is a collection of more than 80 career guides and employer profiles.
WorldCat (World Cat)
Comprehensive bibliography of titles from libraries across the world, with 40 million bibliographic records representing 400 languages, covering information back to the 11th century.
WorldTradeLaw.net
Summaries and analysis of WTO panel and appellate body reports and arbitration decisions, along with detailed commentary, a database of dispute settlement tables and statistics, an index to WTO case law, and links to the full text of WTO documents.