CILP Westlaw keeps most recent 8 issues General Legal Indexes With Historical Coverage Index to Legal Periodicals - 1926 to date See chart. Articles relating to matters of law and legislation in periodical literature in the English language from the end of the 18th century to 1937. It contains lists of law periodicals indexed, general periodicals from which articles are indexed, and abbreviations used. A periodical index and bibliography of Canadian secondary legal literature from both the common law and civil law traditions. It indexes monographs, individual essays from edited collections, federal and provincial government publications, and articles, case comments, and annotations from Canadian legal and law-related periodicals.
References are in English or French, depending on the language of the item indexed.
Cross references are provided between English and French subject headings. Indexes selected legal periodicals dealing with international law, comparative law, and local law of countries outside the common law system. It is published quarterly with annual cumulative bound volumes. In 1985 subject headings were substantially revised and updated. The index is published in two non-cumulative supplements and one cumulative bound volume per year.