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Online Databases - Library and Technology - School of Law - University of Richmond
Reference/Research Services
Law & Law-Related Databases
ABA/BNA Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct (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.
Law School Only
ABA/BNA's Lawyer's Manual on Professional Conduct, Current Reports (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 1998.
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.
Campus network or VPN connection only
Provides full text journal articles, peer reviewed articles, and abstracts from many areas of academic study, including law. Coverage from the 1980s to present.
AccessUN, 1966-2016
Indexes documents from the United Nations General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice. Includes full-text resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council and Economic and Social Council.
Distributes research on a range of accounting topics including financial accounting, managerial accounting, auditing, tax, and litigation. It provides access to working papers and article manuscripts that have been accepted for publication, often a year before they appear in print.
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.
Open to all users from all locations
Afghan Laws (WorldLII)
Provides full text access to unofficial English translations of selected Afghan laws from 1933-2008.
African American Newspapers Series 1, 1827-199
A one-of-a-kind record of African American history, culture, and daily life that covers life in the Antebellum South through the Civil Rights movement and more.
Based upon James P. Danky's African-American Newspapers and Periodicals.
All Search Readex
This link provides direct access to searching across all the Readex platforms including the following: America's Historical Imprints- Evans and Evans: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, Shaw-Shoemaker and Shaw-Shoemaker: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, and the America's Historical Newspapers - Early American Newspapers Series 2-7 & 10.
Searchable monographs, pamphlets, broadsides, government documents and ephemera.. Available here: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800; Early American Imprints, Series I: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800; Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819; Early American Imprints, Series II: Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1801-1819.
America's Historical Newspapers Series II-VII, X
Includes more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Search by dates/eras, article types (news & opinion, election returns, letters, poetry/songs, legislative, prices, advertisements, matrimony & death notices), region/state, and newspaper name. This database is updated regularly and only available to those affilated with the University of Richmond.
Current and full-text articles from more than 1,500 U.S. news sources and news video clips. Search a single newspaper, a select group of titles, or the entire collection. Use the map based interface to search publications within a region.
Searchable primary source material including advertisements, songs, and speeches. Material primarily focuses on economic, military, political, and social aspects of the Civil War and post-War period in the United States.
American Maritime Cases is a useful resource for researching significant maritime decisions rendered by the United States (Federal and State) courts. It also reports legislative action, administrative law decisions, arbitration decisions, Maritime Law Association of the U.S. source material and occasioinally Canadian and other international cases and other items deemed significant. This web site allows various specialized, easy to use search functions, including a headnote search function as to AMC's copyrighted indexing system.
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.
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.
Government Resources/Documents
American State Papers, 1789-1838 (HeinOnline)
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.
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.
With titles from the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Animal Welfare Institute, this collection aims to establish the foundational laws pertaining to animals and follow the evolution of these rights throughout the years.
Antitrust & Trade Regulation Daily (BNA)
Contains current news and analysis of antitrust and trade issues including franchising, mergers and acquisitions, unfair competition, price fixing, marketing, and trade liberalization.
Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report (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.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents that support the research and study needs of scholars and students at the college and university level. Collections in Archives Unbound cover a broad range of topics from the Middle Ages forward-from Witchcraft to World War II to twentieth-century political history.
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.
Law of War/Military Law
Asian Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
Provides access to legal information and databases from Asian countries.
Audio Case Files (see LexisNexis Courtroom Cast)
Offers downloadable MP3 files of judicial opinions with full text of the opinion, a brief fact summary, and the rule of law. You can search by subject, casebook, or case name. First time users will need to sign up for a new account and register your richmond.edu email address.
Provides free internet access to legal materials including legislation, court judgments, and secondary resources for New Zealand and the Australian commonwealth, states, and territories.
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.
Banking Daily (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
Banking/Bankruptcy
Banking Report (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.
Bankruptcy Law Reporter (BNA)
Provides in-depth coverage of developments in state and federal bankruptcy law by analyzing proposed legislation, regulatory developments, and court opinions.
Provides access to abstracts and PDF images of working papers on a wide variety of legal topics.
BioTech Watch (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.
Offers web-based full-text reference libraries and notification services for specialty areas of law. Many individual subject areas from antitrust law to trade and commerce are included.
The Brennan Center for Justice provides works through the courts, legislation, and the media. Each of thse area has a section dedicated to the work the center has achieved thus far. Included are blog entries written by staff going back to 2006, legislation section focused on the Brennance Center legislation, court cases with case summaries and supplementary documentation such as amicus briefs, and various publications in PDF format.
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.
Broker/Dealer Compliance Report (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.
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.
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.
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.
The CGP is the finding tool for federal publications that includes descriptive information for historical and current publications as well as direct links to the full document, when available. Users can search by authoring agency, title, subject, and general keywords, or click on "Advanced Search" for more options.
Center for Computer Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI)
CALI provides more than 300 interactive lessons and tutorials to help students understand the law. Click on CALI logo to download these resources or to access them online. Access to CALI materials requires an individual CALI login, which is only available to law school faculty and students via the law library library's CALI membership.
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.
Checkpoint (Thomson Reuters) - Accounting, Audit & Corporate Finance Research
Research service that combines all types of accounting documents into one database, including materials such as the Accounting and Auditing Disclosure Manual, Budgeting and Forecasting Manual, Modern Accounting and Auditing Checklists, Handbook of Accounting and Auditing, and more. Formerly known as RIA Checkpoint. *Access to this database is extended to the Robins School of Business and the Carole Weinstein International Center.
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. Formerly known as RIA Checkpoint. *Access to this database is extended to the Robins School of Business and the Carole Weinstein International Center.
Cheetah (Wolters Kluwer)
Cheetah is a new CCH/Wolters Kluwer database. Users can get easy and fast access to statutes, cases, treaties and explanations, agency materials and more from specific legal areas. Currently the main practice areas available to research include Antitrust & Competition, Banking & Consumer Finance, Intellectual Property, Litigation and Securities & Corporate.
Chemical Regulation Reporter (BNA)
Examines legislative and regulatory proposals, agency actions, enforcement efforts, industry activities, and court decisions related to chemicals, pesticides, and hazardous materials transport.
Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1836-1922 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. This database includes the Richmond Times Dispatch from 1914-current.
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.
Civil War: Antebellum Period to Reconstruction
Searchable primary source material from the period before, during, and immediately after the Civil War. Search historical newspapers by region, Congressional documents, broadsides, and ephemera.
Class Action Litigation Report (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 2000.
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.
Includes primary source documents from 1574-1757, covering earliest English settlements in North America, encounters with Native Americans, piracy in the Atlantic and Caribbean, the trade in slaves, and English conflicts with the Spanish and French. Also included is a digitized version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, which contains bibliographic records and extracts for thousands of additional documents.
DeIncludes 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.
Provides legal information and databases from all Commonwealth countries.
Computer Technology Law Report (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.
This library focuses on development and growth of the federal courts and the judiciary as a source of original material of congressional fact finding and decision making. Decades of legislative intent, testimony, and pre-enactment history is provided in one centralized library.
This resource is based on indexes created by the Congressional Information Service and is particularly useful for compiling legislative histories and tracking bills. It includes information on bills, 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 2004 and full text Congressional hearings from 1824-2003.
The University of Richmond provides this portal to constitutions world-wide. Most texts are in English, but some are in the vernacular languages. Offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents.
Construction Labor Report (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.
Corporate Law Daily (BNA)
Examine significant new developments in all areas of corporate law including: antitrust, corporate criminal liability, corporate law, corporate governance, employment discrimination, environmental enforcement, intellectual property, international trade, litigation, occupational safety and health, product liability, professional responsibility, and securities.
Provides electronic access to the Corporate Practice Series. 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.
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.
Elections/Polling
The goal of the site is to create a free and competitive real time alert tool for the U.S. judicial system. At present, the site has daily information regarding all precedential opinions issued by the 13 federal circuit courts and the Supreme Court of the United States. Each day, there are non-precedential opinions from all of the Circuit courts except the D.C. Circuit. This means that by 5:10pm PST, the database will be updated with the opinions of the day, with custom alerts going out shortly thereafter.
Courtroom View Network - See LexisNexis Courtroom Cast
Please use the database listing and lookup LexisNexis Courtroom Cast.
CQ Almanac (Congressional Quarterly)
Provides full text access to the CQ Almanac, an annual reference book examining the U.S. Congress, back to its inception in 1946. The Almanac offers original analysis of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session and arranges them thematically by policy area. The appendices provide access to a variety of tables on floor votes, voting participation, party unity, and more.
Provides access to and search capability across several CQ publications, including CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, Congressional Staff Directory, Judicial Staff Directory, CQ Press Political Reference Suite, and the Supreme Court Compendium.
CQ Researcher Plus Archive (Congressional Quarterly)
This weekly publication provides an in-depth examination of current events and controversies in U.S. policy. The archive provides full text access to every issue of the CQ Researcher and its precursor, Editorial Research Reports, back to its inception in 1923.
Criminal Law Reporter (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.
This topical index to legal publications is published weekly by the University of Washington Gallagher Law Library.
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.
Statistics/Statistical Sources
This searchable database from Washington and Lee Law School provides table of contents information, primarily for English language law journals, from 2005 onwards. A project is underway to extend coverage back to 2000.
Provides access to Cyprus legal information and databases. English translation link is in the upper right hand corner of the website.
Daily Environment Report (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.
Daily Labor Report (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.
Daily Report for Executives (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.
Daily Tax Report (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
Digital Discovery and e-Evidence (BNA)
Library providing analysis on the evidentiary value of electronic data in litigation, as well as the full-text of relevant cases, ethics opinions, and court rules.
Dispute Resolution Database
Provides aggregated international arbitration and mediation data. Visually represented statistics are searchable by region, topic, or case type. Includes both developing and detailed arbitration and mediation statistics.
Provides daily news about energy and and environmental legislation in the US Congress.
Offers daily coverage of major regulations, legislation, and court cases regarding environmental and energy policy.
Daily webcasts designed for energy and environmental policy professionals.
E&ENews PM provides late-breaking news about energy and environmental policy, politics and markets.
E-Commerce Law Daily (BNA)
Tracks legal developments in a variety of areas that impact electronic commerce including database protection, electronic signatures, privacy, licensing, and free speech. This title is no longer being updated. See the Electronic Commerce & Law Report for current coverage.
E-Commerce Tax Report (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 Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development, Internal Revenue Service, European Commission, and similar topics.
Early American Imprints, Series I, 1639-1819
This collection of full text materials covers every aspect of life in 17th- and 18th-century America history including agriculture, religion, commerce, education, literature, poetry, music, politics, travel etc.
Early American Imprints, Series II, 1801-1819
Full text books, scores, and newspapers covering history, culture, religion, commerce, education, literature, poetry, music, politics, travel etc.
Early American Newspapers, Digital, 1690-1879
Provides searchable, full text access to articles and images from over 700 historical American newspapers. Based largely on Clarence Brigham's History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1879, it focuses on papers that began publication before 1879.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provides citations and full text journal articles on environmental issues in journals and books covering topics such as agriculture, ecology, energy, natural resources, marine and freshwater science, geography, pollution and waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, and urban planning.
Reports on federal and state laws, rules, standards, court developments, and agency activities that impact environmental law. Reprints selected primary materials in full text.
Environmental Due Diligence Guide Report (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.
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.
EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO)
Provides EPA database searchable by city or zip code for all or large facilities to determine whether compliance inspections have been conducted by EPA, state or local governments, whether violations were detected, and whether enforcement actions were taken and penalties assessed for all data, air, water, hazardous waste, or by multiple ID list of facilities. Searches can be refined to include facility characteristics (including SIC number), geographic location (including EPA region and Indian land), inspection/enforcement history, compliance information, demographic profile, and media. Results provide facility name and address, operating status, inspection history and enforcement and compliance summary data, two-year compliance status by quarter, formal enforcement actions, and detailed demographic profile surrounding three-mile area.
ERIC indexes journal articles, research reports, curriculum and teaching guides, conference papers, and books on education-related topics published since 1966.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Provides full text access to the Europa World Year Book 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.
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.
Expert Evidence Report (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.
Export Reference Guide (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.
Contains a wide variety of business and economic information including news, stock market quotes, industry reports, market research profiles, and financial data.
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.
Provides public access to government information submitted by Congress and federal agencies. Also provides access to resources, such as the Congressional Record, the C.F.R., the U.S. Code, and other government documents. Will be replacing GPOAccess in 2011.
Federal Contracts Report (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.
Federal Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report (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.
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.
Provides researchers with a centralized portal for searching and browsing federal statistics generated by over 100 federal agencies on a diverse range of topics.
Financial and Banking Law (FBL)
Financial and Banking Law (FBL) is hosted on the Oxford Legal Research Library platform and brings together some of the leading works in the field. It represents an exceptional resource for practitioners and scholars researching the law of banking and finance.
Provides free online information, including cases, statutes, legal news, a lawyer directory, an online career center and community-oriented tools such as mailing lists and message boards. Free, but requires user login.
Foreign & International Law Resources Database (HeinOnline)
This collection provides access to international yearbooks and periodicals, law digests, and decisions from international tribunals.
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.
Contains current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions throughout the world. Click on the link, "Subscriber Login," to access the database.
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.
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.
The National Archives, through its National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), has entered into a cooperative agreement with The University of Virginia Press to create this site and make freely available online the historical documents of the Founders of the United States of America. This website allows users to read and search through thousands of records from George Washington, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison. Users will be able to search across the records of all six Founders and read first drafts of the Declaration of Independence, the spirited debate over the Constitution and Bill of Rights, and the very beginnings of American law and government.
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.
The Gender Jurisprudence Collections (GJC) is al database containing judgments, decisions, orders, and other relevant documents issued by international criminal courts and tribunals that have been coded and made readily searchable for issues relating to sexual and gender-based violence. In addition to the Gender Jurisprudence Collections, the Project includes concise digests of select decisions and court documents highlighting key facts, allegations, and legal analysis dealing with sexual and gender-based violence.
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.
General Code provides an online library of municipal codes from all fifty states. Use the interactive map to click on a state and you will be directed to a listing of online Codes available.
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).
Global Arbitration Review (GAR) publishes informative arbitration news, providing readers with breaking news updates five days a week, original annual reports and surveys, and in-depth features covering issues in international arbitration around the world.
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.
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.
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 Richmond Libraries own the title.
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.
Government Employee Relations Report (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.
Offers official information from all three branches of the federal government, including presidential materials, public and private laws, conference reports, congressional bills, and many others. Will be replaced by FDSys in 2011.
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.
Greenwire provides up to date news about engergy and environmental policy, politics and markets. Also includes comprehensive coverage of the Federal Agencies, States, Courts, Untilities, Industry, Endgangered Species, and Natural Resources.
Hague Academy of Collected Courses
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.
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.
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.
Health Care Daily Report (BNA)
Reports on developments in health care policy and law, including focused coverage of Medicare, Medicaid, and managed care.
Health Care Fraud Report (BNA)
Monitors health care fraud and abuse issues in the private insurance industry, managed care organizations, and federal and state programs.
Health Care Policy Report (BNA)
Follows federal, state, and private-sector health care policy proposals, debates, and responses.
Health Insurance Report (BNA)
Tracks state and federal laws, regulations, court decisions, administrative rulings, and policies that affect health plans and providers.
Health IT Law & Industry Report (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.
Health Law & Business Library (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.
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.
The University of Richmond School of Law alumni have free access to the Law Journal Library collection within HeinOnline. This collection includes 2,200 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Search by article title, author, subject, state or country published, full text, and narrow by date. For access to the Law Journal Library, UR Law alumni must login with his or her UR Online credentials.
Offers full-text and full-image articles for significant newspapers dating back to the 18th century. Archives of six national papers of record and five historically Black papers. Each title includes the complete paper-cover-to-cover, with full-page and article images in easily downloadable PDF format.
Includes archives of Atlanta Daily World, Chicago Defender, Los Angeles Sentinel, Los Angeles Times, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, The Atlanta Constitution, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The Washington Post.
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.
Homeland Security Briefing (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.
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.
Provides company profiles for the largest public and private companies around the world. Each profile contains company's culture, history and strategy, market position, officers, competition, and financial health as well as current news about the company. There are also links to lists, stock quotes, news, and other products such as Hoover's Industry Snapshots (global industry overviews).
Human Resources Report (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.
Contains more than 60,000 core human rights documents, including several hundred human rights treaties and other primary international human rights instruments. The site also links to 4000 websites and provides a special human rights search engine.
Incorporated Council for Law Reporting for England and Wales is a legal database that contains the opinions of the Appellate and Superior courts of England and Wales. Coverage includes The Law Reports, Weekly Law Reports, Industrial Case Reports, Business Law Report and The Public and Third Sector Law Reports.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is an index to articles and book reviews from more than five hundred legal journals published worldwide. It provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the UK, Canada, and Australia. Indexing goes from 1985-current and there are links to full text of more than 34,000 articles and book reviews in more than 100 periodicals that are available in HeinOnline.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (including I.L.P. Retro)
Includes international coverage and access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more. Coverage is provided for indexing from 1981-, abstracting from 1990-, and select full text from 1994-.
Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin America and the Caribbean
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.
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.
Intellectual Property Library (BNA)
The Intellectual Property Resource Center provides the full text of all decisions reported in United States Patents Quarterly from 1929 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process.
Intelliconnect (Wolters Kluwer formerly CCH)
Provides online versions of numerous primary and secondary sources in the areas of human resources management, accounting and tax research.
International Business & Finance Daily (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.
International Commercial Arbitration (ICMA)
International Commercial Arbitration (ICMA) is hosted on the Oxford Legal Research Library platform and brings together some of the leading works in the field and represents in a resource for the arbitration researcher. ICMA includes texts that cover the key arbitral bodies and jurisdictions as well as a number of officially recognized and endorsed texts providing coverage of the rules of particular arbitral bodies. Also included are a number of key treatises looking at specific areas of international arbitration practice in more depth with topics ranging from consent and annulment through to the calculation of damages.
International Environment Reporter (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.
International Tax Monitor (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.
International Trade Daily (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.
International Trade Reporter (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.
Investment Arbitration Reporter is an electronic news service tracking cross-border arbitrations between foreign investors and their host governments. The reports help a broad range of readers stay abreast of the latest lawsuits and policy developments in the field of international investment law. Users have to click on the "Subscriber Login" button at the top left of any page within the site to send their IP address for authentication.
Comprehensive, up-to-date source for U.S. nationwide public opinion, consisting of a full-text retrieval system, organized at the question level. Contains nearly 400,000 questions asked on the national public opinion surveys since 1935 and survey results from academic, commercial, and media survey organizations.
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.
Provides full-text searches of scholarly articles from a variety of disciplines through digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals. Journals go back to the 19th century and before with subject coverage going back to the medieval period. Depending on journal title, current issues (last 3-5 years) may not be available.
Judge Analytics (Ravel Law)
Judge Analytics allows users to search a judge’s entire career — every decision, every citation, housed in a single location. The dashboard search features located on the site lets you identify the cases, circuits, and judges the researched judge finds most persuasive. A researcher can discovering patterns and outliers in judges' opinions as well as insights into who and what influences them.
This resource from the Yale Law Library tracks every federal judicial nomination from the 103rd Congress to the present.
JustCite is a multi-jurisdictional citator and legal search engine. It provides information about cases, legislation and articles and their interdepenednt relationships.
Justis is a full text online legal library of UK, Irish and EU case law dating back to 1163 and legislation from 1235. Justis also includes exact replica PDFs and all UK legislation, including repealed acts and measures.
KluwerArbitration.com is a leading online resource for international arbitration research. It contains a variety of commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. The subscription includes exclusive materials including ICC cases and awards.
Labor and Employment Law Resource Center (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.
Labor Relations Week (BNA)
Provides coverage of legislative and regulatory developments in labor law and summarizes rulings from the National Labor Relations Board and the courts.
Contains more than 1,530 law and law related-periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with the publishers.
Law.com (ALM)
Law.com, in affiliation with ALM publishers, provides in-depth business and financial information on individual law firms, law schools and the legal industry. The kind of content available includes ALM Law Firm Reports; ALM Lists and Rankings taken from various ALM Media publications including The American Lawyer (AmLaw 100 and AmLaw 200), Corporate Counsel, and The National Law Journal; and ALM Surveys & Studies examining key issues impacting the legal market. Users have the ability to search practice areas such as Appellate, Corporate Securities, Intellectual Property Labor and Employment and Class Actions & Product Liability.
Law360 (full-text now available via LexisAdvance; login to Lexis and complete a search subject for the article that you require)
Includes developing stories in litigation, law, and policy daily.
This subscription includes labor and employment publications from three reporters: the Employment Law Memo (ELM), the NLRB Law Memo, and the Arbitration Law Memo (ALM); access to LawMemo,Inc.’s appellate database, dating back to 1999; and access to LawMemo’s custom alerts. You can receive custom alerts based on jurisdiction and/or topic(s). LawMemo provides labor and employment law-related (to include ERISA and employee benefits) cases from all state and federal courts, including the DC Circuit and the US Supreme Court. Access is through you law school email address, so you have to register by selecting the “LawSchools” tab at the top of the webpage.
The Leadership Library provides online search capabilities for government, business, legal, media, and nonprofit professionals by name, organization, or keyword. Additional information is provided by searching for issues covered on the Hill, media beat, job function, office specialty, legal specialty, lobbying specialty, or alma mater. Search results can include direct-dial telephone numbers, addresses, career histories, education backgrounds, board affiliations, areas of responsibility, or contact-specific emails.
Leadership Networks combines a proprietary algorithm with the power of Leadership Directories’ accurate and up-to-date information to connect individuals through the common bonds of: Current Employment, Current Board Memberships, Career History, etc. Which can then be used to search profiles from congressional, federal, state, municipal, judicial, corporate and financial, media, association and nonprofit, law firm, government affairs, and foreign representative sectors.
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.
Contains full text for nearly 250 of the world's most respected, scholarly law journals. The Legal Collection is an authoritative source for information on current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world.
Provides a range of public legal information, including opinions of the United States Supreme Court since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. LII also includes libraries in two important areas, legal ethics and social security, and a series of “topical” pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for various areas of law.
Repository of scholarly papers and abstracts in the social sciences, including law. Working papers and submitted abstracts intended for early distribution of research results in social science disciplines. Most of the full-text papers can be downloaded free. Check other locations, such as Hein Online and Journal Locator, for those with $ signs.
Provides access to citations from major legal publications and many full text articles in PDF format. LegalTrac is updated daily with coverage starting from 1980. Indexed publications include major law reviews, legal newspapers, international legal publications (from English speaking countries), and more.
Proquest Legislative Insight contains legislative histories and links to the related full-text Congressional documents of more than 18,000 federal laws enacted since 1929. The fully-searchable PDFs include full text of the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, and committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous publications that provide background information related to the making of the law.
Includes full text federal, state, and international legal materials, as well as general, business, and medical news. Online access to current and back issues of major newspapers, journals, newsletters, and news sources from around the world.
Digital versions of historical, military, legal and government documents. LLMC provides full text access to a vast collection of law and law-related literature from the Law Library Microform Consortium, a non-profit library cooperative that has filmed more than 7,500 titles and over 900,000 volumes.
LLSDC's Legislative Source Book
This webpage is maintained by the Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C. LLSDC provides links to legislative research sites and tutorials, along with other helpful guides and listings for legislative research.
Making of Modern Law - U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
Contains a comprehensive digital collection of records and briefs before the nation's highest, and includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements, and other official papers of popular well-known cases, including many landmark decisions.
Making Of Modern Law Primary Sources Parts I & II
This 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; 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.
Making of Modern Law- Legal Treatises
Digital collection of Anglo-American legal treatises from the 19th and 20th centuries, covering almost every aspect of American and British law. Includes casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches, which allow researchers to trace the evolution of historical and contemporary legal study in the U.S. and Britain during periods of monumental change.
Making of Modern Law- Trials
Digital collection of more than two million pages documenting trials from around the world, fully searchable, including unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs, and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. Its International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The Foreign Law component features foreign legal treatises of a variety of countries. Because the term "treatise" is more of a common-law category, the equivalent works in civil-law systems may have other names such as commentaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, monographs, or festschriften. The Comparative Law component features books that compare more than one legal system and includes Ancient, Roman, Jewish Law, and Islamic Law. These documents showcase that the roots of English common law can be found in the deep recesses of European history. The materials in this archive are drawn from three world-class American law libraries: the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.
Fully revised online encyclopedia is written by over 650 scholars and practitioners from around the world, which includes more than 700 new topics central to international law that are not covered in the previous print edition. In addition to extensive search functionality and click-through cross references to other encyclopedia entries, users have access to the Oxford Law Citator that links to related content available in other Oxford online legal services.
Medical Research Law & Policy Report (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.
Medicare Report (BNA)
Analyzes legislative, regulatory, judicial, and health care industry developments. Covers a wide range of topics including accreditation, fraud, nursing homes, and reimbursement policies.
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.
Mergers & Acquisitions Law Report (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.
Money & Politics Report (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.
Municode (Municipal Code Corporation)
Municode provides over 3,000 online codes spread throughout all 50 states. While browsing the Code Library, users will find that these codes are available on any platform - desktop, tablet, and mobile.
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.
This database 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.
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.
Declassified documents, pictures, and recordings obtained through the Freedom of Information Act by the National Security Archive, an independent non-governmental research institute and library.
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.
New 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.
Offers full-text and full-image articles for newspapers dating from 1851-1898, searchable by keyword, author, article title, and first paragraph (abstract). Also includes illustrations and advertisements. The title changed from the New York Daily Times to the New York Times in 1857.
Provides access to New Zealand legal information and databases.
Covers over 50 national and regional newspapers, covering 1989 to present and updated weekly. Contains only citations and abstracts, not full text.
Updated daily, this full text collection provides access to articles from regional U.S. newspapers, international newspapers, newswires, newspaper columns, and other sources.
Occupational Safety & Health Daily (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.
Occupational Safety & Health Reporter (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.
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 the online catalog, or for preparing a bibliography of publications by a particular author.
This volume takes seriously issues involving laws role in structuring decisions about governance, the significance of state and local law and legal institutions, and the place of American law in a comparative international perspective. Nearly 500 entries are included, written by over 300 expert contributors.
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.
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.
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.
Offers rich vocabulary coverage, with full treatment of World English, rare, historical, and archaic terms, as well as scientific and technical vocabulary. This revised edition includes hundreds of new and up-to-date words, with a special focus on words and phrases used in business English (e.g. helicopter view, knowledge economy, and vulture fund). There are notes on grammar, punctuation, and usage.
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.
Oxford International Commercial Law (ICML)
International Commercial Law (ICML) is hosted on the Oxford Legal Research Library platform and brings together some of the leading works in the specific field for practitioners and scholars researching the law of sale and contract.This product offers a library of titles on the law of sale of goods and related subjects. Monographs authored by top scholars in the field deliver invaluable content in an interlinked, searchable and easy-to-access format.
Full text access to Oxford University Press journal titles covering law, the humanities, math, social science, medicine, and science. Oxford Reference Online http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/GLOBAL.html
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.
OLRL includes four searchable collections, International Commercial Arbitration, International Commercial Law, Financial and Banking Law, and Private International Law. Each collection can be browsed and searched separately, or users with access to more than one collection can choose to search them together via the OLRL "family" interface. The OLRL collections help to speed up research from the OXford Legal Research Library platform and provide easy access to authoritative content for anyone currently performing research in the four areas of law and practice previously identified.
Oxford Private International Law (PRIL)
Private International Law (PRIL) is hosted on the Oxford Legal Research Library platform and brings together some of the leading works in the field. It represents a useful resource for practitioners and scholars researching in the private international law field.
This database contains full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treaties published by Oxford University Press, such as Oppenheim and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law. All titles are fully searchable and browsable by subject matter, title and author, and are linked, via the Oxford Law Citator, to relevant case reports and articles within all of Oxford University Press’s online law products.
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.
Provides legal information and databases for the twenty Pacific Islands Countries.
Patent Full Text and Full Page Image Database
Provides access to full page images of patents issued since 1790.
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.
Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal (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.
Pension & Benefits Daily (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.
Pension & Benefits Reporter (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.
Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report (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.
Philip C. Jessup Library (HeinOnline)
Contains problems, winning memorials, official rules, competition results, and judges' briefs, when available. The collection dates back to 1960.
Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence Databank (LawPhil)
Provides access to Philippine legal information and databases.
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.
Full-text, electronic versions of course handbooks, forms, textbooks and treatises published by the Practising Law Institute (PLI) and covering many areas of law including intellectual property, international law, immigration, environmental, business and corporate law.
PolicyMap is a data and mapping resource that combines demographic, health, employment, and socioeconomic data about communities, census tracts, and other regions within the United States. It has the ability to map that data across the country and the file offers full-screen maps, a zoom search option, data menus, and 15,000 geographic indicators. Report and table functions allow users to create detailed reports on a geographic area and quickly develop three-layer maps to overlay multiple data layers on a single map. Maps can be customized using on-screen legends, year variables, ranges, and other tools. Figures come from a wide variety of agencies and companies, ranging from the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts to Valassis Lists.
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.
Practical Law, now available in Westlaw Next, offers a number of practical tools organized by topic, including useful overviews; model documents, clauses, and drafting tips; checklists, timelines, and flowcharts; and updates on recent legal developments. The amount of information available varies by topic. Please use your Westlaw username and password to sign in and access Practical Law.
Privacy & Security Law Report (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.
Privacy Law Watch (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.
Product Safety & Liability Reporter (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.
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.
Indexes articles covering all fields of Jewish studies that have been published in Hebrew, Yiddish, and European languages since 1966.
Real Estate Law and Industry Reports (BNA)
Real Estate Law and Industry Report is a legal news service with updates on the wide-ranging issues that affect commercial real estate attorneys and professionals - including finance, equity and leasing, taxes, litigation, legislation, regulation, and more. It covers all commercial real estate areas - office, industrial, retail, hospitality, and multi-family.
Portal for federal rulemaking where users can search for a regulation (proposed rule or final rule) and Federal Register notices, submit a comment on a regulation or on another comment, submit an application, petition or adjudication document, and sign up for e-mail alerts about a specific regulation.
Regulatory Insight (ProQuest)
ProQuest Regulatory Insight offers detailed indexing and searching of the Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations, as well as compiled regulatory history materials related to enacted federal laws. Currently, the database covers the time period 2001-2015, but will be expanded back to 1936 over the next year.
This unique resource contains the most current and extensive listing of publications created by presidential advisory bodies, and will be useful to researchers interested in U.S. history, political science, and law. Presidents have created such advisory groups (also called committees, commissions, boards, blue ribbon panels, or task forces) to advise them on particular problems or issues such Pearl Harbor, civil rights, the status of women, the assassination of JFK, the 1967 riots, Iran Contra, HIV/AIDS, the Challenger Space Shuttle accident, and 9/11.
Daily publication for news, sports, business, opinion, lifestyles, and entertainment content in Richmond and Central Virginia. Holdings for full text articles range from 1903 to present.
Virginia Materials
Securities Law Daily (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.
Securities Regulation & Law Report (BNA)
Analyzes federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting, with objective coverage of the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodity Futures Trading Commission, industry, courts, and Congress.
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.
Covers the latest concepts, trends, opinions, theories, and methods from both applied and theoretical aspects of the social sciences. The format comes in full-text and abstracts from 1995–present and in citation format from 1907–present.
Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research and composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences, including the law. Most of the full-text papers can be downloaded free. Check other locations, such as Hein Online and Journal Locator, for those with $ signs.
This database collects and publishes legal materials from Southern and Eastern Africa for free online access. The current collection includes superior court judgments from Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, South Africa and Uganda. Retrospective collection for all superior courts in these countries is ongoing. The database includes cases in preparation for publishing from Mauritius, Swaziland and Tanzania.
This collection includes access to the State Attorney General Reports & 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.
State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report (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.
State Environment Daily (BNA)
Covers major environmental legislation, regulations, and litigation in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
State Health Care Regulatory Developments (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.
The Statesman's Yearbook includes information on all 194 countries in the world plus states and dependencies, covering key historical events, population, politics, economics, trade and infrastructure.
Statistical Abstract of the United States (HeinOnline)
Coverage: 1878-2012
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.
Coverage starts from 2013-
An annotated bibliography of articles, books, government publications, looseleaf services, court opinions, and websites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.
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.
Supreme Court Yearbook (Congressional Quarterly)
Covers every U.S. Supreme Court term since 1989 by providing year-end overviews of the court's activities, case summaries of every opinion issued, essays on significant cases and trends, voting pattern tables, and explanations on how the Supreme Court works.
Tax and Accounting Center (BNA)
This library offers a comprehensive array of analysis, news, primary sources, and practice tools covering federal, international, and state tax issues and financial accounting.
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.
TaxCore (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.
Telecommunications Monitor (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.
The Wall Street Journal is a business-focused international daily newspaper. Published six-days a week, the digital edition is accessible through login ID.
Current and historical legislative information for Congress, including bills, laws, treaties, the Congressional Record, roll call votes, and committee reports.
Toxics Law Reporter (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.
Transportation Watch (BNA)
Examines federal transportation policy, regulation, litigation, and spending. Topics covered include airline mergers, federal highway spending, mass transit, transportation taxes, and trucking.
Treaties and Agreements Library (HeinOnline)
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.
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.
Contents include the American State Papers, Journals of the Continental Congress, and the Congressional Record and its predecessor titles.
Official directory of the U.S. federal courts and their web sites. Users can find information on court records, federal rulemaking, appointment of counsel, jury service, statistics, and U.S. courts related information.
U.S. Federal Agency Documents, 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.
The "Sources of Compiled Legislative History Database" is a legislative history finding aid based on Nancy Johnson's 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.
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.
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.
Provides complete coverage of the Statutes at Large back to 1789.
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.
Provides access to Uganda legal information and databases.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The United States government official web portal contains free U.S. government information and services. Information includes, A-Z list of agencies, vital documents, and contact information for state and federal elected officials.
Locate General Assembly bills back to 1994, searchable by bill number, keyword, patron, etc.
Links to court websites, case information, forms, statistics, and directories.
Includes full text and status of bills and resolutions. Searchable databases include Bills and Resolutions, Bill Summaries, Constitution of Virginia, Code of Virginia, Virginia Administrative Code, Rules of the Supreme Court, and Reports to the General Assembly.
The Virginia Memory is an online gateway to digitized collections and materials from the Library of Virginia and the Virgian State Archives. There are photographs, documents, maps, and ephemera populating these digital collections. Some of the topics covered include the gubernatorial papers of Thomas Jefferson, Colonial Virginia records, African American history, the Civil War, historical and recent Virginia government and journalism, and a range of other topics.
Official web site of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Users can find state government directories, links to various branches of the state government, law, open forums, and forms.
Virginia Supreme Court Records and Briefs
Contains lists of reported cases by Virginia's highest appellate court, presently known as the Supreme Court of Virginia. A few early cases from the General Court, various Special Courts of Appeals, and the post-Civil War Military Court of Appeals are also included. The cases are arranged as printed in the series commonly known as Virginia Reports. The materials listed in this database are housed at the University of Richmond Law Library; however, you can digitally access some of the materials via HeinOnline.
Until its demise in 1981, The Evening Star was universally regarded as the “paper of record” for the nation’s capital. Published under such titles as Washington Star-News and The Washington Star, this long-running daily afternoon paper was one of the highest profile publications in the nation. Founded in 1852, by the 1930s its coverage of national politics--including the daily activities of every branch of government--made it the nation’s number one paper in advertising revenue.
West Academic Online Study Aids
This database provides online access to more than 430 study aids from West Academic Publishing, Foundation Press and Gilbert. Students can use these resources to help prepare for classes, papers and exams by consulting case briefs, outlines, overviews, exam prep titles and more.
White Collar Crime Report (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.
Allows users to search for articles in a variety of online databases. Citations, abstracts, and full text articles are available from the different databases.
Wolters Kluwer Electronic Study Aid Library
Workplace Law Report (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 2003 and all issues of Wage Hour & Leave Report published since 2002.
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.
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.
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.
World Data Protection Report (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.
World Intellectual Property Report (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.
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.
World Securities Law Report (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.
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.
WTO Reporter (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 2000.
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