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• Administrative law and government

  • Federal Staff Directory   W
    

    The Congressional Quarterly's Federal Staff Directory provides a wealth of information about the Executive Branch. It covers the Executive Office of the President, the Cabinet Departments, and the Independent and Quasi-Official Agencies. You can search or browse for biographies, photos, and contact information for senior officials and staff.

  • GPO Access - U.S. Executive Branch Resources
    

  • HeinOnline - Federal Agency Decisions and Documents   A
    

  • HeinOnline - Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations   A
    

  • Leadership Library on the Internet   W
    

    Also known as the "Yellow Books," the Leadership Directories contain the most up-to-date organizational and contact information for the fourteen areas they cover: Congressional, Federal, Federal Regional, State, Municipal, Judicial, Corporate, Financial, News Media, Associations, Law Firms, Government Affairs, Foreign Representatives, and the Nonprofit Sector.

  • Regulations.gov
    

  • U.S. Federal Government Agency List, from LSU
    

Government contracts

• Federal Contracts Report   W
  

Research guides

• Administrative Law & Government Information
  

  A helpful Topical Research Guide written by Susan Lewis-Somers, WCL Library Associate Director for Public Services.

• Bankruptcy

  • Bankruptcy Law Daily   W
    

  • Bankruptcy Law Reporter   W
    

• Business and corporate law

  • Accounting Policy and Practice Report   W
    

  • CCH Business & Finance Network   W
    

    This Commerce Clearing House (CCH) portal gives web access to many of its publications in the areas of securities, banking, corporate capital, trade regulation, government contracts, information technology, federal energy, transportation law, and products.

  • Corporate Practice Library   W
    

  • E-Commerce Law Daily   W
    

  • E-Commerce Tax Report   W
    

  • Electronic Commerce & Law Report   W
    

  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law Report   W
    

  • U.S. Department of Commerce
    

  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
    

Antitrust

• Antitrust & Trade Regulation Daily   W
  

• Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report   W
  

• European Commission Competition (European Union)
  

• U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
  

• US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
  

Banking

• Banking Daily   W
  

• Banking Report   W
  

• U.S. Federal Reserve System
  

Bankruptcy

• Bankruptcy Law Daily   W
  

• Bankruptcy Law Reporter   W
  

Corporate governance

• Corporate Accountability & Fraud Daily   W
  

• Corporate Accountability Report   W
  

• Corporate Compliance Library   W
  

• Corporate Counsel Weekly   W
  

• Corporate Governance Library   W
  

• Corporate Governance Report   W
  

• Corporate Law Daily   W
  

• Daily Report for Executives   W
  

Government contracts

• Federal Contracts Report   W
  

International trade and arbitration

• Export Reference Library   W
  

• International Business & Finance Daily   W
  

• International Trade Daily   W
  

• International Trade Reporter   W
  

• Journal of International Economic Law   W
  

  The Journal of International Economic Law is dedicated to encouraging thoughtful and scholarly attention to a very broad range of subjects that concern the relation of law to international economic activity.

• KluwerArbitration   W
  

  This site covers international arbitration issues and is a comprehensive fully-searchable database of primary and secondary materials and commentary in the field with access to full-text downloads of all materials. Access to this database is from the “International Business” tab on the CCH Business and Finance Database and you must scroll down to the bottom of the screen to access it.

• U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
  

• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  

Securities

• Securities Law Daily   W
  

• Securities Regulation & Law Report   W
  

• U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)
  

• World Securities Law Report   W
  

• Communications law

  • Media Law Reporter   W
    

  • Pike and Fischer Internet Law and Regulation   W
    

    Internet Law & Regulation includes the full text of all U.S. court and agency decisions affecting the Internet. Pertinent final rules issued by federal agencies are also included. International coverage extends to selected cases from English-speaking venues (such as Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and India), as well as English-language decisions from the European Union. Select cases from non-English speaking countries (such as France and Germany) are provided in PDF format. Arbitration decisions issued in accordance with the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy are also included. In addition, the service includes case digests of the holdings or actions taken in court and agency decisions that address a particular topic, such as spam, workplace privacy, or peer-to-peer file sharing; The full text of notable complaints, motions, and appellate briefs filed with U.S. courts and agencies; The full text of pertinent laws, regulations, and policy papers from U.S. federal and state governments, foreign countries, and private organizations, with relevant legislative and regulatory history; In-depth articles written by distinguished attorneys and law professors who specialize in Internet law; Topical essays, which serve as comprehensive overviews of each of ILR's eight Topics; and Brief articles covering legal, legislative, and Internet-related business developments written by Pike & Fischer's legal editors and experts from The Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.

  • Telecommunications Monitor   W
    

  • U.S. Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
    

  • World Communications Regulation Report   W
    

• Construction law

  • Construction Labor Report   W
    

• Courts and case law

  • BNA's Directory of State and Federal Courts, Judges, and Clerks   W
    

    This database contains current and detailed contact information on the nation’s judges and clerks along with the extensive details on the structure of federal, state, and territorial courts.

  • Directory of State and Federal Courts, Judges, and Clerks   W
    

    This database contains current and detailed contact information on the nation’s judges and clerks along with the extensive details on the structure of federal, state, and territorial courts.

  • Federal Court Websites, from LSU
    

  • GPO Access - U.S. Judicial Branch Resources
    

  • HeinOnline - U.S. Supreme Court Decisions   A
    

  • International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC)   W
    

    IDLC is a repository of domestic international law covering over sixty jurisdictions; featuring selected cases in full text of judgments in their original language. Also feature translations of key non-English judgments in English.

  • Judicial Staff Directory   W
    

    The Congressional Quarterly's Judicial Staff Directory provides a wealth of information about the Judiciary. It covers all federal courts as well as the state appellate courts. You can search or browse for biographies, photos, and contact information for judges and their personal staffs, court staffs and administrative offices.

  • Justis   W
    

    Justis is a comprehensive full text online database of UK and Irish primary case law, specialist case law, and UK statutes law. The database covers primary case law dating back to 1163 and in UK statute law provides access back to the Magna Carta.

  • Leadership Library on the Internet   W
    

    Also known as the "Yellow Books," the Leadership Directories contain the most up-to-date organizational and contact information for the fourteen areas they cover: Congressional, Federal, Federal Regional, State, Municipal, Judicial, Corporate, Financial, News Media, Associations, Law Firms, Government Affairs, Foreign Representatives, and the Nonprofit Sector.

  • Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978   W
    

    Comprehensive collection of U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs searchable by citation, Docket Number, and keyword.

  • U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978   W
    

    Comprehensive collection of U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs searchable by citation, Docket Number, and keyword.

Evidence and procedure

• Digital Discovery & e-Evidence   W
  

• Expert Evidence Report   W
  

• Criminal law and procedure

  • Criminal Law Forum   W
    

    The official journal of the Society for the Reform of Criminal Law; access to all content.

  • Criminal Law Reporter   W
    

  • Health Care Fraud Report   W
    

  • International Criminal Law Review   W
    

    A journal for in-depth analytical research on the issues of international criminal law, dealing with the differences between civil and common law jurisdictions, and the development of law by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and other international and hybrid tribunals.

• Current awareness

  • Antitrust & Trade Regulation Daily   W
    

  • Banking Daily   W
    

  • Bankruptcy Law Daily   W
    

  • BioTech Watch   W
    

  • Broker/Dealer Compliance Report   W
    

  • Chemical Regulation Daily   W
    

  • Corporate Accountability & Fraud Daily   W
    

  • Corporate Counsel Weekly   W
    

  • Corporate Law Daily   W
    

  • Daily Environment Report   W
    

  • Daily Labor Report   W
    

  • Daily Report for Executives   W
    

  • Daily Tax Report   W
    

  • E-Commerce Law Daily   W
    

  • Health Care Daily Report   W
    

  • International Business & Finance Daily   W
    

  • International Environment Daily   W
    

  • International Trade Daily   W
    

  • Labor Relations Week   W
    

  • Occupational Safety & Health Daily   W
    

  • Pension & Benefits Daily   W
    

  • Privacy Law Watch   W
    

  • Product Liability Daily   W
    

  • Securities Law Daily   W
    

  • State Environment Daily   W
    

  • Tax Management Weekly Report   W
    

  • Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report   W
    

  • Thomas: Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
    

    Access to bills and public laws, committee reports, roll call votes and the Congressional Record. Includes current and retrospective Congresses.

  • Toxics Law Daily   W
    

  • U.S. Law Week   W
    

  • U.S. Patents Quarterly/Intellectual Property Library   W
    

• Disability law

  • Americans with Disabilities Act Manual   W
    

  • U.S. Social Security Administration
    

• Education

  • Chronicle of Higher Education   W
    

    The Chronicle is a great source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators. It features the complete contents of the latest issue; daily news and advice columns; thousands of current job listings; articles published since September 1989; discussion forums; and career-building tools such as an online CV's, salary databases, and more.

  • Perspectives Teaching Legal Research and Writing
    

    "Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing is a print newsletter published by West three times a year for legal research and writing instructors and law firm and law school librarians. The newsletter provides a forum for discussing the teaching of legal research and writing, focusing on research materials, tools and theories. Among the subjects frequently covered in Perspectives are trends in electronic legal research; solutions to legal research problems; and recently published legal research and writing resources."

  • Special Ed Connection   W
    

    This comprehensive database from LRP Publications includes federal and state primary law, case files, news and analysis on issues relating to special education.

  • U.S. Department of Education
    

• Election law

  • Money & Politics Report   W
    

  • U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC)
    

  • U.S. Federal Election Commission (FEC)
    

• Environmental law

  • Chemical Regulation Daily   W
    

  • Chemical Regulation Reporter   W
    

  • Daily Environment Report   W
    

  • Environment & Safety Library   W
    

  • Environment Reporter   W
    

  • Environmental Due Diligence Guide   W
    

  • Environmental Law Reporter (ELR)
    

    This comprehensive database by the Environmental Law Institute includes statutes, regulations, agency guidance documents and news and analysis and covers both Federal and State environmental issues.

  • Federal Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report   W
    

  • HazMat Transportation News   W
    

  • International Environment Daily   W
    

  • International Environment Reporter   W
    

  • State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report   W
    

  • State Environment Daily   W
    

  • Toxics Law Daily   W
    

  • Toxics Law Reporter   W
    

  • U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)
    

  • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
    

• Family law

  • Family Law Reporter   W
    

• Foreign law

  • Arab Law Quarterly
    

    The leading English-language legal publication in its field, Arab Law Quarterly covers all aspects of Arab laws, both Shari'a and secular. It provides authoritative articles on the laws and legal developments throughout the twenty countries of the Arab world, notes on recent legislation and case law, guidelines on future changes, and reviews of the latest literature in the field.

    Note: "Back files available through HeinOnline"

  • Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law   W
    

    The Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is the world's only law journal offering scholars a forum in which to present comparative, international and national research dealing specifically with issues of law and human rights in the Asia-Pacific region.

  • European Journal of International Law - Journal Europeen de Droit International   W
    

    The European Journal of International Law is firmly established as one of the world's leading journals in its field. With its distinctive combination of theoretical and practical approaches to the issues of international law, the journal offers readers a unique opportunity to stay in touch with the latest developments in this rapidly evolving area. Each issue of the EJIL provides a forum for the exploration of the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of international law as well as for up-to-date analysis of topical issues. Additionally, it is the only journal to provide systematic coverage of the relationship between international law and the law of the European Union and its Member States.

  • Foreign Law Guide   W
    

    [From the initial screen, choose "Subscriber Login (IP Authentication)".] The Foreign Law Guide provides the lawyer or legal researcher with relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, indications of currentness of the legal materials listed, and, finally, selected references to secondary sources in English. Thus, this is primarily a guide to official sources and official versions with references, when appropriate, to full texts of legislation and English translations of codes, laws and relevant material published separately. These translations may be official or unofficial, published as a monograph or in major comparative treatments or in a series or even in journals. The editors have sought to concentrate on current books and materials available in the trade or in normal avenues of document distribution. A second-tier source consists of digests or descriptions of legislation or codes or legal procedures and requirements that fall short of full and reliable translations.

  • Foreign Law Research Guides, from Institute of Advanced Legal Studies
    

  • HeinOnline - Foreign and International Periodicals and Other Materials   A
    

  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals   W
    

    Covers selected journals and essay collections worldwide, many non-English language. The WCL community may use interlibrary loan to request articles from titles not in the collection. Provides coverage from 1983. In book form, this index provides coverage from 1960.

  • JustCite   W
    

    JustCite is a legal citator for a fully cross reference index to authoritative UK and European legal information.

  • Justis   W
    

    Justis is a comprehensive full text online database of UK and Irish primary case law, specialist case law, and UK statutes law. The database covers primary case law dating back to 1163 and in UK statute law provides access back to the Magna Carta.

  • Latin American Intelligence Service   W
    

    Since 1967, Latin American Newsletters (LAN) has been acknowledged as the foremost source of intelligence on political and economic developments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Read by business investors, government officials and leading academics alike, LAN's comprehensive range of print and online resources offers subscribers a reliable, accurate and timely source of insight into key events that shape the region.

  • vLex   W
    

    Vlex is the most complete database of Spanish legislation and contains full content of all official journals, and more than two million national and EU documents, in full text and annotated.

• Gender and sexuality

  • Women's Human Rights Resources Programme
    

    This site is made available through the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto and is an excellent and current resource on issues relating to women’s human rights laws, with an emphasis on Canadian law.

• Government contracts

  • Federal Contracts Report   W
    

• Health care, food & drug, and biotechnology

  • BioTech Watch   W
    

  • Health Care Daily Report   W
    

  • Health Care Fraud Report   W
    

  • Health Care Policy Report   W
    

  • Health Law & Business Library   W
    

  • Health Law Reporter   W
    

  • Health Plan & Provider Report   W
    

  • Life Sciences Law & Industry Report   W
    

  • Medical Devices Law & Industry Report   W
    

  • Medical Research Law & Policy Report   W
    

  • Medicare Report   W
    

  • Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report   W
    

  • Right-To-Know Planning Guide   W
    

  • U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
    

  • U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
    

• Human rights

  • Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law   W
    

    The Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is the world's only law journal offering scholars a forum in which to present comparative, international and national research dealing specifically with issues of law and human rights in the Asia-Pacific region.

  • Guide to Human Rights Research
    

    Not a complete or comprehensive online guide, this website compliments a printed guide by the same name. The printed guide is most useful in describing the printed sources for reports, decisions, and cases of the various human rights regimes. The online guide contains many helpful links to the web sites of these organizations.

  • Hague Justice Portal
    

  • HuriSearch Human Rights search engine
    

    HuriSearch is a specialized multilingual Human Rights search engine. It includes over 3000 sites of human rights organizations, national human rights institutions, inter-governmental organizations, academic institutes, and non-governmental organizations. It can be searched in 77 different languages.

  • International Journal of Refugee Law   W
    

    One of the key source materials in the field of refugee protection. The journal aims to stimulate research and thinking on refugee law and its development, taking account of the broadest range of State and international organization practice. It regularly provides key information and commentary on critical issues, including the causes of refugee and related movements, internal displacement, the particular situation of women and refugee children, the human rights dimension, restrictive policies, asylum and determination procedures, populations at risk and the conditions in different countries. It is of immeasurable value to anyone involved in refugee work, whether lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, NGO workers, or officials in immigration, government, and international organizations. In addition to publishing original articles, the journal also features regular sections containing selected documents, case abstracts and comments, book reviews and annotated bibliographies of reports and other publications.

  • International Protection of Human Rights
    

    This site is made available through the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto and is an excellent and current source for user guides and bibliographies on human rights issues.

  • U.S. Department of State
    

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR)
    

• Immigration law

  • U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (CIS)
    

• Intellectual property

  • IP Resources from the WCL Program on Information Justice and Intellectual Property (PIJIP)
    

  • Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal   W
    

  • Patent Trademark & Copyright Law Daily   W
    

  • U.S. Copyright Office
    

  • U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO)
    

  • U.S. Patents Quarterly/Intellectual Property Library   W
    

  • World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)
    

  • World Intellectual Property Report   W
    

  • World Trade Organization (WTO), Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property
    

• International law

  • Access UN   W
    

    Indexes United Nations documents and publications, includes full text of Resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and selected Provisional Verbatim and Summary Record documents.

  • Avalon Project at Yale University
    

    The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. They have also linked to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. They have a tremendous number of important documents on their site, including those concerning the International Military Tribunal for Germany at Nuremberg.

  • HeinOnline - Foreign and International Periodicals and Other Materials   A
    

  • International Environment Daily   W
    

  • International Environment Reporter   W
    

  • International Journal of the Legal Profession
    

    "International Journal of the Legal Profession is an academic journal addressing the organization, structure, management and infrastructure of the legal professions of the common law and civil law world. The journal encompasses studies of the work, work practices, skills and ethics of the legal profession as well as the internal management of law firms and chambers. It also considers the methods and extent of provision of legal services. A range of socio-legal information is included involving inter-disciplinary interest from academic and professional lawyers, economists, philosophers, psychologists, sociologists, anthropologists and business academics interested in the world of law and lawyers. Major changes are occurring in the legal professions of America, Europe and Australasia. The profession has become much more open for study and accountability to the public and to government. Academic interest has grown over recent years and study of the legal profession is now well respected and represented within law departments. Scholars have begun to view law as an interesting area of study and lawyers, without any internal methodology for assessing and measuring their work or value, have welcomed the outside interest."

  • International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC)   W
    

    IDLC is a repository of domestic international law covering over sixty jurisdictions; featuring selected cases in full text of judgments in their original language. Also feature translations of key non-English judgments in English.

  • International Protection of Human Rights
    

    This site is made available through the Bora Laskin Law Library at the University of Toronto and is an excellent and current source for user guides and bibliographies on human rights issues.

  • Justis   W
    

    Justis is a comprehensive full text online database of UK and Irish primary case law, specialist case law, and UK statutes law. The database covers primary case law dating back to 1163 and in UK statute law provides access back to the Magna Carta.

  • Legal studies : the journal of the Society of Legal Scholars
    

    Legal Studies is the journal of the Society of Legal Scholars (SLS). Legal Studies is recognised as one of the foremost academic law journals in the UK and enjoys an international readership both within the common law world and beyond. Legal Studies is a truly generalist peer-reviewed law journal and aims to include a varied range of scholarly articles in each issue, including doctrinal, conceptual, and socio-legal analysis. The journal warmly welcomes contributions from all those who wish to reach a broad international and UK readership.

  • U.S. Department of State
    

  • World Communications Regulation Report   W
    

  • World Intellectual Property Report   W
    

  • World Securities Law Report   W
    

International organizations

• Access UN   W
  

  Indexes United Nations documents and publications, includes full text of Resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, and selected Provisional Verbatim and Summary Record documents.

• Europa, Gateway to the European Union (EU)
  

• Hague Justice Portal
  

• International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)
  

• Organization of American States (OAS)
  

• United Nations (UN)
  

• WTO Reporter   W
  

International periodicals

• Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law   W
  

  The Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law is the world's only law journal offering scholars a forum in which to present comparative, international and national research dealing specifically with issues of law and human rights in the Asia-Pacific region.

• European Journal of International Law - Journal Europeen de Droit International   W
  

  The European Journal of International Law is firmly established as one of the world's leading journals in its field. With its distinctive combination of theoretical and practical approaches to the issues of international law, the journal offers readers a unique opportunity to stay in touch with the latest developments in this rapidly evolving area. Each issue of the EJIL provides a forum for the exploration of the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of international law as well as for up-to-date analysis of topical issues. Additionally, it is the only journal to provide systematic coverage of the relationship between international law and the law of the European Union and its Member States.

• HeinOnline - Foreign and International Periodicals and Other Materials   A
  

• International Criminal Law Review   W
  

  A journal for in-depth analytical research on the issues of international criminal law, dealing with the differences between civil and common law jurisdictions, and the development of law by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Court, and other international and hybrid tribunals.

• International Journal   W
  

• International Journal for the Semiotics of Law   W
  

  The International Journal for the Semiotics of Law contains articles applying different forms of textual analysis to the discourses of the law. They include the semiotics of Greimas, Peirce and Lacan, rhetoric, philosophy of language, pragmatics, sociolinguistics and deconstructionism, as well as more traditional legal philosophical approaches to the language of the law. Articles are published in either English or French.

• International Journal of Refugee Law   W
  

  One of the key source materials in the field of refugee protection. The journal aims to stimulate research and thinking on refugee law and its development, taking account of the broadest range of State and international organization practice. It regularly provides key information and commentary on critical issues, including the causes of refugee and related movements, internal displacement, the particular situation of women and refugee children, the human rights dimension, restrictive policies, asylum and determination procedures, populations at risk and the conditions in different countries. It is of immeasurable value to anyone involved in refugee work, whether lawyers, teachers, students, researchers, NGO workers, or officials in immigration, government, and international organizations. In addition to publishing original articles, the journal also features regular sections containing selected documents, case abstracts and comments, book reviews and annotated bibliographies of reports and other publications.

• Journal of the History of International Law - Revue d'Histoire du Droit Internat   W
  

  The object of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of modern international legal problems. The aim of the journal is to open fields of inquiry, to enable new questions to be asked, to be awake to and always aware of the plurality of human civilizations and cultures, past and present, and an appreciation of patterns of cultural flow and interaction that centrally affect international law and development.

International taxation

• International Tax Monitor   W
  

International trade and arbitration

• Export Reference Library   W
  

• International Business & Finance Daily   W
  

• International Trade Daily   W
  

• International Trade Reporter   W
  

• Journal of International Economic Law   W
  

  The Journal of International Economic Law is dedicated to encouraging thoughtful and scholarly attention to a very broad range of subjects that concern the relation of law to international economic activity.

• KluwerArbitration   W
  

  This site covers international arbitration issues and is a comprehensive fully-searchable database of primary and secondary materials and commentary in the field with access to full-text downloads of all materials. Access to this database is from the “International Business” tab on the CCH Business and Finance Database and you must scroll down to the bottom of the screen to access it.

• U.S. Trade Representative (USTR)
  

• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  

International tribunals

• Hague Justice Portal
  

• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  

Research guides

• Researching International Law
  

  A slide presentation prepared by John Heywood, for his Seminar on International Courts, on how to research international law in our library.

Treaties

• HeinOnline - Treaties and Agreements   A
  

• U.S. Department of State Treaty Affairs
  

  Treaty resources from the State Department, including the current Treaties in Force, Treaties Pending, Multilateral Treaties for Which the U.S. is Depository, TIAS, and more.

• Labor, employment and human resources

  • Benefits Practice Center   W
    

  • CCH Health & Human Resources Internet Research Network   W
    

    This Commerce Clearing House (CCH) portal gives web access to many of its publications and forms in the areas of human resources management, payroll, pension & benefits, employment law, safety & workers comp., health care reimbursement, health care compliance, and food & drug law.

  • Collective Bargaining Negotiations & Contracts   W
    

  • Construction Labor Report   W
    

  • Daily Labor Report   W
    

  • Employment Discrimination Report   W
    

  • Employment Discrimination Verdicts and Settlements   W
    

  • Government Employee Relations Report   W
    

  • Human Resources Report   W
    

  • Industrial Law Journal   W
    

    Industrial Law Journal is established as the leading U.K. periodical in its field, providing comment and in-depth analysis on a wide range of topics relating to employment law. It is essential reading for practising lawyers, academics, and lay industrial relations experts to keep abreast of newly enacted legislation and proposals for law reform. In addition Industrial Law Journal carries commentary on relevant government publications and reviews of books relating to labour law.

  • Labor Relations Reporter/Labor and Employment Law Library   W
    

  • Labor Relations Week   W
    

  • Occupational Safety & Health Daily   W
    

  • Occupational Safety & Health Reporter   W
    

  • Pension & Benefits Daily   W
    

  • Pension & Benefits Reporter   W
    

  • Right-To-Know Planning Guide   W
    

  • U.S. Department of Labor (DOL)
    

  • U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
    

  • U.S. National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
    

  • Workplace Law Report   W
    

• Law & economics

  • Journal of International Economic Law   W
    

    The Journal of International Economic Law is dedicated to encouraging thoughtful and scholarly attention to a very broad range of subjects that concern the relation of law to international economic activity.

• Legal databases and portals

  • Avalon Project at Yale University
    

    The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. They have also linked to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. They have a tremendous number of important documents on their site, including those concerning the International Military Tribunal for Germany at Nuremberg.

  • BNA Library   W
    

    This Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) portal gives web access to most of their publications.

  • CCH Business & Finance Network   W
    

    This Commerce Clearing House (CCH) portal gives web access to many of its publications in the areas of securities, banking, corporate capital, trade regulation, government contracts, information technology, federal energy, transportation law, and products.

  • CCH Health & Human Resources Internet Research Network   W
    

    This Commerce Clearing House (CCH) portal gives web access to many of its publications and forms in the areas of human resources management, payroll, pension & benefits, employment law, safety & workers comp., health care reimbursement, health care compliance, and food & drug law.

  • CCH Tax Research Network   W
    

    This Commerce Clearing House (CCH) portal allows web access to CCH’s Tax Research Network, which includes the Standard Federal Tax Reporter and many other federal and state tax law databases and publications.

  • Corporate Practice Library   W
    

  • CQ Electronic Library   W
    

    The CQ Electronic Library (CQEL, pronounced SEE´quell) is the definitive reference resource for research in American government, politics, history, public policy, and current affairs. A wealth of CQ Press resources and years of journalistic and editorial expertise are combined in its eight modules. The suite includes the online version of the CQ Researcher, and its Spanish-language edition, The CQ Researcher en español. CQEL offers four subject-specific reference databases: CQ Congress Collection, CQ Supreme Court Collection, CQ Public Affairs Collection, and CQ Voting and Elections Collection. CQEL also includes the foundational reference resource, CQ Encyclopedia of American Government; CQ Insider, a comprehensive directory of the institutions and people of American government; and the online version of the CQ Weekly, offering complete coverage of Capitol Hill.

  • FindLaw
    

    A metasite linking to caselaw, statutes, session laws, regulations and other publications from federal and state jurisdictions.

  • GPO Access
    

    The official site for government publications and websites.

  • HeinOnline   A
    

    A comprehensive collection of searchable full-text PDF (or text) images of major law journal articles, including back issues. Check online table of contents for coverage of specific journal titles; new titles are added regularly. Also includes searchable pre-1981 issues of the Federal Register. New volumes are added regularly.

  • Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
    

    One of the oldest and best law school sites; a good place to begin legal research.

  • LexisNexis   P
    

    Comprehensive full-text coverage of law, business and news sources, including periodicals.

  • LexisNexis Academic   A
    

    Access to a wide range of news, business, legal, and reference information for those without access to the full LexisNexis.

  • LexisNexis Congressional   W
    

    CIS indexes, abstracts and legislative histories with links to recent full text documents; also includes LexisNexis files with recent full text congressional bills and bill tracking reports, unofficial hearings, reports and other documents, Congressional Record, US Code Service, Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), Federal Register.

  • LLMC Digital   A
    

    Digital images of federal government materials, primarily administrative agency decisions and court decisions.

  • LoisLaw   P
    

    Electronic legal research that includes caselaw, statutes, session laws, and regulations from federal and all 50 state jurisdictions. You must register at the Loislaw.com website using the special WCL access code. To get this code, send an email to the law library, or call the Reference Desk at 202-274-4352, and ask for the Loislaw school access code.

  • Making of Modern Law   A
    

    "The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.

  • RIA Checkpoint (Tax Law)   W
    

    RIA Checkpoint is a comprehensive database covering all aspect of U.S. tax laws, and includes the United States Tax Reporter Library, Federal Tax Coordinator Library, Public Domain Library, RIA Citator 2nd, RIA Tax Alerts, and State and local tax materials. Also available through this portal is RIA’s Worldwide Tax Laws Library, which covers major laws for many countries, including income and corporate tax law, VAT, corporation law, trust law, commercial codes, environmental law, money laundering and other regulations affecting financial transactions, labor law, and bankruptcy. Countries included will be expanded throughout 2006 and 2007.

  • Thomas: Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
    

    Access to bills and public laws, committee reports, roll call votes and the Congressional Record. Includes current and retrospective Congresses.

  • Westlaw   P
    

    Comprehensive full-text coverage of law, business, news and reference sources, including periodicals.

• Legal history and theory

  • Avalon Project at Yale University
    

    The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. They have also linked to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of the text. They have a tremendous number of important documents on their site, including those concerning the International Military Tribunal for Germany at Nuremberg.

  • HeinOnline - Historical Legal Treatises   A
    

  • Journal of the History of International Law - Revue d'Histoire du Droit Internat   W
    

    The object of the Journal of the History of International Law / Revue d'histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of modern international legal problems. The aim of the journal is to open fields of inquiry, to enable new questions to be asked, to be awake to and always aware of the plurality of human civilizations and cultures, past and present, and an appreciation of patterns of cultural flow and interaction that centrally affect international law and development.

  • Legal History Review - Tijdschrift Voor Rechtsgeschiedenis - Revue d'Histoire du Droit   W
    

    The Legal History Review, was founded in 1918 by a number of Dutch jurists, who set out to stimulate a scholarly interest in legal history in their own country and also to provide a centre for international cooperation in the subject. It covers the common foundations of the western legal tradition but also to the special, frequently divergent development of national law in the various countries belonging to, or influenced by it. Modern and contemporary, as well as ancient and medieval history is considered. Roman law and its later development, as well as canon law, have always been particularly important; in addition the history of the English Common Law has been extensively studied.

  • Making of Modern Law   A
    

    "The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926" provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.

  • Theoretical Inquiries in Law   W
    

    One of the Berkeley Electronic Press journals, dealing with legal theory and jurisprudence.

• Legal profession