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• Administrative law and government

  • Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Agency
    

    Executive Branch department and administrative agency decisions and other materials outside the scope of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and the Federal Register. Also organized by subject. From the University of Virginia.

  • beSpacific
    

    News blog that covers law, government, non-government organizations and technology. Good resource for recent Executive Branch, Congressional Research Service (CRS), and General Accountability Office (GAO) reports, as well as other recently-released official and semi-official documents.

  • Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
    

    Codification of final federal agency regulations, initially published in the Federal Register. Link to e-CFR for most current, usually a few days behind.

  • Data.gov
    

    Datasets from Executive Branch agencies, and from several states. Includes information about how to access the datasets, and tools that "leverage" the government datasets. Part of the Obama Administration's open government initiative.

  • Federal Register
    

    Publishes federal agency proposed and final regulations, notices and other documents. Current as of today.

  • Federal Register Unified Agenda
    

    The latest edition of the semiannual Unified Agenda, also referred to as the Semiannual Regulatory Agenda. It summarizes the rules and proposed rules that each Federal agency expects to issue during the next year.

  • Government Accountability Office (GAO) Reports and Decisions
    

  • GPO Access - U.S. Executive Branch Resources
    

  • GPO Browse Government Publications (FDsys beta)
    

    Beta site for future GPO Access, that offers browsing and searching of key primary government documents, such as congressional bills and committee reports and hearings, the Congressional Record, public laws, presidential documents, and the Federal Register.

  • HeinOnline - Federal Agency Decisions and Documents   A
    

  • HeinOnline - Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations   A
    

  • LLMC Digital   A
    

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

  • Office of the Federal Register - Public Inspection Desk
    

    Documents recently filed, from federal department and agencies, to be published the next day (or soon thereafter) in the Federal Register.

  • OpenRegs.com
    

    User-friendly federal regulatory portal that makes it easy to keep track of proposed and final regulations, and to submit comments to the agencies. Announces recently-opened comment periods for proposed regulations, and keeps track of dates when comment periods will close.

  • Regulations.gov
    

    Government site to find, view, and comment on federal regulations and other federal actions. Allows users to search for comments submitted to federal agenciesto on proposed regulations, or for propsed regulations currently open for comments.

  • White House: President Barack Obama
    

    Official site of the President of the United States. Includes presidential documents, such as executive orders and proclamations, cabinet and subcabinet nominations and appointments, the President's weekly video address, and policy statements on agenda items. Also includes information about the administration, the White House and links to government agency websites.

Directories

• 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.

• 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.

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

• Washington Information Directory   W
  

  Published by CQ Press, this invaluable directory of U.S. governmental and non-governmental organizations. It covers federal agencies, governors and other state officials, U.S. and foreign diplomats, NGOs, policy groups, foundations, institutions, and Congress. You may search by keyword, organization name, or advanced search. You may also browse by organization type or public policy topic.

Government contracts

• Federal Contracts Report   W
  

Presidential Transition

• Change.gov: Office of the President-Elect
  

  Presidential transition site, with a link to GSA Transition Directory.

• GAO 2009 Congressional and Presidential Transition
  

• Plum Book (U.S. Government Policy and Supporting Positions)
  

  Looking for a job in the new Obama administration? Find out about federal government positions in the 2008 Plum Book.

• White House Transition Project
  

  Presidential transition resources provided by the White House, including the Institutional Memory Series and the WHTP Expert Registry.

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
    

  • Bloomberg Law Reports   W
    

    Current reporting on business-related and other legal and governmental topics, at the state and federal level.

  • 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
    

  • HeinOnline - Taxation and Economic Reform in America: A Historical Archive   A
    

    Historical federal tax and economic reform resources. Includes early and recent internal revenue acts and legislative histories, reports and monographs.

  • Mergers and Acquisitions Law Report   W
    

  • Real Estate Law & Industry Report   W
    

    "Legal news service updates on the wide-ranging issues that affect commercial real estate attorneys and professionals... It covers all commercial real estate areas..."

  • U.S. Department of Commerce
    

  • U.S. Department of the Treasury
    

Antitrust

• Antitrust & Trade Regulation Daily   W
  

• Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report   W
  

• Competition Policy International Database   W
  

• CPI Journal   W
  

  "This is a peer-reviewed, academic journal that covers competition law, economics, and policy."

• European Commission Competition (European Union)
  

• U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
  

• US Department of Justice, Antitrust Division
  

Banking

• Banking Daily   W
  

• Banking Report   W
  

• Law and Financial Markets Review
  

  "The Law and Financial Markets Review is a new, independent, English language journal devoted to providing high quality information, comment and analysis for lawyers specialising in banking and financial market issues and to others with interests in legal and regulatory developments affecting the financial markets."

• 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

  • Law and Humanities
    

    "Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of 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
    

• Congress, legislatures and legislation

  • Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates
    

    Collection of digitized historic federal legislative documents, beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774 to 1875. Includes early Journals of Congress, Elliot's Debates, American State Papers, early congressional bills, and pre-Congressional Record congressional debates.

  • 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.

  • GovTrack.us
    

    Website devoted to tracking Congress. Track pending legislation, member and committee activities, or subjects with a tracking tool.

  • GPO Access - Legislative Branch Resources
    

  • GPO Browse Government Publications (FDsys beta)
    

    Beta site for future GPO Access, that offers browsing and searching of key primary government documents, such as congressional bills and committee reports and hearings, the Congressional Record, public laws, presidential documents, and the Federal Register.

  • HeinOnline - Compiled Legislative Histories   A
    

  • HeinOnline - Congressional Record and Predecessors   A
    

  • HeinOnline - State Session Laws and Federal Public Laws   A
    

  • HeinOnline - Taxation and Economic Reform in America: A Historical Archive   A
    

    Historical federal tax and economic reform resources. Includes early and recent internal revenue acts and legislative histories, reports and monographs.

  • Justia.com
    

    Free legal portal that includes federal and state case law and statutes, other government information, legal forms, legal blogs, and more.

  • Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet
    

    List of selected federal public laws with links to their compiled legislative histories on the Internet. Separate lists for compiled histories available at public and commercial (HeinOnline, LexisNexis, Westlaw) sites.

  • 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.

  • OpenCongress
    

    Website devoted to all things Congress. Track pending legislation, members and votes. A project of the Sunlight Foundation and the Participatory Politics Foundation.

  • OpenCongress - How a bill becomes a law
    

    Good elaboration of the legislative process, from the OpenCongress wiki.

  • State Legislatures, State Laws, and State Regulations
    

    Listings of the websites of state legislatures, which may include legislative documents, state libraries, and free state codes. From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC (LLSDC).

  • 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.

  • U.S. Code
    

    Codification of statutes passed by Congress. Official version less current than commercial versions, such as USCA and USCS. Text files.

  • U.S. House of Representatives
    

    Includes member and committee information, the texts of bills, recent committee hearings and reports, schedules and other House information.

  • U.S. Senate
    

    Includes member and committee information, the texts of bills, recent committee hearings and reports, schedules and other Senate information.

Directories

• Congressional Staff Directory   W
  

  The Congressional Quarterly's Congressional Staff Directory provides a wealth of information about Congress. You can search or browse for member biographies & photos, district/state information and maps, and contact information for the main and district/state offices. Jurisdiction, membership, and staff (with titles, areas of responisibility, and contact information, and biographies) of the committees, subcommittes and caucuses are also included.

• 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.

• Washington Information Directory   W
  

  Published by CQ Press, this invaluable directory of U.S. governmental and non-governmental organizations. It covers federal agencies, governors and other state officials, U.S. and foreign diplomats, NGOs, policy groups, foundations, institutions, and Congress. You may search by keyword, organization name, or advanced search. You may also browse by organization type or public policy topic.

Research guides

• LexisNexis Congressional: Sessions of Congress, 1789 to Present
  

  Listing of the specific dates covered by each Congress, and each session therein. Also includes the name of the President who served during each Congress.

• LLSDC's Legislative Sourcebook
  

  Collection of research guides related to congressional and state legislative research.

• Construction law

  • Construction Labor Report   W
    

• Courts and case law

  • Bloomberg Law Reports   W
    

    Current reporting on business-related and other legal and governmental topics, at the state and federal level.

  • 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.

  • Justia.com
    

    Free legal portal that includes federal and state case law and statutes, other government information, legal forms, legal blogs, and more.

  • Justis   W
    

    Justis is a comprehensive full text online database of EU, UK and Irish case law and legislation. The database covers primary case law dating back to 1163 and legislation back to 1235.

  • Sonia Sotomayor - U.S. Supreme Court Justice
    

    Collection of information about U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, her judicial decisions and other writings, and her previous judicial confirmation hearings. From the Library of Congress.

  • Supreme Court Database
    

    Contains extensive information on U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and other Supreme Court information. Covers Supreme Court terms from 1953-.

  • U.S. Courts
    

    Includes links to all federal court sites, and to the Administrative Office of the US Courts, the Judicial Conference, and to current federal court rulemaking information.

  • 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.

Court and Criminal Justice Statistics

• U.S. Courts Statistical Reports
  

  Collection of current statistical reports from various court offices.

• U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
  

  Court and sentencing statistical reports.

Directories

• 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
  

• 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.

• 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.

Evidence and procedure

• Digital Discovery & e-Evidence   W
  

• Expert Evidence Report   W
  

Research guides

• LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets
  

  Links to over 1,400 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets.

• 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
    

  • Drug Court Review   W
    

    From the National Drug Court Institute.

  • 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.

  • U.S. Courts Statistical Reports
    

    Collection of current statistical reports from various court offices.

  • U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics
    

    Court and sentencing statistical reports.

• Current awareness

  • Antitrust & Trade Regulation Daily   W
    

  • Banking Daily   W
    

  • Bankruptcy Law Daily   W
    

  • BioTech Watch   W
    

  • Bloomberg Law Reports   W
    

    Current reporting on business-related and other legal and governmental topics, at the state and federal level.

  • 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.

  • Clearinghouse Review
    

    "Web site of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, is a national law and policy center, including the Poverty law library, a collection of case files, articles from the Clearinghouse review, and research links"

  • Law and Humanities
    

    "Law and Humanities is a peer-reviewed journal, providing a forum for scholarly discourse within the arts and humanities around the subject of law."

  • 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

  • Election Law Blog
    

    The law of politics and the politics of law: election law, campaign finance, legislation, voting rights, initiatives, redistricting, and the Supreme Court nomination process. From Prof. Rick Hasen at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles.

  • electionline.org
    

    Nonpartisan, non-advocacy election news website, produced by the Pew Center on the States' Election Initiatives. It provides up-to-the-minute news and analysis on election reform.

  • Money & Politics Report   W
    

  • National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL) - Elections & Campaigns
    

    News and resources about state election law and campaign issues.

  • 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.

  • Australian Indigenous Law Reporter
    

    A quarterly peer-reviewed publication of the Indigenous Law Centre, a research centre affiliated with the Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales.

  • China Law (Westlaw)
    

    Chinese version of Westlaw that includes material not on the American version of Westlaw. Includes Chinese laws and regulations, cases and topical news.

  • 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
    

    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
    

  • GlobaLex
    

    "GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law,GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world."

  • 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.

  • International Journal of Transitional Justice   W
    

    The International Journal of Transitional Justice covers "strategies employed by states and international institutions to deal with a legacy of human rights abuses and to effect social reconstruction in the wake of widespread violence."

  • Israel Law Resource Center
    

    Israeli site devoted to Israeli law as it relates to the "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." The site covers Israeli law, including statutes, court decisions and military orders, and international law, such as United Nations resolutions and International Court of Justice decisions.

  • 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 EU, UK and Irish case law and legislation. The database covers primary case law dating back to 1163 and legislation back to 1235.

  • 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.

  • LLRX.com
    

    Web-based legal research journal that highlights online resources. Includes excellent research guides on many legal topics, including foreign law research guides.

  • 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.

  • Westlaw China   W
    

    Chinese version of Westlaw that includes material not on the American version of Westlaw. Includes Chinese laws and regulations, cases and topical news.

• Gender and sexuality

  • Reproductive Health Matters   W
    

  • 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
    

  • JAMA: the Journal of the American Medical Association   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
    

  • Reproductive Health Matters   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.

  • 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 Journal of Transitional Justice   W
    

    The International Journal of Transitional Justice covers "strategies employed by states and international institutions to deal with a legacy of human rights abuses and to effect social reconstruction in the wake of widespread violence."

  • 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.

  • Israel Law Resource Center
    

    Israeli site devoted to Israeli law as it relates to the "Israeli-Palestinian Conflict." The site covers Israeli law, including statutes, court decisions and military orders, and international law, such as United Nations resolutions and International Court of Justice decisions.

  • U.S. Department of State
    

  • United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR)
    

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights: An Historical Record of the Drafting Process
    

    UN site that provides historic documents related to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Immigration law

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

• Intellectual property

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

  • IP Watch   W
    

    News and analysis about international policymaking in the area of intellectual property.

  • 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.

  • Competition Policy International Database   W
    

  • GlobaLex
    

    "GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law,GlobaLex is committed to the dissemination of high-level international, foreign, and comparative law research tools in order to accommodate the needs of an increasingly global educational and practicing legal world."

  • Hague Academy of International Law: Collected Courses Online   W
    

    Post-university summer courses in private international law and public international law.

  • International Criminal Law
    

  • 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 Labor and Employment Laws, 2d ed.   W
    

    "Country-by-country summary and analysis of labor and employment laws of the world's major economies."

  • 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.

  • IP Watch   W
    

    News and analysis about international policymaking in the area of intellectual property.

  • Justis   W
    

    Justis is a comprehensive full text online database of EU, UK and Irish case law and legislation. The database covers primary case law dating back to 1163 and legislation back to 1235.

  • 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.

  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law   W
    

  • U.S. Department of State
    

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights: An Historical Record of the Drafting Process
    

    UN site that provides historic documents related to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

  • 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.

• CPI Journal   W
  

  "This is a peer-reviewed, academic journal that covers competition law, economics, and policy."

• 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.

• International Journal of Transitional Justice   W
  

  The International Journal of Transitional Justice covers "strategies employed by states and international institutions to deal with a legacy of human rights abuses and to effect social reconstruction in the wake of widespread violence."

• 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
  

• ICC Legal Tools   W
  

  International Criminal Court (ICC) Legal Tools serve as an electronic library on international criminal law and justice. They include over 40,000 documents in several databases (the "Legal Tools Database"), together with four legal research and reference tools: the Case Matrix, the Elements Commentary, the Proceedings Commentary and the Means of Proof Document.

• World Trade Organization (WTO)
  

Research guides

• Audiovisual Library of International Law (UN Office of Legal Affairs)
  

  Multimedia international law training and research materiels, from the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Includes (1) the Historic Archives, (2) the Lecture Series, lectures on international law subjects by leading scholars, and (3) the Research Library, with links to research guides, scholarly writings and documents.

Treaties

• HeinOnline - Treaties and Agreements   A
  

  US treaties, including Treaties and International Acts Series (TIAS), KAV Agreements, Treaties in Force (TIF), US State Department documents, International Legal Materials (ILM), and more.

• U.N. Treaty Collection
  

  Includes the UN Treaty Series (UNTS), Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Signature Ceremonies, Titles in the UN Official Languages.

• 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.

  • International Labor and Employment Laws, 2d ed.   W
    

    "Country-by-country summary and analysis of labor and employment laws of the world's major economies."

  • 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

  • Clearinghouse Review
    

    "Web site of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, is a national law and policy center, including the Poverty law library, a collection of case files, articles from the Clearinghouse review, and research links"

  • Journal of Competition Law and Economics
    

    "the journal publishes articles of a substantial length providing in-depth analysis of developments in competition law, including developments in the US and EU but also covering other regional and national developments. The journal also publishes economic papers relevant to legal theory and practice."

  • 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.

  • Law and Financial Markets Review
    

    "The Law and Financial Markets Review is a new, independent, English language journal devoted to providing high quality information, comment and analysis for lawyers specialising in banking and financial market issues and to others with interests in legal and regulatory developments affecting the financial markets."

• 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.

  • China Law (Westlaw)
    

    Chinese version of Westlaw that includes material not on the American version of Westlaw. Includes Chinese laws and regulations, cases and topical news.

  • 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.

  • GPO Browse Government Publications (FDsys beta)
    

    Beta site for future GPO Access, that offers browsing and searching of key primary government documents, such as congressional bills and committee reports and hearings, the Congressional Record, public laws, presidential documents, and the Federal Register.

  • 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.

  • Justia.com
    

    Free legal portal that includes federal and state case law and statutes, other government information, legal forms, legal blogs, and more.

  • 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 and state 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.

  • Westlaw China   W
    

    Chinese version of Westlaw that includes material not on the American version of Westlaw. Includes Chinese laws and regulations, cases and topical news.

• 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.

  • Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: US Congressional Documents and Debates
    

    Collection of digitized historic federal legislative documents, beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774 to 1875. Includes early Journals of Congress, Elliot's Debates, American State Papers, early congressional bills, and pre-Congressional Record congressional debates.

  • HeinOnline - Historical Legal Treatises   A
    

  • HeinOnline - Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law   A
    

    HeinOnline - Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law

  • 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.

  • Universal Declaration of Human Rights: An Historical Record of the Drafting Process
    

    UN site that provides historic documents related to the drafting of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

• Legal profession

  • ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct   W
    

• Libraries and catalogs

  • Academic Law Libraries
    

    Collection of U.S. academic law library websites, including library catalogs. From the American Association of Law Libraries.

  • Academic University Libraries
    

    Collection of U.S. academic library websites, including library catalogs. From Libweb at U.C. Berkeley.

  • AU Bender Library
    

    The website of the American University Bender Library, AU's main university library. Includes the AU/WRLC consortium catalog and research system, Aladin.

  • Library of Congress
    

    Portal to the collections of the Library of Congress.

  • Libweb Library Websites
    

    Collection of library websites worldwide, including library catalogs. From Libweb at U.C. Berkeley.

  • Pence Law Library Catalog (LEAGLE)
    

    Our online catalog.

  • WorldCat (use for WCL interlibrary loans)   W
    

    A union catalog of libraries world-wide. The WCL community may use WorldCat with our interlibrary loan system, ILLiad.

• Litigation, negotiation, and ADR

  • Class Action Litigation Report   W
    

  • Employment Discrimination Verdicts and Settlements   W
    

Evidence and procedure

• Digital Discovery & e-Evidence   W
  

• Expert Evidence Report   W
  

• Military law and national security

  • Homeland Security Affairs: The Journal of the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security
    

  • Homeland Security Briefing   W
    

  • Homeland Security Digital Library   W
    

    Homeland Security Digital Library—(HSDL) provides quick access to important US policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents; as well as specialized resources from various universities, organizations, local and state agencies.

  • Intelligence Community Legal Reference Book
    

    Includes seminal national security legislation, executive orders and more. Also includes lists of updated intelligence community and other relevant government websites. Published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Office of General Counsel.

  • National Institute of Military Justice
    

  • U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA)
    

  • U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)
    

  • U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)
    

  • U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI)
    

• News

  • African-American and Other Historic Newspapers   A
    

    18th and 19th Century newspapers.

  • beSpacific
    

    News blog that covers law, government, non-government organizations and technology. Good resource for recent Executive Branch, Congressional Research Service (CRS), and General Accountability Office (GAO) reports, as well as other recently-released official and semi-official documents.

  • Chicago Tribune - Historical   A
    

    Runs from 1849 with currency lag.

  • 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.

  • Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers
    

    Search and view newspaper pages from 1880-1922 and find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present. Sponsored jointly by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress, as part of the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

  • Early American Newspapers   A
    

    Runs from 1690-1876.

  • 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.

  • Library.PressDisplay.com   A
    

    Same-day publication of over 400 English- and foreign-language newspapers and magazines. Sixty-day backrun.

  • Los Angeles Times - Historical   A
    

    Runs from 1881 with currency lag.

  • Nation   A
    

    Runs from 1865.

  • New York Times - Historical   A
    

    Runs from 1851 with currency lag.

  • Newseum - Today's Front Pages
    

    Digital images of over 600 of today's newspaper front pages, from around the world, with links to the newspaper's website. Archival front pages of notable events.

  • Pence Law Library E-Journal and Newspaper A-Z List
    

    List of electronic journals and newspapers accessible to Pence Law Library patrons, with links to the full text. Other electronic journals and newspapers may be available to library patrons via the main campus library's Aladin system.

  • Times (of London) Digital Archive   A
    

    Runs from 1785-1985.

  • Wall Street Journal, Eastern Edition   A
    

    Runs from 1984. To browse today's articles, limit your search to today's date.

  • Washington Post - Historical   A
    

    Runs from 1877 with currency lag.

  • World News Connection   A
    

    Non-U.S. media, including newspapers, magazines, media broadcasts and conference proceedings.

• Periodicals

  • 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.

  • Australian Indigenous Law Reporter
    

    A quarterly peer-reviewed publication of the Indigenous Law Centre, a research centre affiliated with the Law Faculty of the University of New South Wales.

  • Berkeley Electronic Press   W
    

    The Berkeley Electronic Press (BEPress) was founded as an electronic alternative to traditional paper academic journals. They publish journals and working papers in law, political science, current affairs, economics, business, marketing, science, technology, and medicine. This site also has a number of author tools, including LawKit and ExpressO, which help in the journal submission process.

  • 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.

  • Compensation Planning Journal   W
    

  • CPI Journal   W
    

    "This is a peer-reviewed, academic journal that covers competition law, economics, and policy."

  • Criminal Law Forum   W
    

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

  • Drug Court Review   W
    

    From the National Drug Court Institute.

  • Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal   W
    

  • 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.

  • Homeland Security Affairs: The Journal of the Naval Postgraduate School, Center for Homeland Defense and Security
    

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • International Journal of Transitional Justice   W
    

    The International Journal of Transitional Justice covers "strategies employed by states and international institutions to deal with a legacy of human rights abuses and to effect social reconstruction in the wake of widespread violence."

  • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies   W
    

    "JELS fills a gap in the legal and social science literature that has often left scholars, lawyers, and policymakers without basic knowledge of legal systems."

  • 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.

  • Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization   W
    

    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization is an interdisciplinary exercise. It seeks to promote an understanding of many complex phenomena by examining such matters from a combined law, economics, and organization perspective (or a two-way combination thereof). In this connection, we use the term organization broadly - to include scholarship drawing on political science, psychology and sociology, among other fields. It also holds the study of institutions - especially economic, legal, and political institutions - to be specifically important and greatly in need of careful analytic study.

  • 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.

  • LLRX.com
    

    Web-based legal research journal that highlights online resources. Includes excellent research guides on many legal topics, including foreign law research guides.

  • Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal   W
    

  • Real Estate Journal   W
    

  • Reproductive Health Matters   W
    

  • Rutgers Journal of Law & Public Policy
    

  • Tax Management International Forum   W
    

  • Tax Planning International European Tax Service   W
    

  • Theoretical Inquiries in Law   W
    

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

  • U.S. Law Week   W
    

Periodical indexes and databases

• Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)   W
  

  Very current weekly listing of new academic law journal articles in PDF, Word and HTML formats. The HTML format has links to the full-text articles in LexisNexis and Westlaw. (Users must have passwords to access full text.) CILP entries are about six weeks more current than the listings in other legal periodicals indexes. To set up a customized SmartCILP email account, tailored to your subject interests and/or specific journals, see the SmartCILP instructions at the bottom of the CILP page.

• Find e-Journals
  

  This tool from the Bender Library helps you find online journals to which the University subscribes.

• 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.

• 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.

• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books   W
  

  This legal periodicals index covers articles in Anglo-American law reviews and selected law-related books from 1983. It excludes legal newspapers. In hard copy, the ILPB provides coverage from 1907.

• JSTOR   A
  

  Excludes recent 2-to-5 years, otherwise full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and math. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

• LegalTrac   W
  

  The most comprehensive current legal periodicals index. Covers law reviews, bar journals, and legal newspapers. Provides coverage from 1980.

• LexOpus: From Law Working Papers to Published Works
  

  Free article publication service, similar to ExpressO. From the Washington & Lee Law Library.

• Pence Law Library E-Journal and Newspaper A-Z List
  

  List of electronic journals and newspapers accessible to Pence Law Library patrons, with links to the full text. Other electronic journals and newspapers may be available to library patrons via the main campus library's Aladin system.

• Project MUSE   A
  

  Currently, Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

• ProQuest   A
  

  Abstracts of periodical articles, with full text of many. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

• Public Affairs Information Service   A
  

  Index with abstracts covering economic, political and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation; covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports and government documents. Scope is worldwide in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

• Social Science Research Network   W
  

  Abstracts of law-related scholarly working papers and articles accepted for publication, full text journals, professional announcements, calls for papers, and academic and industry job listings. Part of the Social Science Research Network. From main SSRN site, select "Legal Scholarship Network" from the left-hand menu. To create a customized subscription, select "Site Subscriptions for LSN," then "join an existing site" and complete the form.

• Privacy, secrecy, and FOIA

  • National Security Archive
    

  • Privacy & Security Law Report   W
    

  • Privacy Law Watch   W
    

• Reference

  • Encyclopædia Britannica   A
    

    The premier English language encyclopedia, available online along with a world atlas and the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Collegiate Thesaurus.

  • Merriam-Webster online
    

    Web-based version of the Merriam-Webster English Dictionary.

  • Oxford English Dictionary   A
    

    Web-based version of the Oxford English Dictionary. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

Directories

• 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.

• Congressional Staff Directory   W
  

  The Congressional Quarterly's Congressional Staff Directory provides a wealth of information about Congress. You can search or browse for member biographies & photos, district/state information and maps, and contact information for the main and district/state offices. Jurisdiction, membership, and staff (with titles, areas of responisibility, and contact information, and biographies) of the committees, subcommittes and caucuses are also included.

• 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 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.

• 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.

• 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.

• Washington Information Directory   W
  

  Published by CQ Press, this invaluable directory of U.S. governmental and non-governmental organizations. It covers federal agencies, governors and other state officials, U.S. and foreign diplomats, NGOs, policy groups, foundations, institutions, and Congress. You may search by keyword, organization name, or advanced search. You may also browse by organization type or public policy topic.

Finding tools

• Find e-Journals
  

  This tool from the Bender Library helps you find online journals to which the University subscribes.

• Finding Resources in the Library   W
  

  Topical Research Guide - Finding Resources in the Library

• HeinOnline - Subject Compilations of State Laws   A
  

  A resource for finding lists of state laws on many subjects, that have been compiled in treatises, articles and other materials.

• LawTrio Law Publications Database   W
  

  LawTRIO is a fully searchable bibliographic database of over 7,500 legal titles combined from three of our print directories. The titles come in three formats: looseleaf (from Legal Looseleafs in Print, newsletter (from Legal Newsletters in Print), and CD-ROM (from Directory of Law Related CD-ROMs).

• Microform Finder
  

  A finding aid for all the microforms (both microfilm and microfiche) to which the library subscribes.

• Pence Law Library E-Journal and Newspaper A-Z List
  

  List of electronic journals and newspapers accessible to Pence Law Library patrons, with links to the full text. Other electronic journals and newspapers may be available to library patrons via the main campus library's Aladin system.

Indexes

• Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)   W
  

  Very current weekly listing of new academic law journal articles in PDF, Word and HTML formats. The HTML format has links to the full-text articles in LexisNexis and Westlaw. (Users must have passwords to access full text.) CILP entries are about six weeks more current than the listings in other legal periodicals indexes. To set up a customized SmartCILP email account, tailored to your subject interests and/or specific journals, see the SmartCILP instructions at the bottom of the CILP page.

• 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.

• Index to Legal Periodicals & Books   W
  

  This legal periodicals index covers articles in Anglo-American law reviews and selected law-related books from 1983. It excludes legal newspapers. In hard copy, the ILPB provides coverage from 1907.

• LegalTrac   W
  

  The most comprehensive current legal periodicals index. Covers law reviews, bar journals, and legal newspapers. Provides coverage from 1980.

• Research guides

  • Administrative Law & Government Information
    

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

  • Audiovisual Library of International Law (UN Office of Legal Affairs)
    

    Multimedia international law training and research materiels, from the United Nations Office of Legal Affairs. Includes (1) the Historic Archives, (2) the Lecture Series, lectures on international law subjects by leading scholars, and (3) the Research Library, with links to research guides, scholarly writings and documents.

  • Federal Tax Law
    

    Federal Tax Law research handout.

  • 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.

  • Legal Research
    

    Legal Research strategy handout.

  • LLRX.com
    

    Web-based legal research journal that highlights online resources. Includes excellent research guides on many legal topics, including foreign law research guides.

  • 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."

• Social sciences

  • Clearinghouse Review
    

    "Web site of the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law, is a national law and policy center, including the Poverty law library, a collection of case files, articles from the Clearinghouse review, and research links"

  • Data.gov
    

    Datasets from Executive Branch agencies, and from several states. Includes information about how to access the datasets, and tools that "leverage" the government datasets. Part of the Obama Administration's open government initiative.

  • Find e-Journals
    

    This tool from the Bender Library helps you find online journals to which the University subscribes.

  • Journal of Empirical Legal Studies   W
    

    "JELS fills a gap in the legal and social science literature that has often left scholars, lawyers, and policymakers without basic knowledge of legal systems."

  • Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization   W
    

    The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization is an interdisciplinary exercise. It seeks to promote an understanding of many complex phenomena by examining such matters from a combined law, economics, and organization perspective (or a two-way combination thereof). In this connection, we use the term organization broadly - to include scholarship drawing on political science, psychology and sociology, among other fields. It also holds the study of institutions - especially economic, legal, and political institutions - to be specifically important and greatly in need of careful analytic study.

  • JSTOR   A
    

    Excludes recent 2-to-5 years, otherwise full text of scholarly journals in the humanities, social sciences and math. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

  • 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.

  • Project MUSE   A
    

    Currently, Project MUSE® offers nearly 250 quality journal titles from 40 scholarly publishers. As one of the academic community's primary electronic journals resources, Project MUSE covers the fields of literature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts, cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics, and many others.

  • ProQuest   A
    

    Abstracts of periodical articles, with full text of many. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

  • Public Affairs Information Service   A
    

    Index with abstracts covering economic, political and social issues, business, finance, law, international trade and relations, public administration, government, political science and any topics that are or might become the subject of legislation; covers selected journal articles, books, statistics, yearbooks, directories, conference proceedings, pamphlets, reports and government documents. Scope is worldwide in six languages: English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish. Provided by American University's Bender Library.

  • Social Science Research Network   W
    

    Abstracts of law-related scholarly working papers and articles accepted for publication, full text journals, professional announcements, calls for papers, and academic and industry job listings. Part of the Social Science Research Network. From main SSRN site, select "Legal Scholarship Network" from the left-hand menu. To create a customized subscription, select "Site Subscriptions for LSN," then "join an existing site" and complete the form.

• State and local law and government

  • Data.gov
    

    Datasets from Executive Branch agencies, and from several states. Includes information about how to access the datasets, and tools that "leverage" the government datasets. Part of the Obama Administration's open government initiative.

  • District of Columbia City Council
    

  • District of Columbia Government
    

  • District of Columbia Laws
    

    DC Code, DC Municipal Regulations and DC Register.

  • HeinOnline - State Session Laws and Federal Public Laws   A
    

  • HeinOnline - Subject Compilations of State Laws   A
    

    A resource for finding lists of state laws on many subjects, that have been compiled in treatises, articles and other materials.

  • Maryland General Assembly
    

  • Maryland State Government
    

  • Maryland State Laws
    

    Links to the Annotated Code of Maryland, Code of Maryland Regulations (COMAR), and Maryland Register, among other things.

  • Municode.com
    

    Selected city and county ordinances, including some local jurisdictions from Maryland and Virginia. The District of Columbia is not included.

  • State and Local Government on the Net
    

  • State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report   W
    

  • State Environment Daily   W
    

  • State Health Care Regulatory Developments   W
    

  • State Legislatures, State Laws, and State Regulations
    

    Listings of the websites of state legislatures, which may include legislative documents, state libraries, and free state codes. From the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, DC (LLSDC).

  • Virginia General Assembly
    

  • Virginia Opinions of the Attorney General   W
    

    “Official opinions will be posted as they are issued, generally within 24 to 48 hours. Opinions prior to 1996 may be accessed via online searchable databases, including CaseFinder, LexisNexis, and Westlaw (subscriptions required)”…From webpage

  • Virginia State Government
    

  • Virginia State Laws
    

    Links to the Code of Virginia, Virginia Administrative Code, the Virginia Constitution, and Virginia Executive Orders, among other things.

• Taxation

  • Accounting Policy and Practice Report   W
    

  • 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.

  • Compensation Planning Journal   W
    

  • Daily Report for Executives   W
    

  • Daily Tax Report   W
    

  • E-Commerce Tax Report   W
    

  • Estates, Gifts and Trusts Journal   W
    

  • Federal Tax Law
    

    Federal Tax Law research handout.

  • HeinOnline - Taxation and Economic Reform in America: A Historical Archive   A
    

    Historical federal tax and economic reform resources. Includes early and recent internal revenue acts and legislative histories, reports and monographs.

  • Real Estate Journal   W
    

  • 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.

  • Tax and Accounting Center   W
    

  • Tax Management Memorandum   W
    

  • Tax Management Portfolios   W
    

  • Tax Management State Tax Library   W
    

  • Tax Management Transfer Pricing Report   W
    

  • Tax Management Weekly Report   W
    

  • Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report   W
    

  • TaxCore   W
    

  • U.S. Internal Revenue Service (IRS)
    

International taxation

• International Journal   W
  

• International Tax Monitor   W
  

• Tax Management International Forum   W
  

• Tax Planning International Asia-Pacific Focus   W
  

• Tax Planning International European Tax Service   W
  

• Tax Planning International European-Union Focus   W
  

• Tax Planning International Review   W
  

• Tax Planning International Transfer Pricing   W
  

• Worldwide Tax Laws on RIA Worldwide Taxes   W
  

  RIA Worldwide Tax Law 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.

• Technology and Internet law

  • Computer Technology Law Report   W
    

  • Digital Discovery & e-Evidence   W
    

  • E-Commerce Law Daily   W
    

  • E-Commerce Tax Report   W
    

  • Electronic Commerce & Law Report   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
    

• Transportation and common carriers

  • Transportation Watch   W
    

  • U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT)
    

• Treaties

  • HeinOnline - Treaties and Agreements   A
    

    US treaties, including Treaties and International Acts Series (TIAS), KAV Agreements, Treaties in Force (TIF), US State Department documents, International Legal Materials (ILM), and more.

  • U.N. Treaty Collection
    

    Includes the UN Treaty Series (UNTS), Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties, Photographs of Signature Ceremonies, Titles in the UN Official Languages.

• Treatises

  • HeinOnline - Historical Legal Treatises   A
    

  • LexisNexis   P
    

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

  • 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.

  • Westlaw   P
    

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

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