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  AILA

AILA - Contains research reference of statutes, regulations, important case law (select), agency interpretations and manuals, AILA liaison minutes, forms, and the full array of titles from AILA Publications:

  • Kurzban's Immigration Law Sourcebook
  • Immigration & Nationality Law Handbooks
  • Immigration Law Today

Primary source materials include:

  • Immigration and Nationality Act
  • Code of Federal Regulations
  • BIA decisions
  • Federal court decisions
  • Immigration Forms
  BNA Bureau of National Affairs (BNA) - BNA is a Leading publisher of print and electronic news and information, reporting on developments in health care, business, labor relations, law, economics, taxation, environmental protection, safety, and other public policy and regulatory issues.

Areas & resources include:
  • ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct
  • Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report
  • Bankruptcy Law Reporter
  • Corporate Compliance Library
  • Criminal Law Reporter
  • Electronic Commerce & Law Report
  • Employment Discrimination Report
  • Environment Reporter
  • Family Law Reporter®
  • Health Law Reporter
  • Intellectual Property Library
  • International Environment Reporter
  • International Trade Reporter
  • Labor and Employment Law Library
  • Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal®
  • Securities Regulation & Law Report
  • U.S. Law Week®
  • U.S. Patents Quarterly®
  • White Collar Crime Report
  • World Intellectual Property Report
  • WTO Reporter
INDEXMASTER Indexmaster - IndexMaster is the leading source in finding secondary legal titles. Titles from large and small legal publishers compiled in a searchable location containing the actual index and tables of content.
INDEX TO PERIODICALS AND BOOKS Index to Legal Periodicals & Books - Produced by The H.W. Wilson Company, is a bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books published in 1993 and later.

Date Coverage:  1982-present

Coverage of jurisprudence, including recent court decisions, new legislation, and original scholarship.

Periodical coverage includes:

  • Law reviews
  • Bar association journals
  • University publications
  • Yearbooks
  • Institutes
  • Government publications 
  Index to legal periodicalsretrospective Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective Provides an index to over 750 legal periodicals from all the major common law jurisdictions including Canada, the UK and the US covering the period from 1908 to 1981. 

Provides some 540,000 records, including book reviews and case citations. Includes contents notes: for special issues and symposia, each individual article and author are identified.
  Criminal Justice Criminal Justice Abstracts Wolters Kluwer Law & Business - Contains indexes and summaries of international journal articles, books, and governmental and non-governmental reports on virtually any topic in criminal justice.

Comprehensive coverage includes:
  • International journals
  • Books
  • Reports
  • Dissertations
  • Unpublished papers on criminology and related disciplines

 

  cch CCH Legal Information & Workflow Solutions -
Electronic and print resources for legal, securities, antitrust and trade regulation, government contracting, banking, pension, payroll, employment and labor, and healthcare reimbursement and compliance professionals.

Topics include:
  • Intellectual property
  • Mergers
  • Acquisitions
  • Securities
  • Banking
  • Antitrust and trade regulations
  • Federal energy guidelines
  • Government contracts
  • Transportation

Publications List:

  • AEOP Aust & NZ Equal Opportunity Law Library
  • ACON Australian Contract Law
  • Accounts Preparation Manual
  • Admin Appeals & High/Federal Court Practice
  • Asia Online library
  • Australian & NZ Insurance Law
  • Australian Master Tax Guides (Archived)
  • Bankruptcy Legislation
  • Business Advisers Guide
    Buying & Selling Businesses
  • Conveyancing Law Library
  • Corporate News Archive
  • Corporate Practice Manual
  • Corporation Law
  • News
  • Customs Law
  • Employment Law Guide
  • Family Law Library
  • Financial Planning Library
  • FPA & CCH Compliance Manual
  • Fringe Benefits Tax Guide
  • GST & Sales Tax Guide
  • Hands on HR Manager
  • Hands on OHS
  • Hands On OHS Legal Guide
  • Hands on Payroll Essentials
  • Hands on School Health and Safety
  • Hands on School Principals Legal Guide
  • Human Resources Management
  • Income Tax Guide
  • Industrial & Intellectual Property Law
  • Industrial Law Library
  • Insolvency Management Practice
  • Lang's Commercial Leasing in Australia
  • Managing Payroll Administration
  • OH&S Library
  • Payroll Tax Guide
  • Public Sector Governance - Australia
  • Singapore Goods and services tax guide
  • Strata & Community Titles Library Super annuation Law
  • Tax Bills Annual Archive
  • Tax Library
  • Tax Week Archive
  • Torts Law Library
  • Trade Practices & Consumer Law Library
  • Victorian Accident Compensation Library
  • Workers Compensation Library

 

Hein Online Hein Online - Click on the links below to view titles. 

Date Coverage:  1998-present


Bar Journals
English Reports
European Center For Minority Issues
Foreign & International Law Resources

Kluwer Law International Journal
Legal Classics
New York Legal Research Library
Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law
Sessions Laws
Taxation & Economic Reform in American A Historical Archive, 1781-2009
Treaties and Agreements Library
U.S. Attorney General Opinions
U.S. Congressional Documents Library
U.S. Federal Agency Documents Decisions & Appeals
U.S. Presidential Library
U.S. Statutes at Large

U.S. Supreme Court Library
United Nations Law Collection.
World Trials Library
legaltrac Legal Trac - LegalTrac features a comprehensive collection of major legal publications. The database provides indexing for more than 1,500 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, bar association journals and international legal journals, including more than 200 titles in full text.

Date Coverage:  1980-present

  CIAO Columbia International Affairs Online - Comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs.

Includes:
  • academic working papers
  • occasional paper series from NGOs
  • foundation-funded research projects
  • proceedings from conferences, books, journals, and policy briefs.

Date Coverage:  1991-present

 

  CILP Current Index to Legal Periodicals - Weekly list of subjects and table of contents from newly published law reviews and journals.
lexisnexis
LexisNexis - news, business, and law databases.

Includes materials:
  • administrative law

  • corporations
  • intellectual property
  • forms and precedents

general legal research tool that includes:

  • dictionary

  • encyclopedia

  • case citator

  • statute annotators

  • current law developments


LexisNexis® Business

Includes:
  • accounting literature
  • business news
  • business directories
  • company information (financial reports, company profiles, company comparisons, and SEC filings and reports).

LexisNexis® Congressional - Provides access to historic and current congressional information. It includes the full text of congressional publications, finding aids, a bill tracking service, and the full text of public laws and other research materials.

Coverage: 1970 to Present


LexisNexis® Legal - Access to federal and state case
law, federal and state code and regulations, international legal
materials, tax law, patents, legal news, etc.

 

Lexis® Research System - Provides the most expansive
collection of online content available anywhere. This fully integrated system includes:

  • cases

  • statutes

  • analytical content

  • Shepard's

  • CourtLink

  • Mealey's

  • news

  • business information

  • public records

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    From due diligence to discovery to pre-suit analysis, trial research and through post-trial research, LexisNexis offers easy to use functions for faster answers; better answers from the best legal materials; and a broader perspective from the largest collections of information.

 

CaseBase - a citator and annotator of cases from over 60 Australian and overseas report series and the unreported decisions of the High Court, the Federal Court and the Supreme Courts of all Australian states and territories and other selected jurisdictions. It provides a guide as to whether a case has been followed, distinguished or overruled by later judgments with coloured signals to flag positive, negative, or cautionary treatment.

Journal articles that comment on the case are included and complete case details including:
  • Parties
  • Court
  • Judges
  • Citation
  • Decision Date Parallel Citations
  • Case Annotations
  • Statute Annotations, Words and Phrases Judicially Considered
  • Catchwords and Digest
  • Journal Article Entries
  • CaseBase Signals
  • Detailed Index of all Law Reports and Journals

 

  loislaw Loislaw - offers a wide range of United States legal content and supporting materials, including:
  • up-to-date cases
  • statutes
  • rules and regulations, and other primary law for all 50 U.S. states and federal jurisdictions
  • expert-authored online treatise libraries, focused around practice areas, including:
    • Wigmore on evidence
    • Ginsberg and Martin on bankruptcy
    • Price on estate planning
    • extensive public records for individuals and corporations

 

  Agis Plus Text - indexing and full text database that provides access to journal articles on all aspects of law.

Source documents include:
  • Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals

  • Select articles from major law journals from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom

Subject coverage includes:

  • Aspects of law including administrative law

  • Banking

  • Companies and Securities

  • Constitutional law

  • Copyright law

  • Criminal law

  • Environmental law

  • Family law

  • Human rights

  • International law

  • Legal aid

  • Trade practices

 

Over 140 peer reviewed journals are indexed.

  Oxford International

Oxford Reports on International Law

The full scope of international law - expertly analysed and inter-linked

Oxford Reports on International Law is intended to be a single point of reference for all international law jurisprudence, providing serious researchers access to the widest possible range of international law jurisprudence. All reported decisions have a headnote, the full text of the decision, and are linked to the Oxford Law Citator


Oxford Reports on
  • International Courts of General Jurisdiction
  • International Criminal Law
  • International Human Rights Law
  • International Investment Claims
  • International Law in Domestic Courts

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  EurLex EUR-Lex European Union law - full text access to the European Union legal documents in all of the official languages. Also contains explanatory section on EU Law and process. Documents are organized into the following sections: Official Journal of the European Union (1998-) sections C and L (not S; for call for tenders published as supplement to the Official Journal see the TED database), The Treaties (founding and latest) which serve as the primary source of Union Law, Legislation (in force), Legislation in Preparation (current), Case-law (1997-), Parliamentary questions (latest), and Documents of public interest (latest). Also provides direct access to the databases CELEX, OEIL, TED, CURIA,and PreLex.
COLLECTIONS
  • Treaties
  • International agreements
  • Legislation in force
  • Preparatory acts
  • Case law
  • Parliamentary questions
  firstsearch Proceedings First - index of worldwide conference proceedings. Includes over 74,000 citations to every published congress, symposium, conference, exhibition, workshop and meeting received by the British Library Document Supply Center.

Date Coverage - 1993-present
  oceanalaw Oceanalaw Constitutions of the US, National and State 
Provides text of constitutions for the United States including: federal, each of the 50 state constitutions, plus constitutions of the U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.

Current constitutions only

Date Coverage -
Present
  pacer
PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records)
contains case and docket information from United States federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. Its U.S. Party/Case Index allows nationwide searches of these courts to determine whether or not a party is involved in federal litigation. Individual jurisdictions' PACER sites provide detailed information on specific cases.

Case docket information may include:
  • A listing of all parties and participants including judges, attorneys, and trustees
  • A compilation of case related information such as cause of action, nature of suit, and dollar demand
  • A chronology of dates of case events entered in the case record
  • A claims registry
  • A listing of new cases each day
  • Appellate court opinions
  • Judgments or case status
  • Types of documents filed for certain cases
  • Many courts offer imaged copies of documents


  Environmental Law Reporter

The Environmental Law Reporter® Online - an environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, energy, health/safety, and land use law research tool containing original source documents, editorial summaries, and expert analysis on state, federal, and international issues. ELR consists of twelve components: News & Analysis; ELR UPDATE; Litigation; Federal Laws and Regulations; Administrative Materials; Indexes; State Materials; International Materials; Health and Safety Materials; Guidance & Policy Collection; Briefs & Pleadings; and Online Seminars.

     
 

 

 

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