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ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals This link opens in a new window
Provides access to journals and newsletters published by the American Bar Association.
Acts of the Parliament of Canada - Annual Statutes This link opens in a new window
Contains all historical and current Acts of the Parliaments of Australia and Canada
Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS) This link opens in a new window
An independent federal agency within the executive branch that recommends ways to improve the efficiency, adequacy, and fairness of rulemaking, adjudication, and other administrative processes.
Air and Space Law This link opens in a new window
A collection of books, documents, legislation, regulations and reports covering all types of flight.
American Association of Law Libraries Collection This link opens in a new window
Contains publications of interest to law librarians.
Animal Studies: Law, Welfare and Rights This link opens in a new window
Covers the foundational laws pertaining to animals and follow the evolution of these rights throughout the years. It includes philosophical books dating back to the 1800's, videos, periodicals, and brochures
Association of American Law Schools This link opens in a new window
Contains publications related to teaching in law school.
Bar Journals This link opens in a new window
This database contains more than 140 titles featuring nearly all state Bar Journals, select publications from the American Bar Association, and City Bar Journals.
Brennan Center for Justice Publications This link opens in a new window
The Brennan Center is a nonpartisan law and policy institute that seeks to improve the systems of democracy and justice in the United States.
Canada Supreme Court Reports This link opens in a new window
Canada Supreme Court Reports provides access to official documents from the Supreme Court of Canada: Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada (1876-1922); Canada Law Reports (1923-1969) and Canada Supreme Court Reports (1970-present).
Civil Rights and Social Justice This link opens in a new window
This database covers civil rights in the United States and their legal protections. Containing publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, legislative histories on landmark legislation, briefs from relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more.
Code of Federal Regulations This link opens in a new window
Coverage containing more than 8,000 volumes dating back to inception in 1938.
Executive Privilege This link opens in a new window
Providing primary and secondary source materials, this database explores executive privilege from the country's founding to the present day.
COVID-19 in America This link opens in a new window
Federal government reports and publications on the various ways COVID-19 has impacted every aspect of life, this database is organized into the following areas of impact: Economics, Global, Health, and Society.
Criminal Justice and Criminology This link opens in a new window
Provides a historical overview of how criminal justice has changed in American and English law and the effect criminology has had in facilitating those changes.
Current Index to Legal Periodicals - CILP This link opens in a new window
Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) indexes, by subject heading, the most recent issues of primarily American law journals. CILP provides timely topical access to more than 650 legal publications organized within 104 relevant subject headings.
Democracy in America This link opens in a new window
Interactive digital edition takes students and researchers back to Tocqueville's 1831, providing full-text links to the works Tocqueville read while he traveled, researched, and wrote Democracy in America.
Early American Case Law This link opens in a new window
Contains the entire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) with more than 20,000 cases. Also included is the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports.
English Reports, Full Reprint: 1220-1867 This link opens in a new window
Provides pdf images from the bound reprint edition, containing over 100,000 cases, together with the Indexes and Book of Charts. In addition, multiple navigation tools, such as a Case Locator, Chart Tool, and an Advanced Search feature.
European Center for Minority Issues This link opens in a new window
The ECMI conducts practice-oriented research and offers advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe. This library contains several publications of the ECMI, including ECMI Reports and Working Papers.
Federal Register Library This link opens in a new window
Coverage is comprehensive and begins from inception (1936). Also includes the CFR from inception (1938), United States Government Manual from inception (1935), Daily and Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents from inception (1965).
GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions This link opens in a new window
Contains reports on audits, surveys, investigations, and evaluations of federal programs conducted by the United States Government Accountability Office. Comptroller General Decisions contains decisions and opinions in areas of federal law such as appropriations, bid protests, and federal agency rulemaking.
Gun Regulation and Legislation in America This link opens in a new window
Contains documents,legislative histories, CRS reports, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials.
History of Bankruptcy: Taxation & Economic Reform in America Part III This link opens in a new window
Legislative histories, treatises, and documents related to bankruptcy law in America. It also includes classic books dating back to the late 1800s and links to scholarly articles that are related to the study of bankruptcy in America.
History of International Law This link opens in a new window
This database includes information dating back to 1690 on the history of international law subjects such as War & Peace, the Nuremberg Trials, Law of the Sea, International Arbitration, and Hague Conferences and Conventions.
History of Supreme Court Nominations This link opens in a new window
Provides access to hearings, articles, books, and documents. Includes all existing Senate documents from 1916 to date, including various hearings that have never before been made public for Louis Brandeis through Elena Kagan.
Immigration Law and Policy in the United States This link opens in a new window
This comprehensive database is a compilation of the most important historical documents and legislation related to immigration in the United States, as well as current hearings, debates, and recent developments in immigration law. It also includes BIA Precedent Decisions, legislative histories, law and policy titles, extradition titles, scholarly articles, an extensive bibliography, and other related works.
Intellectual Property Law Collection This link opens in a new window
Legislative histories, treatises, classics, and documents relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks.
International Law Association Reports This link opens in a new window
The International Law Association's objectives are the study, clarification and development of international law, both public and private, and the furtherance of international understanding and respect for international law.
John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection This link opens in a new window
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 directed the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to create a collection consisting of all U.S. government documents relating to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, including any state or local law enforcement materials. This collection contains all of the materials declassified to date.
Judges and the Judiciary: Exploring America's Court System This link opens in a new window
Database focuses on the structure, creation, actions of, and oversight of the courts, both state and federal.
Law Academy Project This link opens in a new window
Provides the history of legal education in America through the works of the Law Academy, one of the earliest educational institutions in the United States for law-related education
Law Journal Library This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 1,530 law and law-related periodicals.
Law Library of Congress Reports This link opens in a new window
A collection of 3000 foreign, comparative, and international law in response to requests from Members of Congress, Congressional staff and committees, the federal courts, executive branch agencies, and others.
Legal Classics This link opens in a new window
Includes more than 1,800 works.
LGBTQ+ Rights This link opens in a new window
Topics covered include the Defense of Marriage Act, the AIDS crisis, military service by gay and transgender service members, "bathroom bills," and more.
Manual of Patent Examining Procedure This link opens in a new window
Access to all eight editions.
Martindale-Hubbell Law Directory This link opens in a new window
Historical archive of this publication from its inception in 1868 to 1963
Military and Government This link opens in a new window
Content focuses on the function of the federal government in administrating the armed forces, the armed forces' structural changes over time, and the issues confronting service personnel both on and off the battlefield. Coverage is from the American Revolution on up to the present
National Survey of State Laws This link opens in a new window
Allows users to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws on a variety of sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States.
Pentagon Papers This link opens in a new window
The United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
Philip C. Jessup Library This link opens in a new window
Provides access to all of the top moot court competitions since 1960. Contains the Problems, Judges' Briefs, Rules, and leading written memorials which comprise each competition. In addition, several publications of ILSA are also available.
Prestatehood Legal Materials This link opens in a new window
Provides brief overviews of state histories from colonization to statehood. It also identifies a wide range of both readily available and hard-to-find materials from each state.
Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases This link opens in a new window
Provides comprehensive expert analysis of all cases argued before the Supreme Court prior to the arguments.
Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions and Other Advisory Bodies This link opens in a new window
A current and extensive listing of publications created by presidential advisory bodies. The companion database features not only the bibliographic listing of reports, but also related hearings and scholarly articles.
Revised Statutes of Canada This link opens in a new window
Complete coverage of all six revisions from the official printed volumes of the Revised Statutes of Canada.
Session Laws Library This link opens in a new window
This library contains the session laws of all 50 U.S. states as well as Canada, Australia, Puerto Rico, Virgin Islands, and the D.C. Register.
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive coverage of legal materials related to slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. Includes statutes and cases at the federal and state level.
Standard Federal Tax Reporter (1917-1985) This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive federal income tax information, such as full text of all proposed, temporary and final federal income tax law regulations, as well as full text of federal administrative rulings and documents.
State Constitutions Illustrated This link opens in a new window
State Constitutions Illustrated is a collection of the constitutions of the 50 states of the United States, together with related documents and resources. It contains the text of every constitution that has been in force for every state and includes an extensive collection of documents from before statehood.
State Reports: A Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Provides a digital version of Hein's State Report Checklist along with linking to the full text of historical state reports. This provides researchers with a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to published court reports and how they interrelate with the National Reporter System.
State Statutes - Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
Includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states. Search the statutes by state, date, description and text. Coverage goes back until 1717.
Statutes of the Realm This link opens in a new window
Contains English legislation from 1235-1713.
Subject Compilations of State Laws This link opens in a new window
Access to extensive bibliographic records, 1960-current, from Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast Robertson's Subject Compilations Bibliography Series.
Taxation & Economic Reform in America Parts I & II, 1781-2010 This link opens in a new window
Contains more than 2,300 volumes and one million pages of legislative history materials and other documents related to taxation, economic reform, and stimulus plans.
Tax Foundation Archive Publications This link opens in a new window
Collects data and publishes research studies on tax policies at both the federal and state levels.
Treaties and Agreements Library This link opens in a new window
Includes all U.S. treaties, whether currently in-force, expired, or not-yet officially published. This includes such prominent collections as the United States Treaties and Other International Agreements set as Bevans, Miller, Malloy and others.
U.S. Code This link opens in a new window
Provides complete coverage of the United States Code dating back to inception in 1925-1926. Also includes the Early Federal Codes and Compilations collection, which represents the most complete collection of federal statutory compilations prior to the US Code.
U.S. Congressional Documents This link opens in a new window
Features the complete Congressional Record Bound version, as well as the daily version back to 1980. It also includes the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and Congressional Globe (1833-1873), as well as other important congressional material. Using the Daily-to-Bound Locator Tool, you can quickly find a page in the Bound volume from the Daily edition.
U.S. Congressional Documents - Hearings This link opens in a new window
Full-text access to more than 13,000 hearings from the 71st (1927) Congress through the 112th (2011) Congress.
U.S. Congressional Serial Set This link opens in a new window
Contains all American State Papers and Serial Set volumes in PDF format, House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, and more.
U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals This link opens in a new window
A complete collection of the official case law, reports and decisions of some of the most important U.S. Federal Agencies such as: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC).
U.S. Federal Legislative History Library This link opens in a new window
In addition to the inclusion of comprehensive federal legislative histories published by the U.S. GPO and private publishers, this library also includes a unique finding aid based on Nancy Johnson's award-winning work, Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories. Researchers should begin their U.S. federal legislative history research with this finding aid, which often includes references to law review articles on-point to a particular legislative history.
U.S. International Trade This link opens in a new window
Current and historical content of U.S. international trade including USITC Publications Archive, legislative histories, CFR & U.S. Code Title 15 and Title 19, notable publications, and scholarly articles.
U.S. Presidential Library This link opens in a new window
This library includes such titles as Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Daily and Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and other documents related to U.S. Presidents.
U.S. State Commitments with Foreign Governments This link opens in a new window
Provides access to commitments entered into by individual U.S. states with foreign nations on topics ranging from archaeology to human rights to transportation, many of which have never before been published.
U.S. Statutes at Large This link opens in a new window
Includes complete coverage of the Statutes at Large, and features multiple browsing and searching options.
U.S. Supreme Court Library This link opens in a new window
Complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
U.S. Treaties and Agreements Library This link opens in a new window
Includes all U.S. treaties, whether currently in-force, expired, or not-yet officially published. It includes prominent collections such as the United States Treaties and Other International Agreements set.
UNC Press Law Publications This link opens in a new window
UNC Press publications cover a variety of timely topics and include both current and historical titles.
Voting Rights & Election Law This link opens in a new window
A collection of historical and current content devoted to the electoral process: how elections are conducted, the strategy and controversies of political campaigns, how votes are counted, and who is allowed to vote.
Water Rights & Resources This link opens in a new window
Collection of government documents, reports, and legislative histories, as well as books, and scholarly articles. This collection examines the legal issues surrounding access to water.
Women and the Law This link opens in a new window
Provides access to books, biographies and periodicals dedicated to women’s roles in society and the law over the past 200 years.
World Constitutions Illustrated This link opens in a new window
Includes the current constitution for every country in its original language and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for many countries. It also includes constitutional periodicals, nearly 2,000 classic books, other related works such as the World Fact Book, links to scholarly articles and online resources, and bibliographic references.
World Trials Library This link opens in a new window
This collection contains court documents to more than 3,000 trials. Also contains books which analyze the decisions of famous trials, as well as biographies of many trial lawyers.

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