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A collection of journals and newsletters published by the American Association of Law Libraries.

A source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct and legal ethics. The Manual is organized into four main sections: the Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions. Contains the full text of every ABA ethics opinion issued from 1986 onward, digests of state and local ethics opinions from 1986 to the present, and links to state Web sites for the full text of state ethics rules and opinions.

A leading daily news source covering legal business, law firms, and lawyers across the U.S. and around the world.

The American Lawyer’s Website provides links to the most recent few issues’ worth of cases, articles and columns. For full-text access to this content you must login as a NYLS subscriber. To access the username and password, click here.

LexisNexis provides the full text of most American Lawyer content, back to 1995.

See Archive of Americana (Readex)

This family of historical collections contains books, pamphlets, broadsides, newspapers, government documents and ephemera printed in America over three centuries. Use the links below to search or browse a single collection, or do full-text searches across multiple collections: American State Papers, 1789-1838; U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 and Serial Set Maps, 1817-1980.

See U.S. Attorney General Opinions

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The bepress Legal Repository is a network of law-related research materials from law schools, institutes, centers, etc. with advanced search and personalized notifications similar to the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).

BNA has long been a major publisher of legal news and information, producing a variety of newsletters, reporters, treatises, manuals, portfolios and current awareness sources on a wide range of topics.

Search My BNA allows you perform word searches in all of our BNA publications, or just the ones you select.

This publisher also produces a series of topical “resource centers” which combine news, insights, analysis, and access to primary sources. All our BNA resources are also available to members of our community through Bloomberg Law.

Contains primary and secondary tax and business sources found in a variety of CCH publications such as the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, the Federal Securities Law Reporter and many others. The materials duplicate the coverage of print looseleaf services, while surpassing the looseleafs with electronic search features. Subjects include federal tax, state tax, securities, commodities futures and derivatives regulation, corporate governance, investment management, mergers and acquisitions, international business, federal banking law, antitrust and trade regulation, insurance litigation, products liability and safety, government contracts, federal energy law, transportation law, intellectual property, computer and internet law. CCH recommends using Internet Explorer.

NOTE: Users may create their own account to customize CCH IntelliConnect content. To create an IntelliConnect user ID and password, click here.

An electronic tax research service which provides access to primary tax law sources as well as editorial content and explanations of tax law. It includes access to the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, Court cases, IRS rulings, and proposed legislation. It also includes a citator which provides information about subsequent citations of authority.

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Source for theory and research in international affairs. CIAO publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 on that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences.

This journal covers contemporary topics in European law, including the law of the European Union, law at the national or regional levels, and jurisprudential questions relevant to the development of law and legal institutions in Europe.

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This database contains the same titles as NYLS's former NetLibrary Collection and replaces NetLibrary. They are a searchable collection of current electronic books from university and commercial publishers and electronic books in the public domain. The collection can be searched by a specific title, author, subject, or for words within the text.

A database to help you find out if the library has full text access to a particular electronic journal. Search either by title or ISSN number.

Collection of services covering federal and state labor relations law, collective bargaining, fair employment practices, the Americans with Disabilities Act, individual employment rights, labor arbitration, and wage and hours laws.

A source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets. E&E's daily on-line publications are valuable to people who track and influence energy, environmental and climate policy. E&E’s individual titles include Energy and Environment Daily, Greenwire, and ClimateWire.

Tracks and summarizes all major environmental, toxic tort, natural resources, energy, health/safety and land use law developments, including legislative and administrative action, original source documents, judicial decisions, and news.

Weekly updated analysis, guidance and primary source material to keep you up to date on rapidly changing developments in courts, Congress, federal agencies, state legislatures, industry, and environmental organizations.

A collection of reports, journals and working papers produced by the Center.

Comparable in many ways to Lexis and Westlaw, this is a legal research service that offers full-text searchable access to comprehensive libraries of federal and state cases, statutes, constitutions, court rules, administrative regulations, and attorney general opinions. The service is expanding to include libraries of newspapers, federal court filings, and legal forms.

A collection of yearbooks, journals and proceedings and reports from around the world.. It also includes U.S. Law Digests, International Tribunals/Judicial Decisions and more.

A good starting point for information on the legal systems of foreign countries.

Presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. It is comprised of more than 500 books beginning with Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 and continuing to the administration of Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford in 1976.

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Provides a search of scholarly literature across many disciplines and sources, including theses, books, abstracts and articles. Using this link gives you extra functionality in linking to full-text services that the library subscribes to (JSTOR and HeinOnline).

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Includes draft conventions and background papers on 13 areas of international law, which were prepared in anticipation of the largely unsuccessful League of Nations Codification Conference, and published as special supplements to the American Journal of International Law. Topics include nationality, state liability for damage to foreign nationals, territorial waters, competence of courts v. states as parties, piracy, extradition, criminal jurisdiction, and treaties.

A PDF-based collection of law review articles and a wide variety of other legal materials. The service is best known for its Law Journal Library which contains back runs of more than 1,100 journal titles, in most cases beginning with the first issue of each journal. HeinOnline's coverage has expanded to include archival libraries of federal and state primary law, federal legislative histories, U.S. treaties, foreign and international law sources, and classic American law treatises. Coverage continues to expand. Each library is full-text searchable, and search results are PDF files that can be printed and downloaded.

Focuses on bankruptcy in America and includes legislative histories, treatises, documents, classic works and scholarly articles.

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Provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. IFLP also analyzes the contents of approximately eighty individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Mélanges, and congress reports each year.

The Index to Legal Periodicals consists of two databases:

Provides complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. Full text is available for over 400 periodicals, many of them peer-reviewed.

a retrospective database that indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.

Provides the full text of all decisions reported in United States Patents Quarterly from 1929 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process. Includes federal statutes and regulations on patent, copyright, and related matters. Incorporates the full text of the treatise, Patents & the Federal Circuit as well as the weekly Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal.

Full-text articles from a thousand academic journals in the arts and sciences, political science, statistics, economics, business, and philosophy, excluding the issues from the last few years. Included articles are searchable in full text, and retrievable in PDF format.

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Contains more than 1,620 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers.

A fully-searchable database indexing and containing bibliographic information about over 7,500 legal looseleafs, newsletters and CD-ROM products.

See ABA/BNA Lawers’ Manual on Professional Conduct

A collection of treatises in law and related subjects, full-text searchable in PDF format. Most of the treatises date from the 19th through the mid-20th centuries.

See Social Science Research Network

Offers indexing for all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general interest publications. Also includes the full text of selected journal articles in PDF format.

See U.S. Federal Legislative History

See Proquest Congressional

Indexes legislative information from the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
You can search for information about one state, any combination of states, or all 50 states. Coverage begins, generally, in 1991 and is current to the present legislative session.

A digital archive of government documents and other out-of-copyright literature of interest to researchers in law and history, derived from the Law Library Microform Consortium's backfile of more than 90,000 volumes. The archive is currently divided into federal executive, judicial and legislative collections, each separately searchable in various ways, including full text. As volumes are transformed from microfiche into digital images, the archive will ultimately grow to encompass LLMC's entire backfile.

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Access to over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. It offers various retrieval and browsing options, including full-text searching on more than 10 million pages. Digital images of every page of every work can be viewed, printed and downloaded.

This database spans over 300 years of legal primary sources, such as early U.S. state codes, city charters, constitutional conventions and compilations, and other documents, sourced chiefly from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, with additional materials provided by the Law Library of Congress.

This database covers legal and social history from the 18th century to the era following World War II. It includes United States state and territorial codes, municipal codes, and constitutional convention and compilations, drawn from the collections of the Harvard Law School Library, Yale Law Library, and the Law Library of Congress.

See U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (Gale)

A digital collection of more than 10,000 titles describing courtroom dramas published between 1600 and 1926. Included in the collection are unofficially published trial accounts, official trial documents, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations derived from primary source documents located in the law libraries of Yale University, Harvard University, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York.

This database includes PDF copies of all editions and revisions of the Manual of Patent Examining Procedure (MPEP) since its debut in 1949.

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A nationwide provider of accredited continuing legal education, NACLE offers online courses on a wide variety of legal subjects. To access the login and password, click here.

The National Bureau of Economic Research is a private, nonpartisan research organization dedicated to promoting a greater understanding of how the economy works. The Bureau concentrates on four types of empirical research: developing new statistical measurements, estimating quantitative models of economic behavior, assessing the effects of public policies on the U.S. economy, and projecting the effects of alternative policy proposals. This database offers working papers in PDF format covering diverse areas such as corporate finance, health and health care, international finance, trade and investment, labor, technology as well papers devoted to the historical development of the American economy.

Legal news for practitioners, from the business and private sectors, including reporting on law-related events, practitioners’ columns, federal court opinions, verdicts, and reports of pending legislation.

A “Digital Microform” archive of NLJ issues covers back to 2009. This archive is not full-text searchable. You must first select the National Law Journal, and then enter the year, month and date of the issue you need.

NLJ’s Website provides links to the most recent few issues’ worth of cases, articles and columns. For full-text access to this content you must login as a NYLS subscriber. To access the username and password, click here.

LexisNexis provides the full text of most NLJ content, back to 1983.

This collection offers digital access to the records, briefs, and related organizational materials from the 1st to the most recent (1950-current) annual National Moot Court Competitions.

See eBook Collection (EBSCOhost)

An official source for all state and federal court notices, the NJLJ also provides reports and digests of court decisions, substantive law articles by attorneys expert in their fields, and reporting on items of interest to the New Jersey Bar.

provides the full text of most NJLJ content, back to 1990

provides links to the most recent few days’ worth of cases, articles and columns. For full-text access to this content you must login as a NYLS subscriber. To access the username and password, click here.

Contains the text of the laws enacted by the New York State legislature, City Council and New York City electors and notes of decisions, practice commentaries,historical and statutory notes & other research references. To access the login and password, click here.

The premier legal newspaper for New York City and the paper of record for New York's First and Second Departments, the NYLJ publishes selected cases of interest, news items of interest to the local Bar, and columns devoted to practitioners’ interests. Although it has been published since 1888, electronic archives of NYLJ content cover only recent decades.

A "Digital Microform" archive of NYLJ issues covers back to 2009. This archive is not full-text searchable. You must first select the NYLJ, and then enter the year, month and date of the issue you need.

LexisNexis provides the full text of most NYLJ content, back to 1990.

The NYLJ’s Website provides links to the most recent few days’ worth of cases, articles and columns. For full-text access to this content you must login as a NYLS subscriber. To access the username and password, click here.

Basic information about the New York State's executive, legislative and judicial information branches. To access the login and password, click here.

The paper of record for New York and the United States. LexisNexis and Westlaw provide the full text of most Times content, back to 1980. A “Digital Microform” archive of Times issues contains PDF images of each day’s issue. This archive covers back to 2008, and is not full-text searchable. You must first select the New York Times, and then enter the year, month and date of the issue you need.

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The OED covers words from across the English-speaking world. It is a guide to the meaning, history, and pronunciation of over half a million words, both present and past. It traces the usage of words through 2.5 million quotations from a wide range of international English language sources, from classic literature and specialist periodicals to film scripts and cookery books.

Covers all aspects of legal history throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Major categories of law explained in detail include private law (contract, tort, civil procedure), public law (statutory, criminal, etc.), and higher or constitutional law.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online includes 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, and primary sources. Users can search and browse by era, topic, and geographic region. There are biographical entries, timelines, lists of suggested reading, primary sources, terms in the Qur'an and Concordance, and more.

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The collection includes the annual compendia of the Jessup International Law Moot Court competition, beginning in 1960, as well as journals published by the International Law Student Association.

Comprehensive access to information by and about the United States Congress, as well as United States legislative history. Includes legislation and public policy, statistical information including projections and analyses, federal regulations, voting and financial records for individual members as well as members of various congressional committees.

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The official compilation of all of the rules and regulations enacted by New York City agencies and departments. To access the login and password, click here.

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The collection includes the U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789 through current, as well as session laws from all U.S. states, Australia , and Canada from 2000 through current.

Devoted to the rapid worldwide dissemination of social science research, SSRN is composed of a number of specialized research networks in law and the social sciences. SSRN's Legal Scholarship Network consists of an abstracts database and an Electronic Paper Collection containing thousands of downloadable full text documents in PDF format.

Note: While anyone can search the database, free individual user registration with SSRN is required for downloading full-text. For best results, once you have an SSRN account, be sure to log in as soon as you enter the site.

The State Tax Today (STT) database provides practitioners with daily tax news and related documents from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Coverage includes news from state governments, revenue departments, courts, and legislative bodies, as well as activities by multistate organizations and tax conferences and any federal or international news and documents that affect state tax policy. STT also includes a state Commentary & Analysis feature. News coverage and supporting documents date back to 1993.

See LexisNexis State Capital

The State Tax Today (STT) database provides practitioners with daily tax news and related documents from the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and U.S. territories. Coverage includes news from state governments, revenue departments, courts, and legislative bodies, as well as activities by multistate organizations and tax conferences and any federal or international news and documents that affect state tax policy. STT also includes a state Commentary & Analysis feature. News coverage and supporting documents date back to 1993.

The Subject Compilations of State Laws is a comprehensive source for identifying thousands of articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions and Internet sites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.

See U.S. Supreme Court Library (Hein)

See Encyclopedia of the Supreme Court of the United States (Gale)

Bloomberg BNA offers expert analysis and practice tools in U.S. income, estates gifts and trusts, and foreign income taxation.

Provides comprehensive news and analysis of current state and multistate taxation issues.

The Tax Notes Today (TNT) database publishes the latest news and analysis about tax developments at the federal level. News stories cover Congress, the IRS, the courts, and the bar. TNT also publishes supporting documents such as texts of legislation, court opinions, regulations, IRS rulings, and press releases. In addition there is a Commentary & Analysis section which features news analysis and expert commentary from tax practitioners, government officials, academics, and experts on the Tax Analysts staff. TNT includes news and documents back to 1993.

Provides statutes, regulations, new rulings, treaties and court decisions from around the world. It also includes an online archive of articles written by international tax experts going back to 1989.

Includes over 9000 tax treaties, amending protocols, and similar documents from over 181 jurisdictions. In addition to comprehensive treaties concerning taxes on income and capital, the collection also includes estate and gift tax treaties, limited agreements, model tax treaties, and more.

An electronic tax research service which provides access to primary tax law sources as well as editorial content and explanations of tax law. It includes access to the Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, Court cases, IRS rulings, and proposed legislation. It also includes a citator which provides information about subsequent citations of authority.

A comprehensive collection that includes UST, TIAS, as well as other official and unofficial U.S. treaty sources, indexes, guides, and treatises.

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Subject index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series. Also included is the full-text of several thousand UN documents.

Provides access to the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, the United Nations Treaty Series (full text of UN treaties), and Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties.

The collection includes all published opinions, as well as other Department of Justice series and documents.

This set features the complete Congressional Record bound volume set back to inception in 1873 as well as the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873).

A collection of published administrative decisions, opinions, and other issuances from major Federal agencies. The series are reproduced in their entirety.

A collection of full-text legislative histories on important and historically significant legislation. The library also includes the Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories database. A legislative history is the collection of documents that are generated by Congress during the enactment of a law.

A collection of documents related to the U.S. Presidents. Included are series of presidential papers and messages, as well as the complete Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.

An archival source, this library includes a complete set of U.S. Reports as well as official Preliminary Prints and Slip Opinions. It also contains several books and journals devoted to the Court.

Over 350,000 briefs, records and appendices from over 150,000 cases are available. This collection covers the final years of the court's fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first 10 years of the court's 15th chief justice, Warren Earl Burger. For each case, a hyperlinked document list is provided. Briefs and transcripts from such famous cases as Plessy vs. Ferguson, Brown v. Board of Education, Miranda v. Arizona, Roe v. Wade, U.S. v Nixon.

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Contains the current constitution for 193 countries, constitutional histories for the United Kingdom, France, Brazil and Colombia, books, online resources and scholarly articles about constitutional development.

Includes accounts and transcripts of hundreds of trials from the Cornell University Law Library's research collection.

The Worldwide Tax Daily database provides practitioners with daily news and tax-related documents from over 180 countries and multinational organizations, including U.S. federal information concerning international tax issues. The Worldwide Tax Daily also includes an international Commentary & Analysis feature.

Tax Analysts' Worldwide Tax Treaties collection includes over 9000 tax treaties, amending protocols, and similar documents from over 181 jurisdictions. In addition to comprehensive treaties concerning taxes on income and capital, the collection also includes estate and gift tax treaties, limited agreements, model tax treaties, and more.

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