Electronic Resources A-Z

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

Provides the latest guidance and news developments on legal ethics, risk management, and malpractice issues.

Contains full runs of the Institute's Annual Reports, Proceedings, Annual Meeting Speeches, and the Institute's newsletter, The ALI Reporter. It also includes the Restatements of the Law, Uniform Commercial Code, Model Penal Code, ALI-ABA Periodicals, and the Statement of Essential Human Rights (a pioneering ALI project of the mid-1940s).

• The American Lawyer's website The American Lawyer's website provides links to the most recent six months' cases, articles and columns in full text. Earlier content is available on Lexis
• The American Lawyer (Lexis Advance) LexisNexis provides the full text of most American Lawyer content, back to 1995.
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The American State Papers contain both legislative and executive records from 1789 to 1838. This collection covers the gap between 1789 and 1817, with approximately two-thirds of the publications covering the first 14 Congresses and the remaining third chronologically overlapping with the Serial Set from 1817-1838.

This historical collections contains government documents and other materials printed in America over three centuries. American State Papers, 1789-1838 includes legislative and executive documents, many originating between 1789 and the beginning of the U.S. Congressional Serial Set in 1817. The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817 - 1980 and Serial Set Maps, 1817-1980 contain reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives and maps published in the Serial Set.

See U.S. Attorney General Opinions

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).

See VitalLaw.

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. To access the personalized features i.e. History, Folders, Notes, you'll need to register for a personal account.

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.

The E-Journals A-Z list provides a search engine for journal titles available in the online databases subscribed to by the Mendik Library. You can link directly to available content for each title. Many journal titles include links to more than one provider.

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.

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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.

The Federal Register is the official journal of the federal government of the United States. The database is updated daily and its coverage is comprehensive, beginning from inception in 1936.

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.

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 (HeinOnline).

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.

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

A compilation of the historical documents and legislation related to immigration in the United States as well as current hearings, debates and recent developments in immigration law. This comprehensive database includes BIA Precedent Decisions, legislative histories, law and policy titles, extradition titles, scholarly articles, an extensive bibliography, and related works.

An archive index covering legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand between 1908 and 1981. For access to more recent periodicals, consult HeinOnline, Lexis Advance, and Westlaw..

A searchable PDF-based database focusing on U.S. copyrights, patents, and trademarks. The collection contains millions of pages of primary sources, legislative histories, treatises, journals, and government documents.

See VitalLaw.

A leading online resource for international arbitration research providing access to commentary, conventions, court decisions, legislation, models, rules and awards.

ALM’s portal for timely legal news and analysis. The site provides access to stories from a  wide range of national, regional and specialty publications for the legal industry – including the National Law Journal, the American Lawyer, and the New York Law Journal – with the opportunity to view news by practice area. Each practice area offers a rich selection of articles, curated by ALM’s editorial staff. Visit this page to learn more about signing up for ALM news alerts

 

A daily news service that covers high-stakes litigation in a wide variety of practice areas; real-time tracking and reports on thousands companies, firms and industries; and expert analysis from high-profile attorneys at top firms.

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 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

See Proquest Congressional

• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (Gale) 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.


• The Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records and Briefs See U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (Gale)

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

A comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law.

This database provides access to the full text of all Model Acts drafted, recommended or endorsed by the Conference. It includes the NCCUSL - Archive Publications, Handbook of the NCCUSL and Proceedings of the Annual Conference Meeting, 1st-123rd Conference (1891-2014) are all available transcripts of the Proceedings of each Annual Meeting, as well as the transcripts of the discussions in the Committee of the whole of each Uniform and Model Act.

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.

• National Law Journal website The NLJ's website provides links to the most recent six months' cases, articles and columns in full text. Earlier content is available on Lexis.


• National Law Journal (ALM) - daily news alerts To sign up for newsletters, click here. Use your nyls.edu email account to sign up for daily news alerts. If you have already set up a password for any other ALM news alerts, please enter that password. If not you will need to create one.

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.

This database version of Rich Leiter's National Survey of State Laws provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States. Users are able to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws. The new 7th edition, along with the 6th and 5th editions, are included in database format, which also allows users to compare the same laws as they existed in 2005, 2008 and 2015. All print editions are included in HeinOnline's image-based, fully searchable, user-friendly platform. Linking is available to HeinOnline’s Subject Compilations of State Laws.

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.

• New Jersey Law Journal website The NJLJ's website provides links to the most recent six months' cases, articles and columns in full text. Earlier content is available on Lexis.
• New Jersey Law Journal (Lexis Advance) provides the full text of most NJLJ content, back to 1990
• New Jersey Law Journal - daily news alerts To sign up for newsletters, click here. Use your nyls.edu email account to sign up for daily news alerts. If you have already set up a password for any other ALM news alerts, please enter that password. If not you will need to create one.

The premiere 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.

• New York Law Journal website The NYLJ's website provides links to the most recent six months' cases, articles and columns in full text. Earlier content is available on Lexis.
• Read Today’s New York Law Journal This week’s issues of the NYLJ in readable and downloadable PDF format.
• New York Law Journal (Lexis Advance) LexisNexis provides the full text of most NYLJ content, back to 1990.
• New York Law Journal - daily news alerts To sign up for newsletters, click here. Use your nyls.edu email account to sign up for daily news alerts. If you have already set up a password for any other ALM news alerts, please enter that password. If not you will need to create one.

A comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law.

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.

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.

Women and the Law (Peggy) is a collection that brings together books, biographies and periodicals dedicated to the role of women in society and the law. Users may research the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years. Also included are more than 70 titles from Emory University Law School's Feminism and Legal Theory Project which focus on the effect of law and culture on the female gender.

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.

This platform provides a comprehensive library of real estate-related treatises, course handbooks, and answer books from the Practising Law Institute (PLI), a nonprofit organization known for its accredited continuing legal and professional education programs delivered by volunteer faculty including lawyers, judges, corporate counsel, regulators and other professionals. Transcripts of its webcast programs and seminars are also available.

The American Bar Association's Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases is a publication that provides comprehensive expert analysis of all cases argued before the Supreme Court prior to the arguments. Issues 1-7 summarize the Court's seven argument sessions from October through April. Issue 8, which is published subsequent to the close of the Court's term at the end of June, reviews the entire term using statistics, charts, essays, and case summaries.

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.

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.

This collection brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. This includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute dealing with slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery.

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.

See U.S. Statutes at Large

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)

Veteran high court reporters provide coverage of the justices and the cases before them, including breaking news and analysis about new petitions, top appellate advocates, oral arguments, and groundbreaking decisions.

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

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

Tax Analysts is a leading publisher of tax news and analysis. Their range of publications provides daily news (Tax Notes Today Federal, Tax Notes Today State, and Tax Notes Today International), cases, regulations, policy developments and analysis on the Federal, State and worldwide levels. Tax Analysts’ publications are no longer available on LexisNexis. Thanks to Deloitte Tax LLP (“Deloitte”), the Federal Tax Notes library is now available to the public. The other Tax Notes resources, however, can be accessed only through www.taxnotes.com. Please visit this page for detailed sign up instructions. Once you have registered, you can sign in to get the Tax Analysts' publications from wherever you are.

Bloomberg Law's Tax Practice Center offers expert analysis and practice tools in U.S. income, estates gifts and trusts, and foreign income taxation.

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. To access the
personalized features i.e. History, Folders, Notes, you'll need to register for a personal account.

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

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).

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 contain reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, constituting a rich source of primary material on all aspects of American history.

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.

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.

U.S. Law Week provides current reporting and analysis on significant federal and state cases in all practice areas. In addition, it includes key legislative, regulatory, policy, and pre-decisional developments in all areas of law.

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.