Law Databases

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LexisNexis for Law Students

LexisNexis Academic for all U of C

Westlaw

HeinOnline

LLMC Digital

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 (Gale/Cengage Learning)

The Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Briefs & Records, 1832-1978 (Gale/Cengage Learning)

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926 (Gale/Cengage Learning)

Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 (Gale/Cengage Learning)

Gale Encyclopedia of American Law - covers today's leading cases, major statutes, legal terms and concepts, notable persons involved with the law, and important documents.

Bloomberg Law [Access to Bloomberg Law requires an individual login, Law School students may request an account online at the Bloomberg Law website.] [Students can also use the Bloomberg terminal in the Reading Room.]

Fastcase - includes federal and state cases (including tax, claims, and bankruptcy courts), statutes, and regulations. Fastcase also provides access to a newspaper archive, legal forms, and a one-stop PACER search of federal filings through their content partners.

FindLaw [free]

LexisOne [free with registration]

Practical Law Company - transactional law resource that provides model documents (with legal drafting and negotiating tips), step-by-step checklists, timelines, handy overviews of transactional practice areas, and legal updates on the latest market developments. PLC focuses on corporate, securities, and finance law. Free accounts are available for Law School students, faculty, and staff; sign up on the PLC website.

Practising Law Institute (PLI) Discover Plus - collection of e-books and other publications on a variety of legal topics written by general practitioners.

PACER - Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts, and from the U.S. Party/Case Index. A password is required. For access, contact a reference librarian. PACER is also searchable via Bloomberg Law.

Supreme Court Insider - news and analysis about the U.S. Supreme Court, from the National Law Journal.

U.S. Topical

American Law Institute Library (via HeinOnline)

Bloomberg BNA [see webpage for full list of available topical legal newsletters]

CCH IntelliConnect - locate primary sources and explanations for antitrust, corporate and securities, intellectual property, and tax law

CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network - search CCH business publications such as the Federal Securities Law Reporter, the Trade Regulation Reporter, and many other looseleaf services, treatises, guides and newsletters on Banking, Securities, Government Contracts, and other business-related topics. Access via CCH IntelliConnect.

CCH Tax Research Network - search CCH tax publications, including the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, U.S. Tax Treaties Reporter, and tax materials for all 50 states. Includes full text of all primary sources, plus CCH's own commentary and analysis. Coverage: 1978 – present. Access via CCH IntelliConnect.

Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E) - access to E&E's four daily online publications (ClimateWire, E&E Daily, Greenwire, and E&ENews PM) providing news and analysis on energy, environmental, and climate policy.

Environmental Law Reporter - 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.

IICLE SmartBooks - Illinois legal guides (For further information, see handout.)

Pike & Fischer Internet Law & Regulation (now Bloomberg BNA's Internet Law Resource Center)

Pratt's Financial Services Law Library - includes analytical treatises with case law and federal & state statutes and regulations on three major topics of banking law: consumer lending, commercial lending, and account/payment systems. Also includes Pratt's monthly newsletters, Bank Law and Regulatory Report, Consumer Credit and Truth-in-Lending Compliance Report, Pratt's Mortgage Compliance Letter, and Fair Lending Bulletin are fully searchable. Documents from a number of federal agencies, including the FDIC, FFEIC, FRB, OCC and OTS are also included in this electronic resource.

RIA Checkpoint - U.S. tax law resource
Use without registering
Register. (law students and faculty only)

TRACFED - federal criminal statistics [TRACFED is available only to law students and faculty, and only at Ethernet connections in the Law School.]

United States Law Week

Foreign and International

Access UN - Index to United Nations official records, resolutions, publications, treaties, and other documents from 1945 to the present.

Armed Conflict Database (includes refugee information).

ChinaLawInfo (Chinese law database - Chinese-language interface version; see also LawInfoChina - English-language interface).

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) - database of international relations books, conference proceedings, working papers, and journal articles.

Competition Policy International ("the global resource for antitrust and competition policy"; includes the CPI Journal, Antitrust Chronicle, and Hot Tub).

Constitutions of the Countries of the World - full text of foreign constitutions in English, English translation, with constitutional chronology, and bibliographies. See also Historical Constitutions.

Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories - full text of foreign constitutions in English, English translation, with chronologies, and bibliographies. See also Historical Constitutions.

Early English Books Online (EEBO) (inlcudes the Statutes at Large and law books).

English Reports, Full Reprint (1220-1867) (via HeinOnline).

FBIS Index 1975-1996 - Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index: "An index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and
cultural issues and events throughout the world. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world are the sources of this information."

Foreign Law Guide - Reynolds & Flores' guide to legal systems and sources of major codes, court cases, and other primary and secondary law for jurisdictions of the world (including information on English translations, law by subject, and links to websites).

Getting the Deal Through - available through Bloomberg Law (under the "Legal Analysis & News" tab --> "Books & Treatises"): "provides international comparative guides to law and regulation in 46 practice areas and more than 100 jurisdictions, with concise explanations to the most important legal and regulatory matters that arise in deals and disputes worldwide," including antitrust regulation and intellectual property.

HeinOnline Law Journal Library: International and Non-U.S. Law Journals.

HeinOnline: European Center for Minority Issues.

HeinOnline: Foreign & International Law Resources Database (FILRD) - includes international law yearbooks and periodicals, digests of U.S. practice in international law (Wharton, Moore, Hackworth, Whiteman), Permanent Court of International Justice (PCIJ) decisions, and Moore's History and Digest of the International Arbitrations to which the United States Has Been a Party.

HeinOnline: Foreign Relations of the United States (FRUS).

HeinOnline: History of International Law.

HeinOnline: Israel Law Reports (and Israel Law Review).

HeinOnline: Kluwer Law International Journal Library.

HeinOnline: Legal Classics (includes the Classics of International Law series).

HeinOnline: Philip C. Jessup Library (International Law Moot Court).

HeinOnline: Scottish Legal History (Stair Society).

HeinOnline: Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law.

HeinOnline: Session Laws Library (Australia, Bahamas, Canada).

HeinOnline: Treaties and Agreements Library - United States treaties and other international agreements as published in U.S.T., T.I.A.S., Bevans, I.L.M., and related commentary, and other secondary resources.

HeinOnline: United Nations Law Collection - includes PDF and GET BY CITE of the United Nations Treaty Series (U.N.T.S.), League of Nations Treaty Series (L.N.T.S.), Reports of International Arbitral Awards (R.I.A.A.), ICJ Reports, International Law Commission (ILC) and UNCITRAL yearbooks, reports of proceedings of UN law conferences, and other UN law publications.

HeinOnline: World Constitutions Illustrated - WCI is a growing collection of current and historical constitutions for countries of the world in the vernacular and in English translation and in PDF format. The database also includes constitutional-related documents, journal articles, periodicals, and major treatises. It is intended to be a central resource for the complete constitutional history of every country.

HeinOnline: World Trials Library.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP)

International Encyclopaedia of Laws (IEL) (via Kluwer Law International, Kluwer Law Online)(encyclopedia sets on 25 subject areas of foreign and international law).

International Trade Reporter (BNA)

iSinoLaw - now WestlawChina

JustCite - Justis citator for UK Statutes and International Law Reports (I.L.R.).

Justis: International Law Reports (ILR includes English translations of decisions of international tribunals and national courts concerning public international law topics).

Justis: UK Statutes - includes every Act of Parliament from the 13th century to the present, with PDF images and noter-up. Some similar content in Statutes of the Realm via HeinOnline and Statutes at Large via ECCO.

Kluwer Arbitration - [access via CCH IntelliConnect] - international commercial arbitration database including major international arbitration journals, treaties, rules and decisions of arbitral tribunals, treatises, and other commentary.

Kluwer Law International Journal Library (via HeinOnline) - 12 e-journals including pre-2003 Common Market Law Review issues, Journal of International Arbitration, Journal of World Trade, and World Competition from the first volume to the last 4-5 years.

LawInfoChina - English-language interface version, Chinese law database; see also ChinaLawInfo, Chinese-language interface version.

LexisNexis for Law Students - includes case-law for Australia, Canada, China (via the LNCHNL file), Commonwealth, England & Wales, Hong Kong, India (not updated), Ireland, Israel (Supreme Court), Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Scotland, Singapore (but this may have been removed), South Africa (constitutional and tax cases), United Kingdom; U.S. treaties; International Legal Materials (ILM); EU law treatises, ECJ cases, EU treaties, regulations, directives; ICJ decisions; ECHR judgments and decisions; international arbitration and internaitonal trade materials; Doing Business .../Business Transactions in...(Matthew Bender treatises).; Hungarian Rules of Law in Force (1990-2002); Economic Law of the Russian Federation (Garant); BNA Tax Management Foreign Income Portfolios; Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digests.; non-English news.

LLMC Digital - covers selected foreign jurisdictions.

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 (Gale/Cengage Learning)(includes historical UK law treatises).

Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law (Gale/Cengage Learning).

Manupatra - Indian law database.

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online (MPEPIL/EPIL).

OECDiLibrary (was SourceOECD).

Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL). ORIL is a current awareness service for alerts about new international law cases, with full texts of case-law, English translations, and expert analyses. We subscribe to the following modules: 1) Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC); 2) Oxford Reports on International Criminal Law; 3) Oxford Reports on International Human Rights Law; 4) Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction; 5) Oxford Reports on International Investment Claims.

Parry & Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law (3d ed, 2009; eBook).

Recueil des cours = Collected Courses (Hague Academy of International Law) - the Hague Academy Collected Courses Online (Martinus Nijhoff) - books, book chapters, mini-monographs on public international law topics.

SourceOECD (see OECD iLibrary)- includes economic surveys, labor and population statistics, member-country competition policy information, and the OECD Journal of Competition Law and Policy.

TradeLawGuide: Innovative Tools for Researching WTO Law (World Trade Organization; international trade/economic law; dispute settlement).

UN Audiovisual Library of International Law (AVL) (includes full runs of the UN Yearbook, Reports of International Arbitral Awards (R.I.A.A.), historic archives, video lecture series, bibliographies).

UN Official Document System (ODS) - United Nations reports, sessional GA, ECOSOC, SC, and Trusteeship Council documents mostly from 1993 to the present, but also including all UN resolutions and Security Council documents back to 1946.

UN Treaty Collection - includes the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), the League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS), Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General (index, status of treaties, declarations, reservations), and other treaty-related publications.

vLex - global foreign law database which contains cases, statutes, and other legal materials in 13 languages for 134 countries. It is strongest for the law of the following countries: Spain, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela, Portugal, Italy, the UK, Belgium, France, and the U.S..

Westlaw - includes case-law for Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, and the UK; U.S. treaties, International Legal Materials (ILM), international commercial arbitration databases, investor-state materials, ICJ, ICTR, ICTY, Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal, WTO, GATT decisions; European Union legislation, treaties, cases, journals (European Competition Law Review, Common Market Law Reports); International Organization (INOG), Foreign Affairs (FORGNAFF), Foreign Policy (FORGNPLY), Global Governance (GLBLGOVERN).

Westlaw also has the Legal Journals Index (LJI), UK Journals and Law Reviews (UK-JLR), Index to Canadian Legal Literature (ICLL), CANADA-JLR, Texts & Periodicals - Canada (TP-CANADA), WORLD-JLR, International Law Texts & Periodicals (INT-TP).

WestlawNext ---> All Content ---> International Materials (Australia, Canada, UK, EU, and including law journals).

WestlawChina (formerly iSinolaw) - includes international treaties to which China is a party, court cases/judgments, legislative and judicial interpretations, statutes, constitutional and national laws, regulations, rules, administrative regulations, central policy documents, and arbitral awards of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in Chinese and in English translation. WestlawChina also includes legal news in English. It contains an introduction to the legal system and court system of China, documents on China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), sample contracts, and a glossary of English-Chinese legal terms. It is searchable in English and Chinese.

WorldTradeLaw.net - World Trade Organization (WTO) law database, including statistical information.