HeinOnline provides full-text PDF legal documents and journals organized into libraries, the Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and other legal and government sources for the US, Canada, and UK. 1200s-present.
The Legal Collection indexes citations, abstracts, and full-text journal articles and case studies. You can limit to peer-reviewed sources. Full text presented in HTML and PDF. 1965-present.
Legal Collection offers full text for more than 300 of the world’s best law journals. This database provides information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical, labor & human resource law, ethics, the environment, and much more. Full-text journals contained in this database include: American Journal of Criminal Law, California Law Review, and many more. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for all journals in the collection. The majority of full text titles are available in native (searchable) PDF, or scanned-in-color. Full text information in this database dates as far back as 1965.
LegalTrac indexes citations and some fuill text of law reviews and journals, legal newspapers, federal and state case law, laws and regulations, legal practice and taxation, and international law. 1980-present.
The Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective indexes citations to articles and summaries in annual surveys of laws and courts, legal journals, and legal yearbooks. 1908-1981.
This guide contains selected free online legal research resources including: primary federal law, primary state law, treaties, foreign & international law, secondary sources, and data sets. These resources can be a great way to get started with your research when you don't have access to paid databases or when the paid databases you have access to don't include the information you need.
Helpful for finding background information on cases. Very short readings. Also available in print: https://virginiatech.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01VT_INST/1qimi5t/alma991013238465708646
Am Jur 2d articles summarize broad principles of U.S. law and provide citations to cases, statutes, rules, forms, and A.L.R. annotations. (Westlaw password required: Click here to request access to Westlaw.)
Approximately 400 topics. Articles inside of topics start with a general rule of law followed by exceptions and qualifications to each general rule. Westlaw password required: Click here to request access to Westlaw.
(2010) The Encyclopedia of Education Law is a compendium of information drawn from the various dimensions of education law. The entries cover a number of essential topics, including the following:
o key cases in education law, including both case summaries and topical overviews
" Constitutional issues
" Key concepts, theories, and legal principles
" Key statutes
" Treaties (e.g., the Universal Declaration on Human Rights)
" Curricular issues
" Educational equity
" Governance
" Rights of students and teachers
" Technology
" Biographies
" Organizations.
Fastcase provides access to primary law (state and federal), cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. You can search by case or keyword. You can view how many times a case has been cited.
HeinOnline provides full-text PDF legal documents organized into libraries: Law Journals (ABA, Core, Criminal Justice, International, Intellectual Property), Legal Classics, United States Code, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S Federal Legislative History, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, U.S. Presidential, Treaties and Agreements, Pentagon Papers, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, World Constitutions Illustrated, and the European Center for Minority Issues. 1200s-present.
Westlaw is a primary online legal research service containing proprietary database services. Information resources on Westlaw include more than 40,000 databases of case law, state and federal statutes, administrative codes, newspaper and magazine articles, public records, law journals, law reviews, treatises, legal forms and other information resources. Westlaw is contractually restricted to persons accessing data for educational purposes directly related to student coursework or for scholarly research. Password required. Click here to request access to Westlaw.
Open-access portal to statutory, administrative, and case law of the United States, US states and dependencies, and foreign jurisdictions. Includes the Wex legal encyclopedia. University-based, but includes advertising.
This collection 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) Congressional Globe (1833-1873), and Congressional Hearings (1927-1994), 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.
The ProQuest Congressional Research Digital Collection provides access to the Reports of the Legislative Reference Service (LRS) and Congressional Research Service (CRS) from 1916-present, and Congressional committee prints from 1830-present. it includes bills, laws, and legislative histories; Congressional hearings; Testimony; The Congressional Record; and maps.
CRSR allows browsing and full-text searching of Congressional Research Service (of the Library of Congress) reports, which are provided to members of Congress and Congressional committees and could cover any topic. By law, most CRS reports are confidential, so this database is not complete. 1993-present.
The official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. Some contents is still being imported from the older THOMAS congressional portal, which launched in 1995 and shut down in summer 2016. Congressional documents from the first 100 years of the U.S. Congress (1774-1875) can be accessed through A Century of Lawmaking. http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/
