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Description: Also known as NewsBank, this resourse provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of over 700 newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post .
Description: ALM Legal Intelligence offers detailed business information and competitive intelligence about the legal industry. Covering rankings and surveys, such as attorney counts, billing, branch offices, corporate representation and capital markets work, corporate legal departments, hiring practices, diversity and pro bono -- ALM Legal Intelligence is designed so that legal industry professionals can assess competitors, identify client opportunities, and benchmark performance of law firms throughout the world. Detailed law firm reports provide excellent competitive intelligence for the interviewee.
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Date: 05/10/2012
Description: ALM Legal Intelligence offers detailed business information and competitive intelligence about the legal industry. Covering rankings and surveys, such as attorney counts, billing, branch offices, corporate representation and capital markets work, corporate legal departments, hiring practices, diversity and pro bono -- ALM Legal Intelligence is designed so that legal industry professionals can assess competitors, identify client opportunities, and benchmark performance of law firms throughout the world. Detailed law firm reports provide excellent competitive intelligence for the interviewee.
Dates: 05/08/2012-05/15/2012
Bar Journals Collection (HeinOnline)
Description: HeinOnline’s Bar Journals Library includes more than 50 bar journals searchable by article title, author, description, date, or full text. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers.
Dates: 04/28/2012-05/04/2012
Treaties and Agreements Library (HeinOnline)
Description: The Treaties and Agreements Library on HeinOnline includes all U.S. treaties, whether currently in-force, expired, or not-yet officially published. This is the world's largest and most complete online collection of U.S. treaties and agreements and includes such prominent collections as the United States Treaties and Other International Agreements set (commonly referred to as the "Blue set"), as well as famous sets from Bevans, Miller, Malloy and others.
Dates: 04/27/2012-05/08/2012
District of Columbia Research In-Depth
Description: This research guide is designed to facilitate research in D.C. law in the modern era. It explains the process of making laws, rules and regulations in the District of Columbia (D.C.). It also identifies and describes major publications of statutory law, administrative law, case law and secondary materials, and explains how to use them.
Dates: 04/20/2012-04/30/2012
Description: The National Association for Law Placement profiles law firms, government agencies, public interest entities and corporate legal departments in this resource. Profiles include detailed information on practice areas, demographics, salaries & benefits.
Dates: 04/18/2012-04/26/2012
Fedstats: The Gateway to Statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal Agencies
Description: Fedstats provides access to statistics and information produced by U.S. government agencies. Searchable through an A-Z subject index and keyword searching of agency web sites linked to Fedstats, plus has direct links to agency contacts, news releases, and other navigational and organizational aids.
Dates: 04/17/2012-04/25/2012
International Financial Statistics
Description: The IFS database contains approximately 32,000 time series covering more than 200 countries and areas and includes all series appearing on the IFS country pages; exchange rate series for all Fund member countries, plus Aruba and the Netherland Antilles: major Fund account series; and most other world, area, and country series from the IFS world tables.
Dates: 04/10/2012-04/19/2012
Description: The Chicago Manual of Style helps authors and editors achieve consistency in practice when creating or editing a manuscript. It contains chapters on manuscript preparation, rights and permissions, grammar, punctuation, quotations and much more. This sixteenth edition also offers increased guidance for citing electronic books, articles in e-journals, electronic editions of older works, and online newspapers and magazines. It presents two basic documentation systems -- the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system. See the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide.
Dates: 04/5/2012-04/17/2012
Daily Tax Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Detailed reports on key legislative, regulatory, and legal tax developments --nationwide and around the globe. Includes TaxCore, a Notes- and Web-based component providing essential full-text tax documents, including primary source material from the Internal Revenue Service, the Tax Court, the Treasury Department, and more, along with IRS hearing transcripts. This database contains all issues published since October 4, 1994
Dates: 04/01/2012-04/12/2012
EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law
Description: EISIL has been developed by the American Society of International Law (ASIL). ASIL's goal is to ensure, through EISIL, that web searchers can easily locate the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet. To this end, EISIL has been designed as an open database of authenticated primary and other materials across the breadth of international law, which until now have been scattered in libraries, archives and specialized web sites.
Dates: 03/31/2012-04/10/2012
SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
Description: The SSRN eLibrary consists of two parts: an Abstract Database containing abstracts of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. SSRN is organized by field, including the three that Georgetown has site licenses to: Legal Scholarship Network, Financial Economics Research Network and Accounting Research Network. You can sign up to receive by email SSRN's abstract "journals" in these fields.
Dates: 03/26/2012-03/31/2012
Description: Sage Journals Online provides online access to the full text of individual Sage journals. Sage publishes journals in the social sciences, humanities, and life sciences. Georgetown subscribes to selected Sage titles.
Dates: 03/22/2012-04/03/2012
Legal Profession Research Guide
Description: This guide identifies resources available for researching the legal profession, focusing on materials for the management of law offices and corporate legal departments. Research insitutes that study the future of the legal environment are also identified.
Dates: 03/20/2012-03/29/2012
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan
Highlight: The British Government's Office of South Asia papers from 1947 to 1980 provide an historical perspective on events happening in the area today.
Description: This collection of British Government official archive files covers the years from 1947 to 1980 and focus on all the countries of South Asia: principally India and Pakistan, but also Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Ceylon/Sri Lanka, Nepal, Bhutan, Sikkim and the Maldives. The collection is split into three chronologically based parts: Section I: Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-64; Section II: South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-71; Section III: Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-80.
Dates: 03/14/2012-03/20/2012
Daily Report for Executives (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: This well-organized, up-to-the-minute, comprehensive report covers a broad spectrum of issues, providing daily news updates, access to the President's and Congressional Calendars, as well as analysis on hot topics, such as financial consumer protection, economic outlook and health care. 2000-.
Dates: 03/11/2012-03/20/2012
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law Research Guide
Description: This research guide assists with research in Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, in particular Federal law arising since the 1938 Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Additionally, it is designed to provide an introduction to FDA Administrative Research. The Guide acquaints Georgetown students and faculty with resources available to them through the library.
Dates: 03/11/2012-03/19/2012
Description: This research guide is designed to serve as a starting point for conducting research in policy analysis. It will include both print and electronic resources available in the Georgetown Law Library. Additionally, links to think tanks and other policy research centers are included.
Dates: 03/05/2012-03/11/2012
Description: Provides online searchable full text access to the latest issues of the Chronicle and archives back to 1989. Also includes daily news, advice columns, current job listings and discussion forums. Coverage: 1989 – present.
Dates: 02/29/2012-03/13/2012
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online
Description: This is the online version of an often-cited authority on both the theory and practice of public international law. Terms are defined and placed in doctrinal context, with citation to leading treatises and international cases. Topics covered include peaceful change, internment, customary international law, implementation agreements, nullity in international law, international organizations or institutions, succession of states, international courts and tribunals, evidence, etc. The online edition has a select bibliography for each article it contains.
Dates: 02/24/2012-03/06/2012
Description: Tax policy hinges largely on economics. This research guide is designed to serve as a starting point for conducting research in tax policy analysis. It will include both print and electronic resources available in the Georgetown Law Library. Additionally, links to think tanks and other policy research centers are included.
Dates: 02/21/2012-02/29/2012
Description: When researching consumer law topics, a researcher must often investigate several different areas of law including bankruptcy, real estate, commercial law and banking law. Statutes at both the federal and state level must also be consulted. Additionally, regulations, decisions and orders from administrative agencies are sometimes needed. This guide will outline some of the major statutory and regulatory guidance for current consumer laws and regulations, as well as secondary sources to supplement your research.
Dates: 02/20/2012-02/27/2012
Description: Congressional Quarterly Press publishes in-depth reports covering the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, and extensive bibliographies. This database includes all CQ Researcher reports published since 1991 and is searchable by keyword and title. Users can also browse recent reports by date and topic. Topics featured in CQ Researcher can be the impetus for a seminar paper or other scholarly writing.
Dates: 02/14/2012-02/21/2012
Leadership Library on the Internet (Yellow Books)
Description: Leadership Library on the Internet, which is updated daily, is a unique personnel contact database of the institutional leadership of the United States. Covers 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. Users can browse and search and export information. Integrates the contents of 14 Yellow Book directories: Congressional, Federal, State, Municipal, Federal Regional, Judicial, Corporate, Financial, News Media, Associations, Law Firms, Government Affairs, Foreign Representatives and Nonprofit Sector.
Dates: 02/10/2012-02/24/2012
Description: Bloomberg Law combines Bloomberg's proprietary business news with a legal platform to provide access to U.S. and Global case law, legislation, regulations, PACER dockets and Bloomberg law reports. Georgetown Law students, faculty and staff may request a password by contacting Beth Goldfinger at egoldfinger@bloomberg.net or the Help Desk at webhelp@bloomberg.net
Dates: 02/6/2012-02/10/2012
Oxford Scholarship Online: Law Subject Collection
Description: Collection of 150 monographs in the area of law. At the OSO web site, you can find a particular book in the indexes, or you can search the contents -- of just one book or all the books together.
Dates: 02/03/2012-02/10/2012
Proquest Dissertations and Theses
Description: ProQuest Dissertations and Theses with Full Text includes 2.4 million dissertation and theses citations from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
Dates: 02/02/2012-02/08/2012
Description: This guide is the primary source for information on the sources of law for many foreign jurisdictions. It provides the researcher with relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, and selected references to secondary sources in English. It is arranged by country and includes an introduction to the legal system of that country as well as the availability of codes, session laws, and court reports. Each chapter contains a section arranged by subject that outlines the major laws for a given subject and provides references to English translations, when available.
Dates: 02/01/2012-02/09/2012
Employee Benefits Research Guide
Description: Resources for researching employee benefit plans, such as medical plans, cafeteria plans, and pension plans are outlined in this research guide. ERISA resources, including administrative rulings and case law, are also detailed.
Dates: 01/24/2012-02/2/2012
Description: Full-text collection of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the ethnic, minority and native press. Includes articles editorials, columns, and reviews which provide a broad diversity of perspectives and viewpoints. In both English and Spanish. 1990-present.
Dates: 01/22/2012-01/31/2012
Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
Description: Database includes profiles of terrorist and insurgent groups, chronologies and descriptions of terror related events, expert analyses and case studies. Search options include limiting by country, territory, and group. A separate event search is provided that includes searching by country, event type, tactic, casualties and affected countries.
Dates: 01/19/2012-01/28/2012
Description: This guide provides an introduction to land use law research in the United States, specifically land use regulation and zoning and planning law. Given the breadth and jurisdiction-specific nature of land use law, this guide is inherently selective. Useful information will also be available in sources on environmental law, historic preservation, real estate and property law, and municipal law.
Dates: 01/11/2012-01/24/2012
Georgetown Law Scholarly Commons
Description: The Scholarly Commons is designed to offer global access to the scholarship of the Georgetown University Law Center, one of the world's premier law schools. Georgetown Law is preeminent in many areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. This repository is a service of the Georgetown Law Library, which contributes to the mission of the Law Center by supporting scholarship, excelling in service, and leading in technology.
Dates: 01/7/2012-01/19/2012
Description: Index to United Nations documents (1946 – present) including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and UN Treaty Series citations. Also includes full–text of several thousand UN documents and publications.
Dates: 12/21/2011-01/10/2012
AALS Directory of Law Teachers
Description: The AALS Directory of Law Teachers was first published in 1922 by the Association of American Law Schools. Each annual publication contains biographical notes on full-time faculty of all member law schools, as well as brief information about each school. Law teachers are also listed by subject taught. The full run of directories back to 1922 is accessible through HeinOnline.
Dates: 12/20/2011-01/06/2012
ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Authoritative source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct, legal ethics and professional responsibility. Includes Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions from the ABA and state bar associations.
Dates: 12/10/2011-12/20/2011
Description: TRAC's core purpose is to make statistical information about the federal government's enforcement and regulatory effort more accessible to the public. It focuses on Immigration and on the ATF, IRS, DEA, FBI and DHS. TRACfed is a dynamic subscription site. The Law Library has a subscription, so you can request specific statistics, detailed listings, maps or charts and have the information returned to the browser. Also known as the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse.
Dates: 12/05/2011-12/12/2011
Description: HeinOnline allows you to search or browse all 176 volumes of the English Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." This collection encompasses the decisions of the English Courts prior to the commencement of the Law Reports in 1865. It represents reprints of 275 separate series of reports, arranged by the English Courts: House of Lords, Chancery, Rolls Court, etc. The English Reports, Full Reprint contains over 100,000 cases reprinted verbatim and spans the years 1220 to 1867. Part of HeinOnline.
Dates: 12/01/2011-12/16/2011
Description: Online access to Oxford University Press Journals, including American Law and Economics Review, British Journal of Criminology, Chinese Journal of International Law, Contemporary Economic Policy, European Journal of International Law, European Journal of Public Health, Health Policy and Planning, Human Rights Law Review, Industrial Law Journal, etc. Click "more information" link for complete list of titles.
Dates: 11/22/2011-12/09/2011
Description: The Chicago Manual of Style helps authors and editors achieve consistency in practice when creating or editing a manuscript. It contains chapters on manuscript preparation, rights and permissions, grammar, punctuation, quotations and much more. This sixteenth edition also offers increased guidance for citing electronic books, articles in e-journals, electronic editions of older works, and online newspapers and magazines. It presents two basic documentation systems -- the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system. See the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide.
Dates: 11/15/2011-11/30/2011
International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Intellectual Property Online
Description: Also known as IEL Intellectual Property. IEL Intellectual Property Online provides an overview of intellectual property for understanding legislation and policy on the subject in different countries. Analyses and describes theory and practice in a large number of countries. Information is also provided on all major and important international conventions and on international bodies like the EU and WIPO/OMPI.
Dates: 11/12/2011-11/22/2011
Homeland Security Digital Library
Description: The HSDL collection provides quick access to thousands of U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources such as theses and reports from various universities, organizations and local and state agencies. Some of the current hot topics include agroterrorism, border security, cyber infrastruction protection and energy security.
Dates: 11/10/2011-11/16/2011
Electronic Commerce & Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Published weekly, the Electronic Commerce & Law Report, tracks significant developments surrounding the e-commerce marketplace. Cases and news center on social media, internet law, copyrights and privacy. BNA links to the supporting court ruling, administrative regulation or study for most of their news coverage.
Dates: 11/1/2011-11/9/2011
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online
Description: This is the online version of an often-cited authority on both the theory and practice of public international law. Terms are defined and placed in doctrinal context, with citation to leading treatises and international cases. Topics covered include peaceful change, internment, customary international law, implementation agreements, nullity in international law, international organizations or institutions, succession of states, international courts and tribunals, evidence, etc. The online edition has a select bibliography for each article it contains.
Dates: 10/31/2011-11/11/2011
Description: This research guide is designed to provide an introduction to U.S. health law research in the Georgetown Law Library. It includes select legal and policy resources on various aspects of health law, including health care reform sources.
Dates: 10/20/2011-10/31/2011
Early American Newspapers, Series I (1690-1876)
Description: Early American Newspapers, Series 1 (1690-1876) offers cover-to-cover reproductions of over 710 historic American newspapers, providing more than one million pages as fully text-searchable facsimile images. Focusing largely on the 18th and early 19th centuries, this online collection is based on Clarence S. Brigham’s “History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820” and other authoritative bibliographies.
Dates: 10/19/2011-10/31/2011
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD)
Description: The IBFD database contains "over 40 online publications on international taxation covering country in the world, access to Tax News Services for the latest tax news from around the globe, and a copy of almost every book published by IBFD during the period of membership (excluding books published in cooperation with 3rd parties)." A major focus is the taxation systems of Europe. USE FIREFOX BROWSER WITH THIS DATABASE; DO NOT NOT USE IE.
Dates: 10/15/2011-10/22/2011
Description: Indexes journal articles, book chapters, bills, laws, court decisions, reports, books, audiovisuals, and news articles relating to bioethics and professional ethics. From the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Library & Information Services, Georgetown University.
Dates: 10/12/2011-10/19/2011
Description: Also known as NewsBank, this resourse provides full-text articles from the electronic editions of over 700 newspapers from around the world, including the New York Times, Los Angeles Times and the Washington Post .
Dates: 10/11/2011-10/18/2011
Description: The Civil Rights Digital Library contains three principal components: 1) a digital video archive of historical news film of key events of the Civil Rights Movement, 2) a civil rights portal providing a seamless virtual library on the Movement by connecting related digital collections on a national scale, and 3) a learning objects component delivering secondary Web-based resources .
Dates: 10/04/2011-10/18/2011
Supreme Court Today (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Tracks every Supreme Court petition and case on the docket, from filing to final disposition. The Supreme Court Today component of Law Week is a searchable database, with daily updates, allowing users to view the status of and search summaries of certiorari petitions filed since the 1995 October Term. The database also contains the full text of Supreme Court opinions, oral argument schedules, selected oral argument summaries, annual reviews of the Court's decisions, and more.
Dates: 10/01/2011-10/14/2011
Description: This guide is intended as a starting point for research in the law of elections (including campaign finance, election administration, and voting rights) at Georgetown Law Library. It includes both primary and secondary materials, in both print and electronic formats.
Dates: 09/21/2011-10/11/2011
Communications Law Research Guide
Description: This guide is intended as a starting point for research in U.S. communications law at Georgetown Law Library. It includes both primary and secondary materials, in both print and electronic formats. Communications law covers a variety of issues - media law, First Amendment, cable and broadcasting law, computer and internet law, and telecommunications.
Dates: 09/21/2011-10/03/2011
Description: The Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) database will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980. These documents emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world. The documents themselves are also available on microfiche in the Wolff Library.
Dates: 09/21/2011-09/30/2011
Legal Profession Research Guide
Description: This guide identifies resources available for researching the legal profession, focusing on materials for the management of law offices and corporate legal departments. Research insitutes that study the future of the legal environment are also identified.
Dates: 09/19/2011-09/20/2011
Highlight: Ayyy Matey! Celebrate International Talk Like a Pirate Day [Sept. 19] with our Maritime Law Research Guide
Description: This guide features major secondary sources on Admiralty and Maritime Law, including treatises, journals and bibliographies. Government resources and associations are highlighted also.
Dates: 09/10/2011-09/30/2011
ProQuest Congressional (formerly LexisNexis Congressional)
Description: ProQuest provides the full text of U.S. Congressional documents including Bills from 1989; Hearings from 1824; Committee Reports & other Serial Set documents from 1789-current; the Congressional Record from 1873; and Public Laws from 1987. Complete Legislative Histories from the 91st Congress to present are also included.
Dates: 09/10/2011-09/20/2011
Description: Tax policy hinges largely on economics. This research guide is designed to serve as a starting point for conducting research in tax policy analysis. It will include both print and electronic resources available in the Georgetown Law Library. Additionally, links to think tanks and other policy research centers are included.
Dates: 08/30/2011-09/09/2011
EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law
Description: EISIL has been developed by the American Society of International Law (ASIL). ASIL's goal is to ensure, through EISIL, that web searchers can easily locate the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet. To this end, EISIL has been designed as an open database of authenticated primary and other materials across the breadth of international law, which until now have been scattered in libraries, archives and specialized web sites.
Dates: 08/29/2011-09/20/2011
Description: Whether preparing for an interview or investigating potential employers, the Job Searching Research Guide will identify Georgetown Law Library resources for this task. The guide links to a number of tutorials on how to search resources, such as the Leadership Library, NALP Directory, UniWorld Online and much more.
Dates: 08/16/2011-08/30/2011
CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
Description: Online version of the CCH business publications such as the Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, the Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, and many other looseleaf services, treatises, guides and newsletters on Banking, Securities, Government Contracts and other business-related topics. Also includes the latest CCH news reports. Search full-text or retrieve documents by citation. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
Dates: 08/15/2011-08/29/2011
Description: The AudioCaseFiles web site contains downloadable MP3 files of court opinions. This service provides recordings of most of the opinions that appear in many law school first year course casebooks. The company is in the process of adding cases that are in 2L and 3L casebooks. The cases have been edited by this company and may not be exactly the same as those in the casebooks. At the web site, CREATE AN ACCOUNT and register your law.georgetown.edu email address. You should receive a confirmation email within 15-20 minutes. Your account will be set to 'unlimited' status, which means you will be able to download any case that ACF offers, without charge.
Dates: 08/01/2011-08/15/2011
Labor and Employment Law Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Database provides the full text of cases, laws, and interpretations relevant to the field of employment relations. Types of materials include manuals, cases and newsletters. Manuals include the text of the law, statutory and case analysis, key definitions of disability related terms, sample forms, and a compilation of public and private resources. Cases reproduce the full text of cases on that subject (e.g. wage and hours). Newsletters are useful updating supplements to the cases and manuals. Services are divided into Employment Law and Labor Law. Also includes access to International Labor and Employment Laws.
Dates: 07/22/2011-08/15/2011
Pratt's Financial Services Law Library
Description: This leading publisher in the financial services industry, compiles their analytical treatises with case law and federal & state statutes and regulations on four major topics of banking law: consumer lending, commercial lending, account/payment systems and the Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering (BSA/ALM) update. Also, Pratt's monthly newsletters, Banking 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.
Dates: 07/18/2011-07/31/2011
CQ Press Political Contact Suite
Description: The CQ Press Political Contact Suite is an integrated, cross-searchable database of directories from CQ Press: Almanac of Federal PACs, Congressional Staff Directory, Federal Staff Directory, Judicial Staff Directory, and Washington Info Directory. Daily updates ensure that the information is current and accurate making it an excellent resource for job searchers as well as those preparing for an interview.
Dates: 07/02/2011-07/21/2011
International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Energy Law
Description: Also known as IEL Energy Law. IEL Energy Law Online covers national and international energy law. Each national monograph contains a general introduction, a description of the country’s energy legislation, an overview of the basic principles of energy law, the historical background, the role of governmental institutions, and the sources of energy law in that country’s legal system. Each country’s regulatory framework concerning electricity, gas, petrol and coal is fully set forth, with emphasis on the aspects of production, exploitation, transport, distribution, and consumption. Each monograph also deals with the interactions of energy law with environmental law, tax law and competition law. In addition, Energy Law includes international monographs covering international legislation and treaties and the energy law of the European Union.
Dates: 06/30/2011-07/17/2011
World Securities Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: This BNA publication provides monthly news, expert analysis, and practical guidance on developments in the regulation of securities transactions around the world. Focuses particularly on developments affecting cross-border transactions and insider trading. Dates of coverage: September 2004-.
Dates: 06/16/2011-06/30/2011
Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970
Description: Arab-Israeli Relations, 1917-1970 is a fully searchable database of primary source documents from the British National Archives that chronicle the politics, wars, administration, and diplomacy surrounding the Palestine Mandate and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Topics covered include the background to the establishment of the State of Israel, Black September, the Border wars of the 1950s, the British capture of Jerusalem, the Cold War in the Middle East, the formation of the United Arab Republic, Jewish terror groups, and milestones in the Palestine-Zionist tension and their impact on British policy leading to the Partition of 1948.
Dates: 06/09/2011-07/01/2011
Description: The Georgetown Law Library has a collection of resources on the bar exam and best practices for preparing for the bar exam. This guide will highlight these resources and provide access to selected web based resources on the bar exam. Additionally, links to local bar associations are provided.
Dates: 05/23/2011-06/08/2011
BNA Directory of State and Federal Courts, Judges and Clerks
Description: A compilation of information about the courts of record in the federal court system, the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. territories. Also covers the U.S. attorneys and state Attorney Generals. The resource allows one to find directory information by court names or by the names of individuals.
Dates: 04/18/2011-05/31/2011
District of Columbia Research In-Depth
Description: This research guide is designed to facilitate research in D.C. law in the modern era. It explains the process of making laws, rules and regulations in the District of Columbia (D.C.). It also identifies and describes major publications of statutory law, administrative law, case law and secondary materials, and explains how to use them.
Dates: 04/17/2011-05/14/2011
Description: The Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Library of Lessons is a collection of over 675 interactive, computer-based lessons covering 33 legal education subject areas. They are interactive tutorials written by law faculty to supplement traditional law school instruction.
Dates: 04/01/2011-04/16/2011
Description: A tax and accounting research tool that provides comprehensive and full-text coverage of federal, state and some foreign and international tax materials. Provides access to RIA tax publications, including the RIA Citator 2d, Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, U.S. Tax Reporter, RIA Tax Alerts, all 50 state and local tax reporters, and several Warren, Gorham & Lamont (WGL) journals, including Corporate Taxation, Journal of Taxation, and Practical Tax Strategies. Also provides access to RIA Worldwide Tax and Commercial Law.
Dictionary of Finance and Banking (3d ed. Oxford University Press)
Description: Contains entries on every aspect of the financial world: insurance, stocks and shares, commodities, takeovers and mergers, international trade, and government finance. Fully revised for its third edition, the dictionary has expanded its international coverage and reflects new developments in areas such as building societies, the European monetary union, and stock exchange practices. Personal finance matters are also covered in depth, including investments, pensions, and taxation.
Dates: 03/17/2011-04/01/2011
World Trials Library (HeinOnline)
Description: The World Trials Library on HeinOnline contains, "trial transcripts and other critical court documents, trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials as well as biographies of many great trial lawyers in history."
Dates: 02/15/2011-03/02/2011
Description: The Chicago Manual of Style helps authors and editors achieve consistency in practice when creating or editing a manuscript. It contains chapters on manuscript preparation, rights and permissions, grammar, punctuation, quotations and much more. This sixteenth edition also offers increased guidance for citing electronic books, articles in e-journals, electronic editions of older works, and online newspapers and magazines. It presents two basic documentation systems -- the humanities style (notes and bibliography) and the author-date system. See the Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide.
Dates: 02/01/2011-02/28/2011
ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Authoritative source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct, legal ethics and professional responsibility. Includes Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions from the ABA and state bar associations.
Dates: 01/17/2011-02/14/2011
Constitutional Law & History Research Guide
Description: This guide covers the the judicial interpretation of the U.S. Constitution, historical sources for research into the creation of the U.S. and state constitutions, and provides a list of the leading treatises, reference sources, and law reviews on the Constitution and Constitutional Law.
Dates: 01/10/2011-01/31/2011
Description: This guide is the primary source for information on the sources of law for many foreign jurisdictions. It provides the researcher with relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, and selected references to secondary sources in English. It is arranged by country and includes an introduction to the legal system of that country as well as the availability of codes, session laws, and court reports. Each chapter contains a section arranged by subject that outlines the major laws for a given subject and provides references to English translations, when available.
Dates: 01/01/2011-01/09/2011
Benefits Practice Center (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: This service organizes BNA’s collection of pension and benefits information into 3 main reference libraries: the Employee Benefits Library, the ERISA Compliance & Enforcement Library, and the Executive Compensation Library. It is a comprehensive resource for researching compensation, pension, and ERISA issues. Includes analysis, guidance and primary source material, such as the full text of judicial opinions, rulings and memoranda.
Dates: 12/15/2010-01/17/2011
Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
Highlight: The first legal encyclopedia to provide both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems. A truly international and interdisciplinary reference work, it covers legal history from ancient to modern times.
Description: The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History, edited by Stanley N. Katz, is the first encyclopedia of law to provide both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems. A truly international and interdisciplinary reference work, the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History covers legal history from ancient to modern times. Approximately 1,000 articles explore the traditions of Ancient Greek Law, Ancient Roman Law, Medieval Roman Law, Chinese Law, English Common Law, Islamic Law, United States Law, and the laws of such other regions as Africa, Latin America, and South Asia. Major categories of law explained in detail include private law (contract, tort, civil procedure), public law (statutory, criminal, etc.), and higher or constitutional law.
Dates: 11/30/2010-12/31/2010
Declassified Documents Reference System - U.S.
Description: Full text searchable access to a selection of over 75,000 previously classified U.S. government documents. Post World War II documents include correspondence and memoranda, minutes of cabinet meetings, technical studies, national security policy statements, and intelligence reports.
Dates: 11/22/2010-11/30/2010
Description: This Guide explains the organization and layout of the Bluebook, its use in theory and in practice, and how to cite the most common legal materials, including cases, statutes and treatises. The Guide also reviews how to cite electronic materials. This Guide does not include explanations on how to cite administrative materials, legislative history resources, international resources, or foreign resources.
Dates: 11/19/2010-12/15/2010
Description: Google Scholar retrieves links to papers, theses, books, abstracts and articles, from academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories, universities and other scholarly organizations. Google Scholar is different from Google because it searches only databases that have scholarly content. When you are off-campus and you want to be able to access the full text of articles, you must start from the link here in order to be recognized as a member of the GULC community.
Dates: 11/09/2010-11/19/2010
Highlight: The Library has many jurisdictional guides that provide links to both online and print resources.
Dates: 11/6/2010-11/9/2010
ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Authoritative source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct, legal ethics and professional responsibility. Includes Practice Guides, Ethics Rules, Current Reports, and Ethics Opinions from the ABA and state bar associations.
Dates: 11/02/2010-11/20/2010
Description: This guide is the primary source for information on the sources of law for many foreign jurisdictions. It provides the researcher with relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations whenever possible, and selected references to secondary sources in English. It is arranged by country and includes an introduction to the legal system of that country as well as the availability of codes, session laws, and court reports. Each chapter contains a section arranged by subject that outlines the major laws for a given subject and provides references to English translations, when available.
Dates: 10/16/2010-11/05/2010
American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)
Description: This HeinOnline database contains the Restatements of the Law (including superseded and draft versions), proceedings of ALI annual meetings, annual reports and other special publications published by the American Law Institute(ALI). It also includes the Uniform Commercial Code, with drafts and superseded versions, as well as ALI-ABA periodicals and material from the Statement of Essential Human Rights archive.
Dates: 09/29/2010-11/1/2010
Georgetown Law Scholarly Commons
Highlight: A repository of scholarship from Georgetown Law faculty, including working papers and published articles, available freely online in full-text.
Description: The Scholarly Commons is designed to offer global access to the scholarship of the Georgetown University Law Center, one of the world's premier law schools. Georgetown Law is preeminent in many areas, including constitutional, international, tax and clinical law. This repository is a service of the Georgetown Law Library, which contributes to the mission of the Law Center by supporting scholarship, excelling in service, and leading in technology.
Dates: 09/29/2010-10/15/2010
Description: The Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Library of Lessons is a collection of over 675 interactive, computer-based lessons covering 33 legal education subject areas. They are interactive tutorials written by law faculty to supplement traditional law school instruction.
Dates: 09/21/2010-09/28/2010
Highlight: Describes resources that are useful in searching for legal employment.
Description: Whether preparing for an interview or investigating potential employers, the Job Searching Research Guide will identify Georgetown Law Library resources for this task. The guide links to a number of tutorials on how to search resources, such as the Leadership Library, NALP Directory, UniWorld Online and much more.
Leadership Library on the Internet (Yellow Books)
Description: Leadership Library on the Internet, which is updated daily, is a unique personnel contact database of the institutional leadership of the United States. Covers 400,000 individuals at 40,000 leading U.S. government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations. Users can browse and search and export information. Integrates the contents of 14 Yellow Book directories: Congressional, Federal, State, Municipal, Federal Regional, Judicial, Corporate, Financial, News Media, Associations, Law Firms, Government Affairs, Foreign Representatives and Nonprofit Sector.
Dates: 09/13/2010-09/20/2010
Constitutions of the United States: National and State
Description: Constitutions of the United States consists of complete and up-to-date American constitutions: the U.S. constitution, each of the 50 state constitutions, plus constitutions of 15 U.S. territories including the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Marshall Islands, Northern Mariana Islands and the Federated States of Micronesia.
Dates: 08/30/2010-09/20/2010
Highlight: The guide is written for students in Legal Research and Writing classes. It explains the organization and layout of the Bluebook and how to cite the most common legal materials, including cases and statutes.
Description: This Guide explains the organization and layout of the Bluebook, its use in theory and in practice, and how to cite the most common legal materials, including cases, statutes and treatises. The Guide also reviews how to cite electronic materials. This Guide does not include explanations on how to cite administrative materials, legislative history resources, international resources, or foreign resources.
Dates: 08/17/2010-09/03/2010
International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD)
Description: The IBFD database contains "over 40 online publications on international taxation covering country in the world, access to Tax News Services for the latest tax news from around the globe, and a copy of almost every book published by IBFD during the period of membership (excluding books published in cooperation with 3rd parties)." A major focus is the taxation systems of Europe. USE FIREFOX BROWSER WITH THIS DATABASE; DO NOT NOT USE IE.
Dates: 08/16/2010-08/30/2010
Description: Leadership Networks is an interactive networking database of "who knows whom" in the leadership of the United States. Shows the type and strength of key links and connections among leaders in the public and private sectors, including board relationships, education, career history, and family ties. Part of the Leadership Library.
Date: 08/16/2010
Description: Leadership Networks is an interactive networking database of "who knows whom" in the leadership of the United States. Shows the type and strength of key links and connections among leaders in the public and private sectors, including board relationships, education, career history, and family ties. Part of the Leadership Library.
Dates: 08/01/2010-08/16/2010
Description: Manupatra is a database for the law of India. It provides full text of Indian law in PDF format, including case law, legislation, regulations, ordinances, bills, and some secondary material.
Dates: 07/30/2010-08/14/2010
Corporate Practice Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: The Corporate Practice Library includes the following components: Corporate Practice Series - a collection of approximately 60 portfolios, each addressing a legal area of special interest to corporate practitioners in detail and including checklists, sample forms and agreements; the complete text of Delaware Corporation Law and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; and the weekly newsletter Corporate Counsel Weekly.
Dates: 07/23/2010-07/30/2010
International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Labour Law and Industrial Relations Online
Description: This database features country overviews of over 60 countries, and English translations of the important labour and industrial relations laws of over 20 nations. It covers individual as well as collective labour relations. Also known as IEL Labour Law.
Dates: 07/17/2010-07/23/2010
Employment Discrimination Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: BNA's Employment Discrimination Report features comprehensive and objective coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity. Published weekly. Coverage: 1996 -.
Dates: 07/01/2010-07/16/2010
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926
Description: This database contains approximately 1,350 works, including colonial records, constitutional conventions and compilations, city charters, law dictionaries, and state codes. Sources are full-text searchable or can be browsed by author or title. Advanced search features include searching by jurisdiction, publication type, language, date, and illustration.
Social Issues Essential Primary Sources Collection
Description: This collection of primary source documents is international in scope, and focuses on leading social issues of the 19th, 20th, and 21st centuries. Topics covered include crime and punishment, environmental issues, the family in society, gender issues and sexuality, human and civil rights, immigration and multiculturalism, social policy, health and bioethics, and terrorism.
Dates: 06/15/2010-06/30/2010
Description: This guide provides an introduction to notable resources for conducting art law research available at Georgetown. Given the breadth and interdisciplinary nature of the field, this guide is selective and focuses on general sources on art law rather than sources on specific subjects, such as copyright or the First Amendment.
Dates: 05/14/2010-06/01/2010
World Securities Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: This BNA publication provides monthly news, expert analysis, and practical guidance on developments in the regulation of securities transactions around the world. Focuses particularly on developments affecting cross-border transactions and insider trading. Dates of coverage: September 2004-.
Dates: 05/11/2010-05/31/2010
American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)
Description: This HeinOnline database contains the Restatements of the Law (including superseded and draft versions), proceedings of ALI annual meetings, annual reports and other special publications published by the American Law Institute(ALI). It also includes the Uniform Commercial Code, with drafts and superseded versions, as well as ALI-ABA periodicals and material from the Statement of Essential Human Rights archive.
Dates: 04/15/2010-05/11/2010
Description: This guide is designed to give some background information and suggest resources for further research on the history of the U.S. Supreme Court, the justices of the Court, and the Court's practice and decisions.
Dates: 04/9/2010-06/30/2010
Supreme Court Nominations Research Guide
Highlight: Updated to include information on Elena Kagan, including biographical references and her publications. This guide explains the nomination process and lists several sources for further research.
Description: This guide is designed to explain the Supreme Court nomination process and to suggest resources for further research on the process. As the president nominates a new Supreme Court justice, their scholarship and biographical info, as well as Congressional documents surrounding the nomination are added to this guide. Documents currently provided for Justices Kagan, Sotomayor, Alito and Roberts.
Dates: 03/31/2010-04/9/2010
Alternative Investment Law Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: Alternative Investment Law Report covers the regulatory, legal and legislative developments affecting hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative investment vehicles.
Dates: 03/30/2010-04/06/2010
Description: Global Arbitration Review (GAR) is a major source for international arbitration news and summaries of arbitral awards, pending disputes, commercial litigation trends, book reviews and analysis from scholars and practitioners.
Dates: 03/19/2010-04/02/2010
Description: V-Lex Global, though based in Spain, searches case law, legislation and other legal resources for close to 100 jurisdictions and with options for retrieval in several languages. Search access may be by keyword, jurisdiction; browse books and journals. Single-user license.
Dates: 03/16/2010-03/23/2010
Health Law and Business Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: The Health Law & Business Portfolios provide authoritative, in depth legal analysis of important issues affecting the health care industry. The Portfolios examine the business implications of legal issues and the legal considerations inherent in business decisions. Each portfolio provides a Detailed Analysis a thorough examination of a specific legal/business topic, as well as Working Papers (appendix material, including sample practice documents, surveys of state laws on specific topics, and the full text of relevant statutory and regulatory materials) and a bibliography of selective print and electronic resources. The Health Law & Business Portfolios are organized into seven broad subject matter groups for quick browsing through related subjects: Antitrust, Contracting Issues, Fraud and Abuse; Operational Issues; Structural and Legal Issues; Tax-Exempt Health Care Entities; and Transactional Issues.
Dates: 02/28/2010-03/15/2010
Corporate Practice Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Description: The Corporate Practice Library includes the following components: Corporate Practice Series - a collection of approximately 60 portfolios, each addressing a legal area of special interest to corporate practitioners in detail and including checklists, sample forms and agreements; the complete text of Delaware Corporation Law and Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; and the weekly newsletter Corporate Counsel Weekly.
Date: 02/17/2010
Entertainment Law (inc. Sports Law) Treatise Finder
Highlight: A brief overview of major sports and entertainment law sources available to the Georgetown Law community.
Dates: 02/2/2010-02/16/2010
Highlight: A guide to finding legal forms in print and online in electronic format. Includes a subject-oriented list of forms.
Description: A guide to model legal forms available in print and online, organized by legal subject.
Dates: 02/01/2010-02/28/2010
Olympics and International Sports Law Research Guide
Description: This guide is provided as an aid in researching the legal aspects of the Olympic Games and sports conflicts handled by the Court of Arbitration for Sports (CAS) and the World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA). General international sports law resources are also included.
Dates: 01/26/2010-02/17/2010
New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
Description: The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online is the electronic version of the extensive and authoritative economics reference resource. This 2nd edition contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. The online version is updated four times a year with new articles, updates to existing articles, and new features and functionality. You can save searches, make personal annotations and bookmark articles by using "My Dictionary."
Dates: 01/09/2010-01/31/2010
Statutes of the Republic of Korea
Description: Statutes of the Republic of Korea "is the only database of the Statutes in English rendered in Korea, providing access [to] about 800 Statutes including the Constitution and other major Acts and enforcement decrees from among the current Statutes of the Republic of Korea."
Dates: 01/7/2010-01/25/2010
TIARA: US Treaties and International Agreements
Description: Contains over 12000 treaties and agreements, the earliest of which dates back to 1783. It also contains Senate Treaty Documents from no. 96-1 through the current Congress, and the US Department documents from DOS 86-1 to the present.
Dates: 01/5/2010-01/28/2010
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Description: This database contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. The collection is derived from documents in the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America's first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.
Dates: 12/21/2009-01/04/2010
Kluwer Arbitration Database (KluwerArbitration.com)
Description: This database contains the major international agreements, rules, and institutional information available in current international arbitration. It includes national laws, national rules, case law of awards, and even some submissions or interim orders under various arbitral regimes. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password. Once you are logged into IntelliConnect, click on the "International Business" link in the browse box at the left side of the Kluwer screen to open the link to KluwerArbitration.com.
Dates: 12/20/2009-01/08/2010
Highlight: This guide helps you navigate the often complicated mix of federal, state, and local laws that govern water law.
Description: This research guide describes resources in the Georgetown Law Library and on the Internet for researching water law at the federal and state level. It does not attempt to cover International water law .
Dates: 12/20/2009-12/21/2009
Scottish Legal History Research Guide
Highlight: This guide features the Library's substantial Scottish legal collection and covers Scottish legal history from the feudal period to 1901.
Description: This research guide in Scottish legal history, with coverage of the feudal period through to 1901, was created to assist your research in the Georgetown Law Library.
Dates: 12/16/2009-01/06/2010
Money and Politics Report (Bloomberg BNA)
Highlight: Want to stay up to date with campaign finance law? The BNA Money & Politics Report provides comprehensive behind-the-scenes coverage of campaign finance, lobbying, and government ethics issues at federal, state, and local levels.
Description: Newsletter providing comprehensive behind-the-scenes coverage of campaign finance, lobbying, and government ethics issues at federal, state, and local levels.
Dates: 12/10/2009-01/1/2010
Description: Manupatra is a database for the law of India. It provides full text of Indian law in PDF format, including case law, legislation, regulations, ordinances, bills, and some secondary material.
Dates: 11/26/2009-12/18/2009
Congressional Investigations Research Guide
Highlight: This resource provides guidance on how to find relevant primary source documents, such as Congressional hearing transcripts, and case law dealing with the authority of Congress to conduct investigations.
Description: This guide will introduce researchers to sources of information on Congressional investigations. While much of this material is contained within the standard sources of legislative history (such as committee hearings and reports), this guide should help researchers navigate these and other documents more efficiently. This guide focuses on researching investigations in general, but includes a section devoted to impeachments and other notable investigations throughout U.S. history.
Dates: 11/25/2009-12/9/2009
Description: ChinaLawInfo is an online legal database in Chinese, including more than 270,000 pieces of laws, regulations, legal essays, and other legal information of China, as well as the content of all legal gazettes published in China, such as the Gazette of the Supreme People's 'Court of the People's Republic of China' and others.
Dates: 11/19/2009-12/19/2009
Highlight: Use the Tax Law Treatise Finder to find study aids and leading treatises on tax topics. This is just one of the seventy-five topics available in the Library's Treatise Finder series.
Dates: 11/18/2009-11/25/2009
Highlight: This recently updated guide describes useful legal and policy resources related to health law, including specialized databases and current awareness services.
Description: This research guide is designed to provide an introduction to U.S. health law research in the Georgetown Law Library. It includes select legal and policy resources on various aspects of health law, including health care reform sources.
Dates: 11/10/2009-11/17/2009
AALS Directory of Law Teachers
Description: The AALS Directory of Law Teachers was first published in 1922 by the Association of American Law Schools. Each annual publication contains biographical notes on full-time faculty of all member law schools, as well as brief information about each school. Law teachers are also listed by subject taught. The full run of directories back to 1922 is accessible through HeinOnline.
Dates: 11/9/2009-11/20/2009
Jury Verdicts and Jury Instructions Research Guide
Highlight: Updated with links to sites that research jury decision making and the jury process.
Description: Print and electronic resources providing information on jury verdicts, including personal injury settlements are provided. Model jury instructions by court are linked from this guide.
Dates: 11/03/2009-11/14/2009
United States Law Week (Bloomberg BNA)
Highlight: A consistently useful resource for tracking Supreme Court and constitutional law developments.
Description: Newsletter highlighting the most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law
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