Browse Databases by Legal Topic

Administrative Law

  • Daily Report for Executives (BNA)
    This well-organized, up-to-the-minute, comprehensive report covers a broad spectrum of issues, providing all the objective news you need to make sound business, lobbying, and legal decisions. 2000-.
  • Fastcase
    Online 50-state and federal case law database. Also known as the Public Library of Law (PLoL).
  • Federal Register Collection (HeinOnline)
    HeinOnline has various modules, which are are fully-searchable. This library contains PDF documents for the CFR from 1938-1983, the Federal Register from 1936 onward, the U.S. Government Manual from 1935 onward, and the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents from 1965 onward.
  • GPO Access
    Provides the full text of important government documents, including Budget of the United States Government; Code of Federal Regulations (1996-); Federal Register (1995-); Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1992-); United States Government Manual; and the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993-); federal congressional bills (1993-); the Congressional Record (1994-); the United States Code; and the United States Constitution.
  • HeinOnline
    Legal database that contains the full text of legal documents in pdf format, in several collections. The Law Journal Library contains articles from most major law reviews and law journals. Approximately 650 law journals and reviews are included, beginning with the inception date of each publication. Individual journals, or the entire collection, are fully searchable by author or word in title, or keyword or phrase in full text. The Federal Register Library contains the only electronic version of all Federal Register issues. The Treaties and Agreements Library contains all U.S. treaties and agreements, whether in force, expired, or yet-to-be published.
  • Regulations.gov
    Regulations.gov is the federal government's central website for posting notices of proposed agency regulations and for receiving public comments on those notices. You can also use this site to read others' comments on proposed regulations; to identify and view a variety of documents on a regulatory docket; to get email alerts as documents are added to a regulatory docket; and to get an RSS feed of documents from the daily Federal Register (not currently offered by GPO Access, the official source).
  • TRACfed
    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.
  • U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library (HeinOnline)
    HeinOnline has various modules, which are are fully-searchable. This library contains PDF documents for Attorney General's National Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws (1955) -- Attorney General. Annual Report. U.S. Department of Justice (1870-2005) -- Digest of the Published Oinions of the Attorneys-General, & of the Leading Decisions of the Federal Courts, with Reference to International Law, Treaties and Kindred Subjects (1877) -- Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States (1791-1982) -- Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice (1977-1996).
  • U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals (HeinOnline)
    The U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals database is a collection of the official decisions of some of the United States' most important government institutions. For links to some of the individual titles, see GULLiver.

African-Americans and the Law

  • African American Biographical Database
    The African American Biographical Database Includes biographies of thousands of African Americans, many not found in any other reference source. Contains extended narratives of African American activists, business people, former slaves, performing artists, educators, lawyers, physicians, writers, church leaders, homemakers, religious workers, government workers, athletes, farmers, scientists, factory workers, and more--both the famous and the everyday person.
  • Civil Rights Digital Library
    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 .
  • Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History
    The Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History is a 5-volume set and a supplement covering all aspects of the African-American experience from 1619 to the present day. Using biographies, historical essays, and thematic pieces - many by the foremost scholars in the field - it addresses a wide array of subjects in over 2,300 articles to fully define in one source the cultural roots and current condition of the African-American community.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    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.
  • International Index to Black Periodicals
    Database provides listings of articles from as far back as 1900. It includes bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean and full text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

Alternative Dispute Resolution

  • Investment Claims
    Investment Claims provides access to investment arbitration materials, including full-text investment awards, relevant international treaties (including bilateral investment treaties or BITs) and domestic legislation from the UK, Canada, Sweden, Germany and others; arbitral rules, and online versions of selected Oxford University Press arbitration books and journal articles. The Oxford Law Citator is a service carried through this and other Oxford Online collections which links each text to related commentary, cases cited, and relevant domestic legislation.
  • Kluwer Arbitration Database (KluwerArbitration.com)
    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.
  • Transnational Dispute Management ("TDM")
    Transnational Dispute Management is a combination of newsletter, review-journal, internet service and primary materials database which goes across disciplines and across the various areas of dispute management. It emphasizes mediation/ADR, conflict avoidance and commercial conflict management by bilateral negotiation or by third-party facilitated negotiation.

Antitrust Law & Trade Regulation

  • Antitrust and Trade Regulation Daily (BNA)
    Follows developments from Congress, the White House, and state attorneys general and agencies affecting restrictive trade practice law. Coverage of judicial developments includes cases before the Supreme Court and other federal courts, as well as orders and rulings of the Federal Trade Commission. Coverage: 1991 – present.
  • Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report (BNA)
    Federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law. Coverage: 1996 – present.
  • CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
    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.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • Corporate Practice Library (BNA)
    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.

Arms Control

  • Armed Conflict Database
    Armed Conflict Database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, including information on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons, weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, and timelines. Users can generate reports, download data, and browse through year-by-year analysis and fact sheets online.
  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
    Scholarly documents from leading international relations research centers. Complete texts of working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Also provides access to relevant journal issues and books. Coverage: 1991 – present.
  • Declassified Documents Reference System - U.S.
    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.
  • PolicyFile: Public Policy Research and Analysis
    Abstracts of data from public policy think tanks, university research programs and publishers, with coverage from 1990. Links to organizational home pages and to full text documents, where available.
  • Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International
    PAIS International is a bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles; books; government documents; statistical compilations; committee reports; directories; serials; reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations; and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed.

Art, Entertainment, and Sports Law

  • Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) Case Reports
    Case reports from the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. NAD reviews national advertising for accuracy and truthfulness. This resource requires a password. Please see a reference librarian for more information.
  • Media Law Reporter (BNA)
    Weekly newsletter on developments and significant opinions in media law, including copyright, freedom of speech and of the press, defamation and privacy law, and broadcast regulation.

Banking Law and Financial Institutions

  • Alternative Investment Law Report (BNA)
    Alternative Investment Law Report covers the regulatory, legal and legislative developments affecting hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative investment vehicles.
  • Banking Daily (BNA)
    Provides information and analysis on developments affecting financial institutions and financial investments, relating to regulatory policy, state and federal legislation, and state and federal judiciaries. Coverage: 1991 – present.
  • Banking Report (BNA)
    The latest news and analysis of banking legislation, regulatory policy, litigation, and investment at state and federal levels, from Capitol Hill to key financial centers around the world. Coverage: 1982 – present.
  • CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
    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.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • Dictionary of Finance and Banking (3d ed. Oxford University Press)
    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.
  • Handbook of International Financial Terms (Oxford University Press)
    This Handbook is the most comprehensive and up-to-date reference book on the world of finance. There are numerous examples to show how particular calculations and instruments are used; details are also given of acronyms, currencies, and major markets. Reflecting the development of global financial markets, the Handbook is a reliable guide for practitioners, as well as an invaluable companion for advanced students of finance, accounting, and business.
  • International Business and Finance Daily (BNA)
    Database provides content from the daily publication (coverage begins January 2, 2001). Covers business news and financial reporting from reliable sources in the United States and around the world; key policy and regulatory developments in the U.S. and abroad; actions and initiatives of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other standard setting and regulatory bodies worldwide.
  • Proquest Banking Information Source
    Includes essential banking industry publications providing information about the financial service industry, banking and industry trends. Covers over 400 publications, with 160 current full-text trade magazines, newspapers, and some scholarly publications. Coverage: 1971 – present.

Bankruptcy

  • Bankruptcy Law Daily (BNA)
    Provides notification of breaking developments in state and federal bankruptcy law. Coverage: 1990 – present.
  • Bankruptcy Law Reporter (BNA)
    Provides in-depth coverage of issues in state and federal bankruptcy law, including filings, motions, and decisions, new and proposed legislation, and revisions to bankruptcy rules and forms. Coverage: 1998 – present.
  • CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
    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.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.

Briefs, Pleadings, and Oral Arguments

  • Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
    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.
  • National Moot Court Competition (HeinOnline)
    The National Moot Court Competition library in HeinOnline contains records, briefs and related organizational materials from the 1st-58th (1950-2008) annual National Moot Court Competitions.

Case Law

  • AltLaw
    AltLaw is a full-text search engine for U.S. Supreme Court cases (back to 1803) and published Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions  from 1950 to the present. Unpublished Circuit Court opinions are available from 1996 on. A work in progress, it is a joint project of Columbia Law School's Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.
  • Audio Case Files
    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.
  • Fastcase
    Online 50-state and federal case law database. Also known as the Public Library of Law (PLoL).
  • U.S. Supreme Court Library (HeinOnline)
    HeinOnline's U.S. Supreme Court Library includes complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Civil Procedure

Civil Rights

  • Americans With Disabilities Act Manual (BNA)
    A reference resource on the Americans with Disabilities Act, providing analysis, guidance and primary source material. Also provides reports with news and developments in this area of law.
  • Employment Discrimination Report (BNA)
    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 -.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    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.
  • GenderWatch
    Full text database of diverse publications (including scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, government and NGO reports, etc.) that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. 1970-present.
  • HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
    Bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world, from 1970 to the present. Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the U.S. Many of the citations are linked to full text. Document delivery service is available for many items in the database, for a fee.
  • International Index to Black Periodicals
    Database provides listings of articles from as far back as 1900. It includes bibliographic citations and abstracts from scholarly journals and newsletters from the United States, Africa and the Caribbean and full text coverage of core Black Studies periodicals. Coverage is international in scope and multidisciplinary spanning cultural, economic, historical, religious, social, and political issues of vital importance to the Black Studies discipline.

Commercial Law

  • American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)
    Contains the Restatements (including superseded and draft versions), proceedings, reports and other special publications published by the ALI. Also includes the Uniform Commercial Code, with drafts and superseded versions. Also provides ALI-ABA periodicals and material from the Statement of Essential Human Rights archive. Part of HeinOnline.
  • Bankruptcy Law Daily (BNA)
    Provides notification of breaking developments in state and federal bankruptcy law. Coverage: 1990 – present.
  • Bankruptcy Law Reporter (BNA)
    Provides in-depth coverage of issues in state and federal bankruptcy law, including filings, motions, and decisions, new and proposed legislation, and revisions to bankruptcy rules and forms. Coverage: 1998 – present.
  • E-Commerce Law Daily (BNA)
    E-Commerce Law Daily (BNA) provides daily report on a national and global perspective on new developments affecting the law of electronic commerce, and all relevant practice areas.
  • Electronic Commerce and Law Report (BNA)
    A weekly newsletter covering legal developments and trends in the major legal issues surrounding digital communications – contents, transactions, and infrastructure, on federal, state, and international levels. This database contains all issues published since April 12, 1996.

Communications Law

  • Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) Case Reports
    Case reports from the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. NAD reviews national advertising for accuracy and truthfulness. This resource requires a password. Please see a reference librarian for more information.
  • Communication Abstracts
    Communication Abstracts comprehensively covers communication-related articles, reports, papers, and books from a variety of publishers, research institutions, and information sources on a world-wide scale. Coverage includes not only communication literature but also literature in other disciplines that is relevant to communication researchers, such as international literature in film studies, the role of technology in human communications, risk communication, crisis communication and public opinions.
  • Communication and Mass Media Complete
    Communication & Mass Media Complete was formed by the merging of the databases CommSearch and Mass Media Articles Index. It offers full text for over 200 titles and contains citation coverage for additional source.
  • Communications Regulation (Pike and Fischer)
    The online version of Pike & Fischer’s Communications Regulation. Provides complete and comprehensive coverage of communications law and regulation and access to FCC rules, commission and court decisions, and the laws that govern U.S. communications. Coverage: 1964 – present.
  • Computer Technology Law Report (BNA)
    Coverage of legal developments in liability and insurance coverage issues relating to computers — from network security to packaging and protecting digital assets.
  • E-Commerce Law Daily (BNA)
    E-Commerce Law Daily (BNA) provides daily report on a national and global perspective on new developments affecting the law of electronic commerce, and all relevant practice areas.
  • Electronic Commerce and Law Report (BNA)
    A weekly newsletter covering legal developments and trends in the major legal issues surrounding digital communications – contents, transactions, and infrastructure, on federal, state, and international levels. This database contains all issues published since April 12, 1996.
  • Media Law Reporter (BNA)
    Weekly newsletter on developments and significant opinions in media law, including copyright, freedom of speech and of the press, defamation and privacy law, and broadcast regulation.
  • ProQuest Telecommunications
    Search the full text of telecommunications industry publications, including magazines, journals and newsletters.
  • Telecommunications Monitor (BNA)
    Telecommunications Monitor is a daily bulletin with detailed coverage of the most significant regulatory, legislative, and judicial decisions and developments affecting telecommunications.
  • World Communications Regulation Report (BNA)
    World Communications Regulation Report provides details of international regulation of communication technologies (land-line phone, mobile, handhelds, or desktop computer) giving an insight into the latest legal developments relating to issues such as electronic signatures, data privacy, Internet governance, domain names, technological protection measures to prevent copying or file sharing, broadcasting plus related legal issues such as antitrust and law enforcement measures including wiretapping.

Computer and Internet Law

  • Communications Regulation (Pike and Fischer)
    The online version of Pike & Fischer’s Communications Regulation. Provides complete and comprehensive coverage of communications law and regulation and access to FCC rules, commission and court decisions, and the laws that govern U.S. communications. Coverage: 1964 – present.
  • Computer Technology Law Report (BNA)
    Coverage of legal developments in liability and insurance coverage issues relating to computers — from network security to packaging and protecting digital assets.
  • Digital Discovery and e-Evidence (BNA)
    Library providing analysis on the evidentiary value of electronic data in litigation, as well as the full-text of relevant cases, ethics opinions, and court rules.
  • E-Commerce Law Daily (BNA)
    E-Commerce Law Daily (BNA) provides daily report on a national and global perspective on new developments affecting the law of electronic commerce, and all relevant practice areas.
  • E-Commerce Tax Report (BNA)
    E-Commerce Tax Report (BNA) provides daily news and practical information about developments affecting federal, state, and international taxation of electronic commerce.
  • Electronic Commerce and Law Report (BNA)
    A weekly newsletter covering legal developments and trends in the major legal issues surrounding digital communications – contents, transactions, and infrastructure, on federal, state, and international levels. This database contains all issues published since April 12, 1996.
  • Privacy and Security Law Report (BNA)
    Privacy & Security Law Report (BNA) helps you keep pace with the new laws and rules in this emerging new practice area, with the latest privacy and security legal developments—from online marketing to employee screening to patient privacy.
  • Privacy Law Watch (BNA)
    Privacy Law Watch provides information about federal, state, and international developments affecting the privacy and accessibility of information about individuals. Published daily. Coverage: 2001 -.
  • Telecommunications Monitor (BNA)
    Telecommunications Monitor is a daily bulletin with detailed coverage of the most significant regulatory, legislative, and judicial decisions and developments affecting telecommunications.
  • World Communications Regulation Report (BNA)
    World Communications Regulation Report provides details of international regulation of communication technologies (land-line phone, mobile, handhelds, or desktop computer) giving an insight into the latest legal developments relating to issues such as electronic signatures, data privacy, Internet governance, domain names, technological protection measures to prevent copying or file sharing, broadcasting plus related legal issues such as antitrust and law enforcement measures including wiretapping.
  • World Data Protection Report (BNA)
    World Data Protection Report is your essential resource for ensuring you understand and keep up-to-date with the latest developments in privacy laws worldwide. Published monthly.

Constitutional Law

  • AltLaw
    AltLaw is a full-text search engine for U.S. Supreme Court cases (back to 1803) and published Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions  from 1950 to the present. Unpublished Circuit Court opinions are available from 1996 on. A work in progress, it is a joint project of Columbia Law School's Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.
  • Avalon Project
    The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Major documents collections include The American Constitution: A Documentary RecordThe Federalist Papers, American Diplomacy: Bilateral Treaties 1778-1999, and American Diplomacy: Multilateral Treaties 1864-1999.
  • Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories Online
    Includes expert English translations of the constitutions of territories and dependencies and relevant federal constitutional provisions that define the relationship between the state and dependencies and territories. The author provides commentary that describes the interaction of the federal constitution with that of the dependency or territory.
  • Constitutions of the Countries of the World
    Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries. The database contains English translations for all the countries, plus introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical and political information. This is the electronic equivalent of the print version, Constitutions of the Countries of the world. Best when used with IE.
  • Constitutions of the United States: National and State
    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.
  • Encyclopedia of the American Constitution
    The Encyclopedia of the American Constitution contains essays by leading constitutional scholars, law school professors, judges, historians, and political scientists on practical and theoretical topics dealing with every aspect of constitutional law in the U.S., from the Constitutional Convention in 1787 to the Clinton impeachment. Accessed via the Gale Virtual Reference Library. The six-volume print version of this publication is in the Williams Reference collection at KF4548 .E53 2000.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Constitutional Law Online
    Also known as IEL Constitutional Law.
  • Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
    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.
  • Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
    This new edition of the Companion has been fully updated and includes new entries on key cases and full treatment of crucial areas of constitutional law, such as abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.
  • Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
    This dictionary includes all 400 entries on major Supreme Court cases through history published in the acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, in addition to approximately 45 new entries for the post-1991 decisions. It also gives entries on the U.S. Constitution, and the nominations and successions of justices. Terms covered in the Companion are briefly defined and explained, and a complete case list is given.
  • Supreme Court Today (BNA)
    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.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Library (HeinOnline)
    HeinOnline's U.S. Supreme Court Library includes complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • United States Law Week (BNA)
    The most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law

Consumer Law

  • Antitrust and Trade Regulation Daily (BNA)
    Follows developments from Congress, the White House, and state attorneys general and agencies affecting restrictive trade practice law. Coverage of judicial developments includes cases before the Supreme Court and other federal courts, as well as orders and rulings of the Federal Trade Commission. Coverage: 1991 – present.
  • Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report (BNA)
    Federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law. Coverage: 1996 – present.
  • Children's Advertising Review Unit (CARU) Case Reports
    Case reports from the National Advertising Division (NAD) of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. NAD reviews national advertising for accuracy and truthfulness. This resource requires a password. Please see a reference librarian for more information.
  • Privacy and Security Law Report (BNA)
    Privacy & Security Law Report (BNA) helps you keep pace with the new laws and rules in this emerging new practice area, with the latest privacy and security legal developments—from online marketing to employee screening to patient privacy.
  • Privacy Law Watch (BNA)
    Privacy Law Watch provides information about federal, state, and international developments affecting the privacy and accessibility of information about individuals. Published daily. Coverage: 2001 -.
  • Product Liability Daily (BNA)
    Product Liability Daily keeps you updated on product liability law, regulation, and litigation issues.  Coverage: 2001 -.
  • Product Safety and Liability Reporter (BNA)
    Product Safety & Liability Reporter keeps you updated on all the significant developments and issues in product safety and liability, and provides the resource materials you need to better represent your clients.
  • World Data Protection Report (BNA)
    World Data Protection Report is your essential resource for ensuring you understand and keep up-to-date with the latest developments in privacy laws worldwide. Published monthly.

Contract Law

  • Federal Contracts Daily (BNA)
    Federal Contracts Daily (BNA): Concise, authoritative reports cover the complete spectrum of issues affecting the federal acquisition of goods and services, to keep you abreast of policies and regulations at both government-wide and individual agency levels. Coverage: 2001 -.
  • Federal Contracts Report (BNA)
    Federal Contracts Report (BNA): Concise, authoritative reports cover the complete spectrum of issues affecting the federal acquisition of goods and services, to keep you abreast of policies and regulations at both government-wide and individual agency levels. Published weekly. Coverage: 1996 -.

Copyright

  • Intellectual Property Library (BNA)
    Electronic version of the publication which provides the full text of all decisions related to patents, copyrights and trademarks reported in United States Patents Quarterly from 1929 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process. Also available in print in the Williams Library, 5th floor, Call Number KF2975 .A2.
  • Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal (BNA)
    Weekly newsletter reporting on legal developments in the fields of patent, trademark, and copyright law. Coverage: Feb. 1996 to present.
  • Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Daily (BNA)
    Daily newsletter reporting on legal developments in the fields of patent, trademark, and copyright law. Coverage: 2001 to present.

Corporations and Other Business Organizations

  • CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
    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.
  • Corporate Accountability and Fraud Daily (BNA)
    A daily newsletter providing legislative, regulatory and case law updates on corporate law issues ranging from executive compensation to implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This database contains all issues published since November 1, 2002.
  • Corporate Accountability Report (BNA)
    The weekly version of Corporate Accountability & Fraud Daily providing legislative, regulatory and case law updates on corporate law issues ranging from executive compensation to implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This database contains all issues published since January 24, 2003. Not all articles from the daily versions are included in this weekly version.
  • Corporate Compliance Library (BNA)
    The Corporate Compliance Library is an information resource of legal analysis and news for attorneys to use to design, implement, and monitor organizational compliance programs that qualify as effective under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for Organizational Defendants. The library contains the following parts: Corporate Compliance Programs, Specific Risk Areas, Supporting Documents.
  • Corporate Counsel Weekly (BNA)
    A weekly newsletter providing legislative, regulatory and case law updates on legal issues faced by corporate counsel – from antitrust law to labor and employment law, to environmental law. This database contains all issues published since October 23, 1996.
  • Corporate Governance Library (BNA)
    The Corporate Governance Library includes the Corporate Governance Report plus the complete text of Title 8 (Corporations) of the Delaware Code. The Corporate Governance Manual contains analysis of the issues affecting corporate governance.
  • Corporate Governance Report (BNA)
    A monthly newsletter focusing on corporate governance issues such as insider trading, fiduciary duties of directors and officers and piercing the corporate veil. This database contains all issues published since June 1, 1998.
  • Corporate Law Daily (BNA)
    A daily newsletter updating judicial, legislative, regulatory, and tax issues that affect corporate practice. This database contains all issues published since September 11, 2000.
  • Corporate Practice Library (BNA)
    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.
  • Global Financial Database
    Global Financial Database is a source for historical stock market, financial, and economic data, some of which is unavailable from any other online source. The GFDatabase includes over 8500 current and historical data series covering over 200 countries that have been collected from original sources. Many of the series extend back two centuries.
  • Hoover's Company Records
    Hoover's Company Records contains profiles of more than 40,000 companies, industries and executives. Also known as Hoover's Company Reports.
  • LIVEDGAR
    This database of U.S. securities filings is useful in securities and business research. Contains PDF versions of filings with the SEC, primarily from 1992 forward when the EDGAR filing system began. Sophisticated, functional search methods available. Also includes SEC materials such as no action letters and staff reviews. THE OPENING SCREEN IS A TERMS OF AGREEMENT DOCUMENT. SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM, CLICK "I AGREE" AND THEN "GO."
  • Mergent Online
    Mergent Online contains full text information on over 10,000 U.S. public companies and over 15,000 non-U.S. companies. Includes company history, officers, subsidiaries, financial data, and annual reports. Access to SEC filings (EDGAR) back to 1993. Also includes company archives, with information on over 4,000 public companies that were acquired, went bankrupt or merged out of existence from 1995 onward. Includes U.S. and International industry reports.
  • SOCRATES: the Corporate Social Rating Monitor
    SOCRATES has in-depth profiles on the social and environmental records of over 650 US and international corporations, including every company on the Standard & Poor’s 500™ and KLD's Domini 400 Social Index. The profiles have narrative coverage and ranking capablities on issues related to community, diversity, employee relations, environment, non-US operations, products, alcohol, tobacco, gambling, nuclear power, and military contracting.
  • Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
    This database contains financial reports on companies and financial instruments prepared by Standard and Poor's, the prominent equity analysis firm and credit rating agency. Content is primarily on U.S. companies and issuances. Also provides company financial information and economic analysis by S&P.
  • TheCorporateCounsel.net
    TheCorporateCounsel.net is an educational service that provides practical guidance on legal issues involving corporate and securities regulation and corporate governance practices - as well as many other areas impacting today's corporate practitioner.

Criminal Law

  • Corporate Compliance Library (BNA)
    The Corporate Compliance Library is an information resource of legal analysis and news for attorneys to use to design, implement, and monitor organizational compliance programs that qualify as effective under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for Organizational Defendants. The library contains the following parts: Corporate Compliance Programs, Specific Risk Areas, Supporting Documents.
  • Criminal Law Reporter (BNA)
    Weekly reporting on significant developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law. This database contains all issues published since August 7, 1996.
  • TRACfed
    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.
  • White Collar Crime Report (BNA)
    White Collar Crime Report is a biweekly publication covering legal developments affecting the prosecution and defense of fraud and other white collar crimes.

Customary International Law

  • Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD) (HeinOnline)
    The Foreign and International Law Resources database contains image-based formats for many yearbooks and serials of international law from jurisdictions such as New Zealand, Africa, and the Baltics. Also included are U.S. Digests of International Law, the Permanent Court of International Justice Decisions, the International Court of Arbitration (Balch) and more titles that will be added in the continuing project to provide electronic access to the classics of international law, with a view to evidence of customary international law. Part of HeinOnline.
  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online
    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.

Disability Law

  • Americans With Disabilities Act Manual (BNA)
    A reference resource on the Americans with Disabilities Act, providing analysis, guidance and primary source material. Also provides reports with news and developments in this area of law.
  • CCH Health and Human Resources Total Connect
    Health & Human Resources Total Connect provides access to articles on topics in health and human resources. Topics covered by this resource include workers’ safety, payroll, insurance, benefits, training, management and more. Primarily, this source provides access to the full text of federal and state laws that affect health and human resources, as well as information from a variety of government sources produced by agencies like OSHA, the FDA and more. Some full text is available. Title coverage varies. News content is updated daily. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Social Security Law Online
    Also known as IEL Social Security Law.

Economics/Economics and Law

  • B. E. Journal of Economic Analysis and Policy
    Articles employ microeconomics to analyze issues in business, consumer behavior, and public policy.
  • B. E. Journal of Macroeconomics
    Articles have an emphasis on both theoretical and applied macroeconomics, including business cycle research, economic growth, and monetary economics, as well as topics drawn from the substantial areas of overlap between macroeconomics and international economics, labor economics, finance, development economics, political economy, public economics, and econometric theory.
  • B. E. Journal of Theoretical Economics
    Articles relate to all areas of economic theory, both applied theory and “pure” theory, including game theory, decision theory, theory of economic mechanisms, contract theory, industrial organization, law and economics and public finance.
  • Bepress Journals
    Bepress Journals is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from several primary sources: the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals; all working papers, preprints and other "grey literature" content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive.
  • CountryWatch.com
    Provides up-to-date information and recent news articles on most countries with a focus on business, economic and political topics such as investment, taxation, stock market administration, government organization and environmental issues.
  • Dictionary of Economics (2d ed. Oxford University Press)
    The dictionary covers all aspects of economic theory, from microeconomics to public finance and international trade with definitions of mathematical and statistical terms widely used in economics, as well as words from related areas such as business and finance.
  • EconLit
    EconLit is a comprehensive, indexed bibliography with selected abstracts of the world's economic literature, produced by the American Economic Association. It includes coverage of over 400 major journals as well as articles in collective volumes (essays, proceedings, etc.), books, book reviews, dissertations, and working papers licensed from the Cambridge University Press Abstracts of Working Papers in Economics. 1969 - present.
  • Economist Historical Archive
    The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2003. New full-colour images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week - all combine to offer a primary source of research covering the 19th and 20th centuries.
  • European Business
    Includes articles from over 150 sources with European business contents, including The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal. Over 90% of these sources are available in full text. Coverage varies by source.
  • Financial Economics Network
    FEN issues a series of electronic "journals" of abstracts -- of working papers as well as articles accepted for publication -- in various areas of finance and economics. These abstracts are distributed principally via email, over the Internet, along with weekly announcements. In addition, working papers are posted on the FEN website for downloading in Adobe Acrobat format. GULC faculty, staff and students can register to receive email from FEN by using this form.
  • Global Financial Database
    Global Financial Database is a source for historical stock market, financial, and economic data, some of which is unavailable from any other online source. The GFDatabase includes over 8500 current and historical data series covering over 200 countries that have been collected from original sources. Many of the series extend back two centuries.
  • Global Jurist
    Offers a forum for scholarly cyber-debate on issues of comparative law, law and economics, international law, law and development, and legal anthropology. Series includes Global Jurist Frontiers, Global Jurist Advances, and Global Jurist Topics.
  • JSTOR
    This database includes the full text of the articles from 340 scholarly paper journals, most beginning with the first volume. Coverage excludes articles from the most recent 3 to 5 years. PDF format. Searching is available across all bibliographic fields and in the full text.
  • Making of the Modern World: the Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature
    MOMW is a collection of digital facsimile page images from more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. It focuses on economics interpreted in the widest sense, including political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Coverage: 1450-1850.
  • New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics Online
    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."
  • OECD.Stat
    OECD.Stat enables users to search for and extract data from across the many databases included in SourceOECD Statistics. OECD.Stat includes data and metadata for OECD countries and selected non-member economies. You can build tables and extract data from across databases as well as work within individual databases.
  • ResearchNow: bepress Journals, Working Papers, Repository Materials
    ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from several primary sources: the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals; all working papers, preprints and other "grey literature" content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive.
  • Taxation and Economic Reform in America: a Historical Archive (HeinOnline)
    The Taxation & Economic Reform in American database includes the complete Carlton Fox collection, which contains nearly 48 years of historical legislation related to the internal revenue laws. It also includes more than 25 other legislative histories related to U.S. economic reform and stimulus plans. With its rich archive of law review articles, HeinOnline connects the legislation to key law review articles, allowing you to not only read and follow the laws, but also to fully understand how they have had an impact on the economy.
  • World Development Indicators (WDI) Online
    WDI Online contains World Bank data for 226 countries and regional groups, and multiple series in subjects such as population, health, education, labor, production, consumption, investment, debt, trade, infrastructure and technology. Data can be exported into an Excel spreadsheet or an ASCII file.

Education Law

  • ERIC - Education Resources Information Center
    ERIC provides free access to more than 1.2 million bibliographic records of journal articles and other education-related materials and, if available, includes links to full text. ERIC is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences (IES).
  • ProQuest Education Journals
    Indexes articles published in over 700 education journals. Also provides full text of many articles. 1988-present.
  • World of Learning
    The World of Learning is a key source for information on academic institutions located around the world. Also known as Europa World of Learning.

Elder Law

Election Law

  • CongressDaily
    Nonpartisan daily electronic newsletter covering the people, process and the behind-the-scenes events concerning Congress.
  • CQ Electronic Library
    The CQ Electronic Library provides access to and search capability across several CQ publications, incluiding CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, Congressional Staff Directory, Judicial Staff Directory, CQ Press Political Reference Suite, and the Supreme Court Compendium.
  • CQ Researcher
    Publishes 12,000-word reports covering the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more on a weekly basis. Includes all CQ Researcher reports published since 1991.
  • CQ Weekly
    Provides nonpartisan news and analysis on the United States Congress. The service includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.
  • CQ.com
    CQ.com contains the latest news pertaining to activities in Congress. BillTrack tracks bills from introduction to passage, with the most detailed legislative histories available. Bill Text contains the full, searchable text of all bill versions, with links to a PDF version of the bill from the GPO web site. Bill Comparison enables you to find the differences in language between two versions of the same bill, two related bills, or any two bills from the 104th to the current Congress. CQ Schedules is a continually updated calendar of legislative and policy events in the House, Senate and around Washington.
  • Election Law @ Moritz
    Election Law @ Moritz is a web site maintained by Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law. It offers "information and insight on the laws governing federal, state and local elections." It includes the e-Book on Election Law, a regularly updated treatise, as well as news and information about major cases.
  • Election Law Journal
    Election Law Journal is a peer-reviewed journal specializing in in-depth coverage of the legal aspects of elections and voting rights in the United States and around the world. The Journal's purview includes the rapid growth in legislation and litigation due to redistricting and reapportionment; challenges to strike down or repeal term limits; and efforts to implement new election systems.
  • Money and Politics Report (BNA)
    Newsletter providing comprehensive behind-the-scenes coverage of campaign finance, lobbying, and government ethics issues at federal, state, and local levels.

Employment and Labor Law

  • Americans With Disabilities Act Manual (BNA)
    A reference resource on the Americans with Disabilities Act, providing analysis, guidance and primary source material. Also provides reports with news and developments in this area of law.
  • Benefits Practice Center (BNA)
    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.
  • CCH Health and Human Resources Total Connect
    Health & Human Resources Total Connect provides access to articles on topics in health and human resources. Topics covered by this resource include workers’ safety, payroll, insurance, benefits, training, management and more. Primarily, this source provides access to the full text of federal and state laws that affect health and human resources, as well as information from a variety of government sources produced by agencies like OSHA, the FDA and more. Some full text is available. Title coverage varies. News content is updated daily. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • CCH Labor and Employment eLibrary
    The Labor and Employment eLibrary includes material from CCH and Aspen. CCH's reporters cover the full breadth of fair employment practices, labor relations and disabilities law at the federal and state levels, and comprehensive primary source research materials, annotated explanations and timely updates of current news and developments. Aspen's treatises provide users with transactional, expert-authored analytic and practical guidance covering employee terminations, disabilities law and practice, employment discrimination litigation, sexual harassment in the workplace and covenants not to compete. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • Construction Labor Report (BNA)
    Construction Labor Report is a weekly newsletter that brings you timely coverage and analysis of the latest developments and emerging trends in construction employment nationwide.
  • Daily Labor Report (BNA)
    A daily newsletter covering legislative, regulatory, and case law developments, as well as general trends in various aspects of labor and employment law. This database contains all issues published since November 4, 1996.
  • Employment Discrimination Report (BNA)
    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 -.
  • Employment Discrimination Verdicts and Settlements (BNA)
    Employment Discrimination Verdicts and Settlements contains a searchable database of thousands of employment discrimination verdicts, settlements, and awards since January 1996.
  • Government Employee Relations Report (BNA)
    Government Employee Relations Report (BNA) provides full coverage of the latest developments in employee relations at federal, state, and local levels -- plus the valuable lead time for better planning. Published weekly. Coverage: 1996 -.
  • Human Resources Report (BNA)
    Human Resources Report keeps you well-informed and able to meet everyday challenges and long-term planning and policymaking goals, with focused news, practical information, and strategic insights on all HR-related developments. Published weekly. Coverage: 1996 -.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Labour Law and Industrial Relations Online
    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.
  • International Labor and Employment Laws (3d ed.) (BNA)
    This e-book provides country by country summaries and analysis of foreign labor and employment laws.
  • Labor and Employment Law Library (BNA)
    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.
  • Labor Relations Week (BNA)
    Electronic version of weekly newsletter that follows major labor relations issues and key labor law developments. Covers legislative, regulatory, and general news organized by industry; major labor relations decisions that have an impact on labor relations, including NLRB and court cases; current labor relations challenges arising from collective bargaining contract negotiations and grievance situations; monitoring of union election results by industry, as available; specialized reports on health and safety issues, legal developments, and economic trends, including statistics, expert analysis, etc.; and interviews with leaders in government, unions, corporations, and academia.
  • Occupational Safety and Health Daily (BNA)
    Occupational Safety & Health Daily (BNA) provides articles on legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments affecting job safety and health, rely on the resource that OSHA officials themselves read.
  • Occupational Safety and Health Reporter (BNA)
    Occupational Safety & Health Reporter provides full coverage of the latest developments in federal and state occupational safety and health programs, standards, legislation, regulations, enforcement, and court and agency decisions. Published weekly. Coverage: 1996 -.
  • Pension and Benefits Daily (BNA)
    A daily newsletter reporting developments in pension and benefits law.
  • Pension and Benefits Reporter (BNA)
    BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter is a weekly newsletter that monitors the laws, regulations, cases, and issues that influence pension and benefits policy, design, and administration.
  • Workplace Immigration Report (BNA)
    Workplace Immigration Report provides original reporting on workplace immigration news developments. It also offers guidance for employers on workplace immigration policies and practices.
  • Workplace Law Report (BNA)
    Workplace Law Report provides weekly coverage of key federal and state court rulings under employment and labor laws, plus information on regulatory actions and administrative rulings.

Energy Law

  • CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
    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.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • Environment and Energy Daily
    Environment and Energy Daily tracks environmental and energy issues in Congress. E&E Daily is published daily except during extended congressional recesses. In addition to original reporting on daily legislative activity, E&E Daily’s coverage includes hearings, schedules, appropriations, legislative status and other related documents. With its sister publications, Land Letter and Greenwire, E&E Daily provides comprehensive coverage of the day’s environmental news. January 2004 - present.
  • Greenwire
    Greenwire is a daily news service published by Environment and Energy Publishing, LLC that reports on the latest environmental and energy politics and policy at state, national and international levels. Greenwire collects and summarizes environmental coverage from various print, broadcast and online sources; provides summaries of U.S. environmental laws; and provides a searchable database of all Greenwire articles published since 1996. With its sister publications, Environment and Energy Daily and Land Letter, Greenwire provides comprehensive coverage of the day’s environmental news.
  • Land Letter
    Land Letter is a weekly newsletter published by Environment and Energy Publishing, LLC that provides in-depth coverage of the latest developments in natural resources regulation, litigation, and legislation. With its sister publications, Environment and Energy Daily and Greenwire, Land Letter provides comprehensive coverage of the day’s environmental news.

Environmental Law

  • Chemical Regulation Daily (BNA)
    Provides daily updates on legislative developments, regulatory changes, agency actions, and court decisions related to chemicals and chemical regulation. Database contains all issues published since January 2, 2001.
  • Chemical Regulation Reporter (BNA)
    Weekly newsletter reporting on the regulation of chemicals, pesticides, and hazardous materials transport. Database contains all issues published since February 2, 1996.
  • Daily Environment Report (BNA)
    A daily current awareness source for news on environmental laws, regulations, and policies. This database contains all issues published since September 20, 1994.
  • Environment and Energy Daily
    Environment and Energy Daily tracks environmental and energy issues in Congress. E&E Daily is published daily except during extended congressional recesses. In addition to original reporting on daily legislative activity, E&E Daily’s coverage includes hearings, schedules, appropriations, legislative status and other related documents. With its sister publications, Land Letter and Greenwire, E&E Daily provides comprehensive coverage of the day’s environmental news. January 2004 - present.
  • Environment and Safety Library (BNA)
    Georgetown Law Library’s subscription includes access to up-to-date federal environmental statutes, regulations; other agency documents, executive orders; as well as selected environmental law cases since 1984. This database also provides access to BNA’s environment and safety newsletter collection.
  • Environment Reporter (BNA)
    A weekly newsletter covering new developments and trends in environmental law. This database contains all issues published since January 26, 1996.
  • Environmental Due Diligence Report (BNA)
    The Environmental Due Diligence Report monitors brownfields redevelopment projects; multi-family, commercial, and industrial real estate transactions; environmental site assessments; securities and insurance issues; cleanup efforts and costs and more. Published monthly. Coverage: 2001 -.
  • Environmental Law Reporter (ELR)
    ELR Online covers environmental, natural resources, toxic tort, health/safety, and land use law and policy. Published by the Environmental Law Institute.
  • Federal Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report (BNA)
    BNA's Federal Enviroment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report provides a complete, up-to-date summary and overview of environment and safety regulations promulgated by federal agencies, in an easy-to-read format.
  • Greenwire
    Greenwire is a daily news service published by Environment and Energy Publishing, LLC that reports on the latest environmental and energy politics and policy at state, national and international levels. Greenwire collects and summarizes environmental coverage from various print, broadcast and online sources; provides summaries of U.S. environmental laws; and provides a searchable database of all Greenwire articles published since 1996. With its sister publications, Environment and Energy Daily and Land Letter, Greenwire provides comprehensive coverage of the day’s environmental news.
  • Hazmat Transportation News (BNA)
    Hazmat Transportation News (BNA) provides the latest laws, rules, and policies affecting the packaging, labeling, and transportation of hazardous materials in the U.S., with this informative news summary. 2001-.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Environmental Law Online
    Also known as IEL Environmental Law.
  • International Environment Daily (BNA)
    Database provides content from the daily publication (coverage begins January 2, 2001). Covers developments in environmental, natural resource, and chemicals issues, in all major industrialized and developing nations and in international governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Includes "green" legislation worldwide; EU, UN, IMO, and OECD directives; international legislatures, regulatory agencies, and organizations; political, economic, and technological factors affecting environmental programs in the U.S. and around the world; institutional framework for environmental programs in other countries; crucial developments in international law, such as climate change, POPs, the Basel Treaty, and sustainable development.
  • International Environment Reporter ( BNA)
    Electronic version of the biweekly publication (coverage begins February 7, 1996). Covers international environmental law and policy in the major industrialized and developing nations. Includes global "green" legislation from proposal to enactment to enforcement; EU, UN, IMO, and OECD directives; international legislatures, regulatory agencies, and organizations.
  • Land Letter
    Land Letter is a weekly newsletter published by Environment and Energy Publishing, LLC that provides in-depth coverage of the latest developments in natural resources regulation, litigation, and legislation. With its sister publications, Environment and Energy Daily and Greenwire, Land Letter provides comprehensive coverage of the day’s environmental news.
  • LexisNexis Environmental
    LN Environmental contains the Environment Abstracts database as well as news, law reviews and commentary related to environmental issues. Has citations, abstracts, and selected full-text of published articles, papers and reports. Has federal and state codes and federal agency regulations; also federal and state case law and agency decisions.
  • Right-to-Know Planning Guide Report (BNA)
    Right-to-Know Planning Guide Report is a better source for news on federal and state compliance issues.
  • State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report (BNA)
    BNA's State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report provides a complete, up-to-date summary and overview of E&S regulations issued by all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, in an easy-to-read format as well as the environment and safety regulatory developments.
  • State Environment Daily (BNA)
    State Environment Daily provide superior coverage of major environmental legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
  • Toxics Law Daily (BNA)
    Toxics Law Daily covers litigation of toxic tort, hazardous waste, and related insurance litigation.
  • Toxics Law Reporter (BNA)
    Toxics Law Reporter provides comprehensive notification of toxic tort, hazardous waste, and related insurance litigation, from filings to final decisions. Weekly.
  • World Climate Change Report
    World Climate Change Report monitors the changing business and regulatory climate. Offers information on climate change legislation, regulation, policy, legal developments and trends.

Estate Planning

  • CCH Tax Research NetWork
    Online counterpart to CCH's many 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. User can search full text, browse by code section, or retrieve a document by its citation. Coverage: 1978 – present. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • Checkpoint (RIA)
    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.
  • Tax Management Estates, Gifts, and Trusts Journal (BNA)
    Contains reports of estate planning developments and planning opportunities.

Ethics/Professional Responsibility

European Union

Evidence

  • Digital Discovery and e-Evidence (BNA)
    Library providing analysis on the evidentiary value of electronic data in litigation, as well as the full-text of relevant cases, ethics opinions, and court rules.
  • Expert Evidence Report (BNA)
    Expert Evidence Report monitors the latest federal and state news and guidance relating to expert evidence -- including court rulings on discoverability, admissibility, and sufficiency of expert evidence, Daubert hearings, legislative proposals, and changes to federal rules -- in all litigation areas. An objective, results-oriented resource for plaintiffs' and defense lawyers.

Family Law

  • Family Law Reporter (BNA)
    A weekly newsletter offering updates on the legal developments of state and federal family law. This database contains all issues published since August 6, 1996.

Food and Drug Law

  • CCH Health and Human Resources Total Connect
    Health & Human Resources Total Connect provides access to articles on topics in health and human resources. Topics covered by this resource include workers’ safety, payroll, insurance, benefits, training, management and more. Primarily, this source provides access to the full text of federal and state laws that affect health and human resources, as well as information from a variety of government sources produced by agencies like OSHA, the FDA and more. Some full text is available. Title coverage varies. News content is updated daily. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • Medical Devices Law and Industry Report (BNA)
    The Medical devices law & industry report provides in-depth, interdisciplinary biweekly news coverage of major developments in the rapidly changing medical devices industry.
  • Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report (BNA)
    Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report provides regulatory and litigation developments affecting the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.

Foreign and Comparative Law

  • 19th Century British Pamphlets (JSTOR)
    Database of digitized pamphlets that are primary sources with which to study the socio-political and economic landscape of 19th century Britain. Contains: Bristol Selected Pamphlets, Cowen Tracts, Earl Grey Pamphlets Collection, Foreign and Commonwealth Office Collection, Hume Tracts, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection, LSE Selected Pamphlets.
  • Acts of the U.K. Parliament
    Acts of the U.K. Parliament provides links to the full text of all United Kingdom Parliament Public General Acts and all Local Acts as they were originally enacted. As an exception The European Communities Act 1972 and Northern Ireland Assembly Disqualification Act 1975 are also available.
  • Australian Public Affairs Full Text (APAFT)
    APAFT provides Internet access to the scanned images of journal articles from published material on the social sciences and humanities, with a focus on Australasian sources of information. Coverage: Full text: 1995- ; Index: 1978-.
  • British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) Membership
    BIICL membership includes web access to an archive of BIALL journal issues and access to other documents, such as papers and materials from events held by the Institute and copies of the Institute's annual reviews.
  • China Law and Practice
  • ChinaLawInfo
    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.
  • Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories Online
    Includes expert English translations of the constitutions of territories and dependencies and relevant federal constitutional provisions that define the relationship between the state and dependencies and territories. The author provides commentary that describes the interaction of the federal constitution with that of the dependency or territory.
  • Constitutions of the Countries of the World
    Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries. The database contains English translations for all the countries, plus introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical and political information. This is the electronic equivalent of the print version, Constitutions of the Countries of the world. Best when used with IE.
  • Current Legal Information (UK)
    Includes Current Law, Current Law Case Citator, BADGER Grey Paper Index, Legal Journals Index, and Financial Journals Index.
  • Electronic Journal of Comparative Law
    Publishes articles relating to comparative private and public law, comparative legal aspects of information technology and the methodology of comparative law. November 1997 (Vol.1, issue 1) – present.
  • English Reports
    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.
  • Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD) (HeinOnline)
    The Foreign and International Law Resources database contains image-based formats for many yearbooks and serials of international law from jurisdictions such as New Zealand, Africa, and the Baltics. Also included are U.S. Digests of International Law, the Permanent Court of International Justice Decisions, the International Court of Arbitration (Balch) and more titles that will be added in the continuing project to provide electronic access to the classics of international law, with a view to evidence of customary international law. Part of HeinOnline.
  • Foreign Law Guide
    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.
  • Ghana - Consolidated Laws
    A compilation of consolidated statutes in force from the colonial era to year 2006
  • Ghana - Consolidated Laws
    A compilation of consolidated statutes in force from the colonial era to year 2006
  • Ghana - Judgments
    A miscellaneous collection of Judgments from the Supreme Court, High Court and Court of Appeal from 1998-2006
  • Ghana Law Reports
    A comprehensive database that covers all the law Reports ever published in Ghana from 1959-1996 with its subject matter index.
  • Global Jurist
    Offers a forum for scholarly cyber-debate on issues of comparative law, law and economics, international law, law and development, and legal anthropology. Series includes Global Jurist Frontiers, Global Jurist Advances, and Global Jurist Topics.
  • Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
    The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources from various countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. The basic elements of this database are: (1) full texts of the documents in the official language of the country of origin; (2) summaries or abstracts in English; and (3) thesauri in English and in as many official languages as are represented in the database. The summaries or abstracts are linked electronically to the corresponding full texts.
  • Hansard (House of Lords Official Report; House of Commons Official Report)
    Hansard (the Official Report) is the edited verbatim report of proceedings in both Houses of the U.K. Parliament. Commons Hansard covers proceedings in the Commons Chamber, Westminster Hall and Standing Committees. Lords Hansard covers proceedings in the Lords Chamber and its Grand Committees. Both contain Written Ministerial Statements and Written Answers. Daily Debates are published on this website the next working day at 8 a.m.
  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
    Topical access to approximately 470 international and comparative law periodicals and 26 collections of essays. Coverage begins in 1985.
  • International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD)
    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.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Civil Procedure Online
    Also known as IEL Civil Procedure.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Constitutional Law Online
    Also known as IEL Constitutional Law.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Environmental Law Online
    Also known as IEL Environmental Law.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Intellectual Property Online
    Also known as IEL Intellectual Property.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Labour Law and Industrial Relations Online
    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.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Social Security Law Online
    Also known as IEL Social Security Law.
  • International Labor and Employment Laws (3d ed.) (BNA)
    This e-book provides country by country summaries and analysis of foreign labor and employment laws.
  • Iraq, 1914-1974 : the Middle East Online Series 2
    Iraq 1914-1974 offers a broad range of original source material from the Foreign Office, Colonial Office, War Office and Cabinet Papers covering the period from the Anglo-Indian landing in Basra in 1914 through the British Mandate in Iraq of 1920-32 to the rise of Saddam Hussein in 1974.
  • iSinoLaw.com
    Provides access to legislation and regulations, cases, arbitration awards, and legal news from the People's Republic of China. Information on China and the WTO is also available. Documents are available in English, Chinese, and Japanese. Please logout when you are finished using this database.
  • Israel Law Reports (HeinOnline)
    Israel Law Reports contains English translations of the most important recent judgments given by the Supreme Court of Israel.
  • Justis UK Statutes
    The Justis UK Statutes database (with JustCite add-on) contains the full text of all Acts of Parliament in England, Wales and Scotland as enacted from 1235 to the present day. UK Statutes is the only statute law database to contain Scottish Acts of Parliament and repealed legislation. All Acts appear as enacted, with links to amended and amending legislation allowing the user to trace the development of the law. A notable feature of the Justis services is the JustCite tabs, which provide users with a visual display of the path of legislation. (NB: Georgetown does not subscribe to Justis content other than UK Statutes and JustCite.)
  • LawInfoChina
    LawInfoChina is an English-language web site that publishes Chinese statutes, regulations, cases, government policies, legal news, treaties, law review articles, and law links.
  • Legal Journals Index
    The LJI Web database, which is part of the Current Legal Information service, comprises entries from both Legal Journals Index and European Legal Journals Index. These provide citations and brief abstracts to over 320 periodicals published in the UK (1986 - present) and Europe (1993 - present). Our link will take you to the main CLI page; choose LJI from the menu there.
  • London Gazette
    The London Gazette is the official London newspaper of the Crown. It contains all official proclamation, acts of Parliament, court proceedings and official financial proceedings and information. This free web site also provides access to the Edinburgh Gazette and the Belfast Gazette.
  • Manupatra
    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.
  • Mideastwire.com
    Mideastwire.com offers a daily email newsletter of concise, translated briefs covering some of the key political, cultural, economic and opinion pieces appearing in the media of the 22 Arab countries, Iran and the Arab Diaspora. Note: GMail is not recommended for the daily briefing since it tends to clip any long briefings after a certain size is reached. If you want to receive the daily briefing on a Blackberry, select the text sending option instead of HTML.
  • Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
    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.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Law Subject Collection
    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.
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674 to 1913
    The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is a fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of close to 200,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
  • Statutes of the Republic of Korea
    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."
  • U.K. Statute Law Database
    The U.K. Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online. Users can view amended legislation as it has changed over time, see how legislation will be affected by amendments not yet in force, see how legislation has been amended for different jurisdictions, navigate links between affecting and affected legislation, and search the text of legislation for words and phrases.
  • Uganda Online Library
    Uganda Online Library is a Ugandan legal database providing access to Chapters 1 - 364 in Volumes 1 to 13 of the Principal Laws of Uganda-2000 Revised Edition and Acts/Statutes from 2001 to date; judicial decisions of the Ugandan Supreme Court, Court of Appeal and High Court Judgments and Rulings on Constitutional Interpretations, Elections, Civil Procedure and Practice, Land Contract, Adoption and Children, Divorce and Domestic Relations, Criminal Law.
  • UKOP Online (Catalogue of UK Official Publications)
    The complete catalogue of United Kingdom official publications from 1980 to the present, including both those published by the Stationery Office (TSO) and departmental or "Non-Stationery Office" publications.
  • Vietnam Laws Online Database
    The Vietnam Laws Online Database is a searchable database of English translations of current laws of Vietnam. Topics covered include banking, contracts, environment, foreign investment, immigration, labor, and other primarily trade and commercial subjects.
  • vLex Global
    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.
  • World Law Reform Collection
    This database indexes law reform publications from 37 (mainly former Commonwealth) jurisdictions. Coverage is from 1999 onwards. In addition to indexing, PDF versions of some indexed publications are also provided, with plans to expand full-text coverage in the future.
  • Worldwide Tax Law (RIA)
    Part of Checkpoint (RIA). English translations of major tax and commercial laws from around the world. Includes income and corporate tax, value added tax, corporation law, trust law, commercial codes, environmental law, labor law, and bankruptcy.

Gender and the Law

  • Contemporary Women's Issues
    More than 1500 sources published by over 200 organizations around the world. Coverage begins with sources from 1992 and expands through the present with more than 150 periodicals in addition to non-periodical source publications. Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations. Access is provided on an annual subscription basis.
  • GenderWatch
    Full text database of diverse publications (including scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, government and NGO reports, etc.) that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. 1970-present.
  • LGBT Life with Full Text (GLBT Life)
    LGBT Life with Full Text contains all of the content available in the LGBT Life index as well as full text for 50 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as dozens of full text monographs. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 6,300 terms.

Health Law and Policy

  • BioTech Watch (BNA)
    Daily newsletter providing updates on the latest legislation, regulations, cases, and other legal developments involving biotechnology.  Database contains all issues published since April 23, 2001.
  • CCH Health and Human Resources Total Connect
    Health & Human Resources Total Connect provides access to articles on topics in health and human resources. Topics covered by this resource include workers’ safety, payroll, insurance, benefits, training, management and more. Primarily, this source provides access to the full text of federal and state laws that affect health and human resources, as well as information from a variety of government sources produced by agencies like OSHA, the FDA and more. Some full text is available. Title coverage varies. News content is updated daily. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • Health Affairs
    Health Affairs is a bimonthly, peer-reviewed journal that explores health policy issues of current concern.
  • Health Business Fulltext Elite
    Health Business Fulltext Elite provides full text for 420 periodicals detailing all aspects of health care administration and other non-clinical aspects of health care and institution management. Includes Delivery of Health Care, Health Services, Commerce, Economics, Organization and Administration, and Health Care Administration.
  • Health Care Daily Report (BNA)
    Daily newsletter providing information and analysis of federal, state, and private-sector health care policy and law topics.
  • Health Care Fraud Report (BNA)
    BNA's Health Care Fraud Report monitors a broad range of health care fraud and abuse issues in the private insurance industry, managed care organizations, and federal and state programs.
  • Health Care Policy Report (BNA)
    Electronic version of weekly publication with information and analysis of federal, state, and private-sector health care policy topics. Covers information on health insurers, insurance regulators, employers, tax specialists, consumer groups, health care providers, HMOs, fraud investigators, and other parties; Analysis & Perspective articles, interviews, special reports, and survey and study findings of influential research groups on health care matters. Also available in print in Williams Library, 5th floor, Call Number KF3821 .M26.
  • Health Law and Business Library (BNA)
    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.
  • Health Law Reporter (BNA)
    This database includes articles and information published on a weekly basis covering timely legal, legislative, regulatory, and health care news and trends. It compiles case law, statutory law, regulations and news items by topic.
  • Health Plan and Provider Report (BNA)
    Health Plan & Provider Report (BNA): This comprehensive, versatile resource delivers reliable, objective news coverage of the volatile managed care industry, including state and federal laws and policies affecting health plans and providers.
  • Life Sciences Law and Industry Report (BNA)
    Life Sciences Law & Industry Report provides biweekly updates on current regulatory, legislative, and legal issues relating to the life sciences industry.
  • Medical Devices Law and Industry Report (BNA)
    The Medical devices law & industry report provides in-depth, interdisciplinary biweekly news coverage of major developments in the rapidly changing medical devices industry.
  • Medical Research Law and Policy Report (BNA)
    Medical Research Law & Policy Report tracks the most significant regulatory and legal developments in medical research that can affect the way your practice, clients, and organization stay in compliance. Published bi-weekly.
  • Medicare Report (BNA)
    Published weekly, BNA's Medicare Report provides information about Medicare issues in today's volatile atmosphere with thorough, factual reporting and analysis of legislative, regulatory, legal, and health care industry developments.
  • National Journal Group
    NationalJournal.com incorporates content and resources from all branches of National Journal Group Inc.: CongressDaily, The Hotline, American Health Line, Technology Daily. Also features Hotline Mobile, polling results, campaign and issue ads, the online Almanac of American politics, "buzz" columns, a calendar of Washington events, and top stories from the weekly National Journal.
  • Nursing & Allied Health Collection (EBSCO)
    Designed for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers, this database provides full text for nearly 400 journals covering the areas of nursing, biomedicine, health sciences, consumer health and allied health disciplines.
  • Occupational Safety and Health Daily (BNA)
    Occupational Safety & Health Daily (BNA) provides articles on legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments affecting job safety and health, rely on the resource that OSHA officials themselves read.
  • Occupational Safety and Health Reporter (BNA)
    Occupational Safety & Health Reporter provides full coverage of the latest developments in federal and state occupational safety and health programs, standards, legislation, regulations, enforcement, and court and agency decisions. Published weekly. Coverage: 1996 -.
  • Pharmaceutical Law and Industry Report (BNA)
    Pharmaceutical Law & Industry Report provides regulatory and litigation developments affecting the pharmaceutical and biotech industries.
  • State Health Care Regulatory Developments (BNA)
    BNA's State Health Care Regulatory Developments provides up-to-date information on health care regulatory developments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.

Historic Preservation

  • Historic Preservation Research
    This resource collects the decisions issued by the Mayor's Agent of the District of Columbia. It also includes a comprehensive set of links to national and local sources of historic preservation information.

Human Rights

  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
    Scholarly documents from leading international relations research centers. Complete texts of working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Also provides access to relevant journal issues and books. Coverage: 1991 – present.
  • Contemporary Women's Issues
    More than 1500 sources published by over 200 organizations around the world. Coverage begins with sources from 1992 and expands through the present with more than 150 periodicals in addition to non-periodical source publications. Sources provide information dealing with women's issues in over 190 nations. Access is provided on an annual subscription basis.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    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.
  • Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD) (HeinOnline)
    The Foreign and International Law Resources database contains image-based formats for many yearbooks and serials of international law from jurisdictions such as New Zealand, Africa, and the Baltics. Also included are U.S. Digests of International Law, the Permanent Court of International Justice Decisions, the International Court of Arbitration (Balch) and more titles that will be added in the continuing project to provide electronic access to the classics of international law, with a view to evidence of customary international law. Part of HeinOnline.
  • GenderWatch
    Full text database of diverse publications (including scholarly journals, magazines, newspapers, government and NGO reports, etc.) that focus on the impact of gender across a broad spectrum of subject areas. 1970-present.
  • Human Rights Documents Online (Human Rights Internet)
    The web site constitutes a document center and an online resource for human rights materials the HRI has collected since 1976. The available databases include Human Rights Awards, Directory of Funding Organizations, Directory of Human Rights Organizations, Human Rights Publications, Directory of Children's Rights Organizations, Directory of Human Rights Educational Programs and the Internet Directory.
  • Official Document System of the United Nations
    Official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1992 is accessible in Portable Document Format (PDF) in all official languages of the United Nations - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Documents are stored in two databases, UN Documentation, which includes documents back to 1992 and UN Resolutions, which includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Collection includes: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General (MTDSG), UN Treaty Series, Certified True Copies of Treaties, and Depositary Notifications. Photographs of Treaty Signature ceremonies are included in the MTDSG portion of the site, as are Titles of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN Official Languages. Note: This site works best with Internet Explorer.

Immigration Law

  • TRACfed
    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.
  • Workplace Immigration Report (BNA)
    Workplace Immigration Report provides original reporting on workplace immigration news developments. It also offers guidance for employers on workplace immigration policies and practices.

Information Law

  • Privacy and Security Law Report (BNA)
    Privacy & Security Law Report (BNA) helps you keep pace with the new laws and rules in this emerging new practice area, with the latest privacy and security legal developments—from online marketing to employee screening to patient privacy.
  • Privacy Law Watch (BNA)
    Privacy Law Watch provides information about federal, state, and international developments affecting the privacy and accessibility of information about individuals. Published daily. Coverage: 2001 -.
  • World Data Protection Report (BNA)
    World Data Protection Report is your essential resource for ensuring you understand and keep up-to-date with the latest developments in privacy laws worldwide. Published monthly.

Insurance Law

  • Health Care Fraud Report (BNA)
    BNA's Health Care Fraud Report monitors a broad range of health care fraud and abuse issues in the private insurance industry, managed care organizations, and federal and state programs.
  • Health Plan and Provider Report (BNA)
    Health Plan & Provider Report (BNA): This comprehensive, versatile resource delivers reliable, objective news coverage of the volatile managed care industry, including state and federal laws and policies affecting health plans and providers.
  • Medicare Report (BNA)
    Published weekly, BNA's Medicare Report provides information about Medicare issues in today's volatile atmosphere with thorough, factual reporting and analysis of legislative, regulatory, legal, and health care industry developments.

Intellectual Property Law

  • BioTech Watch (BNA)
    Daily newsletter providing updates on the latest legislation, regulations, cases, and other legal developments involving biotechnology.  Database contains all issues published since April 23, 2001.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • Computer Technology Law Report (BNA)
    Coverage of legal developments in liability and insurance coverage issues relating to computers — from network security to packaging and protecting digital assets.
  • Intellectual Property Library (BNA)
    Electronic version of the publication which provides the full text of all decisions related to patents, copyrights and trademarks reported in United States Patents Quarterly from 1929 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process. Also available in print in the Williams Library, 5th floor, Call Number KF2975 .A2.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Intellectual Property Online
    Also known as IEL Intellectual Property.
  • Life Sciences Law and Industry Report (BNA)
    Life Sciences Law & Industry Report provides biweekly updates on current regulatory, legislative, and legal issues relating to the life sciences industry.
  • Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal (BNA)
    Weekly newsletter reporting on legal developments in the fields of patent, trademark, and copyright law. Coverage: Feb. 1996 to present.
  • Patent, Trademark and Copyright Law Daily (BNA)
    Daily newsletter reporting on legal developments in the fields of patent, trademark, and copyright law. Coverage: 2001 to present.
  • U.S. Patents Quarterly (BNA)
    Provides the full text of case law and administrative decisions on patent, trademark, copyright, and unfair trade practices. Includes cases from federal and state courts, and decisions of the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board and Board of Patent Appeals and Interferences.
  • World Intellectual Property Report (BNA)
    Provides monthly news and analysis of developments in the regulation and enforcement of intellectual property rights worldwide. Dates of coverage: 1997-.

International Arbitration

  • Investment Claims
    Investment Claims provides access to investment arbitration materials, including full-text investment awards, relevant international treaties (including bilateral investment treaties or BITs) and domestic legislation from the UK, Canada, Sweden, Germany and others; arbitral rules, and online versions of selected Oxford University Press arbitration books and journal articles. The Oxford Law Citator is a service carried through this and other Oxford Online collections which links each text to related commentary, cases cited, and relevant domestic legislation.
  • Kluwer Arbitration Database (KluwerArbitration.com)
    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.
  • Transnational Dispute Management ("TDM")
    Transnational Dispute Management is a combination of newsletter, review-journal, internet service and primary materials database which goes across disciplines and across the various areas of dispute management. It emphasizes mediation/ADR, conflict avoidance and commercial conflict management by bilateral negotiation or by third-party facilitated negotiation.

International Criminal Law

  • International Justice Tribune Newsletter and Archive
    The International Justice Tribune Newsletter covers international criminal justice and "publishes investigative articles and interviews about world-wide efforts to try war criminals, from the International Criminal Court to domestic courts. Created in March 2004 by four journalists, IJT is the successor to Diplomatie Judiciaire, a magazine that for seven years documented trials before the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Most of Diplomatie Judiciaire's invaluable reporting is now in IJT's archives."
  • Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts
    International Law in Domestic Courts is a case reporting service including important public international law issues being decided in national courts around the world today. Legal experts in over 60 countries identify the most significant cases and analyze the decisions in those cases. Full text judgments are included, as are authoritative English translations of key passages. This database is searchable by country, key word, or topic.

International Environmental Law

  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Environmental Law Online
    Also known as IEL Environmental Law.
  • International Environment Daily (BNA)
    Database provides content from the daily publication (coverage begins January 2, 2001). Covers developments in environmental, natural resource, and chemicals issues, in all major industrialized and developing nations and in international governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Includes "green" legislation worldwide; EU, UN, IMO, and OECD directives; international legislatures, regulatory agencies, and organizations; political, economic, and technological factors affecting environmental programs in the U.S. and around the world; institutional framework for environmental programs in other countries; crucial developments in international law, such as climate change, POPs, the Basel Treaty, and sustainable development.
  • International Environment Reporter ( BNA)
    Electronic version of the biweekly publication (coverage begins February 7, 1996). Covers international environmental law and policy in the major industrialized and developing nations. Includes global "green" legislation from proposal to enactment to enforcement; EU, UN, IMO, and OECD directives; international legislatures, regulatory agencies, and organizations.
  • World Climate Change Report
    World Climate Change Report monitors the changing business and regulatory climate. Offers information on climate change legislation, regulation, policy, legal developments and trends.

International Finance

  • European Business
    Includes articles from over 150 sources with European business contents, including The Economist, Fortune, European Business Journal. Over 90% of these sources are available in full text. Coverage varies by source.
  • GDF (Global Development Finance) Online
    GDF Online presents statistics on public and publicly guaranteed debt of 146 countries and regional and income groups. It lets the user get a credit valuation of the country for those interested in investment prospects. Contains many types of data from the World Bank Debtor Reporting System. Data may be displayed as tables, charts, or maps, or exported as Excel or ASCII files. The annual print compilation of data, Global Development Finance, is in Williams Library at HJ8899 .W672 (latest volume in Reference).
  • Global Financial Database
    Global Financial Database is a source for historical stock market, financial, and economic data, some of which is unavailable from any other online source. The GFDatabase includes over 8500 current and historical data series covering over 200 countries that have been collected from original sources. Many of the series extend back two centuries.
  • International Business and Finance Daily (BNA)
    Database provides content from the daily publication (coverage begins January 2, 2001). Covers business news and financial reporting from reliable sources in the United States and around the world; key policy and regulatory developments in the U.S. and abroad; actions and initiatives of government agencies, nongovernmental organizations, and other standard setting and regulatory bodies worldwide.
  • Investment Claims
    Investment Claims provides access to investment arbitration materials, including full-text investment awards, relevant international treaties (including bilateral investment treaties or BITs) and domestic legislation from the UK, Canada, Sweden, Germany and others; arbitral rules, and online versions of selected Oxford University Press arbitration books and journal articles. The Oxford Law Citator is a service carried through this and other Oxford Online collections which links each text to related commentary, cases cited, and relevant domestic legislation.
  • World Securities Law Report (BNA)
    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. Dates of coverage: September 2004-.

International Immigration Law

  • Constitutions of the Countries of the World
    Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries. The database contains English translations for all the countries, plus introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical and political information. This is the electronic equivalent of the print version, Constitutions of the Countries of the world. Best when used with IE.
  • Foreign Law Guide
    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.
  • Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)
    The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources from various countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. The basic elements of this database are: (1) full texts of the documents in the official language of the country of origin; (2) summaries or abstracts in English; and (3) thesauri in English and in as many official languages as are represented in the database. The summaries or abstracts are linked electronically to the corresponding full texts.
  • Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts
    International Law in Domestic Courts is a case reporting service including important public international law issues being decided in national courts around the world today. Legal experts in over 60 countries identify the most significant cases and analyze the decisions in those cases. Full text judgments are included, as are authoritative English translations of key passages. This database is searchable by country, key word, or topic.

International Intellectual Property

International Law in General

  • AccessUN
    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. Publications
  • Armed Conflict Database
    Armed Conflict Database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, including information on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons, weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, and timelines. Users can generate reports, download data, and browse through year-by-year analysis and fact sheets online.
  • British Institute of International and Comparative Law (BIICL) Membership
    BIICL membership includes web access to an archive of BIALL journal issues and access to other documents, such as papers and materials from events held by the Institute and copies of the Institute's annual reviews.
  • EISIL: Electronic Information System for International Law
    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.
  • Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD) (HeinOnline)
    The Foreign and International Law Resources database contains image-based formats for many yearbooks and serials of international law from jurisdictions such as New Zealand, Africa, and the Baltics. Also included are U.S. Digests of International Law, the Permanent Court of International Justice Decisions, the International Court of Arbitration (Balch) and more titles that will be added in the continuing project to provide electronic access to the classics of international law, with a view to evidence of customary international law. Part of HeinOnline.
  • Global Jurist
    Offers a forum for scholarly cyber-debate on issues of comparative law, law and economics, international law, law and development, and legal anthropology. Series includes Global Jurist Frontiers, Global Jurist Advances, and Global Jurist Topics.
  • Human Rights Documents Online (Human Rights Internet)
    The web site constitutes a document center and an online resource for human rights materials the HRI has collected since 1976. The available databases include Human Rights Awards, Directory of Funding Organizations, Directory of Human Rights Organizations, Human Rights Publications, Directory of Children's Rights Organizations, Directory of Human Rights Educational Programs and the Internet Directory.
  • i.lex: The Legal Research System for International Law in U.S. Courts
    This online database of select U.S. court cases and related materials is designed to serve as a practical resource for members of the judiciary and other legal professionals to identify and understand how international law is interpreted and applied by U.S. courts at both the federal and state level.
  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
    Topical access to approximately 470 international and comparative law periodicals and 26 collections of essays. Coverage begins in 1985.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Labour Law and Industrial Relations Online
    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.
  • International Encyclopedia of Laws: Social Security Law Online
    Also known as IEL Social Security Law.
  • International Environment Daily (BNA)
    Database provides content from the daily publication (coverage begins January 2, 2001). Covers developments in environmental, natural resource, and chemicals issues, in all major industrialized and developing nations and in international governmental and nongovernmental organizations. Includes "green" legislation worldwide; EU, UN, IMO, and OECD directives; international legislatures, regulatory agencies, and organizations; political, economic, and technological factors affecting environmental programs in the U.S. and around the world; institutional framework for environmental programs in other countries; crucial developments in international law, such as climate change, POPs, the Basel Treaty, and sustainable development.
  • International Environment Reporter ( BNA)
    Electronic version of the biweekly publication (coverage begins February 7, 1996). Covers international environmental law and policy in the major industrialized and developing nations. Includes global "green" legislation from proposal to enactment to enforcement; EU, UN, IMO, and OECD directives; international legislatures, regulatory agencies, and organizations.
  • International Justice Tribune Newsletter and Archive
    The International Justice Tribune Newsletter covers international criminal justice and "publishes investigative articles and interviews about world-wide efforts to try war criminals, from the International Criminal Court to domestic courts. Created in March 2004 by four journalists, IJT is the successor to Diplomatie Judiciaire, a magazine that for seven years documented trials before the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Most of Diplomatie Judiciaire's invaluable reporting is now in IJT's archives."
  • International Tax Monitor (BNA)
    This database provides news and analysis from the world=s financial and business centers, focused on tax and accounting developments affecting transnational enterprises. Covers legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments from U.S. legislative, judicial and executive branches. Tracks global tax developments in the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia, Brazil, and other countries. Provides information about the activities of foreign tax authorities and other government and industry groups, as well as current news on international operations. Collects information on tax proposals, regulations, and laws from worldwide sources. Daily coverage from February 6, 2001.
  • Journal of Philosophy of International Law
    A peer-reviewed journal promoting legal reflection on the foundations of international law which could give rise to philosophical questions, and promoting philosophical reflections on the nature of the international legal order.
  • Kluwer Law International e-Books
    The KLI eBook Collection, which is hosted on the MyiLibrary platform, contains 59 books published by Kluwer Law International. GULLiver contains bibliographic records, with links, for all the titles in the collection. By using the link here, you can search the contents of all the books simultaneously.
  • Kluwer Law International Journal Library (HeinOnline)
    This HeinOnline Library contains 12 European periodicals published by Wolters Kluwer. Searching can be done by title or author name, as well as by full-text searching of the collection or select periodicals. Coverage is from v. 1, but HeinOnline must delay the release of new content by three complete volumes, per contract with the publisher.
  • Kluwer Law Journals Online
    Also known as KLI Journals Online. Georgetown has electronic access to those Kluwer Law International Journals (KLI Journals Online) that we subscribe to in print and that are available on the web. NOTE: The Library does not subscribe to all titles that are listed on the Kluwer web site. For a complete list of titles to which we subscribe, see http://gull.georgetown.edu/record=e100104.
  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online
    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.
  • Oxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction
    ICGJ aims to provide all ORIL users with comprehensive coverage of decisions from the most important and general international courts. It covers all contentious and advisory cases from the International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice. Basic orders regarding the setting of time limits for the filing of written and/or oral submissions by the parties are excluded from this content set. The interface is Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL).
  • Oxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts
    International Law in Domestic Courts is a case reporting service including important public international law issues being decided in national courts around the world today. Legal experts in over 60 countries identify the most significant cases and analyze the decisions in those cases. Full text judgments are included, as are authoritative English translations of key passages. This database is searchable by country, key word, or topic.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online: Law Subject Collection
    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.
  • Recueil des Cours en ligne (Collected Courses Online - Hague Academy)
    Collected Courses Online is an electronic version of courses published by the Hague Academy of International Law from 1923 to the present day. This collection of courses (i.e., lectures or essays) is one of the most important encyclopedic publications on private and public international law. At this site, you can search the collection by volume, year, author, or keyword and retrieve scanned copies of the print essays.
  • SourceOECD
    This collection of publications by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a rich resource of statistics, public policy research and economics data. Known for its thorough research and high quality data analysis, OECD publications are useful in law-related research, particularly on foreign nations.
  • TIARA: US Treaties and International Agreements
    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.
  • United Nations Law Collection (HeinOnline)
    This database adds a selection of major yearbooks, official records, and series in scanned format for the United Nations historically and also includes material from currently published titles. It is searchable and will be further expanded in future releases. Sample titles include the complete documentary “Legislative History” of the United Nations Conference on International Organization held in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945 and the UNCITRAL Yearbook, and many more. Part of HeinOnline.
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Collection includes: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General (MTDSG), UN Treaty Series, Certified True Copies of Treaties, and Depositary Notifications. Photographs of Treaty Signature ceremonies are included in the MTDSG portion of the site, as are Titles of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN Official Languages. Note: This site works best with Internet Explorer.
  • vLex Global
    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.
  • World Trade Online
    Immediate access to the latest in trade news. Each day's complete issue of Inside U.S. Trade, plus retrospective coverage going back 5 years. Also available: news from around the world and exclusive special reports.
  • Worldtradelaw.net
    Provides detailed summaries and commentaries on WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports. Each document provides a basic summary of the panel's or Appellate Body's legal findings and conclusions, a timeline, references to other reports and materials, and expert analysis on many of the key issues in the report. There is also access to the full text of the Panel and Appellate Reports. See Dispute Settlement Commentary Subscriber Log-in Area to access the commentaries.
  • WTO Reporter (BNA)
    Daily coverage of news developments from and about the World Trade Organization.

International Organizations

  • AccessUN
    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. Publications
  • Human Rights Documents Online (Human Rights Internet)
    The web site constitutes a document center and an online resource for human rights materials the HRI has collected since 1976. The available databases include Human Rights Awards, Directory of Funding Organizations, Directory of Human Rights Organizations, Human Rights Publications, Directory of Children's Rights Organizations, Directory of Human Rights Educational Programs and the Internet Directory.
  • Official Document System of the United Nations
    Official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1992 is accessible in Portable Document Format (PDF) in all official languages of the United Nations - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Documents are stored in two databases, UN Documentation, which includes documents back to 1992 and UN Resolutions, which includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
  • SourceOECD
    This collection of publications by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a rich resource of statistics, public policy research and economics data. Known for its thorough research and high quality data analysis, OECD publications are useful in law-related research, particularly on foreign nations.
  • UNdata: A World of Information
    UNdata provides official statistics produced by countries and compiled by the U.N. data system, as well as estimates and projections. The domains covered are agriculture, education, energy, industry, labour, national accounts, population and tourism. Also included are indicators such as millennium development goals.
  • United Nations Law Collection (HeinOnline)
    This database adds a selection of major yearbooks, official records, and series in scanned format for the United Nations historically and also includes material from currently published titles. It is searchable and will be further expanded in future releases. Sample titles include the complete documentary “Legislative History” of the United Nations Conference on International Organization held in San Francisco from April 25 to June 26, 1945 and the UNCITRAL Yearbook, and many more. Part of HeinOnline.
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Collection includes: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General (MTDSG), UN Treaty Series, Certified True Copies of Treaties, and Depositary Notifications. Photographs of Treaty Signature ceremonies are included in the MTDSG portion of the site, as are Titles of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN Official Languages. Note: This site works best with Internet Explorer.
  • Worldtradelaw.net
    Provides detailed summaries and commentaries on WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports. Each document provides a basic summary of the panel's or Appellate Body's legal findings and conclusions, a timeline, references to other reports and materials, and expert analysis on many of the key issues in the report. There is also access to the full text of the Panel and Appellate Reports. See Dispute Settlement Commentary Subscriber Log-in Area to access the commentaries.
  • WTO Reporter (BNA)
    Daily coverage of news developments from and about the World Trade Organization.

International Taxation

  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • CCH Tax Research NetWork
    Online counterpart to CCH's many 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. User can search full text, browse by code section, or retrieve a document by its citation. Coverage: 1978 – present. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD)
    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.
  • International Tax Library (RIA)
    International Tax Library permits simultaneous searches of analytical and primary source materials. It includes tax treatises and WG&L journals. It also includes the Worldwide Tax Law database, which provides English translations of tax and commercial laws from jurisdictions around the world. This collection is the electronic version of the sets called Tax Laws of the World (Wolff Library: K4504.15 1964) and Commercial Laws of the World (Wolff Library: K1004.15 1976). Georgetown's subscription also provides access to U.S. International Transfer Pricing. Acessed through Checkpoint. Choose "International" in the drop-down box under "Practice Area."
  • International Tax Monitor (BNA)
    This database provides news and analysis from the world=s financial and business centers, focused on tax and accounting developments affecting transnational enterprises. Covers legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments from U.S. legislative, judicial and executive branches. Tracks global tax developments in the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia, Brazil, and other countries. Provides information about the activities of foreign tax authorities and other government and industry groups, as well as current news on international operations. Collects information on tax proposals, regulations, and laws from worldwide sources. Daily coverage from February 6, 2001.
  • Tax Management International Journal (BNA)

  • Tax Management Portfolio Collection (BNA)
    Full text access to BNA’s Federal Tax Management Portfolios, which provide in-depth expert explanations on issues of income tax (individual, corporate, and partnership), estate and gift tax (including trusts and estate planning), employee benefits, state and foreign tax. Special tables provide brief 50-state overviews on selected issues.
  • Tax Management Transfer Pricing Report (BNA)
    Provides news and analysis on U.S. and foreign governments' tax policies regarding intercompany transfer pricing and helps companies structure their operations to avoid double taxation. Dates of coverage: 1996-.
  • Tax Planning International Corporate Restructuring (BNA)
    Covers tax issues related to restructuring transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, securitization, debt and foreign investment. Published monthly.
  • Tax Planning International European Tax Service (BNA)
    Tax Planning International European Tax Service is a biweekly briefing service on EU tax legislation and its implementation within member states.
  • Tax Planning International Review (BNA)
    Tax Planning International Review is a monthly publication that covers new tax developments and monitors how tax issues are being handled worldwide.
  • Tax Planning International: Asia-Pacific Focus (BNA)
    Tax Planning International: Asia-Pacific Focus contains in-depth articles on tax developments, legislative updates, and tax planning issues in Asia-Pacific countries, as well as essential tax briefings on the region.
  • Tax Planning International: Indirect Taxes (BNA)
    Tax Planning International: Indirect Taxes contains up-to-date information and analysis on how indirect taxes are handled around the world. Published monthly.
  • Tax Planning International: Transfer Pricing (BNA)
    Tax Planning International: Transfer Pricing provides detailed, expert analysis of legislative developments in the growing world of transfer pricing regulation. Published monthly.
  • Worldwide Tax Law (RIA)
    Part of Checkpoint (RIA). English translations of major tax and commercial laws from around the world. Includes income and corporate tax, value added tax, corporation law, trust law, commercial codes, environmental law, labor law, and bankruptcy.

Jurisprudence

  • American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)
    Contains the Restatements (including superseded and draft versions), proceedings, reports and other special publications published by the ALI. Also includes the Uniform Commercial Code, with drafts and superseded versions. Also provides ALI-ABA periodicals and material from the Statement of Essential Human Rights archive. Part of HeinOnline.
  • B. E. Issues in Legal Scholarship
    Web based journal that offers academic analyses of law and law related subjects, in private and public law as well as ancillary disciplines like legal history and jurisprudence.
  • Bepress Journals
    Bepress Journals is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from several primary sources: the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals; all working papers, preprints and other "grey literature" content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive.
  • Bepress Legal Repository
    The Bepress Legal Repository is a network of law-related research materials. Law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and other subject-appropriate groups post working papers to the repository. This content may be downloaded freely by interested readers. The NELLCO Legal Repository is a subset of the Bepress Legal Repository. Sign up for emailed notices of newly posted scholarship or to get RSS feeds from the Legal Repository.
  • Journal of Philosophy of International Law
    A peer-reviewed journal promoting legal reflection on the foundations of international law which could give rise to philosophical questions, and promoting philosophical reflections on the nature of the international legal order.
  • Legal Scholarship Network
    The goal of LSN is to facilitate the distribution of scholarly information related to law. LSN is part of the Social Science Research Network, a larger collection of working papers that includes scholarly materials from the fields of economics, finance, accounting, and marketing. LSN issues a series of electronic journals of abstracts -- of working papers as well as articles accepted for publication -- in various areas of law. These abstracts are distributed principally via email, over the Internet, along with weekly announcements. In addition, law school working papers are posted on the LSN website for downloading in Adobe Acrobat format. GULC faculty, staff and students can register to receive email from LSN by using this form.
  • Oxford Companion to American Law
    The Oxford Companion to American Law takes as its starting point the insight that law is embedded in society, and that to understand American law one must necessarily ask questions about the relationship between it and the social order, now and in the past. The volume assumes that American law, in all its richness and complexity, cannot be understood in isolation, as simply the business of the Supreme Court, or as a list of common law doctrines. Hence, the volume takes seriously issues involving laws role in structuring decisions about governance, the significance of state and local law and legal institutions, and the place of American law in a comparative international perspective. Nearly 500 entries are included, written by over 300 expert contributors.
  • ResearchNow: bepress Journals, Working Papers, Repository Materials
    ResearchNow is a database of scholarly information drawing its content from several primary sources: the roster of peer-reviewed, Berkeley Electronic Press journals; all working papers, preprints and other "grey literature" content from institutional repositories hosted by bepress that have opted for inclusion, as well as subject-matter repository materials from the bepress Legal Repository and COBRA: Collection of Biostatistics Research Archive.
  • SSRN (Social Science Research Network)
    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.
  • Taylor & Francis Journals Online
    Taylor & Francis imprints include Routledge, Carfax, Frank Cass, and others. Many Taylor & Francis titles are accessible individually via the "All University" E-Journal Finder on TDNet. Access to T & F journals is via the Informaworld platform. (Subjects include Chemistry, Mathematics, and Physics as well as behavioral science and biomedical journals from Informa Healthcare.) Individual titles are listed in GULLiver.
  • West's Encyclopedia of American Law
    West's Encyclopedia of American Law provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. It includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. It covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide. Accessed via the Gale Virtual Reference Library. The multi-volume print version of this publication is in the Williams Reference collection at KF156 .G78 2005.

Legal Education

  • CALI
    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.
  • National Moot Court Competition (HeinOnline)
    The National Moot Court Competition library in HeinOnline contains records, briefs and related organizational materials from the 1st-58th (1950-2008) annual National Moot Court Competitions.

Legal History

  • 17th - 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers
    The Burney Collection, sourced from the British Library, is an archive of newspapers and news pamphlets (approximately 1,270 titles) gathered by Reverend Charles Burney (b. 1757-d. 1817). See title list. Although the majority of materials were published in London, there are some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, as well as a handful of examples from the American colonies.
  • 19th Century Masterfile
    19th Century Masterfile features an integrated and enhanced version of Poole's Index to Periodical Literature as its centerpiece, rounded out by a number of other general and publication-specific indexes to the contents of nineteenth-century journals, newspapers, and books. Includes Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922), Palmer's Index to the Times (London) (1880-1890) and other indices.
  • America: History and Life
    Primary index to research in U.S. and Canadian history. Provides abstracts of scholarly literature on the history and culture of the U.S. and Canada from pre–historic times to the present. Covers 1800 journals in many languages and includes citations to book reviews, media reviews and dissertations. Coverage: 1954 – present.
  • Anglo-American Legal Tradition (AALT)
    AALT contains documents from medieval and early modern England from the National Archives in London. Documents are "digitized and displayed through The O'Quinn Law Library of the University of Houston Law Center by license of the National Archives."
  • Archive Finder (ArchivesUSA)
    Archive Finder brings together ArchivesUSA and NIDS UK/Ireland). ArchivesUSA is a current directory of over 5,500 repositories and more than 161,000 collections of primary source material across the United States. NIDS UK/Ireland is a major reference work that reproduces on microfiche the finding aids to thousands of archive and manuscript collections in libraries and record offices, museums and private collections throughout the UK and Ireland. Used together in Archive Finder, researchers are able to read descriptions of a repository's holdings to determine whether a collection contains material useful to their work as well as find the information they need to contact the repository directly.
  • Avalon Project
    The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Major documents collections include The American Constitution: A Documentary RecordThe Federalist Papers, American Diplomacy: Bilateral Treaties 1778-1999, and American Diplomacy: Multilateral Treaties 1864-1999.
  • British Periodicals
    British Periodicals Collection I provides access to the searchable full text of more than 160 British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. Topics covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences. Collection II consists of more than 300 journals from the UMI microfilm collections English Literary Periodicals and British Periodicals in the Creative Arts together with additional titles.Topics covered include literature, music, art, drama, archaeology and architecture. On completion, this digital archive will consist of almost 500 periodical runs published from the 1680s to the 1930s.
  • Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
    A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875. It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates; the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate (1789-1875); the Journal of William Maclay (1789-91); the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State Papers (1789-1838); and congressional bills and resolutions for selected sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799) in the House of Representatives and the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate. A select number of documents and reports from the monumental U.S. Congressional Serial Set are available as well.
  • Declassified Documents Reference System - U.S.
    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.
  • Digital National Security Archive
    Contains more than 35,000 declassified primary documents that led to policy decisions. Covers such areas as Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, etc.
  • Early English Books Online (EEBO)
    EEBO is a full-text electronic collection of images of all books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in the English language in any country from 1475 through 1700. It includes the works listed in: --Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (printed materials published in English from 1475 to 1640) --Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (printed materials published in English from 1641 to 1700) --Thomason Tracts (compendium of broadsides on the English Civil War printed between 1640 and 1661).
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
    ECCO contains digital images of every page of 180,000 titles published during the 18th century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. It offers full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages.
  • English Reports
    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.
  • LLMC Digital
    Electronic database of historical legal materials containing case reporters, statutes of the U.S. and selected foreign nations, U.S. government documents, and many other legal materials. A rich source for legal history researchers.
  • Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
    Full-text searchable collection of 21,000 British and American legal treatises from the 19th and early 20th centuries. The 10 million+ pages available in this database are viewable as PDF images. Content was originally published in the microfilm sets “Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises” and “Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises.”
  • Making of Modern Law: Trials 1620-1926
    The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is comprised primarily of holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries. The Harvard collection contains a vast number of popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes. The overall archive comprising more than 10,000 titles and almost two million pages also contains unique documents from the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. It includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs, and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
  • Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
    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.
  • Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
    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.
  • Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London, 1674 to 1913
    The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is a fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of close to 200,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.
  • Rise of American Law
    The Rise of American Law on Westlaw contains more than 1,700 out-of-print secondary law volumes, divided into 6 databases. Titles, which are from the period from 1840 to 1970, include treatises, encyclopedias, histories, commentaries, international law. Westlaw password required.
  • Selden Society Publications and the Early History of English Law (HeinOnline)
    The initial release of this collection contains official publications from the Selden Society, including the Selden Society Annual Series vols. 1-117 (1887-2000), the Supplementary Series vols. 1-13 (1965-2000), and the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society. Also included are links to law review articles that discuss the development of early English history, plus English legal history classics.
  • U.S. Congressional Documents (HeinOnline)
    Includes Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, Congressional Globe, Congressional Record, American State Papers, Journals of the Constitutional Congress.
  • West's Encyclopedia of American Law
    West's Encyclopedia of American Law provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics. It includes completely revised articles covering important issues, biographies, definitions of legal terms and more. It covers such high-profile topics as the Americans with Disabilities Act, capital punishment, domestic violence, gay and lesbian rights, and physician-assisted suicide. Accessed via the Gale Virtual Reference Library. The multi-volume print version of this publication is in the Williams Reference collection at KF156 .G78 2005.
  • World Trials Library (HeinOnline)
    The World Trials Library on HeinOnline contains, "in addition to 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."

Legal Research

  • AltLaw
    AltLaw is a full-text search engine for U.S. Supreme Court cases (back to 1803) and published Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions  from 1950 to the present. Unpublished Circuit Court opinions are available from 1996 on. A work in progress, it is a joint project of Columbia Law School's Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.
  • Fastcase
    Online 50-state and federal case law database. Also known as the Public Library of Law (PLoL).
  • HeinOnline
    Legal database that contains the full text of legal documents in pdf format, in several collections. The Law Journal Library contains articles from most major law reviews and law journals. Approximately 650 law journals and reviews are included, beginning with the inception date of each publication. Individual journals, or the entire collection, are fully searchable by author or word in title, or keyword or phrase in full text. The Federal Register Library contains the only electronic version of all Federal Register issues. The Treaties and Agreements Library contains all U.S. treaties and agreements, whether in force, expired, or yet-to-be published.
  • Legal Periodicals and Books (formerly ILP)
    Database of article listings from nearly 1,000 English language legal periodicals & law books published from 1982 to the present. Publications include law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, & government publications. Can be searched together with Legal Periodicals & Books Retro database (1918 to 1981). Available in print in the Williams Library Reading Room and Wolff Library reference at call number KF8 .I4 (Index to Legal Periodicals and Books).
  • Legal Periodicals and Books (ILP) Retrospective
    Database of article listings from over 750 legal periodicals & law books published from 1918 to 1981 in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Publications include law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, & government publications. Content also includes annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic. Can be searched together with Legal Periodicals and Books database (1982 to present). Available in print in the Williams Library Reading Room and Wolff Library reference at call number KF8 .I4 (Index to Legal Periodicals and Books).
  • LegalTrac (formerly Legal Resource Index/LRI)
    Provides cumulative indexing of approximately 875 legal publications. Also includes law related articles from more than 1,000 additional business and general interest periodicals. Coverage begins in 1980. Also available in print as the Current Law Index (Williams Reading Room KF8 .C8).
  • LexisNexis for Law Schools
    Comprehensive database of legal and non-legal resources. Comprehensive database of legal and non-legal resources.
  • LoisLaw for Law Schools
    Loislaw includes case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules, and other authority for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Loislaw also offers an electronic clip service and a citator (GlobalCite). There are no restrictions and no blackout periods, including during the summer. Registered users also receive six months free access after graduation.
  • Westlaw for Law Schools
    Comprehensive database of legal and nonlegal sources.

Legal Writing

  • Chicago Manual of Style
    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 fifteenth 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.

Legislative History

  • Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
    A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation consists of a linked set of published congressional records of the United States of America from the Continental Congress through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875. It includes the Journals of the Continental Congress (1774-89); the Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89); the Records of the Federal Convention of 1787, or Farrand's Records, and the Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (1787-88), or Elliot's Debates; the Journals of the House of Representatives (1789-1875) and the Senate (1789-1875); the Journal of William Maclay (1789-91); the debates of Congress as published in the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-37), Congressional Globe (1833-73), and Congressional Record (1873-75); the Statutes at Large (1789-1875); the American State Papers (1789-1838); and congressional bills and resolutions for selected sessions beginning with the 6th Congress (1799) in the House of Representatives and the 16th Congress (1819) in the Senate. A select number of documents and reports from the monumental U.S. Congressional Serial Set are available as well.
  • CQ Electronic Library
    The CQ Electronic Library provides access to and search capability across several CQ publications, incluiding CQ Researcher, CQ Weekly, Congressional Staff Directory, Judicial Staff Directory, CQ Press Political Reference Suite, and the Supreme Court Compendium.
  • CQ Researcher
    Publishes 12,000-word reports covering the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more on a weekly basis. Includes all CQ Researcher reports published since 1991.
  • CQ Weekly
    Provides nonpartisan news and analysis on the United States Congress. The service includes access to the full text of all articles published since 1983.
  • CQ.com
    CQ.com contains the latest news pertaining to activities in Congress. BillTrack tracks bills from introduction to passage, with the most detailed legislative histories available. Bill Text contains the full, searchable text of all bill versions, with links to a PDF version of the bill from the GPO web site. Bill Comparison enables you to find the differences in language between two versions of the same bill, two related bills, or any two bills from the 104th to the current Congress. CQ Schedules is a continually updated calendar of legislative and policy events in the House, Senate and around Washington.
  • GPO Access
    Provides the full text of important government documents, including Budget of the United States Government; Code of Federal Regulations (1996-); Federal Register (1995-); Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1992-); United States Government Manual; and the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993-); federal congressional bills (1993-); the Congressional Record (1994-); the United States Code; and the United States Constitution.
  • LexisNexis Congressional (formerly Congressional Universe)
    Full text and indexing of U.S. Congressional documents. Indexing begins with the 1st Congress. Full text coverage as follows: Bills from 1989; Hearings from 1994 (some older documents also available); Committee Reports & other Serial Set documents from 1789-1969 and 1990-current; the Congressional Record from 1985; Public Laws from 1987. Also CIS Legislative Histories from 1969; and information about current members of Congress and congressional committees; hot bills and topics; The Hill (1995-); The Washington Post (1977-).
  • LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
    Full text of published and unpublished Congressional Committee Hearings, including transcripts, oral statements, committee questions and discussion, related reports, statistical analyses, correspondence, exhibits and articles. Published Hearings are currently available from 1975-1983. The addition of years is ongoing. A complete collection of published and unpublished Hearings from 1823 to 2003 will be available by 2009.
  • LexisNexis Congressional Record Digital Collection
    Full text of the Congressional Record Bound Edition from 1789-1997 in PDF format, including Congressional Record (1873-1997), the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873).
  • LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection
    The Congressional Research Digital Collection contains full text of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports since 1916 and selected full text of committee prints since 1830. Access through the "Advanced Search" tab of LexisNexis Congressional.
  • LexisNexis Congressional Serial Set
    The LexisNexis Congressional Serial Set I & II database includes indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for all U.S. Congressional Serial Set publications from 1789-1969 and 1970-2003. The Serial Set contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. LexisNexis is digitizing this collection incrementally on a chronological basis. Roughly 60% of the pages from 1970-2003 will be online by the end of 2009, with the remainder going online in 2010. Access is through the "Advanced Search" tab of LexisNexis Congressional.
  • LexisNexis State Capital
    LN State Capital provides access to bills, laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, legislature membership and newspapers of record for all the states.
  • Session Laws Library (HeinOnline)
    The Session Laws Library contains session laws for the United States, Canada, the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The U.S. Statutes at Large are available from 1789 forward, in PDF format.
  • THOMAS
    Includes: full text of bills and resolutions: 1989-present (101st Congress forward); summary information about bills and resolutions: 1973-present (93rd Congress forward); Congressional Record: 1989-present (101st Congress forward); committee reports: 1995-present (104th Congress forward); presidential nominations: 1987-present (100th Congress forward); treaties: 1967-present (90th Congress forward).
  • U.S. Congressional Documents (HeinOnline)
    Includes Annals of Congress, Register of Debates, Congressional Globe, Congressional Record, American State Papers, Journals of the Constitutional Congress.

National Security

  • Armed Conflict Database
    Armed Conflict Database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, including information on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons, weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, and timelines. Users can generate reports, download data, and browse through year-by-year analysis and fact sheets online.
  • Digital National Security Archive
    Contains more than 35,000 declassified primary documents that led to policy decisions. Covers such areas as Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, etc.
  • Homeland Security Briefing (BNA)
    Homeland Security Briefing is a daily newsletter that covers significant federal and state actions related to security and antiterrorist policies, focusing on developments at the Department of Homeland Security, congressional oversight and funding of the agency, and the effects of nationwide implementation of the federal PATRIOT Act.
  • Homeland Security Digital Library
    The HSDL collection provides quick access to important 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. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy.
  • Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
    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.

Native American Law

  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    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.
  • HAPI: Hispanic American Periodicals Index
    Bibliographic citations to articles, book reviews (through 2001), documents, original literary works, and other materials appearing in more than 500 key social science and humanities journals published throughout the world, from 1970 to the present. Covers Central and South America, Mexico, the Caribbean, and Hispanics in the U.S. Many of the citations are linked to full text. Document delivery service is available for many items in the database, for a fee.

Philosophy, Religion, & Religious Law

  • ATLA Religion Database
    The ATLA Religion Database, produced by the American Theological Library Association, is a compilation of three print indexes: Religion Index One: Periodicals (RIO(R)), Religion Index Two: Multi-Author Works (RIT(R)), and Index to Book Reviews in Religion (IBBR(R)). Covering such topics as Biblical studies, world religions, Church history and religious perspectives on social issues, the ATLA Religion Database contains over one million bibliographic records representing article citations from 650 journals, essay citations from 14,000 multi-author works, and book review citations. The indexing period is from 1949 to the present.
  • ATLA Serials
    ATLA Serials is a full text collection of over 50 religion and theology journals. The collection's over 50,000 articles (and many more books reviews) address topics in the following fields: Archaeology, Bible, Ecumenism, Ethics, Missions, Pastoral Ministry, Philosophy, Religion, Society, and Theology.
  • Catholic Periodical and Literature Index
    The Catholic Periodical and Literature Index is the product of a partnership between ATLA and the Catholic Library Association. The database covers all aspects of the Catholic faith and lifestyle, and includes over 360,000 index citations of articles and reviews published in Roman Catholic periodicals, Papal documents, church promulgations, and books about the Catholic faith that are authored by Catholics and/or produced by Catholic publishers.
  • ebrary
    The ebrary Academic Complete collection includes more than 30,000 current e-books from leading publishers. It spans all subjects, including business and economics; computers and information technology; education; engineering and technical fields; health and biomedical sciences; history and the humanities; life and physical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and reference books and maps.
  • Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
    ECCO contains digital images of every page of 180,000 titles published during the 18th century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. It offers full-text searching of approximately 26 million pages.
  • Encyclopaedia Judaica
    The Encyclopaedia Judaica provides an exhaustive and organized overview of Jewish life and knowledge from the Second Temple period to the contemporary State of Israel, from Rabbinic to modern Yiddish literature, from Kabbalah to "Americana" and from Zionism to the contribution of Jews to world cultures. The 22-volume print edition is in the Williams Library stacks under the call number DS102.8 .E496 2007.
  • Encyclopaedia of Islam
    Encyclopaedia of Islam provides authoritative, in-depth treatment of topics relating to the Islamic World from religion and history to politics. and culture.
  • Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an
    The Encyclopaedia of the Qur'an combines alphabetically-arranged articles about the contents of the Qur'an. It is an encyclopaedic dictionary of qur'anic terms, concepts, personalities, place names, cultural history and exegesis extended with essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur'anic studies. With nearly 1000 entries in 5 volumes, the EQ is the first comprehensive, multi-volume reference work on the Qur'an to appear in a Western language.
  • Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law
    Journal of Islamic State Practices in International Law (JISPIL) is a peer-reviewed Journal published by electronicpublications.org. The aim of this Journal is to focus on issues concerning and involving Islamic States from the perspective of International Law. In this context all States members of the Organisation of Islamic Conference are considered as being Islamic States.
  • New Catholic Encyclopedia
    The New Catholic Encyclopedia contains hundreds of new, signed articles on a wide variety of topics. It also features biographies of contemporary religious figures, thousands of photos, maps, and illustrations, and completely updated bibliographical citations. Accessed via the Gale Virtual Reference Library. The print edition is in the Williams Library stacks at BX841 .N44 2003.
  • Oxford Islamic Studies Online
    Provides a growing collection of content, including more than 3,000 reference articles and chapters by leading scholars and specialists in their fields, and much more. Includes Qur'anic studies resources, such as two Oxford World's Classics translations of the Qur'an, linked to the first online version of A Concordance of the Qur'an by Hanna Kassis; primary source documents with editorial introductions; and timelines covering major events in the Islamic world and corresponding events in general world history for context. Images provide useful visual perspectives on Islam.
  • Philosopher's Index
    Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related interdisciplinary fields. It is a major source of information in the areas of aesthetics, epistemology, ethics, logic and metaphysics; it is also a rich source of material on the philosophy of various disciplines, such as education, history, law, religion and science. This is an ERL WebSPIRS database with "Find Full Text" links that lead to full text journal articles. To import citations into EndNote, download the SilverPlatter filter: Philosopher's Index.
  • ProQuest Religion
    ProQuest Religion is a comprehensive collection of journals covering religious issues and perspectives, including religious news and information, commentary on topics of general interest from the perspective of a particular religion, and formal theological studies.
  • Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    REP Online has as its core the full contents of the classic 10-volume print set, but REP Online is a resource designed to grow along with the discipline itself. Each year the REP editorial team adds a diverse range of new material, including newly commissioned entries by leading scholars.
  • Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
    The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a dynamic encyclopedia published by the Center for the Study of Language and Information at Stanford University. Over 1000 professional philosophers are donating their time and labor to collaboratively write, referee, and maintain this reference work, which contains up-to-date content, in-depth coverage, extensive bibliographies, and links to other current web resources.

Poverty Law

Property Law

  • Real Estate Law and Industry Report (BNA)
    Real Estate Law and Industry Report is a legal news service with updates on the wide-ranging issues that affect commercial real estate attorneys and professionals - including finance, equity and leasing, taxes, litigation, legislation, regulation, and more. It covers all commercial real estate areas - office, industrial, retail, hospitality, and multi-family.

Public Interest Law

  • National Center on Poverty Law
    Includes access to full-text case pleadings and other documents in Poverty Law Library, plus Clearinghouse Review articles from 1990.

Refugee Law

  • CIAO: Columbia International Affairs Online
    Scholarly documents from leading international relations research centers. Complete texts of working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. Also provides access to relevant journal issues and books. Coverage: 1991 – present.
  • Ethnic NewsWatch
    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.
  • Official Document System of the United Nations
    Official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1992 is accessible in Portable Document Format (PDF) in all official languages of the United Nations - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Documents are stored in two databases, UN Documentation, which includes documents back to 1992 and UN Resolutions, which includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.

Securities Law

  • Alternative Investment Law Report (BNA)
    Alternative Investment Law Report covers the regulatory, legal and legislative developments affecting hedge funds, private equity, and other alternative investment vehicles.
  • Broker Dealer Compliance Report (BNA)
    Broker/Dealer Compliance Report is a weekly newsletter designed to keep you informed of changes in federal and state securities laws, Securities and Exchange Commission and other federal agency regulations, and National Associations of Securities Dealers, Inc. and other self-regulatory organizations' policies that affect broker/dealers compliance responsibilities.
  • CCH Business and Finance Internet Research Network
    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.
  • Corporate Accountability and Fraud Daily (BNA)
    A daily newsletter providing legislative, regulatory and case law updates on corporate law issues ranging from executive compensation to implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This database contains all issues published since November 1, 2002.
  • Corporate Accountability Report (BNA)
    The weekly version of Corporate Accountability & Fraud Daily providing legislative, regulatory and case law updates on corporate law issues ranging from executive compensation to implementation of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. This database contains all issues published since January 24, 2003. Not all articles from the daily versions are included in this weekly version.
  • Corporate Counsel Weekly (BNA)
    A weekly newsletter providing legislative, regulatory and case law updates on legal issues faced by corporate counsel – from antitrust law to labor and employment law, to environmental law. This database contains all issues published since October 23, 1996.
  • Corporate Law Daily (BNA)
    A daily newsletter updating judicial, legislative, regulatory, and tax issues that affect corporate practice. This database contains all issues published since September 11, 2000.
  • Corporate Practice Library (BNA)
    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.
  • LIVEDGAR
    This database of U.S. securities filings is useful in securities and business research. Contains PDF versions of filings with the SEC, primarily from 1992 forward when the EDGAR filing system began. Sophisticated, functional search methods available. Also includes SEC materials such as no action letters and staff reviews. THE OPENING SCREEN IS A TERMS OF AGREEMENT DOCUMENT. SCROLL DOWN TO THE BOTTOM, CLICK "I AGREE" AND THEN "GO."
  • Mergent Online
    Mergent Online contains full text information on over 10,000 U.S. public companies and over 15,000 non-U.S. companies. Includes company history, officers, subsidiaries, financial data, and annual reports. Access to SEC filings (EDGAR) back to 1993. Also includes company archives, with information on over 4,000 public companies that were acquired, went bankrupt or merged out of existence from 1995 onward. Includes U.S. and International industry reports.
  • Securities Law Daily (BNA)
    Daily newsletter reporting on developments in federal securities law. Coverage: 1999 to present.
  • Securities Regulation and Law Report (BNA)
    Federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting, with coverage of the SEC, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, industry, courts, and Congress. Coverage: Feb. 1996 to present.
  • Standard and Poor's NetAdvantage
    This database contains financial reports on companies and financial instruments prepared by Standard and Poor's, the prominent equity analysis firm and credit rating agency. Content is primarily on U.S. companies and issuances. Also provides company financial information and economic analysis by S&P.
  • TheCorporateCounsel.net
    TheCorporateCounsel.net is an educational service that provides practical guidance on legal issues involving corporate and securities regulation and corporate governance practices - as well as many other areas impacting today's corporate practitioner.
  • World Securities Law Report (BNA)
    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. Dates of coverage: September 2004-.

State & Local Law

  • CCH Tax Research NetWork
    Online counterpart to CCH's many 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. User can search full text, browse by code section, or retrieve a document by its citation. Coverage: 1978 – present. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • Checkpoint (RIA)
    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.
  • Constitutions of the United States: National and State
    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.
  • LexisNexis State Capital
    LN State Capital provides access to bills, laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, legislature membership and newspapers of record for all the states.
  • National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - Archive Publications (HeinOnline)
    Included in this collection 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. Also included are the approved "successive drafts" of each Uniform and Model Act.
  • National Survey of State Laws
    The National Survey of State Laws is divided into general legal categories to offer complete coverage and easy access to issues of current relevance and concern related to consumer, family, criminal, real estate, employment and other fields of law. Each law is described in general terms and is followed by detailed charts of each state's laws. Entries are then referenced to a specific code or statute to enable the reader to access the detailed text of the law elsewhere. Accessed via the Law Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library. The latest version of this publication is kept at the Williams Reference Desk, under call no. KF386 .N38.
  • State Attorneys General News (BNA)
    State Attorneys General News is a Web-only news and analysis service covering the activities of the state attorneys general. Trend and analysis pieces form the core of the service and press releases from all the state AG offices are consolidated on the site.
  • State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report (BNA)
    BNA's State Environment & Safety Regulatory Monitoring Report provides a complete, up-to-date summary and overview of E&S regulations issued by all 50 states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico, in an easy-to-read format as well as the environment and safety regulatory developments.
  • State Environment Daily (BNA)
    State Environment Daily provide superior coverage of major environmental legislative, regulatory, and judicial developments, in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
  • State Health Care Regulatory Developments (BNA)
    BNA's State Health Care Regulatory Developments provides up-to-date information on health care regulatory developments in all 50 states and the District of Columbia.
  • Subject Compilations of State Laws
    You can search this database across a specific subject, by entry number, journal title, article title, and court. The database entries have been enhanced to include links to law review articles and U.S. Supreme Court decisions available in HeinOnline. Entries also include live links to the Internet where state surveys are located. Entries that have OCLC numbers are linked directly to WorldCat. This is an online version of the print set located in the Williams reference collection (KF1 .F67).
  • Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report (BNA)
    Provides analysis of state code and regulations, state administrative and judicial court decisions, and state administrative pronouncements for all 50 states. Covers income and franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, and other developments. Dates of coverage: 1997-.

Statutory Law

  • American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)
    Contains the Restatements (including superseded and draft versions), proceedings, reports and other special publications published by the ALI. Also includes the Uniform Commercial Code, with drafts and superseded versions. Also provides ALI-ABA periodicals and material from the Statement of Essential Human Rights archive. Part of HeinOnline.
  • Daily Report for Executives (BNA)
    This well-organized, up-to-the-minute, comprehensive report covers a broad spectrum of issues, providing all the objective news you need to make sound business, lobbying, and legal decisions. 2000-.
  • Fastcase
    Online 50-state and federal case law database. Also known as the Public Library of Law (PLoL).
  • GPO Access
    Provides the full text of important government documents, including Budget of the United States Government; Code of Federal Regulations (1996-); Federal Register (1995-); Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States (1992-); United States Government Manual; and the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents (1993-); federal congressional bills (1993-); the Congressional Record (1994-); the United States Code; and the United States Constitution.
  • LexisNexis Congressional (formerly Congressional Universe)
    Full text and indexing of U.S. Congressional documents. Indexing begins with the 1st Congress. Full text coverage as follows: Bills from 1989; Hearings from 1994 (some older documents also available); Committee Reports & other Serial Set documents from 1789-1969 and 1990-current; the Congressional Record from 1985; Public Laws from 1987. Also CIS Legislative Histories from 1969; and information about current members of Congress and congressional committees; hot bills and topics; The Hill (1995-); The Washington Post (1977-).
  • LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection
    Full text of published and unpublished Congressional Committee Hearings, including transcripts, oral statements, committee questions and discussion, related reports, statistical analyses, correspondence, exhibits and articles. Published Hearings are currently available from 1975-1983. The addition of years is ongoing. A complete collection of published and unpublished Hearings from 1823 to 2003 will be available by 2009.
  • LexisNexis Congressional Record Digital Collection
    Full text of the Congressional Record Bound Edition from 1789-1997 in PDF format, including Congressional Record (1873-1997), the Annals of Congress (1789-1824), the Register of Debates (1824-1837), and the Congressional Globe (1833-1873).
  • LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection
    The Congressional Research Digital Collection contains full text of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports since 1916 and selected full text of committee prints since 1830. Access through the "Advanced Search" tab of LexisNexis Congressional.
  • LexisNexis Congressional Serial Set
    The LexisNexis Congressional Serial Set I & II database includes indexing, bibliographic information, and searchable PDFs for all U.S. Congressional Serial Set publications from 1789-1969 and 1970-2003. The Serial Set contains the House and Senate Documents and the House and Senate Reports. LexisNexis is digitizing this collection incrementally on a chronological basis. Roughly 60% of the pages from 1970-2003 will be online by the end of 2009, with the remainder going online in 2010. Access is through the "Advanced Search" tab of LexisNexis Congressional.
  • LexisNexis State Capital
    LN State Capital provides access to bills, laws, constitutions, proposed and enacted regulations, legislature membership and newspapers of record for all the states.
  • National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - Archive Publications (HeinOnline)
    Included in this collection 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. Also included are the approved "successive drafts" of each Uniform and Model Act.
  • National Journal Group
    NationalJournal.com incorporates content and resources from all branches of National Journal Group Inc.: CongressDaily, The Hotline, American Health Line, Technology Daily. Also features Hotline Mobile, polling results, campaign and issue ads, the online Almanac of American politics, "buzz" columns, a calendar of Washington events, and top stories from the weekly National Journal.
  • National Survey of State Laws
    The National Survey of State Laws is divided into general legal categories to offer complete coverage and easy access to issues of current relevance and concern related to consumer, family, criminal, real estate, employment and other fields of law. Each law is described in general terms and is followed by detailed charts of each state's laws. Entries are then referenced to a specific code or statute to enable the reader to access the detailed text of the law elsewhere. Accessed via the Law Library's Gale Virtual Reference Library. The latest version of this publication is kept at the Williams Reference Desk, under call no. KF386 .N38.
  • Session Laws Library (HeinOnline)
    The Session Laws Library contains session laws for the United States, Canada, the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. The U.S. Statutes at Large are available from 1789 forward, in PDF format.

Supreme Court

  • AltLaw
    AltLaw is a full-text search engine for U.S. Supreme Court cases (back to 1803) and published Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions  from 1950 to the present. Unpublished Circuit Court opinions are available from 1996 on. A work in progress, it is a joint project of Columbia Law School's Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.
  • Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
    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.
  • Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
    This new edition of the Companion has been fully updated and includes new entries on key cases and full treatment of crucial areas of constitutional law, such as abortion, freedom of religion, school desegregation, freedom of speech, voting rights, military tribunals, and the rights of the accused.
  • Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions
    This dictionary includes all 400 entries on major Supreme Court cases through history published in the acclaimed Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States, in addition to approximately 45 new entries for the post-1991 decisions. It also gives entries on the U.S. Constitution, and the nominations and successions of justices. Terms covered in the Companion are briefly defined and explained, and a complete case list is given.
  • Supreme Court Compendium Online (CQ)
    The Supreme Court Compendium Online covers the Court's history and development as an institution; its caseload and decision making; the justices' backgrounds, nominations, and confirmations; the Court's relationships with the public, the media, and other governmental and judicial bodies; and public views on the Court and its decisions.  Updated in 2008 to reflect developments during the 2006-2007 term, this reference by legal and political scholars Lee Epstein, Jeffrey A. Segal, Harold J. Spaeth, and Thomas G. Walker contains more than 185 tables and charts and offers new perspective on the legacy of the Rehnquist Court and the present Roberts Court.
  • Supreme Court Today (BNA)
    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.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Library (HeinOnline)
    HeinOnline's U.S. Supreme Court Library includes complete coverage of the official U.S. Reports bound volumes as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
  • United States Law Week (BNA)
    The most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law

Tax Law

  • Benefits Practice Center (BNA)
    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.
  • CCH IntelliConnect
    Online version of numerous CCH loose-leaf services, such as the Bankruptcy Law Reporter, Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Law Reporter, Trade Regulation Reporter, Federal Banking Law ReporterFederal Energy Regulatory Commission Reporter, Standard Federal Tax Reporter, EEOC Manual, Labor Arbitration Awards, Copyright Law Reporter, and others. Note: Users must create their own user name and password after initial login.
  • CCH Tax Research NetWork
    Online counterpart to CCH's many 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. User can search full text, browse by code section, or retrieve a document by its citation. Coverage: 1978 – present. Now part of CCH IntelliConnect. Note: You must register using your Georgetown Law email address, and create your own password.
  • Checkpoint (RIA)
    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.
  • Daily Report for Executives (BNA)
    This well-organized, up-to-the-minute, comprehensive report covers a broad spectrum of issues, providing all the objective news you need to make sound business, lobbying, and legal decisions. 2000-.
  • Daily Tax Report (BNA)
    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
  • E-Commerce Tax Report (BNA)
    E-Commerce Tax Report (BNA) provides daily news and practical information about developments affecting federal, state, and international taxation of electronic commerce.
  • Federal Tax Coordinator 2nd
    Part of Checkpoint (RIA).
  • International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation (IBFD)
    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.
  • International Tax Monitor (BNA)
    This database provides news and analysis from the world=s financial and business centers, focused on tax and accounting developments affecting transnational enterprises. Covers legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments from U.S. legislative, judicial and executive branches. Tracks global tax developments in the European Union, Japan, Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, China, Russia, Brazil, and other countries. Provides information about the activities of foreign tax authorities and other government and industry groups, as well as current news on international operations. Collects information on tax proposals, regulations, and laws from worldwide sources. Daily coverage from February 6, 2001.
  • Journal of Taxation
    This is an RIA Checkpoint database which provides access to articles from the monthly Journal of Taxation. The journal provides analysis and practical guidance on tax-saving strategies. Each issue features a column on recent private letter rulings as well as "Shop Talk," a unique give and take arena that highlights contributions by readers. Available in print in the Williams Library journal collection at Call Number K10 .O72.
  • Pension and Benefits Daily (BNA)
    A daily newsletter reporting developments in pension and benefits law.
  • Pension and Benefits Reporter (BNA)
    BNA Pension & Benefits Reporter is a weekly newsletter that monitors the laws, regulations, cases, and issues that influence pension and benefits policy, design, and administration.
  • Proquest Accounting and Tax
    ProQuest Accounting and Tax database contains accounting, auditing, taxation, and financial management information. The database includes over 2,170 titles, as well as IASB, AICPA, and FASB accounting standards. It is national and international in scope, providing information on accounting policies and standards, state and national legislation, corporate and individual taxation, compensation and pension plans, and corporate financial management. Full text is available for some articles, while links to the full text in other databases are provided for others.
  • RIA Citator 2d
    Tax citations for cases and IRS pronouncements issued or cited since 1954, including information on strength or weakness of cases, judicial history of cases and key legal issues.
  • RIA Tax Alerts
    Daily web-based news regarding major tax developments.
  • SourceOECD
    This collection of publications by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development is a rich resource of statistics, public policy research and economics data. Known for its thorough research and high quality data analysis, OECD publications are useful in law-related research, particularly on foreign nations.
  • Tax Management Compensation Planning Journal (BNA)

  • Tax Management Estates, Gifts, and Trusts Journal (BNA)
    Contains reports of estate planning developments and planning opportunities.
  • Tax Management Memorandum (BNA)

  • Tax Management Portfolio Collection (BNA)
    Full text access to BNA’s Federal Tax Management Portfolios, which provide in-depth expert explanations on issues of income tax (individual, corporate, and partnership), estate and gift tax (including trusts and estate planning), employee benefits, state and foreign tax. Special tables provide brief 50-state overviews on selected issues.
  • Tax Management Transfer Pricing Report (BNA)
    Provides news and analysis on U.S. and foreign governments' tax policies regarding intercompany transfer pricing and helps companies structure their operations to avoid double taxation. Dates of coverage: 1996-.
  • Tax Management Weekly Report (BNA)
    Provides coverage of federal legislative, regulatory and judicial developments on taxation, as well as accounting issues. Dates of coverage: July 1999-.
  • Tax Management Weekly State Tax Report (BNA)
    Provides analysis of state code and regulations, state administrative and judicial court decisions, and state administrative pronouncements for all 50 states. Covers income and franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, property taxes, excise taxes, and other developments. Dates of coverage: 1997-.
  • Tax Planning International Corporate Restructuring (BNA)
    Covers tax issues related to restructuring transactions such as mergers and acquisitions, capital raising, securitization, debt and foreign investment. Published monthly.
  • Tax Planning International European Tax Service (BNA)
    Tax Planning International European Tax Service is a biweekly briefing service on EU tax legislation and its implementation within member states.
  • Tax Planning International Review (BNA)
    Tax Planning International Review is a monthly publication that covers new tax developments and monitors how tax issues are being handled worldwide.
  • Tax Planning International: Asia-Pacific Focus (BNA)
    Tax Planning International: Asia-Pacific Focus contains in-depth articles on tax developments, legislative updates, and tax planning issues in Asia-Pacific countries, as well as essential tax briefings on the region.
  • Tax Planning International: Indirect Taxes (BNA)
    Tax Planning International: Indirect Taxes contains up-to-date information and analysis on how indirect taxes are handled around the world. Published monthly.
  • Tax Planning International: Transfer Pricing (BNA)
    Tax Planning International: Transfer Pricing provides detailed, expert analysis of legislative developments in the growing world of transfer pricing regulation. Published monthly.
  • Taxation and Economic Reform in America: a Historical Archive (HeinOnline)
    The Taxation & Economic Reform in American database includes the complete Carlton Fox collection, which contains nearly 48 years of historical legislation related to the internal revenue laws. It also includes more than 25 other legislative histories related to U.S. economic reform and stimulus plans. With its rich archive of law review articles, HeinOnline connects the legislation to key law review articles, allowing you to not only read and follow the laws, but also to fully understand how they have had an impact on the economy.
  • TaxCore (BNA)
    TaxCore is published each business day. It provides access to important tax-related documents from Congress, the IRS, and dozens of other sources, reproduced verbatim. Documents include: bills; comment letters; Congressional, GAO, and other reports; IRS PLRs and TAMs; IRS exemption rulings; IRS general counsel's memoranda (GCMs); IRS actions on decisions (AODs); other court decisions; IRS hearing transcripts; U.S. Tax Court memorandum opinions; statements and testimony, Treasury correspondence.
  • TRACfed
    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.
  • United States Tax Reporter (RIA)
    Up-to-date source of federal tax law, regulations, committee reports, case law, administrative rulings, and editorial explanations. Part of RIA Checkpoint.
  • Worldwide Tax Law (RIA)
    Part of Checkpoint (RIA). English translations of major tax and commercial laws from around the world. Includes income and corporate tax, value added tax, corporation law, trust law, commercial codes, environmental law, labor law, and bankruptcy.

Terrorism

  • Digital National Security Archive
    Contains more than 35,000 declassified primary documents that led to policy decisions. Covers such areas as Afghanistan, Berlin Crisis 1958-1962, Cuban Missile Crisis, El Salvador, Iran-Contra Affair, etc.
  • Homeland Security Briefing (BNA)
    Homeland Security Briefing is a daily newsletter that covers significant federal and state actions related to security and antiterrorist policies, focusing on developments at the Department of Homeland Security, congressional oversight and funding of the agency, and the effects of nationwide implementation of the federal PATRIOT Act.
  • Homeland Security Digital Library
    The HSDL collection provides quick access to important 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. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy.
  • Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
    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.

Tort Law

  • Product Liability Daily (BNA)
    Product Liability Daily keeps you updated on product liability law, regulation, and litigation issues.  Coverage: 2001 -.
  • Product Safety and Liability Reporter (BNA)
    Product Safety & Liability Reporter keeps you updated on all the significant developments and issues in product safety and liability, and provides the resource materials you need to better represent your clients.
  • Toxics Law Daily (BNA)
    Toxics Law Daily covers litigation of toxic tort, hazardous waste, and related insurance litigation.
  • Toxics Law Reporter (BNA)
    Toxics Law Reporter provides comprehensive notification of toxic tort, hazardous waste, and related insurance litigation, from filings to final decisions. Weekly.

Transportation Law

  • Transportation Watch (BNA)
    Transportation Watch is a daily bulletin that offers comprehensive coverage of federal transportation policy, regulation, litigation and spending, especially in relation to the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century.

Treaties and International Agreements

  • Avalon Project
    The Avalon Project mounts digital documents relevant to the fields of law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy and government. Major documents collections include The American Constitution: A Documentary RecordThe Federalist Papers, American Diplomacy: Bilateral Treaties 1778-1999, and American Diplomacy: Multilateral Treaties 1864-1999.
  • HeinOnline
    Legal database that contains the full text of legal documents in pdf format, in several collections. The Law Journal Library contains articles from most major law reviews and law journals. Approximately 650 law journals and reviews are included, beginning with the inception date of each publication. Individual journals, or the entire collection, are fully searchable by author or word in title, or keyword or phrase in full text. The Federal Register Library contains the only electronic version of all Federal Register issues. The Treaties and Agreements Library contains all U.S. treaties and agreements, whether in force, expired, or yet-to-be published.
  • TIARA: US Treaties and International Agreements
    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.
  • Treaties and Agreements Library (HeinOnline)
    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.
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Collection includes: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General (MTDSG), UN Treaty Series, Certified True Copies of Treaties, and Depositary Notifications. Photographs of Treaty Signature ceremonies are included in the MTDSG portion of the site, as are Titles of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN Official Languages. Note: This site works best with Internet Explorer.

Trial Practice

  • Making of Modern Law: Trials 1620-1926
    The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 is comprised primarily of holdings of the Harvard and Yale law libraries. The Harvard collection contains a vast number of popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes. The overall archive comprising more than 10,000 titles and almost two million pages also contains unique documents from the Library of the Bar of the City of New York. It includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs, and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations.
  • World Trials Library (HeinOnline)
    The World Trials Library on HeinOnline contains, "in addition to 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."

United Nations

  • AccessUN
    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. Publications
  • Official Document System of the United Nations
    Official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1992 is accessible in Portable Document Format (PDF) in all official languages of the United Nations - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Documents are stored in two databases, UN Documentation, which includes documents back to 1992 and UN Resolutions, which includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Collection includes: Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General (MTDSG), UN Treaty Series, Certified True Copies of Treaties, and Depositary Notifications. Photographs of Treaty Signature ceremonies are included in the MTDSG portion of the site, as are Titles of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General in the UN Official Languages. Note: This site works best with Internet Explorer.

War, Peace and Security

  • Armed Conflict Database
    Armed Conflict Database covers international and internal conflicts, as well as terrorism, including information on refugees and returnees, internally displaced persons, weapons used and their flows, fatalities, costs, historical backgrounds, and timelines. Users can generate reports, download data, and browse through year-by-year analysis and fact sheets online.
  • Homeland Security Briefing (BNA)
    Homeland Security Briefing is a daily newsletter that covers significant federal and state actions related to security and antiterrorist policies, focusing on developments at the Department of Homeland Security, congressional oversight and funding of the agency, and the effects of nationwide implementation of the federal PATRIOT Act.
  • Homeland Security Digital Library
    The HSDL collection provides quick access to important 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. The resources are reviewed and selected by a team of homeland security researchers and organized in a unique homeland security taxonomy.
  • International Justice Tribune Newsletter and Archive
    The International Justice Tribune Newsletter covers international criminal justice and "publishes investigative articles and interviews about world-wide efforts to try war criminals, from the International Criminal Court to domestic courts. Created in March 2004 by four journalists, IJT is the successor to Diplomatie Judiciaire, a magazine that for seven years documented trials before the international criminal tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. Most of Diplomatie Judiciaire's invaluable reporting is now in IJT's archives."
  • Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre
    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.

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