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The following list features selected electronic resources provided by the Biddle Law Library. Please click here to search the Library's print and electronic journal holdings.

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  • AccessUN (PL) (UP Access Here)

    Provides complete bibliographic citations for current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications. Selected full-text documents including resolutions from the General Assembly (1981-current), Security Council (1974-present), the Economic and Social Council (1982-present), selected Provisional Verbatim documents contain voting records for General Assembly and Security Council resolutions (1990-present), and some additional important topical issues documents.

  • American Law Institute Library (PL)
  • HeinOnline provides access to full-text, pdf documents of ALI publications and materials including: ALI Annual Reports; ALI Reporter; Annual Meeting Proceedings and Speeches; "Statement of Essential Human Rights" Archive; Restatement of the Law; Principles of the Law; Uniform Commercial Code; Model Penal Code; ALI-ABA publications; and miscellaneuous ALI publications.

  • The American Society of International Law (ASIL)
  • ASIL serves as a major publisher of international law material that provides an international law electronic research guide and database for searching international treaties and conventions, websites, and other research tools.

  • Anglo-American Legal Tradition
  • High-quality photographs of historical English legal documents chronologically arranged by monarch from Henry III (1176) to George III (1820).

  • AudioCaseFiles (PL)
  • Provides downloadable MP3 files of edited judicial opinions, along with full-text of the edited opinion, a brief fact summary, and the rule of law. To access files, please create an account using your Penn Law email address.

  • Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
  • Archive of English translations for important historical documents dating from 4,000 BCE - present relating to Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy, and Government. Arranged chronologically by era and subject collection.

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  • Berkman Center for Internet and Society
  • Harvard 's premier online resource for emerging issues involving the Internet and cyberculture.

  • Bloomberg Law (PL, PR)
  • Research platform that combines traditional legal resources with Bloomberg's suite of business analytical tools and reports.

  • BNA Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report (PL)
  • Weekly newsletter that provides news and in-depth analysis of topical issues relating to antitrust and trade regulation.

  • BNA Criminal Law Reporter (PL)
  • Weekly newsletter that provides a national perspective on the latest criminal law issues which includes U.S. Supreme Court criminal cases, actions and proposals by the Justice Department, U.S. Sentencing Commission, other federal agencies, and significant federal criminal legislation.

  • BNA Environment Reporter (PL)
  • Weekly newsletter that covers legislative, regulatory, legal, and policy news pertaining to environmental developments in the courts, Congress, federal agencies, industry, and organizations.

  • BNA Family Law Reporter (PL)
  • Weekly newsletter that covers important emerging family law issues pertaining to new federal and state appellate court cases, legislation, regulations, and other trends.

  • BNA Internet Law Resource Center (PL)
  • Continually updated, multi-disciplinary resource targeting practice areas implicated by emerging Internet law. These practice areas include criminal, constitutional, intellectual property, corporate, commercial, and regulatory law. Provides latest cases and filings, news, and in-depth analysis of topical issues.

  • BNA Intellectual Property Law Resource Center (PL)
  • Continually updated resource which provides news and analysis relating to a variety of intellectual property issues. [Note: Limited Access to some materials]

  • BNA International Trade Reporter (PL)
  • Weekly newsletter that provides comprehensive information about legal developments affecting the trade and international business policies of the U.S. and its major trading partners.

  • BNA Labor and Employment Law Resource Center (PL)
  • Continually updated resource which provides latest cases, news, analysis, reports, Federal and state resources, and practice tools relating to issues such as Disabilities Law, Dicrimination Law, Individual Employment Rights, Labor Arbitration & Collective Bargaining, Labor Relations, Occupational Safety, and Wages, Hours & Leave.

  • BNA Securities Regulation and Law Report (PL)
  • Weekly newsletter that provides information on Federal and state developments in the regulation of securities and futures trading and accounting. Coverage includes the Securities and Exchange Commission, Commodities Futures Trading Commission, industry, courts, and Congress.

  • BNA United States Law Week (PL)
  • Weekly newsletter publication that summarizes the most significant federal and state court and administrative cases such as those which show a split in circuit decisions, establish new legal precedent, address new statutes, or contribute to emerging legal doctrines.

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  • CALI, Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (PL, PR)
  • Collection of interactive legal education lessons comprising a variety of different subject areas. These interactive tutorials are written by law faculty to supplement traditional law school instruction. To request an access code to set up a CALI account, please contact a reference librarian.

  • CCH IntelliConnect (UP)
  • IntelliConnect combines the resources of CCH's former Internet Research Networks to provide a single access-point for primary law and CCH analytical matierals in the fields of Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, Food & Drugs, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Labor & Employment, Products Liability, Securities, and Tax Law, and other topics. Users must register for an account using their Penn email address.

  • Center for Regulatory Effectiveness
  • Creates and collects news and analysis relating to executive agency regulations from a variety of governmental and private sources. Provides access to a variety of government documents.

  • Center for Social Media
  • Project from American University which provides instructional material and commentary on social media issues such as fair use. Contains particular focus on documentary material.

  • Complete Lawyer
  • Attorney-focused online newspaper covering legal news and providing analysis on a variety of legal topics.

  • Congressional Universe (Now ProQuest Congressional) (PL)
  • ProQuest Congressional offers access to U.S. legislative publications and government information, including pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional hearings and select committee prints, and biographical data about members of Congress. Much of the material is available in full-text.

  • Constitutions of the World from the Late 18th Century to the Middle of the 19th Century Online (UP)
  • "The Rise of Modern Constitutionalism, 1776-1849" contains most of the world's constitutions from this era. Most constitutions are available in their original language through hardcopy images and/or full-text web pages.

  • Cornell Legal Information Institute
  • Contains primary legal material and links to a wide variety of U.S. and international legal websites. Freely available public resource.

  • Creative Commons
  • Information on creating and using creative commons licensed works. Provides search engine for locating useable creative commons works by type and license.

  • Current Index to Legal Periodicals (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Weekly listing of new academic law journal articles divided by major topic. Links to full-text articles available in Lexis and Westlaw. Earlier editions are archived back to 1999.

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  • Digital National Security Archive (UP)
  • Large collection of declassified government documents arranged into topical subject collections. Analytical material created by scholars and experts explains the context and relevance of these documents.

  • Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution (UP)
  • Contains primary documentary sources from 1787 - 1791 focused on the debate concerning ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Includes convention and legislative records, private papers, newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets. First twenty volumes available online with all the annotations, appendices, biographical gazetteers, maps, and indexes preserved.

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  • e-CFR
  • Editorial compilation of CFR material and Federal Register amendments produced by the National Archives and Records Administration's Office of the Federal Register (OFR) and the Government Printing Office.

  • Econlit (UP)
  • Proquest's scholarly economic resource which contains abstracts and many full-text articles, book reviews, dissertations, and books.

  • Electronic Frontier Foundation
  • Searchable collection of documents obtained by the EFF via its FOIA requests.

  • Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)
  • The American Society of International Law's database for searching international treaties and conventions, websites, and other research tools.

  • Environmental Abstracts (UP)
  • Proquest's environmental database provides abstracts covering scholarly, professional, and policy literature. Full-text may be available through Penn Text.

  • EUR-LEX
  • Free access to European Union law and other documents considered public. Contains material dating back to 1951. Website available in the 23 official languages of the European Union.

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  • FactCheck.org
  • Voter advocacy resource which monitors major U.S. political players for the factual accuracy of their statemtns in TV ads, debates, speeches, interviews, and news releases. Project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.

  • Federal Digital System (FDsys)
  • Government resource maintain by the GPO which contains authenticated electronic government documents including Congressional, statutory, and adminstitrative material such as Congressional bills, hearings, and committee reports, the Congressional Record, the USC, CFR, and Federal Register. Formerly GPO Access.

  • Findlaw
  • Hybrid free/pay website which links to federal and state case law, statutes, session laws, regulations and other publications.

  • Foreign and International Law Resources Database (FILRD) (PL)
  • Contains full-text, PDF international law publications, including prominent Yearbooks from around the world and proceedings of the American Society of International Law. Also contains U.S. law digests on international law and judicial decisions of the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice.

  • Foreign Law Guide (PL)
  • Foreign law research guide for different countries and jurisdictions. Provides background information on the legal system for the selected country or jurisdiction and where to locate official legal materials. May link to official and unofficial English translations where available.

  • Founders' Constitution
  • Anthology providing analysis and commentary from a wide variety of historical figures relating to the United States Constitution's major themes and all of its provisions.

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  • GLOBALEX
  • International, comparative, and foreign legal research guides covering specific topical areas and providing overviews of a country's legal system.

  • Google Scholar (UP)
  • Accessing Google Scholar through the Penn Library System allows students to search and retrieve full-text, scholarly publications and legal material available only to Penn students.

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  • HeinOnLine (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Provides full-text, PDF documents for law reviews and journals; historical volumes of federal documents; classic legal texts from the 17th through early 20th centuries; U.S. treaties; Supreme Court cases as they appear in U.S. Reports; a variety of Foreign and International material; and many more resources.

  • HeinOnline Foreign and International Law Resources Database (PL)
  • Includes the publications of the American Society of International Law along with prominent Yearbooks from around the world, including the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series. It also includes U.S. Law Digests, International Tribunals/Judicial Decisions and more.

  • HeinOnline Hague Academy Collected Courses (PL)
  • Contains material (1923-present) produced by the Hague Academy that examines problems arising from international relations in the field of law.

  • HeinOnline New York Legal Research Library (PL)
  • Contains legal research materials dedicated to the history, study, practice and development of law in the state of New York. Includes the reports and opinions of the NewYork Attorney General, the New York State Register, New York Tax Cases and Session Laws, and New York Law Journals.

  • HeinOnline Treaties and Agreements Library (PL)
  • 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.

  • HeinOnline United Nations Law Collection (PL)
  • Contains exact reproductions of major United Nations legal publications, including the complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series, the League of Nations Treaty Series, the Monthly Statement of Treaties & International Agreements, UNCITRAL Publications, UNIDIR Publications, the United Nations Legislative Series and much more. Finding Aids and additional features make it easy to locate a UN Treaty by entering a UNTS Citation, search for a UN Treaty, and link to law review articles that cite a UN Treaty.

  • HeinOnline World Constitutions Illustrated (PL)
  • Includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for countries such as Australia, Brazil, China, France, Mexico, the United Kingdom, and many more. It also includes constitutional periodicals, thousands of classic books, other related works such as the World Fact Book, links to scholarly articles and online resources, and bibliographic references.

  • HeinOnline World Trials (PL)
  • Collection includes more than 3,000 trials including complete sets of American State Trials, Howell's State Trials, and the Nuremburg Trials. It also includes famous trials from Philadelphia's Jenkins Law Library, Cornell University, and the University of Missouri-Columbia's trials collections. It contains trial transcripts, critical court documents, and trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials, as well as biographies of many of the greatest trial lawyers in history.

  • Hieros Gamos
  • Heiros Gamos covers a variety of legal subject areas such as topical articles, practice area descriptions, law firm guides, legal publications, and links to research guides.

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  • IBFD International Tax Research (PL)
  • International tax research platform providing news, descriptions, and analyses of tax issues organized by country, geographic region, practice area, topic, and governing international organization.

  • Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals 1985- (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Provides access to legal literature worldwide, covering all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law. This includes comparative law and legal systems, such as Islamic law; socialist law; public and private international law; and transnational commercial law. The types of documents covered include journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews. The database encompasses all languages. 

  • Index to Legal Periodicals (PL)
  • The Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals is an index of more than 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Resources include the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (1982 - present), and the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-1981).

  • IRMI Online Professional Library (UP)
  • Insurance and risk management resource which provides reports, guides, and analysis covering a variety of specialized topic areas.

  • Isinolaw (PL)
  • 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.

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  • JSTOR (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • JSTOR specializes in making available the back issues of journals in a wide variety of humanities and social science disciplines. Issues are available both as images and as text, making searching possible both within each title and across the whole database.

  • Justia Regulation Tracker
  • Search Rules, Proposed Rules, Orders, Notices, and Proclamations by Departments and Agencies from 2005-present.

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  • KluwerArbitration.com (PL)
  • This database contains the text of major international agreements, rules, and information about the key arbitration organizations. It includes national laws, national rules, case law of awards, and even some submissions or interim orders under various arbitral regimes.

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  • Landmark Supreme Court Cases
  • Select full-text cases and educational instruction on major Supreme Court decisions.

  • LawinfoChina (PL)
  • ChinaLawInfo is a full-text, Chinese-language database covering Chinese laws, regulations, legal essays, legal gazettes and other legal information. Most coverage dates back to 1949. LawInfoChina provides English-language translations of Chinese legal material, although this database is less comprehensive. Link defaults to Chinese-language site. Select "English" in top righthand corner to access the English version.

  • LAWLINKS
  • Offers subject guides focused on conducting legal research in the United Kingdom and European Union. Contains links to research tools pertaining to other countries and geographic regions.

  • Law and Politics Book Review
  • Book reviews on legal-oriented, primarily nonfiction works.

  • Law and the Holocaust
  • Penn Law resource which provides a list of Holocaust and other contemporary War Crimes resources available online or in the Biddle Law Library collection.

  • Law Library of Congress
  • LLoC provides subject area guides on how to conduct online legal research, provides legal commentary and recommends resources on legally significant issues and events. Links to other law-related Federal government resources such as Thomas.

  • Legal Intelligencer (PL)

    Daily law journal serving the Philadelphia area legal community.

  • Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN)
  • SSRN provides free access to the abstracts and full-text scholars' working papers in the social sciences, including law, history, philosophy, and economics.

  • LegalTrac (PL)
  • Indexes more than 1,500 major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Citations and select full-text articles available.

  • LexisNexis (PL, PR)
  • Comprehenive resource for primary and secondary U.S. legal materials. Includes access to articles from many major newspapers and some business resources.

  • LexisNexis China (PL)
  • Collection of Chinese government materials including laws, regulations, tax information, judicial decisions, and other legal documents. Government sources include the National People's Congress, the State Council, the Supreme Court, the Ministry of Justice, Finance and other ministries, the State Environmental Protection Administration, and other departments and offices. Available in Chinese and translated into English

  • LexisNexis Congressional Universe (Now ProQuest Congressional) (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Contains legislative histories, Congressional bills, reports, hearings, Congressional Record, and other government documents. Most available in full-text, PDF format. Coverage dates vary.

  • LexisNexis Quicklaw (PL)
  • Canadian legal research service that provides court decisions from all levels, news reports, provincial and federal statutes, journals, and other legal commentary. It offers a case citator and case digests.

  • LexisNexis State Capital Universe (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Indexes legislative information from the fifty states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands. Coverage begins, generally, in 1991 and is current to the present legislative session.

  • Library of Congress American Memory
  • American Memory is a multimedia website of digitized historical documents, photographs, sound recordings, moving pictures, books, pamphlets, maps, and other resources from the Library of Congress’s vast holdings.

  • LivEdgar (Now Westlaw Business) (UP)
  • Includes all SEC filings, SEC No-Action Letters, SEC staff reviews, and SEDAR Filings (Canadian), compiliations on M&A, Restructuring, and Legal and Business Due Diligence.

  • LLMC Digital Law Library (PL)
  • Digitization collection of older legal print resources. Contains U.S. federal, state, and territorial and international and foreign material. Includes treatises, case law, statutes, journals, and a variety of other legal material.

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  • Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Provides access to over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. It offers various retrieval and browsing options, including full-text searching on more than 10 million pages.

  • Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Based on Harvard, Yale, and the New York City Bar's law library holdings, this database offers online access to the important historical trial documents contained in these collections.

  • Making of Modern Law: United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1832-1978.

  • Manupatra (PL)
  • Database providing access to Indian case law, legislation, regulations, ordinances, bills, and some secondary material. To access Manupatra, click on the "IP Access" link from the log in page.

  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (PL)
  • 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.

  • Multilaterals Project
  • Makes available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments including treaties in the fields of the environment, human rights, commerce and trade, laws of war and arms control, and other areas. Most of the texts date from 1945 or later, but the collection also includes historical texts, from the 1648 Treaty of Westphalia to the Covenant of the League of Nations.  

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  • The National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade's InterAm Database (PL)
  • Collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas. This collection provides the original Spanish or Portuguese-language material, but includes an increasing number of English translations. It is updated daily and divided into 25 topical areas related to trade and investment. Please contact a reference librarian for the log in information for this resource.

  • 19th Century Masterfile (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Features Poole's Index to Periodical Literature as its centerpiece, with a number of other indices to the contents of nineteenth-century journals, newspapers, and books such as Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922), Palmer's Index to the Times (London) (1880-1890) and other indexes.

  • NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
  • Free access to working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools.

  • NYU Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
  • Annotated guide to conducting Internet research relating to foreign and international law. Links foreign and international topical guides, search engines, directories and indexes, legal database evaluation tools, virtual libraries, dictionaries, and other resources.

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  • Online Books Page (UP)
  • The Online Books Page facilitates access to electronic books that are freely readable over the Internet. The collection links to full-text or text-searchable versions of over 800,000 books on a wide variety of subjects.

  • Opensecrets.org
  • Opensecrets.org is a nonpartisan resource providing information on U.S. Federal campaign contributions, lobbying data and analysis. Opensecrets.org is maintained by the Center for Responsive Politics, an independent research group.

  • Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (PL)
  • The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History provides comparisons of world legal systems, ancient and modern, incorporating statutes, administrative rulings, judicial decisions, and descriptions of legislatures, agencies, and courts.

  • Oxford Reports on International Law: International Criminal Law (PL)
  • The Oxford Reports on International Law: International Criminal Law includes decisions from several international criminal courts and tribunals, with a focus on the International Criminal Court, the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, and the Special Court for Sierra Leone. It also includes decisions from post-WWII military tribunals, including the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg.

  • Oxford Reports on International Law: International Human Rights Law (PL)
  • The Oxford Reports on International Law: International Human Rights covers decisions on human rights from global and regional courts, including selective coverage of the European Commission and Court, selected U.N. committees, the Inter-American Court of Human Rights, the Inter-American Commission of Human Rights, and cases decided under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, in both Court and Commission.

  • Oxford Reports on International Law: International Law in Domestic Courts (PL)
  • The Oxford Reports on International Law: International Law in Domestic Courts covers international law as applied in the domestic courts of approximately 70 jurisdictions worldwide. The collection includes relevant cases from 2000 to the present for each jurisdiction; coverage of older cases is incomplete but expanding.

  • Oyez Project
  • The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive of the U.S. Supreme Court. It provides case summaries organized by term, audio recordings in RealAudio format for all proceedings 1995-present and selective coverage 1955-1995, and facts and biographical information on all Supreme Court Justices.

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  • PAIS International (UP)
  • The Public Affairs Information Service (PAIS) International database provides bibliographic citations (1915- present) and indexing related to contemporary public affairs and policy issues worldwide, including agriculture, banking, finance, demographics, education, health, environment, planning, public administration, law and legislation, and international relations.

  • Peace Palace Library
  • The Peace Palace Library, located at the Hague, offers one of the largest collections in the fields of public and private international law and foreign national law, as well as international political and diplomatic history and the history of peace movements. Library materials date back to 1913.

  • Penn Program on Regulation: E-Rulemaking
  • The Penn Program on Regulation: E-Rulemaking provides access to research papers, policy documents, conference materials, and websites addressing technological and institutional issues related to the use of digital technologies by government agencies in the rulemaking process.

  • Pennsylvania Courts
  • Pennsylvania Courts is the online home of the Unified Judicial System of Pennsylvania, and provides access to all state appellate court opinions, appellate and trial court dockets, annual statistical reports, court calendars, information about specific courts, press releases, forms, rules and information for attorneys.

  • Pennsylvania General Assembly
  • Pennsylvania General Assembly is an official state government website for news and information regarding Pennsylvania's laws and regulations, legislators, and pending legislation.

  • Pennsylvania Law Weekly (PL)
  • Articles, commentary, and selected case opinions relevant to Pennsylvania legal practitioners.

  • Pennsylvania Legal Research Web Sites
  • Pennsylvania Legal Research Web Sites is a portal for online sources of Pennsylvania law and legal information, including links to county courts, case law, rules and regulations, constitutional, statutory and administrative law, legislative history, local bar associations, legal publications, public records, legal services, law firms, state statistics, state agencies, forms, and more.

  • Pennsylvania Session Laws
  • Pennsylvania Session Laws is a digital collection of the laws enacted for the Province and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, from 1682 to the most recently completed session of the Pennsylvania General Assembly, including the Statutes at Large (1682-1809), Smith's Laws (1700-1829) and Pamphlet Laws (1801-present). The collection is compiled by the Legislative Reference Bureau, a non-partisan agency of the state General Assembly.

  • Philosopher's Index (UP)
  • The Philosopher's Index provides indexing and abstracts from books and journals of philosophy and related fields. It covers the areas of ethics, aesthetics, social philosophy, political philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, logic, and philosophy of mind, as well as material on the philosophy of law, religion, science, history, language and education.

  • Policy Archive
  • Policy Archive is a digital archive of non-partisan policy research. It collects summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material from think tanks, universities, government, and foundation-funded policy research.

  • ProQuest Congressional (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • ProQuest Congressional offers access to U.S. legislative publications and government information, including pending bills, laws, legislative histories, committee reports and documents, Congressional hearings and select committee prints, and biographical data about members of Congress. Much of the material is available in full-text.

  • ProQuest Legislative Insight (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • ProQuest Legislative Insight provides federal legislative history materials, including full-text Public Laws, all versions of related bills, related excerpts from the Congressional Record, committee hearings, reports and prints, Presidential signing statements, Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, and other related Congressional publications. All materials are available in text-searchable PDF. Coverage varies.

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  • Religion Case Reporter (PL)
  • The Religion Case Reporter publishes and indexes judicial opinions related to the intersection of law and religion, and all topics affected by religious practice or status; this includes religious minorities, education, employment discrimination, medical care, public prayer, the clergy and religious institutions, zoning, and more.

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  • Securities Lawyer's Deskbook
  • The Securities Lawyer's Deskbook contains the text of the basic federal securities laws and regulations (the Securities Act of 1933, as amended; the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; the Investment Company Act of 1940; the Investment Advisers Act of 1940; and the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002), as well as the associated rules (Regulations S-K, S-B, S-X, S-T, S-P, M-A, FD, M and ATS) and the relevant Securities and Exchange Commission forms.

  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN) (UP)
  • The Social Science Research Network collects recent research results found in abstracts and full-text working papers and journal articles in the social sciences, including business, economics, finance, law and politics. It also includes professional job listings and conference announcements. Access is provided through searchable databases and through subject-specific or source-institution email notification services.

  • Subject Compilations of State Laws (PL)
  • The Subject Compilations of State Laws is a searchable collection of articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions and websites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects. Researchers may browse by subject, review historical compilations (1960- present) or browse the State Law Index (1925-1948), an index and digest of state laws.

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  • Thomas
  • Thomas is a source for federal legislation information published by the Library of Congress. Thomas provides access to Congressional bills and resolutions, full-text Public Laws, House and Senate Roll Call votes, the Congressional Record, and the Congressional Record Index, as well as calendars, committee reports, presidential nominations, treaties and other government resources. Coverage dates vary.

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  • UK Statute Law Database
  • The UK Statute Law Database is an official compilation of original (as enacted) and revised versions of UK legislation. Legislative content includes UK Public General Acts, UK Local Acts, UK Statutory Instruments, UK Ministerial Orders, as well as Acts of the Scottish Parliament, Acts of the Northern Ireland Assembly, Wales Statutory Instruments, Scottish Statutory Instruments, Church Instruments, historical material (including Acts of English Parliament dating from 1267-1706) and other sources.

  • UNILEX
  • UNILEX is a source for international case law and bibliographical materials on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts and on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG). It includes case abstracts, full-text case decisions in their original language (as available), full-text versions of the UNIDROIT Principles and the CISG convention, ratification status on the CISG convention, and a searchable bibliography of each instrument.

  • United Nations Treaty Collection
  • The United Nations Treaty Collection contains primary source material for international treaties and agreements deposited or registered with the U.N. since 1946. Ratification and annotation information for individual treaties and agreements is also provided.

  • U.S. Congressional Documents Library (PL)
  • The U.S. Congressional Documents Library includes the Congressional Record and preceding publications covering the period form 1789-1943 and 1971-present. It also includes the Daily Record from 1994-2008, as well as the American States Papers, U.S. Statutes at Large, diplomatic and legislative works of the Federal Convention, Continental Congress, U.S. Territories, and more.

  • United States Congressional Serial Set (PL)
  • The United States Congressional Serial Set includes full-text House and Senate Documents and Reports (1789-present) and other U.S. documents, such as Executive publications, often included in the printed Serial Set in earlier years. The compilation is still in progress.

  • U.S. State Department's Private International Law Databases
  • The U.S. State Department's Private International Law Databases offer access to private international law conventions, model laws and rules, legislative guides, and other instruments. The databases are organized by subject: commercial law, judicial assistance, arbitration and judgments, family law, wills, trusts and estates, and general resources.

  • U.S. State Department's Treaty Affairs Site
  • The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Treaty Affairs acts as the principal government repository for U.S. treaties and other international agreements; it also reports international agreements to Congress and maintains registration of treaties and international agreements with the United Nations. The site offers indexing and full-text (when available) of treaties, reports to Congress, treaty actions, guidance and regulations.

  • United States Supreme Court
  • The online home of the U.S. Supreme Court offers copies of opinions, dockets, calendars, court rules, term statistics, information on bar admission, and other information for attorneys, litigants and visitors to the Court.

  • United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978 (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • The United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs collection contains briefs and other materials filed with the Court from 1832 to 1978. The collection does not include Court rulings or opinions.

  • University of Minnesota Human Rights Library
  • The University of Minnesota Human Rights Library collects human rights treaties and other primary source materials related to international human rights, including documents in Arabic, Chinese, French, Japanese Korean, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. It also provides a portal to third-party human rights websites and information sources, organized by subject, region, organization and document type.

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, Law and Economics Research Paper Series
  • The University of Pennsylvania Law School's Law and Economics Research Paper Series, hosted by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), provides access to papers, working papers and abstracts on law and economics topics.

  • University of Pennsylvania Law School, Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series
  • The University of Pennsylvania Law School's Public Law and Legal Theory Research Paper Series, hosted by the Social Science Research Network (SSRN), provides access to papers, working papers and abstracts on public law and legal theory topics.

  • University of Pennsylvania Library Databases (UP)
  • The University of Pennsylvania Library Databases provide access to the University library catalog (Franklin), video catalog (VCat), digital special collections, and access to electronic journals and databases covering over 75 subjects.

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  • Virtual Chase
  • Virtual Chase is a free source for articles, research guides and teaching materials created by a community of law librarians. It includes topical and jurisdiction-specific research guides, resources for e-discovery, expert witnesses, business news, company information and filings, public records, and content from LLRX.com, a source for information on research technology tools.

  • vLex (PL)
  • vLex is a global legal database containing full text constitutions, legislation and statutory codes, law journals, newspapers, treatises and other sources. Materials are available in 13 languages and cover 134 countries, with particular emphasis on Spanish, Portugese and Latin American law.

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  • Westlaw (PL, PR)
  • Westlaw is a collection of over 30,000 databases covering case law, court documents, federal and state statutes, administrative rules and regulations, news sources, law reviews, treatises, legal encyclopedias and other secondary sources, forms and public records, as well as specialized collections for many areas of legal practice.

  • Westlaw Business (UP)
  • Westlaw Business (LIVEDGAR) is a source for all Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) filings, SEC No-Action Letters, SEC staff reviews, and SEDAR Filings (Canadian). It also includes compilations on mergers and acquisitions, restructuring, and legal and business due diligence.

  • Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals (PL)
  • The Wilson Index to Legal Periodicals is an index of more than 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications. Resources include the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (1982 - present), and the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1908-1981).

  • Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000 (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • Women and Social Movements in the United States is a searchable collection of primary source documents and images pertaining to U.S. women's history. The collection includes over 100 document projects and archives containing more than 4,000 documents. It also includes book, film, and website reviews, notes from the archives, teaching tools, data and statistics from the publications of local and state commissions on women since 1963.

  • World Constitutions Illustrated (PL) (UP Access Here)
  • World Constitutions Illustrated provides access to the constitutions of 196 countries, as well as the full text of related books, periodicals, encyclopedias, and links to third-party resources.

  • World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
  • The World Legal Information Institute, a joint effort of several regional legal information organizations, comprises over 270 free databases from 48 jurisdictions (primarily those with common-law traditions), covering case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, and other materials.

  • WorldTradeLaw (PL)
  • WorldTradeLaw offers access to primary source documents related to international trade law, as well as a full-text search engine for GATT/WTO decisions, a portal to third-party resources, and a discussion forum. It also includes the Dispute Settlement Commentary tool, which provides statistics, summary, indexing, and analysis of WTO dispute settlements.

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  • Zimmerman's Research Guide
  • Zimmerman's Research Guide, offered by LexisNexis, is a free index of legal research topics and techniques. Guide entries describe how to begin researching a topic, link to leading online resources (free and subscription-based), provide descriptions of terminology and contact details for third-party information sources.

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