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Research platform that combines traditional legal resources with Bloomberg's suite of business analytical tools and reports. 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. 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. Hybrid free/pay website which links to federal and state case law, statutes, session laws, regulations and other publications. 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. 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). 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. 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. Comprehenive resource for primary and secondary U.S. legal materials. Includes access to articles from many major newspapers and some business resources. 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. Free access to working papers, reports, lecture series, workshop presentations, and other scholarship created by faculty at NELLCO member schools. 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. 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. Foreign and International
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. 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. 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. "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. The American Society of International Law's database for searching international treaties and conventions, websites, and other research tools. 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. 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. International, comparative, and foreign legal research guides covering specific topical areas and providing overviews of a country's legal system. 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. Contains material (1923-present) produced by the Hague Academy that examines problems arising from international relations in the field of law. 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. 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. 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. 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. International tax research platform providing news, descriptions, and analyses of tax issues organized by country, geographic region, practice area, topic, and governing international organization. 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. The Institute for Transnational Law of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law offers this resource for researchers interested in constitutional, administrative, contract and tort law. English translations are offered for key decisions of the highest courts of France, Germany, Austria and Israel, as well as selected statutes from Germany and France. 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. 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. Penn Law resource which provides a list of Holocaust and other contemporary War Crimes resources available online or in the Biddle Law Library collection. 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. 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. 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 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. The Office of the Assistant Legal Adviser for Private International Law provides this site as a convenient starting point for research on private transactions crossing international borders. Information on relevant laws and international agreements, updates on developments in international law, and links to important websites are given for questions involving trade, finance and banking, judicial assistance, arbitration and judgments, family law, and inheritance and succession issues. 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. 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 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. General
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. 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. 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. Online directory providing individual and organizational contact information for government, business, legal, media, and nonprofit organiziations. 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. 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. 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. State and Local
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. Free online library of municiple codes for across the United States. Coverage varies. Home page for the Pennsylvania court system. Provides administrative information, forms, and court opinions. Linked Twitter account provides instant notification of PA Supreme Court Rulings. Provides online access to the Pennsylvania Statutes, Pennsylvania Code, Enacted Legislation (1975 - ), and administrative information on the General Assembly. From the Legislative Reference Bureau, a digital collection of historic Pennsylvania session laws from 1682 to 1809. Further coverage available, with dates changing due to to digitization efforts. 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. United States Administrative
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. 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. 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. 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. United States Executive
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. United States Judicial
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. Contains primary legal material and links to a wide variety of U.S. and international legal websites. Freely available public resource. 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. 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. 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. United States Legislative
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. 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. The U.S. Congress Collection within American Memory contains Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1875. 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 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. 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. 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 Topical
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. High-quality photographs of historical English legal documents chronologically arranged by monarch from Henry III (1176) to George III (1820). Harvard 's premier online resource for emerging issues involving the Internet and cyberculture. Weekly newsletter that provides news and in-depth analysis of topical issues relating to antitrust and trade regulation. 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. Weekly newsletter that covers legislative, regulatory, legal, and policy news pertaining to environmental developments in the courts, Congress, federal agencies, industry, and organizations. Weekly newsletter that covers important emerging family law issues pertaining to new federal and state appellate court cases, legislation, regulations, and other trends. 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. Continually updated resource which provides news and analysis relating to a variety of intellectual property issues. Limited access to some titles within the center. 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. 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. 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. 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. 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. Information on creating and using creative commons licensed works. Provides search engine for locating useable creative commons works by type and license. 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. Searchable collection of documents obtained by the EFF via its FOIA requests. 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. Articles on legal research, technology, and marketing. Also includes resources on court rules, forms, and dockets. Contains the text of the basic federal securities laws and regulations, as well as links to the principal Securities and Exchange Commission forms under those laws and regulations. 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.
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