This HeinOnline collection digitizes ABA Law Library Collection Periodicals, along with 45 periodicals previously only available to ABA section members. It provides access to current volumes of included periodicals and covers all subject areas of American law.
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American Immigration Lawyers Association immigration
AILALink contains resources on immigration law and practice, including statutes, cases, agency regulations & decisions, and related publications such as the Foreign Affairs Manual, forms from federal agency web sites and publications by the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Contains full runs of the Institute's Annual Reports, Proceedings, Annual Meeting Speeches, and the Institute's newsletter, The ALI Reporter. Also includes the Restatements of the Law, Uniform Commercial Code, Model Penal Code, ALI-ABA Periodicals, and the Statement of Essential Human Rights (a pioneering ALI project of the mid-1940s).
Daily web version of the print magazine covering legal business, law firms, and lawyers in the U.S. and world-wide. Features surveys and rankings of firms and practitioners.
Contains selected opinions from the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda. Includes commentary from international criminal law experts on decisions of the ICTY, ICTR, the Special Court for Sierra Leone, the International Criminal Tribunal for Timor-Leste and the ICC.
Includes over 5 million records describing archival materials, bringing together information about historical documents, personal papers, family histories, and more from over 1,000 different archival institutions. ArchiveGrid helps researchers looking for primary source materials held in archives, libraries, museums and historical societies.
Archives Unbound presents topically-focused digital collections of historical documents. The University Libraries' subscription includes access to the following collections:
Correspondence from German Concentration Camps and Prisons
German Anti-Semitic Propaganda, 1909-1941
Holocaust and the Concentration Camp Trials: Prosecution of Nazi War Crimes
Final Accountability Rosters of Japanese-American Relocation Centers, 1944-1946
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Aspen Study Aids, Examples & Explanations, Crunchtime, Glannon
Features eBook versions of these study aid series: Examples & Explanations, Crunchtime, Glannon Guides, Casenotes Legal Briefs, and more. Individuals can log in to annotate and highlight resources, but titles are available without creating a personal account. Recommended browsers: Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Avoid using Safari. Users may need to clear their cache for best functionality.
This HeinOnline Library contains a growing collection of state and local Bar Journals. You can search by article title, author, description, date, or across the full text of the articles.
Covering all aspects of native North American culture, history, and life with 80,000+ citations for books, essays, journal articles, and government documents of the United States and Canada. This resource covers a wide range of topics including archaeology, multicultural relations, gaming, governance, legend, and literacy. Dates of coverage for included content range from the sixteenth century to the present.
Bloomberg Law provides rich core collections of U.S. primary resources (case law, statutes, and administrative law materials); secondary resources (legal news, treatises, and other texts) and practice-oriented publications and tools. Its Dockets Search tool covers Federal, state and selected international courts. Other tools include Trackers for monitoring developments in various practice areas; Litigation Analytics for companies, law firms, judges and attorneys; Practical Guidance publications (sample forms, checklists, worksheets, timelines, etc.) covering various topics and practice areas, and State Law Chart Builders. Bloomberg Law also offers a Business Intelligence practice center with resources for researching company and market information, business information and news. Note: Bloomberg Law login credentials required. U of M Law School students, staff & faculty contact Law Library Reference Office for assistance.
Search federal and state court dockets and access case filings. Coverage varies by jurisdiction. Bloomberg Law provides helpful information (videos, screen shots and step-by-step directions) on how to perform various court docket-related research.
The Brennan Center’s law and policy scholarship is largely written by attorneys and covers a variety of topics. The Center’s publications are nonpartisan; most works are stand-alone journal-length articles. The Center's work focuses on a wide range of issues, such as voting rights, campaign finance reform, racial justice in criminal law, and Constitutional protection in the fight against terrorism. The Center considers itself to be a think tank, public interest law firm, advocacy group and communications hub. Its law and policy scholarship addresses many issues, is largely written by attorneys, and is extensively peer-reviewed by scholars and legal practitioners. Once a year, the Center publishes a book-length volume, Democracy and Justice: Collected Writings, which compiles excerpts from the year’s shorter scholarship and includes new material for that publication.
An aggregate resource of a number of indexes to nineteenth-century books, periodicals, official documents, newspapers and archives. Includes the Nineteenth Century Short Title Catalogue (NSTC).
Offers access to books and journals covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology, medicine, humanities and social sciences, including law.
Contains the official, bilingual series published under the authority of the Supreme Court Act. It includes over 9,400 cases which include background information, statutes and regulations, authors cited, analysis and the decision.
Access legal treatises, practice guides, and study aids in Ebook format. Study aid series including these titles: Mastering Questions and Answers Skills & Values Understanding Note: Users other than UMN Law School faculty, students & staff, may only access this eBook collection from within Mondale Hall (click on the "Sign In as Guest" button). When you locate a title you wish to view, click on the "Read button. This will allow you to read the book within your browser. Note: you can only view/check out one title at a time as a Guest User.
Casetext is an artificial intelligence powered legal research platform. It includes a database of federal and state case law and statutes, the Code of Federal Regulations, and tax, patent, and immigration appeals board decisions. CARA A.I. is the artificial intelligence technology available with Casetext, that provides enhanced search capabilities. Current law students and faculty can sign up for free access to Casetext.
A comprehensive research database covering tax and commercial law in the U.S. (Federal, state & local), as well as, foreign and international tax law. Includes primary source materials (treaties, statutes, codes, rules, regulations, court decisions) and secondary materials and finding aids (tax citators, IRS publications, legislative materials, current awareness news sources and periodicals). The International Tax Library includes foreign and international tax and commercial laws.
U of M students and faculty can register and create a personal account which allows users to save files. See Reference Office for instructions. Note: personal accounts are temporary and expire at the end of Fall semester (Dec. 31) and Spring semester (June 30). Users must reregister each semester and files are not carried over.
This weekly service indexes 500+ legal periodicals into over 100 subject headings. In addition to the subject index, it lists the table of contents for each new journal issue covered. Weekly issues archived back to 1999 may be browsed or downloaded.
"Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse, at the University of Michigan Law School, brings together and analyzes information and documents about important civil rights cases across the United States. It is organized by case categories (child welfare to speech & religious freedom." The site is dedicated to injunctive rather than damages litigation. Each case includes important case documents (docket, complaint and other case documents).
An extraordinary collection of personal letters written by and to Clarence Darrow. Sections of this site focus on both Darrow's famous and lesser known trials. Unique material including trial transcripts, cases, articles, books, photos, and narratives about Clarence Darrow's life and legal career are included. This site also offers a Searchable Database of Darrow Cases that contains all published state and federal cases in which Clarence Darrow or his law firm is listed as counsel for one of the parties. The database also contains all published state and federal cases that quote or refer to Clarence Darrow. The database is updated periodically.
Contains publications on theory and research in international affairs including journals, books, working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, course packs, and maps and country data.
Features William H. Manz’s, Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, brings together materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and structure of Article III Courts. Also features Federal Judicial Center publications, other related works, selected periodicals, links to scholarly articles, and CFR Title 28 - Judicial Administration.
A Kluwer Law Online/Kluwer Law International publication. Provides coverage of laws and issues concerning acquisitions and mergers practice in over 50 countries.
Corporate Counsel Profiler (part of Wolters Kluwer's VitalLaw legal research platform) is a comprehensive database for North America's in-house legal departments. Search and browse information on 22,000+ corporate counsel, and acquire company details from thousands of corporations. Search options and filters include: company and attorney name, company city and state, practice areas, bar jurisdictions and more. Note: U of M affiliated users may access this resource from off-campus using their VitalLaw credentials. If you have not created VitalLaw credentials logon to VitalLaw with your U of M Internet credentials and click on the "Log in" link (top left corner), then click on the "Create User ID" link and follow the registration steps.
Provides access to research publications (reports, articles, surveys, statistics and more) on American government, politics, public policy, and current affairs. Major publications include CQ Researcher, which covers current affairs and social policy (articles archived to 1923), CQ Almanac, offers analysis of legislation and congressional actions, as well as congressional voting data and policy tracking tools (coverage back to 1945); and the news magazine, CQ Weekly reporting on public policy, politics, legislation, and elections (coverage back to 1983). CQ Library also offers three statistics and data visualization/manipulation resources: Local Stats, State Stats, and U.S. Political Stats, and a Voting and Elections Collection.
"This HeinOnline collection offers an historical overview of how criminal justice has changed in American and English law and the effect criminology has had in facilitating those changes. It collects government documents as well as rare or hard to find pamphlets, memoirs, and books written by ordinary law enforcement officers and not-so-famous criminals."
Access primary documents central to United States foreign and military policy since 1945. Material is arranged by topical collection produced by the National Security Archives at George Washington University. Each collection contains a diverse range of policy documents including presidential directives, memos, briefing papers, White House communications, email, confidential letters and more.
A database of international commercial arbitration and mediation dispositions.
Click on the "Subscriber Login" and then the "Organization Login" buttons to access.
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E & E News Energywire Climatewire E & E Daily Greenwire E & E News PM E & E TV
This resource is only available to U of M Twin Cities faculty, students and staff. U of M Internet credentials required to access E & E publications on and off campus. Provides news and analysis of developments in environmental, energy, and natural resources policy. The "Publications" link (top right) displays links to these daily E & E News publications:
ClimateWire
EnergyWire,
E & E Daily
Greenwire
E & E News PM.
Contains the entire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) which contains more than 20,000 cases. Also included is the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports.
Digitized text and images from 17th and 18th century America. Search and browse various types of documents on topics related to government, law, crime, history, politics, health, philosophy, labor, economics and trade, languages, military, literature, law and crime, people, science, theology, and society, customs, and manners.
Provides full-text and full-page-image access to books, pamphlets, and broadsides published in America from 1801 through 1819. Contains many state papers and government materials, including published reports; presidential letters and messages; and congressional, state and territorial resolutions.
The Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (eCFR) provides a way of exploring the Code of Federal Regulations as it exists today and at points in time back to January 2017.
The works contained in EBBO include a broad scope of subject areas. Official dates of coverage are 1473-1700, corresponding to the dates covered in the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing short title catalogues, and the Thomason Tract and Tract Supplement collections. However, there are a few hundred items in EEBO that were printed after 1700. Most of these are later reproductions or reprints of originals.
The works contained in EBBO include a broad scope of subject areas. Official dates of coverage are 1473-1700, corresponding to the dates covered in the Pollard & Redgrave and Wing short title catalogues, and the Thomason Tract and Tract Supplement collections. However, there are a few hundred items in EEBO that were printed after 1700. Most of these are later reproductions or reprints of originals.
ECCO contains over 180,000 searchable, full-text, publications (primarily in English) printed in the UK and elsewhere between 1701 and 1800. Users can limit searches to specific subject areas such as law or browse an alphabetical list of titles. The legal publications in this collection represent the varied genres of the period including: abridgements, accounts, acts, answers, collections, decisions, defenses, dialogs, lists, minutes, narratives, petitions proceedings, proposals, treatises and trials.
EBRI is a nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that publishes a variety of publications, covering employment benefits issues, including health, retirement, and related economic security topics.
Part of the Kluwer Law Online Collection. Provides an overview of commercial litigation procedure and its judges and practitioners in the courts of the important commercial countries throughout the world.
Online version of the five-volume Oxford print edition. Coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history, including major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms.
Part of the Kluwer Law Online Collection. Covers specific procedures of individual nations and their policies related to enforcement of foreign judgements.
This HeinOnline collection provides exact page images of the original bound reprint edition, containing more than 100,000 cases, together with the Indexes and Book of Charts. Useful navigation tools, such as a Case Locator, Chart Tool, and an Advanced Search provide enhanced access to specific cases. This collection also includes is the Statutes of the Realm (1235-1713), along with Pre-1865 Law Reports.
Access to news and analysis from the Environmental Law Institute's various newsletters, current awareness publications and journals. Coverage includes state, federal and international environmental law. Includes primary and secondary source materials, and finding aid tools.
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ECMI European Center for Minority Issues
The ECMI conducts practice-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-majority relations in Europe. This library contains several publications of the ECMI, including ECMI Reports and Working Papers. Visit the ECMI website (www.ecmi.de/home/) for the most current ECMI Annual Report and other information.
Search millions of newspapers, business magazines, and newswires with international and foreign language coverage with all editions of the Wall Street Journal. Financial information for publicly traded companies, stocks, funds, currencies, and common market indexes. Limited to 7 simultaneous users.
Includes federal and state primary law sources (constitutions, statutes, cases, court rules, administrative rules/regs., and selected administrative opinions and orders). Fastcase is also available to all Minnesota State Bar Association members as a membership benefit.
"The Compendium of Federal Circuit decisions is a a database created to both standardize and analyze decisions of the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. The Compendium includes all opinions, orders, and summary affirmances that were released on the Federal Circuit’s website—essentially all opinions since 2004 and all summary affirmances since 2007, along with numerous orders and other documents. Multiple fields are coded in a standardized format that will allow future researchers to avoid recollecting fundamental fields such as case names or opinion dates. The database also has the capacity for expansion, and new information about the decisions can easily be added. Public access to the database is provided in an easy-to-use web-based interface that allows for immediate visualization of data."
The Federal Register is updated on a daily basis. Its coverage begins from inception (1936). Also includes the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) from inception (1938), Official US Bulletin (1917-1919), U.S. Government Manual from inception (1935), Daily and Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents from inception (1965).
Global news and information. Current students, faculty, and staff must register and create personal accounts using University of Minnesota e-mail addresses at the link above. Once registered, you can use your account to log in to FT.com from anywhere on any device by clicking on the "Sign in" link in the upper right-hand corner.
Current students, faculty, and staff must register and create personal accounts using University of Minnesota e-mail addresses at the link above. Once registered, you can use your account to log in to FT.com from anywhere on any device by clicking on the "Sign in" link in the upper right-hand corner.
Formerly know as Vault, Firsthand provides career-related information, resources and services. Content areas include: industries and professions, employer research, career e-books, career advice articles & videos, internship and job postings, news and commentary. Reviews and rankings of companies, including top law firms. Articles, videos and sample documents offer practical guidance on career and job search topics.
Provides access to documents grouped in the following categories: International Yearbooks & Periodicals; U.S. Law Digests; International Tribunal/Judicial Decisions; Other Significant Works Related to Foreign & International Law.
Popularly referred to as "Reynolds & Flores", this guide is an essential resource for locating primary and secondary foreign law resources as well as information regarding the legal histories and legal systems of countries worldwide.
Foreign Policy is devoted to coverage of global affairs, including news, analysis and commentary on a wide array of social, economic, political, environmental, science and technology-related issues. Content on its website is arranged in various sections including: News, Opinion, Regions, Channels (including a LAWFARE channel focusing on law and politics issues) and a Features section that includes photo essays, podcasts and articles. The current issue of the bimonthly print publication, Foreign Policy Magazine, as well as an archive of past issues back to the first issue (Winter, 1970) is available from the website. Browse, search and other useful user-friendly features are provided.
This series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. It is comprised of more than 500 books beginning with Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 and continuing to the administration of Richard Nixon/Gerald Ford in 1976.
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Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Institute
Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation
FastCase offers online access to the Foundation for Natural Resources and Energy Law Digital Library (formerly Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation). The digital collection includes the Foundation's annual institute materials and journal. The collection also contains materials published by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation since 1955 and includes more than 2,000 articles and 176 books dealing with all aspects of natural resources law. Look in the Secondary Material section of FastCase, under "Commentary," "Books & Treatises," FRNEL.
Search a growing database of laws from 104 foreign countries. Laws are machine translated into English. Includes links to official full-text source where available. Additional content includes a Regulatory Tools section with regulatory impact statements, definitions extracted from legislation worldwide, regulatory case studies, and curated case studies.
Google Books allows users to search within the full text of books. However, for books that are still under copyright, the viewable text is typically limited to small portions where the search terms appear (either a "Snippet View" or the "Sample Pages View." The Advanced Search template provides additional search functionality and several helpful search options.
Connect to Google Scholar through the Libraries' web site to gain off-campus access to all the articles and journals in full text in the U of M Libraries. Use Google Scholar to find articles from a wide variety of academic publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and universities, as well as scholarly articles from across the web. More information at: http://www.lib.umn.edu/faq/5341
govinfo provides free public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. govinfo is a service of the United States Government Publishing Office (GPO). Information can be browsed by collection groups or by an A-Z titles list.
An archive collection of courses on public and private international law and related subjects dating back to 1923. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. Includes twelve periodic indexes, plus the official publications from the Workshops organized by the Academy.
Includes a reprint of the original work, Harvard Research in International Law, published between 1929 and 1939, and the Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal volume (published in 2007), an evaluation of the Harvard Research and an analysis of its impact by international legal scholars.
"In the HathiTrust Digital Library collection, you can find titles on everything from African History, Economics, and French Literature to Solar Energy, Public Health, and materials published in more than 400 languages. The digital library of 18+ million digitized items brings together the collections of more than 60 academic and research libraries from across North America and other countries."
Contains primary and secondary materials, organized in various libraries and collections. Some feature a single title, e.g. Federal Register and supporting or related materials, others feature a particular type of material, e.g. law journals. Subject-specific libraries that contain a variety of materials and resources related to a particular topic or area of law are also included. HeinOnline includes the citation analysis tool, ScholarCheck and access to case law via Fastcase. HeinOnline offers a number of LibGuides covering various HeinOnline collections.
The Law Library provides U of MN Law School alums remote access to HeinOnline's Law Journal Library of articles from over 2,700 law and law-related periodicals. The articles include hypertext links to the full-text of referenced cases on Fastcase. To gain access you will need an active U of MN Internet account (available to all degree-holding alumni). Contact the Law Library Reference Office (612-625-4309 law-ref@umn.edu) for information on U of MN Internet accounts and assistance in using the HeinOnline Law Journals Library.
The Hennepin Lawyer is the official publication of the Hennepin County Bar Association. Since 1933, The Hennepin Lawyer has been a respected resource for articles about the legal profession and developments in the law--particularly as they relate to practice in Hennepin County, as well as providing news on the local legal community and bar association. The Hennepin Lawyer magazine is published six times per year.
Online: HeinOnline, 1933 (vol. 1) to current. The Hennepin County Bar Association website has recent issues.
A guide to news digital archives and historical news sources, including newspapers and magazines. Note: the "Newspapers and Magazines by Title" section includes a listing of newspaper titles on microfilm available at the Wilson Library Newspaper Room.
Part III of HeinOnline's Taxation and Economic Reform in America archive, includes legislative histories, treatises, documents and more related to bankruptcy law. Also includes classic books from as early as the late 1800s and links to scholarly articles related to the study of bankruptcy in America.
This HeinOnline collection contains Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography, which represents more than 50 years of expert and extensive research on this subject. Also included are hundreds of additional related publications, such as hearings, trials, periodicals, and more.
Features the complete print series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Browse by Justice option allows you to see relevant works related to that Justice including links to articles and a bibliography of other works, along with links to Scholarly Articles.
The Public Collection contains over 75,000 documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management from a variety of sources (federal, state and local governments; international governments and institutions; nonprofit organizations and private entities). The Full Collection (accessible from all U of M Libraries) contains additional content not available in the Public Collection.
A growing collection of human rights documents emanating from 483 Human Rights NGOs. Ultimately HRDO will contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet in Ottawa, Canada since 1980.
Contains over sixty thousand core human rights documents (treaties, and other human rights instruments). Includes thousands of links to human rights sites and a related search engine for searching multiple human rights web sites. Documents are available in nine languages.
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Incorporated Law Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales
The Incorporated Law Council of Law Reporting for England & Wales (ICLR). ICLR Online publishes case law from the Superior and Appellate Courts in England and Wales. Cases can be searched or browsed by court. Coverage varies by court. ICLR Online also provides access to the entirety of the currently in force legislation available from the official National Archives' legislation.gov.uk website.
Contains a compilation of historical documents and legislation related to immigration in the U.S. as well as current hearings, debates and recent developments in immigration law. The database includes BIA Precedent Decisions, legislative histories, law and policy titles, extradition titles, scholarly articles, an extensive bibliography, and other related works.
IFLP is a, "multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in over 500 legal journals published worldwide. It provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the U.S., the U.K., Canada, and Australia. IFLP also analyzes the contents of approximately eighty individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Mélanges, and congress reports each year.index, "covers all forms of foreign (non-Anglo-American) law." Coverage begins in 1960.
Available via HeinOnline's Law Journal Library. Also available in print (Law Library Reference K33 .I53) v.1 (1770/1886)-v.6 (1932/1937). "One hundred and fifty-eight different law journals and reviews have been indexed; and also the articles relating to matters of law and legislation and to biographies of judges and lawyers, in one hundred and thirteen of the principal American, British, and Colonial literary magazines and reviews."
Coverage includes 800+ legal periodicals, law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, government publications and books, (dates of coverage vary but begin no earlier than 1980 for periodicals and 1993 for books).
A bibliographic database consisting of citations from the print editions of Index to Legal Periodicals published between 1908-1981. Coverage includes over 750 legal periodicals (law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes and government publications) published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
This index is among the titles in HeinOnline's, Law Journal Library. It indexes non-legal periodicals and includes articles not indexed in Index to Legal Periodicals. Coverage begins in 1958. This index ceased publication in 2007 (vol. 49). Print volumes are available in Law Library Reference K33 .I52x.
Formerly title, American Indian Law Collection, this HeinOnline collection features treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence. Includes federal agency reports, decisions, and other publications as early as 1789.
HeinOnline's substantial collection of legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks in one database. Notable titles include: Legislative History of the 1909 Copyright Act (1976), Kamenstein Legislative History Project: A Compendium and Analytical Index of Materials Leading to the Copyright Act of 1976, and William Robinson's Law of Patents for Useful Inventions. This library also features CFR Title 37, U.S. Code Titles 17 & 35, Manual of Patent Examining Procedure, and more.
This database by the Inter-American Human Rights Project, contains case summaries of judgments by the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR). Decisions may be searched by case name, country, topic and by specific violation of various Inter-American Conventions. Search results include: brief case description, judge and violation information. Selected results include links to detailed case summaries with additional information.
Part of the Kluwer Law Online Collection. Examines the laws, procedures, and practice relating to commercial agency and distribution agreements in 52 national jurisdictions worldwide.
Part of the Kluwer Law Online Collection. Coverage of foreign and international laws in the following fields of law: Civil Procedure, Commercial and Economic Law, Competition Law, Constitutional Law, Contracts, Corporations and Partnerships, Criminal Law, Cyber Law, Energy law, Environmental Law, Family and Succession Law, Insurance Law, Intellectual Property, Intergovernmental Organizations, Labour Law, Media Law, Medical Law, Migration Law, Private International Law, Property and Trust Law, Religion Law, Social Security Law, Sports Law, Tort Law, and Transport Law.
The International Law Association's objectives are the study, clarification and development of international law, both public and private, and the furtherance of international understanding and respect for international law. The International Law Association Reports of Conferences contain the International Committees' reports and a record of the discussions at the Conference working sessions, together with the adopted Resolutions.
"This fulltext search index includes over 25 million research articles and other scholarly documents preserved in the Internet Archive. The collection spans from digitized copies of eighteenth century journals through the latest Open Access conference proceedings and pre-prints crawled from the World Wide Web." Note: This is a new (beta version) service of the Internet Archive. Metadata is being improved and features have not been finalized.
Full-text copies of laws passed by the Protestant Parliament of Ireland which regulated the status of Roman Catholics through most of the 18th century. This site contains the text of those Penal Laws passed in Ireland during the reigns of William and Mary, William III, Anne, and George I and II, from 1691 to 1760. It also contains certain English statutes relating to the status of Irish Catholics.
Contains English translations of over 220 cases published in Selected Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel Series and the Israel Law Reports Series. The collection also includes the Israel Law Review (vols. 1-42, 1966-2009).
An electronic archive of scholarly journals from a variety of disciplines including: African American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Ecology, Economics, Education, Finance, History, Literature, Mathematics, Philosophy, Political Science, Population Studies, Sociology, and Statistics. Search, browse, print and download options provided. JSTOR also includes a new Text Analyzer tool (beta version) that allows users to upload documents which are then analyzed to identify key topics and terms that are used to locate similar content. e.g. articles, chapters, in JSTOR.
Contains a rich collection of international arbitration materials, including primary sources such as ICC cases and awards as well as secondary materials that provide analysis and commentary from expert scholars and practitioners.
Contains a valuable collection of primary source material, commentary and analysis covering competition law in the EU countries. Materials may be browsed or searched by policy area, e.g. antitrust, cartels, mergers, and state aid, and by jurisdiction. Each topic contains: Legislation & Notices (directives and notices), Commission Decisions (full text & summary texts from the European Commission, Decision, Opinions of the Advisory Committee, Final Reports of the Hearing officer, and Commitments), Court Decisions (judgments & orders of the European Court of Justice and Opinions of the Advocate General), and Commentary and analysis from over 50 Kluwer competition law publications (books, journals and looseleafs).
PDF versions of Kluwer Law International looseleaf titles including the Encyclopaedia of International Law and several other selected Kluwer international law titles.
This collection contains more than 2,000 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most-currently published issues allowed based on contracts with publishers. Search by article title, author, subject, state or country published, full text, and narrow by date.
Access news stories from 21 ALM Media legal and business news publications. National publications include: The American Lawyer, National Law Journal, Supreme Court Brief, Corporate Counsel, AmLaw Litigation Daily, and Legaltech News. Regional publications include: New York Law Journal, New Jersey Law Journal, The Recorder (Northern CA), Daily Report (Atlanta, GA), Texas Lawyer, Delaware Business Court Insider, Delaware Law Weekly, Legal Intelligencer (PA), and Daily Business Review (South FL). Access to popular surveys & rankings including the Am Law 100, Am Law 200, NLJ 500, Global 100, Go to Law Schools, Diversity Scorecard and others. U of M Law faculty, students & staff can register to sign up for newsletters.
Law360 is a competitive intelligence resource that offers timely coverage and analysis of major litigation, and legislative, regulatory, and business developments affecting a wide variety of practice areas, companies, firms and industries. Coverage is both national and international in scope. Click on the University of Minnesota link in the top right corner of the home page to sign up for a customized daily newsletter. Note: Law School subscription does not include access to Law360 UK or Insurance UK content.
LawInfoChina, (a.k.a. en.pkulaw.cn), is a comprehensive Chinese legal research database that provides English translations of primary documents and secondary publications from as early as 1949 (but primarily from 1980 forward).
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Law Memo, Employment Law Memo, NLRB Law Memo, Arbitration Law Memo
Includes summaries of employment law decisions from three reporters: Employment Law Memo (federal & state appellate court decisions); NLRB Law Memo (NLRB decisions); Arbitration Law Memo (federal & state court arbitration decisions). Summaries include links to full opinions. Access limited to U of M Law students, faculty and staff. To register for access please contact the Reference Office, law-ref@umn.edu and provide your name, email address and law school affiliation (law faculty or law student).
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Leadership Directories Yellow Book Yellowbook
Formerly the "Leadership Library", contains 11 leadership directories: Congressional, Federal, Federal Regional, Judicial, State, Municipal, Government Affairs, Law firms, Corporate, Associations, and News Media. Search or browse within individual directories or across all directories using single or multiple criteria, such as name, job title, industry, and geographical location. NOTE: Off-campus access only works via VPN (Virtual Private Network). Please see more information on VPN at https://it.umn.edu/service-details/virtual-private-network-vpn. ALSO NOTE: Need to download more than 500 records? Contact Mary Schoenborn (hawki003@umn.edu) for assistance.
Includes over 4,500 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history including Story, Bentham, Blackstone, Holdsworth, Maine, Maitland, Pollock, Cardozo, and more. The collection focuses on constitutional law, comparative law, political science and other classic topics.
LSN is one of several specialized research networks of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN). Users can browse, search and download working papers from a variety of sources including conferences and meetings, journals, research centers, and law schools and legal studies programs.
Legal research database available to UMN Law School students and faculty only. A searchable directory of online sources available in Lexis Advance is here: http://w3.nexis.com/sources/
Search federal and state court dockets and access case filings. Coverage varies by jurisdiction. Lexis Advance Courtlink provides helpful information (videos, screen shots and step-by-step directions) on how to perform various court docket-related research.
This eBook collection includes a wide variety of frequently used legal texts, including scholarly treatises, practice guides and law school study aids. U of M Law School faculty, students and staff login in with your U of M Internet credentials. This will allow you to locate, check out and return eBooks from your computer or mobile device (includes a wide selection of devices). For assistance using the LexisNexis Digital Library, click the Help link/icon (top right corner of the page) or contact the Law Library Reference Office.
Note: Users other than UMN Law School faculty, students & staff, may only access this eBook collection from within Mondale Hall (click on the "Sign In as Guest" button). When you locate a title you wish to view, click on the "Read button. This will allow you to read the book within your browser. Note: you can only view/check out one title at a time as a Guest User.
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A collection of materials relating to the gay rights movement in America, including an interactive timeline, subject-coded court cases, scholarly articles, books, and more.
Use Libraries Search to search for books, articles and other items. Libraries Search combines the UMN Libraries Catalog search "with a large interdisciplinary search for journal, magazine and newspaper articles. Most databases licensed by the Libraries are limited to specific disciplines; Libraries Search offers more of a cross-section of results, indexing most of our licensed resources as well as a selection of the freely available content typically found through Google Scholar or an Internet search engine."
A digital collection of federal executive, legislative and judicial branch documents. Also includes select state, foreign, international materials and special focus collections covering a wide range of specialized areas of law. Offers a variety of search options.
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Making of Modern Law
ACLU Papers
This papers collection spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Documents include: bills, briefs, correspondence, court documents, legal case files, memorandums, minutes, newspaper clippings, reports, scrapbooks, telegrams. Also includes Part II: Southern Regional Office collection, comprised of documents from ACLU's Southern Regional Office and it's battle to enforce the 1964 Civil Rights Act in thirteen Southern states.
This collection includes historical statutory materials (codes, statutes, session laws) and analogous materials from canon law and Roman law. Commentaries that provide interpretive analysis of these primary sources are also included. A broad range of jurisdictions and legal systems are covered.
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Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600 - 1926
A digital archive of pre-1926 treatises and similar monographs. The international law component features classic works of great legal theorists, such as Gentili, Grotius, and Selden, and others. The foreign law component offers legal treatises from a variety of common-law countries and equivalent works in civil-law systems (commentaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, monographs, or festschriften). The comparative law component includes Ancient, Roman, Jewish Law and Islamic Law.
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MOML
Making of Modern Law
Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Appeals Courts
Records and briefs documents from U.S. Circuit Court cases from 1891 - 1980. Documents include: party and amicus briefs, appendices, memoranda, petitions, plaintiff statements, transcripts, and more.
A full-text digital image archive of 22,000 legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Browse feature (by author or title) and full-text search engine provided.
A full-text searchable archive of primary source documents from as early as 1620 and up to 1979. Includes constitutional conventions and compilations (reports, journals, proceedings, and debates, and supplementary documents published by the conventions including, manuals, rules of order, and information for the use of delegates); city charters (the texts of enacted and proposed charters and ordinances in American jurisdictions); law dictionaries; early U.S. state codes; and colonial records.
Contains the full-text digital images of thousands of books and pamphlets covering Anglo-American trials, from the beginning of the modern period to the early in twentieth century. In addition to works pertaining to English-speaking jurisdictions, English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions such as France are included. Books encompassing multiple trials are included as well as books about a single trial. Browse feature (by author or title) and full-text search engine provided.
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United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs Supreme Court Records and Briefs
Browse and full text searching available. Search by specific keywords or phrases, author (counsel or organization), case name, court term, document filing date and U.S. Reports citation. Document types include: briefs, applications, jurisdictional statements, opposition for review, oral transcripts, petitions, among other sources.
A comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law. This online version of the original the classic print set is continually updated. Contains over 1,000 articles. New material is added quarterly.
Historical run of full-text digital replicas of daily Minneapolis newspaper. Includes news articles, editorials, advertisements, classified ads, obituaries, cartoons, notices, illustrations and photographs and all other full image content. (via ProQuest Historical Newspapers)
Full-text articles from the recent issues of the Star Tribune. Does not include wire stories, ads, photos, or other non-textual article content from the paper. (via ProQuest Newsstream)
Full digital replicas of recent content from the newspaper (including full-text articles, photos, illustrations, ads, etc.). Does not include the most recent 3 months of content. (via ProQuest Recent Newspapers)
U of M Law School students and faculty may access MinnCLE course books, including outlines, forms, checklists, and other practice aids (but not deskbook and handbook publications) via the web site's Online Library. Contact the Reference Office for access instructions.
Online edition and digital copies of the print edition of Minnesota's legal newspaper. Library access restricted and password protected, see Reference Office regarding access. Also available via Lexis Advance (from 3/5/2001 - current, but note certain free lance articles and other features may not be available). Law Library print subscription copies available in Periodials Per .M595.
"The Minnesota Legal Periodical Index is a database of articles indexed by the Minnesota State Law Library. The publications indexed include law reviews published by Minnesota law schools, bar association publications, and commercial publications. See Publications Indexed for a list of titles, dates covered, and scope of coverage."
A directory of newspapers in Minnesota with links to newspaper websites. Listings can be browsed by newspaper name, county, special interest newspapers, college & university newspapers, and website-only papers.
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NAACP Papers ProQuest History Vault
Nearly 2 million digitized pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the NAACP's work and covers issues including: lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, employment, and housing, among others. It provides a comprehensive view of the NAACP's evolution, policies, and achievements from 1909-1970. The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Legal Department Files (Board of Directors, Annual Conferences, Major Speeches, and National Staff Files; The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Education, Voting, Housing, Employment, Armed Forces; The NAACP's Major Campaigns--Scottsboro, Anti-Lynching, Criminal Justice, Peonage, Labor, and Segregation and Discrimination Complaints and Responses).
A valuable resource for job searchers, career counselors, and legal recruiters. Each annual edition provides information on legal employers of all types — private practice, public service, government agencies, and corporations located nationwide.
A private, nonprofit, nonpartisan economic research organization. NBER activities are organized into programs and working Groups. Most NBER research is published in Working Papers available in .pdf format.
Contains all Model Acts drafted, recommended or endorsed by the Conference. It includes the NCCUSL - Archive Publications, Handbook of the NCCUSL and Proceedings of the Annual Conference Meeting, 1st-119th Conference (1891-2010) 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.
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NCLC
HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights
Green Book
The National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library provides the complete text of all NCLC treatises updated and online. The library includes over 20 treatises covering the areas of debtor rights, deception and warranties, consumer litigation, and credit & banking. Click on the "My NCLC" link (top & center) to access library content. Note: for access to the National Housing Law Project's HUD Housing Programs: Tenants’ Rights (The Green Book) contact the Law Library Reference Office.
Established in 1972, the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) is a federally funded resource offering justice and drug-related information to support research, policy, and program development worldwide. The NCJRS Abstracts provides access to more than 225,000 collection records and over 80,000 online resources, including all known Office of Justice Programs works. The Online NCJ Thesaurus Search allows users to discover related search terms, and perform a more comprehensive search of the NCJRS Abstracts Database.
Provides in-depth coverage of legal issues and developments including federal and state litigation, extensive coverage of U.S. Supreme Court, and reports and analysis of legislative developments. Notable state and federal verdicts and settlements of national significance are also reported. Includes analysis by practitioners of legal and professional trends, and an opinion section featuring pieces written by prominent lawyers, judges, legal scholars and elected officials.
This collection offers digital access to the records, briefs, and related organizational materials from the 1st to the most recent (1950-current) annual National Moot Court Competitions.
This HeinOnline database contains the online version of National Survey of State Laws. It, "provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States. Users are able to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws." The 6th ed. (2008) and 5th ed. (2005) are also provided and allow users to compare the same laws as they existed in 2005, 2008 and 2015.
A database of Israeli law, includes primary law (legislation, bills, regulations, case-law) and secondary law sources (articles, books). Searching is in Hebrew, but users can use their favorite translation tool (for example, Google Chrome or Google Translate) to navigate the database if needed.
Includes the reports and opinions of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Register, Tax Cases, New York State Session Laws, New York Law Journals, the New York State Bar Association Journal, legal classics from or about New York, New York trials, New York Codes prior to 1923 and State Reports.
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19th Century British Library Newspapers
Digital archive of 48 nineteenth century British newspapers. Includes national and regional newspapers including those from both established country or university towns and the new industrial powerhouses of the manufacturing Midlands, as well as Scotland, Ireland and Wales.
Search primary source collections of the nineteenth century (1800s) with books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Topics include British politics, theater and music; European literature, Asian exploration, photography, and more.
A guide to selected literature covering the various subfields of criminology, combining the features of a high-level encyclopedia and traditional bibliography. Each article includes a concise introduction/overview of the topic, followed by a selective annotated bibliography of books, articles and other resources. Articles are written, compiled and reviewed by top-scholars in the field.
An guide to selected literature covering the various subfields of international law, combining the features of a high-level encyclopedia and traditional bibliography. Each article includes a concise introduction/overview of the topic, followed by a selective annotated bibliography of books, articles and other resources. Articles are written, compiled and reviewed by top-scholars in the field.
Oxford Constitutional Law (OXCON) is the home of Oxford’s constitutional law services: Oxford Constitutions of the World, US Constitutional Law, and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law. From this platform users are able to perform a single search across all three constitutional law services. Oxford Constitutions of the World contains English translations of constitutions for every jurisdiction worldwide including national, sub-national, and state constitutions, as well as special sovereignties and recognized autonomous regions. Includes country-level commentaries and selected bibliographies. Where available, supplementary materials such as, governing acts of constitutional courts, foundational documents and historical versions of constitutional text are provided for each jurisdiction. The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law, provides a high level of analytic coverage of constitutional law topics in a comparative context. Note: single user subscription level.
Access selected Oxford Handbook titles in a variety of disciplines and subject areas including law and criminology/criminal justice. The law titles include: Comparative Constitutional Law; Comparative Law; Empirical Legal Research; International Environmental Law; International Investment Law; International Trade Law; Jurisprudence and Philosophy of Law; Legal Studies; History of International Law. The criminology and criminal justice Oxford Handbook titles include: Crime and Criminal Justice; Crime and Public Policy; Crime Prevention; Criminological Theory; Juvenile Crime & Juvenile Justice; Sentencing and Corrections.
Provides both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems, from ancient to modern times (Ancient Greek Law, Ancient Roman Law, Medieval Roman Law, Chinese Law, English Common Law, Islamic Law, United States Law), and the laws of other regions such 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.
Collects and analyses primary materials on international organizations (IOs), ranging from their constituent instruments, resolutions, agreements with host states, to national and international court decisions and states' declarations and policy statements. The resource includes materials on lesser-known and regional organizations as well as well-known ones such as the UN, WHO, IMF, and World Bank.
Contains 100 language and subject dictionaries and reference works spanning 25 different subject areas. Includes several law reference works (legal dictionaries, encyclopedias and guides).
Provides coverage of public international case law, reporting on international courts, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Case reports contain the full text of each decision, headnote, as well as analytical commentary and English translations of a number of key non-English decisions. The case law within ORIL is divided into seven modules: International Trade Law Decisions; International Law in EU Courts; International Law in Domestic Courts; International Criminal Law; International Human Rights Law; International Investment Claims; International Courts of General Jurisdiction.
Contains full-text online editions of Oxford University Press reference works and treatises, such as Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law. Titles can be searched and browsed by subject, title and author, and are linked, via the Oxford Law Citator, to relevant case reports and articles within all of OUP's online law products.
Full-text articles from selected O.U.P. journals, covering a wide range of disciplines, including law (almost 50, mostly international, law-related journals).
PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service), "covers issues in the public debate through selective coverage of a wide variety of international sources including journal articles, books, government documents, statistical directories, grey literature, research reports, conference papers, web content, and more. PAIS International is the current file covering 1972 to present, and PAIS Archive includes the content from printed volumes published 1915-1976."
Offers over 50 publications from the Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law at Columbia Law School. Noted works include: Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law. Book and Articles in English by Charles Szladits, and, An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States by E. Allan Farnsworth.
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Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law
Online version of the current print edition. Over 2,500 alphabetically arranged entries provide definitions and pertinent descriptive information. This title is included in the Oxford Reference Online database.
Officially titled United States - Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense. These "Pentagon Papers" are a U.S. Dept. of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967
Provides access to all of the top moot court competitions since 1960. It draws together the Problems, Judges' Briefs, Rules, and leading written memorials which comprise each competition. In addition, several publications of the International Law Students Association are also available.
PLI PLUS is an online library and research platform providing practice-focused expert analysis for attorneys and legal professionals. The library's subscription offers Intellectual Property Law titles.
Follow existing and introduced federal and state legislation across the country or in your state. Plural streamlines how you discover, track, and organize the bills you care about. The platform allows individuals and teams to see what’s happening with similar legislation across the country, find out where bill language reappears over time, and even predict which bills are starting to gain momentum.
Sign up for a personal account at the link above. If you are off campus, you must connect to VPN to register. You will receive an email from Plural to confirm your email address. Once a personal account is created, you can access Plural from anywhere.
U.S. Congressional publications and information of particular importance to legislative history research. Publications include: bills, hearings, committee reports, the Congressional Record, the U.S. Statutes at Large, the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, the Federal Register, compiled legislative histories, Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports, campaign contribution and financial information, voting record information, and congressional news sources. See the "Content Coverage Chart" link for dates of coverage and update schedule.
A comprehensive database of U.S.and international criminal justice journals. Abstract and indexing for over 250 titles, with articles from more than 100 journal titles available in full-text. Earliest coverage starts in 1981 (varies by title).Topics include: criminal justice, law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law, and industrial security.
Search all the Proquest Historical Newspapers currently available at the University of Minnesota Libraries, or click on "Publications" to customize your search by publication title. Among the 13 titles included are: Chicago Tribune (1849-1997); Christian Science Monitor (1908-2006); Los Angeles Times (1881-1996); Star Tribune (1867-2001); New York Times (1851-2016); Wall Street Journal (1889-2002); Washington Post (1877-2003).
Contains archival materials such as digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries, and other primary source materials taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections. Subject areas include NAACP Papers, INS immigration records (1880-1930), Vietnam War and American Foreign Policy (1960-1975), and Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files, 1960-1969, Europe and Latin America, Slavery and the Law (1775-1867).
Slavery and the Law features petitions on race, slavery, and free blacks that were submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses between 1775 and 1867. These petitions were collected by Loren Schweninger over a four year period from hundreds of courthouses and historical societies in 10 states and the District of Columbia. The petitions document the realities of slavery at the most immediate local level and with amazing candor. Slavery and the Law also includes the important State Slavery Statutes collection, a comprehensive record of the laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
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Women's Studies Manuscript Collections from the Schlesinger Library: Voting Rights, National Politics, and Reproductive Rights
Consists of three distinct series of collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College: voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights. The voting rights papers include documentation of national, regional, and local leaders. The national politics, major collections are those of Molly Dewson, Emma Guffey Miller, Sue Shelton White, Jeannette Rankin, and Jessica Weis. Collections on reproductive rights are the Schlesinger Library Family Planning Oral History Project, and the papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League.
ProQuest Indian Claims Insight allows researchers to search Indian claims content in a number of ways including keyword, full text, docket number, and more. Content includes decisions, transcripts, docket books, journals of the Indian Claims Commission, a judicial panel for relations between the U.S. Government and Native American tribes; and related statutes and congressional publications.
A federal legislative history database containing compilations of digital full-text publications relevant to enacted U.S. public laws. Includes legislative histories for public laws from the 1st Congress (1789) to the current Congress.
Regulatory Insight offers federal administrative law (regulatory) histories for individual federal statutes and Executive Orders. The regulatory histories consist of pertinent Federal Register documents (notices, proposed rules, final rules and presidential documents) in PDF & HTML formats. The scope of coverage is evolving (consult the product libguide at: http://proquest.libguides.com/reginsight/about for current coverage). The Advanced Search option allows users to limit and filter searches in various ways. The Search by Number option allows users to search by various citations including: Federal Register, CFR, Public Law, Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, RIN and Agency Docket numbers and citations. Consult the ProQuest Regulatory Insight LibGuide http://proquest.libguides.com/reginsight for more information.
Provides a comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. Coverage is from the 2013 edition to current. Updated monthly. For previous editions published by the Federal government (1st edition 1879 - 131st edition 2012 , see, "Statistical Abstract of the United States" in this database directory).
Index to statistical publications from US and state government agencies, international intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, and universities.
This collection spans from 1975 through the 2016/2017 term. It includes a complete collection of full opinions from U.S. Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs.
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Rise of American Law ROAL Westlaw
Rise of American Law (ROAL) is a Westlaw database containing over 400 historic, 19th and 20th century legal texts, such as treatises, and earlier editions of legal encyclopedias (American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris, and legal dictionaries, including the first three editions of Black's Law Dictionary. It also includes a number of foreign law materials.
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University of Virginia Press, UVA Press
Scholarly digital editions of historical, architectural, and literary resources. The Law Library has purchased the following modules: The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution, The Documentary History of the First Federal Congress of the United States of America, The Adams Papers, The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, The Papers of James Madison, The Papers of John Marshall, The Papers of George Washington, The Papers of Daniel Webster. The following open access modules are also available: Founders Early Access, The Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted, SAH Archipedia, The Journal of Emily Shore.
Initiated in 2007, the Rule of Law in Armed Conflicts (RULAC) project is a website that systematically qualifies situations of armed violence using the definition of armed conflict under international humanitarian law. RULAC also identifies the parties to armed conflicts. RULAC is currently monitoring more than 12 armed conflicts involving at least 24 states.
RULAC is still under development and new entries continue to be added. The scope of RULAC is currently limited to those conflicts that have emerged since 2011 and are still ongoing. Information on conflicts that started before 2011, including their classification, can be found on the old RULAC website.
Provides access to statistical data produced by U.S. Federal agencies, States, private organizations, and major intergovernmental organizations. There are up to 2 billion charts, maps, views, rankings, time series and tables available for use in the Data-Planet repository.
Coverage of decisions from India's supreme court, all high courts, tribunals and commissions. Also includes Indian statutory material (central statutes, rules, regulations, circulars, notifications and instructions). Indian secondary materials include: Constituent Assembly Debates, reports of the Law Commission of Indian and other committees, and a collection of legal periodical articles. A varied collection of foreign and international materials are also included. Registration required.
Includes the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series beginning with vol. 53 (1958); Supplementary Series; various other treatises and works; scholarly law review articles and links to research guides on Scottish legal history.
Includes the Selden Society Annual Series, Selden Society Supplementary Series and the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society published in 1987. It also includes more than 220 English Legal History Classics including abridgements, digests and dictionaries. Moreover, you will be able to access early English case law and link to other online publications in early English history.
This HeinOnline Library contains exact replicas of the bound session laws of all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands, including historical laws from territorial, colonial, and early statehood periods, as well as additional materials.
Free access to all from U of M Twin Cities campus. Remote (off-campus) access to U of M TC affiliated users and freely accessible to all others (with free registration). This database brings together every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, all federal statutes related to slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. It also contains hundreds of books and pamphlets written about slavery.
This digital collection documents key aspects of the history of slavery worldwide over six centuries, with 16 key areas of focus: slavery in the early Americas; African coast; the Middle Passage; slavery and agriculture; urban and domestic slavery; slave testimony; spiritualism and religion in slave communities; resistance and revolts; the Underground Railroad; the abolition movement and the slavery debate; legislation and politics; freed slaves, freedmen and free black settlements; education; slavery and the Islamic world; varieties of slave experience; slavery today and the legacy of slavery. The collection also includes case studies from America, the Caribbean, Brazil, and Cuba.
SSRN is composed of a number of specialized research networks in each of the social sciences. The SSRN eLibrary consists of an Abstract Database containing abstracts of thousands of scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers and an Electronic Paper Collection containing thousands of full text documents in pdf format.
Brings together various legal research reference works and tools. Content includes: bibliographies, dictionaries, research guide series, cataloging publications serials, memorials of Law Librarians and more.
Online journals, e-books, conference proceedings, and reference titles from Springer Publishing. Covers an array of disciplines with separate collections for many including law.
Access to the State Attorney General Reports & Opinions for all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Includes access to the Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Department of Justice and the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the U.S.
State Papers Online, 1509-1714 (Gale) is a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--when the King or Queen acted as Prime Minister as well as Monarch. The papers feature the office archives and correspondence of the secretaries of state serving the Monarch as facsimile manuscript documents accessed directly or via the fully searchable Calendar entries (abstracts or transcriptions). This collection contains information on every facet of English government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions and intelligence gathering as well as Britain's international relations and foreign policy.
An historical archive of state case reports that provides access to a digital version of Hein's State Reports Checklist with links to the full text of historical state court reports.
This HeinOnline collection provides access to superseded statutes for all fifty states. Browse and search options by state, publication title, and date.
Published from 1878 - 2012, the authoritative and comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States for the time period covered. For later editions (2013 - current) see, "ProQuest Statistical of the U.S." in this database directory.
This guide by Marcus Zillman and published on LLRX, "... is an expansive listing that focuses on statistics and big data datasets available free on the internet, covering multiple disciplines, for teaching, learning and reference. These data are published and maintained by sources that include: the U.S. and foreign governments, academic, corporate, NGOs, and open source communities."
The Subject Compilations of State Laws database provides, "... a comprehensive source for identifying thousands of articles, books, government documents, looseleaf services, court opinions, and Internet sites that compare state laws across 3,500+ subjects. It offers users quick access to over 28,000 bibliographic records, many with extensive annotations. Notably, the annotations conveniently link to more than 14,000 articles and documents in HeinOnline, while others connect to case law or external websites. Additionally, users can access current and past volumes in the series and other related works linking to 800+ full-text documents within HeinOnline."
"The database provides access to the State Law Index: An Index and Digest to the Legislation of the States of the United States Enacted During the Biennium, volumes 1-12 (1925-1948), published biennially by the Legislative Reference Service of the Library of Congress. This index aids in identifying session laws by subject enacted by states during the specified years, offering valuable research opportunities."
The Supreme Court Database (hosted by the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis) contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between the 1791 and 2015 terms. Examples include the identity of the court whose decision the Supreme Court reviewed, the parties to the suit, the legal provisions considered in the case, and the votes of the Justices.
Features the complete archive of the Tax Foundation's publications, which contain information on taxation, fiscal policy, finance and more. Browse by publication title or subject, or search engine to locate documents for specific topics.
Tax Notes features daily news and weekly magazine publications published by Tax Analyst. It also offers primary source tax materials in its Federal Tax Research Library and Worldwide Tax Treaties collection. The Library's subscription includes these news publications:: Tax Notes Today Federal, Tax Notes Federal Magazine, Tax Notes Today State, Tax Notes State Magazine, Tax Notes Today International, Tax Notes International Magazine, Exempt Organizations Expert, FATCA Expert, Tax Practice Expert, BEPS Expert, Transfer Pricing Expert and Nexus Tracker. NOTE: Current students, faculty, and staff must register and create personal accounts using University of Minnesota e-mail addresses at the following link: http://login.ezproxy.lib.umn.edu/login?url=http://www.taxnotes.com. Click on the SIGN IN link in the upper right-hand corner. Enter your e-mail address and click NEXT. Click on the Register Here link and fill in the required fields. Once you have registered, you must access the resource at https://www.taxnotes.com by clicking the SIGN IN link and entering your e-mail address and password. Click on the orange PUBLICATIONS tab and select a title.
A substantial archive of legislative history materials and other documents. It includes the complete Carlton Fox Collection of nearly 42 years of historical legislation related to the internal revenue laws from 1909-1950. It also includes over 100 other legislative histories related to taxation, economic reform, and stimulus plans.
This database contains a variety of information and data on federal judges in the judicial and executive branches of government. Includes federal civil and criminal courts, immigration courts and FISA court. Users can generate custom reports on individual judges. Users may also access TRAC Reports, authored by TRAC staff and covering a wide variety of topics.
TRACfed provides access to data and research reports which focus primarily on federal civil and criminal enforcement activities, federal expenditures and staffing. Types of data collected and reports provided include: criminal, civil, and administrative enforcement data, U.S. District Court Judges' and Assistant U.S. Attorneys' case load & performance statistics, administrators & federal staffing, federal expenditures, and community context data.
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Parliamentary Papers Parliament House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Formerly called - House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (ProQuest). Encompasses all areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, showing how issues were explored and legislation was formed. Includes House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688. Includes Records of proceedings, the Debates (Hansard), and the House of Commons journal; Sessional papers providing information to parliament on matters of policy and administration: Bills, House papers, and Command papers. Also includes those Papers of the House of Lords presented to the Commons, such as reports prepared by Lords Select Committees.
Provides detailed information on over 300,000 periodicals, a.k.a. serials (active, ceased and forthcoming). Includes academic and scholarly journals, e-journals, consumer and trade magazines, monographic series, newsletters, and newspapers.
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MNCAT Discovery Catalog
Libraries Search Catalog Only
Catalog
UMN Libraries Catalog a.k.a "Libraries Search" and formerly known as "MNCAT") when searched in the "Catalog Only" mode, searches for book & journals titles (print & digital), maps, music scores, films, sound recordings, government publications, archival materials etc, held by the University LIbraries (physical & digital collections, and subscription/licensed electronic resources).
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UN Digital Library UNBISNET UNDL
"The United Nations Digital Library [UNDL] includes UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. The platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format and bibliographic records for print UN documents starting in 1979. System features include linked data between related documentation such as resolutions, meeting records and voting, and refining of searches by UN body, agency or type of document." For information on using the UNDL, consult the Dag Hammarskjold Library's guide to the UNDL.
"This website provides access to the official records of a series of diplomatic conferences, convoked by the United Nations in order to negotiate and adopt several treaties based on drafts worked out by the International Law Commission and considered by the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the General Assembly. The user is provided access by individual document, and the entire collection of proceedings is searchable in full-text format."
In this HeinOnline collection, materials are organized in 11 sections: Treaty publications, International Court of Justice (ICJ), UN Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea (ITLOS), UN Yearbooks, UN Serials, Codification and Progressive Development of International Law, Other Related Works, WTO Publications, UN Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) and External Links. Finding Aids for researching treaties, UN publications, locating international agreements by popular name and finding scholarly writings of faculty members are provided.
Contains publications of the UN Treaty Section including UNTS (UN Treaty Series), MTDSG (Multilateral treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, UNTS Cumulative Index, and the monthly Statements of Treaties and International Agreements. Also includes the related publications – Summary of Practice of the Secretary-General as Depositary of Multilateral Treaties, Treaty Handbook, Handbook of Final Clauses and issues of Treaty Event Focus books.
Includes complete coverage of the U.S. Code from inception in 1925-1926. Also includes the Early Federal Laws Collection, the most complete collection of federal statute compilations prior to the US Code.
This HeinOnline collection features the complete Congressional Record Bound version, as well as the daily version back to 1980. Also includes the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), Register of Debates (1824-1837) and Congressional Globe (1833-1873), as well as other important congressional material.
A rich source of primary source material (primarily congressional and executive documents) that touch on all aspects of American history. Coverage from Vol. 1, 15th Cong. (1817) - Vol. 13384, 96th Cong. 2nd. Sess. (1980).
This HeinOnline library features reports, decisions, and records, and official case law of some of the most important U.S. Federal Agencies such as: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). It also includes over 65 GPO best selling legal titles.
Contains federal legislative histories published by the U.S. GPO and private publishers. Also includes a legislative history finding aid based on Nancy Johnson's, Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories.
This HeinOnline library includes such titles as Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Daily and Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and other documents related to U.S. Presidents.
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 are included.
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United States Treaties and Other International Agreements Blue Set Bevans, Miller, Malloy
Contains a comprehensive collection of all U.S. treaties and agreements, whether currently in-force, expired, or not-yet officially published. Includes prominent treaty collections such as the U.S. Treaties and Other International Agreements set (a.k.a. the "Blue set"), as well as famous sets from Bevans, Miller, Malloy and others.
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Scholarship Repository University of Minnesota Law School
Includes several collections: Faculty Scholarship, publications of the Univ. of Minnesota Law School's journals and research centers and institutes, recordings from selected events (lectures, symposia, conferences) held at the law school, and podcast recordings from Experto Crede (Minnesota Law Review podcast).
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Cheetah, CCH, Kluwer Law International
VitalLaw, the Wolters Kluwer legal research platform, provides access to primary and secondary materials covering over 20 practices areas, including: U.S. state, federal and international tax and securities law, antitrust, trade regulation, labor & employment, human resource management, payroll, pensions, benefits, healthcare, intellectual property, transportation, and many others. The online versions of popular looseleaf reporters and treatises from Wolters Kluwer’s CCH, Aspen and Kluwer Law International product lines are available through VitalLaw; offering expert analysis, commentary and advice. Note: to utilize VitalLaw customization features such as saved searches and worklists users must create a login in credentials. Click on the Create User ID link on the login page and follow the registration steps.
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International Law Reports English Reports State Trials
The following collections are available under the Law Library's vLex Justis subscription plan: International Law Reports; English Reports, and State Trials.
Aggregates and provides access to a broad range of content emanating from all branches of the federal government (over 14,000 government websites). The content types available are described in the Help section of Voxgov and includes: official releases, legislation, congressional documents, regulatory documents, media advisories, speeches, Op-Eds, and social media (Twitter feeds, YouTube videos) and much more.
Access to the articles, photographs, charts, podcasts, videos and other premium content available on the WSJ.COM website back to the 2010. Each user must set up a personal account to save articles, create alerts, download apps, and use other features. Access available only for University of Minnesota Twin Cities students, faculty, and staff. No guest access available.
Additional databases for Wall Street Journal articles include: Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Newsstand) (1984 - date) and Wall Street Journal (ProQuest Historical Newspapers) (1889 - 2000).
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Hornbooks, Nutshells, Concepts & Insights, Short & Happy, Law Stories, Black Letter Outlines, Gilbert Law Summaries, Sum & Substance Audio, Acing, Exam Pro, Flash Cards, Quick Reviews, Bridge to Practice, Building Skills, Career Guides, Developing Pr
Access the entire West Academic Study Aids Digital Collection including the popular Hornbooks and Nutshell Series. The materials in this collection include texts, outlines, flashcards, audio and video recordings. A wide range of areas and subjects of law are covered from 1L courses such as Civil Procedure and Legal Research & Writing, to 2L & 3L courses such as Evidence and Tax. Titles focused on specialized skills and areas of the law such as interview and counseling skills, appellate advocacy, and consumer law are also provided. Other titles covering topics such as academic success in law school, bar exam preparation, and career success advice are also available.
A comprehensive legal research system containing primary and secondary law sources and more. Available to U of M Law School students and law faculty only.
Access legal materials, including federal and state cases, statutes, and regulations. Secondary sources include law reviews & journals, the legal encyclopedia, American Jurisprudence 2nd, and the American Law Reports series. Additional material includes U.S. Supreme Court briefs, EDGAR filings and disclosures, federal legislative history documents, EU legal publications and various news databases.
This database includes United Kingdom primary source materials (case law, including dockets, legislation), secondary materials (treatises and other texts, journal articles, current awareness publications). Westlaw UK also provides access to EU legal materials.
This HeinOnline database contains a,"unique collection of materials bringing together thousands of books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to women’s roles in society and the law over the past 200 years. Also included are titles from Emory University Law School’s Feminism and Legal Theory Project which provide a platform to view the effect of law and culture on the female gender.features contemporary and historical works related to women's roles in society and the law."
Current and historical constitutions of the countries of the world in orginal-language and English translations. Includes over 800 classic books on constitutions, constitutional history and jurisprudence, and political and economic history, and articles from dozens of legal periodicals focusing on constitutional law and other related works.
A comprehensive resource that brings together several major treaty indexes in one database. The index is searchable by keywords, title, parties, sign date or citation. Also included are hundreds of related treaty publications, scholarly articles, and a bibliography of related publications.
Contains over 3,200 trials including complete sets of American State Trials, Howell's State Trials, and the Nuremburg Trials. Also includes famous trials from several prominent trials collections. 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 trial lawyers are included in this library.
Find books, journals, articles, maps, music scores, sound recordings, films, theses/dissertations, machine-readable data files, and any other materials available in libraries worldwide. This covers all subject areas. Coverage: 2150 BC - present.. Contact the Law Library's Interlibrary Loan Service to request items from other libraries.
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Aspen Study Aids, Examples & Explanations, Crunchtime, Glannon
Features eBook versions of these study aid series: Examples & Explanations, Crunchtime, Glannon Guides, Casenotes Legal Briefs, and more. Individuals can log in to annotate and highlight resources, but titles are available without creating a personal account. Recommended browsers: Chrome, Firefox, or Edge. Avoid using Safari. Users may need to clear their cache for best functionality.
Access legal treatises, practice guides, and study aids in Ebook format. Study aid series including these titles: Mastering Questions and Answers Skills & Values Understanding Note: Users other than UMN Law School faculty, students & staff, may only access this eBook collection from within Mondale Hall (click on the "Sign In as Guest" button). When you locate a title you wish to view, click on the "Read button. This will allow you to read the book within your browser. Note: you can only view/check out one title at a time as a Guest User.
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Hornbooks, Nutshells, Concepts & Insights, Short & Happy, Law Stories, Black Letter Outlines, Gilbert Law Summaries, Sum & Substance Audio, Acing, Exam Pro, Flash Cards, Quick Reviews, Bridge to Practice, Building Skills, Career Guides, Developing Pr
Access the entire West Academic Study Aids Digital Collection including the popular Hornbooks and Nutshell Series. The materials in this collection include texts, outlines, flashcards, audio and video recordings. A wide range of areas and subjects of law are covered from 1L courses such as Civil Procedure and Legal Research & Writing, to 2L & 3L courses such as Evidence and Tax. Titles focused on specialized skills and areas of the law such as interview and counseling skills, appellate advocacy, and consumer law are also provided. Other titles covering topics such as academic success in law school, bar exam preparation, and career success advice are also available.
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