Online Resources

Legal Databases

Bureau of National Affairs - The web versions of the following BNA looseleaf resources are available: ABA/BNA Lawyers' Manual on Professional Conduct; Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report; Bankruptcy Law Reporter; Criminal Law Reporter; Electronic Commerce and Law Report; Employment Discrimination Report; Environment Reporter - Current Reports; Family Law Reporter; Health Law Reporter; Intellectual Property Library; International Trade Reporter - Current Reports; Labor and Employment Law Library; Patent, Trademark and Copyright Journal; Securities Regulation & Law Report; Tax Management Library; U.S. Law Week; and, White Collar Crime Report.

CALI - Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction - This web site provides students at member schools with access to over 115 computer-based lessons, tutorials, and games in 22 subject areas. [Password required]

CCH Intelliconnect - This service provides access to the electronic version of CCH's vast tax research network of federal, state, and financial & estate tax services including access to the Internal Revenue Code and the federal tax regulations).The service also includes collections on: Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Banking; Commodities and Derivatives; Corporate Governance; Exchanges and SROs; Federal Energy Guidelines; Government Contracts; Insurance Coverage Litigation; Intellectual Property, Computer & Internet Law; International Business; Investment Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Products Liability & Safety; Securities; and, Transportation Law.

Constitutions Suite Online - This service provides access to Constitutions of the Countries of the World with authoritative English translations by scholars familiar with the legal systems and languages of the foreign jurisdictions they cover. Also included are Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories and Constitutions of the United States: National and State .

Foreign Law Guide - This service is a guide to foreign law research, providing accurate, authoritative and current information in this area.

HeinOnline - This service provides access to a vast array of law reviews, treatises in the "Legal Classics" collection, American Law Institute materials, foreign and international law materials, federal executive, legislative, and administrative materials, treaty collections, and state session laws. Materials are available in an image-based system which allows viewing and printing articles with the original print formating.

Justis - This service provides access to U.K. Statutes (1235-present) and Statutory Instruments (1949-present).

LawTRIO Publications - This database includes searchable versions of three directories: Legal Looseleafs in Print, Legal Newsletters in Print, and Directory of Law Related CD-ROMs.

Lexis.com - The web version of the Lexis-Nexis full-text online database. [Password required]

LexisNexis Congressional - The LexisNexis Universe service provides access to legislative and regulatory information and indexes, including the Congressional Indexes, 1789-1969, CIS Index, 1970-, full text of congressional reports, documents, prints, bills, the Congressional Record, Statutes at Large, public laws, United States Code Service, Federal Register, and the Code of Federal Regulations; bill tracking reports; biographical and financial information on members of Congress; member voting records; committee information; and the "Inside Washington" articles on legislative activies. Also available in the publications section of this source is the LexisNexis Congressional Research Digital Collection containing Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports and Congressional Committee Prints.

L.O.I.S. (Law Office Information Systems) Law Library - This entirely web-based full-text database provides access to comprehensive legal resources for all 50 states and for 18 selected federal libraries. [Password required]

Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (Gale) - This full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises for the period of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries covers a watershed period of legal development. The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works on British Commonwealth and American law. It provides researchers with a logical, interdisciplinary approach to the study of legal history and allows a vast segment of the literature of law to be quickly searched via keyword access by faculty members and students. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.

Oxford Reports on International Law - This service provides access to the International Courts of General Jurisdiction and International Law in Domestic Courts databases. These databases contain domestic cases in international law from over 65 jurisdictions and feature expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.

Social Law Library's Massachusetts Administrative Law and Substantive Law Databases - These databases provide access to a wide array of administrative agency decisions and regulations, as well as court opinions, the Massachusetts General Laws, court rules, session laws, and budget information.

United Nations Treaty Collection - This collection includes: the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General; Depositary Notifications (CNs); Certified True Copies (CTCs) of multilateral treaties; the United Nations Treaty Series; the League of Nations Treaty Series; texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties; and, the United Nations Treaty Series Cumulative Index.

Westlaw.com - The web version of the WESTLAW full-text online database. [Password required]