Legal Databases
This A - Z list of Research Databases includes domestic, foreign, and international resources.
One of the most popular databases is Hein Online. Hein Online provides access to page images of law reviews and many other important resources.
For a more comprehensive guide to foreign, transnational, and international legal research, please visit our Foreign, Transnational, and International databases page.
For non-legal resources, see Yale University Library's list of databases and list of ejournal titles.
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Index to United Nations Documents, including Official Records, draft resolutions, and the UN Treaty Series. Some full-text.
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Information on the legal, social, political and economic state of African nations.
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The world's largest and preeminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
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News from a variety of African countries and sources - Yale access via Westlaw
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32 chronologically organized chapters that combine bibliographies, biographies, and analysis written by scholars in the field, and conclude with examinations of every part of the world or nation addressed by the United States during that period; includes 18,000+ primary and secondary sources that cover the breadth of American history from the 17th century to the present.
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Arab Law Quarterly covers both Shari´a and secular law. It includes articles on the laws and legal developments throughout the twenty countries of the Arab world, and also includes notes on recent legislation and case law, guidelines on future changes and reviews of the latest literature.
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Arabica is a multidisciplinary academic journal, studying the Arab world's classical and contemporary literatures, languages, history, thought and civilization.
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AudioCaseFiles offers audio opinions of more than 1,000 cases and 4,000 hours of trial video to the legal community. Download MP3s and listen on the go. Watch the best practitioners in the world argue cases on product liability, antitrust, mergers & acquisitions, and more. Create an account using your yale.edu email address.
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Australian and New Zealand legal database.
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A Yale-based project to provide documents in law, history and diplomacy back to the 18th century and earlier.
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German-language database containing German laws, court decisions, and full-text German law reviews published by Beck and selected Nomos journals.
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Law-related working papers and research materials posted by law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and learned societies.
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Bloomberg Law provides online access to U.S. federal & state primary law, docket materials, directories, news, proprietary research reports, some foreign law materials, SEC filings, and an amazing set of model forms and contracts, among other resources. A Bloomberg Terminal, providing hard financial data, is also located near the Reference Desk on L3.
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We subscribe to the "BNA-ALL" plan, which provides us with access to most all of BNA's online publications.
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Computer-Assisted Legal Research Exercises. Individual user registration required. Check the Library Database Passwords page on YLS Inside for more information.
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Primary law and CCH analysis on Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Securities, Tax, and other law topics. Yale Network grants access to this resource. but users must also register individually.
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Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990
This is a collection of 2,842 declassified records documenting the controversial history of U.S. policy toward, and relations with, Chile from 1970 when the Nixon administration decided to intervene against the Socialist government of Salvador Allende, to 1990 when the U.S.-supported military regime that deposed Allende was finally forced to step down. The collection covers a range of major issues, including the Nixon administration's policy-making process related to overthrowing Allende, the implementation of covert operations to bring about regime change, as well as its assistance in consolidating the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet. The set also contains documentation on U.S. policy toward human rights violations; international terrorism; the historic, and peaceful return to democracy in Chile; and the pursuit of justice against Pinochet.
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The official magazine of the US-China Business Council offers news and commentaries on Chinese trade and business deveopment. 2001-present - UES. Now Available in Westlaw and V-Lex.
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The library has a subscription to the Court cases collection which includes cases from the Supreme People's Court and other lower level courts. In Chinese only.
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E&E's latest publication, ClimateWire, is designed to bring readers unmatched coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society.
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Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included is a digitized version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, which contains bibliographic records and extracts for thousands of additional documents.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
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Current and selected historical Constitutions via Oceana - Click on "Connect via IP Access" and select the desired database.
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A research and reference tool for analyzing the history and development, legislation, powers, and members of the U.S. Congress.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts contains hundreds of in-depth abstracts of current books, book chapters, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations published worldwide.Criminal Justice Abstracts also offers extensive coverage of new books from scholarly and commercial publishers and valuable reports from public and private agencies in many nations.
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The Digital National Security Archive contains a comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 36 collections consisting of over 80,000 meticulously indexed documents, with more than 500,000 total pages. It covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century.
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Hispanic law collection of more than 250 Spanish language ebooks including interdisciplinary resources on topics such immigration law, colonization, and general political science topics from both Spain and Latin America. Publishers include Trotta, Dykinson, Biblioteca Nueva, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, Pontificia Catolica del Peru, Universidad del Rosario, Argentina, and more. Updated monthly with new titles.
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Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English; based on the Bell & Howell microfilm collections Early English Books 1475-1640 and Early English Books 1641-1700;searches can be restricted to legal materials
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Subscription covers usage of the full text Chinese Academic Journals Database (1994- ), Century Journals Project (1955-1993), China Master/Doctoral full-text Database (2000- ) and the Chinese Core Newspapers full-text Database (2000-). Offers easy cross-database searching. Bilingual search platform, bibliographic citations and abstracts but full-text contents in Chinese only.
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Fully searchable digital images of books published during the 18th Century, including history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science
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Online version of the print title. This online edition is the most current version.
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The retrospective companion to Ethnic NewsWatch. This interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses provides the historical foreground to the content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with materials dating from 1960–1989.
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EU Tracker is a unique monitoring and analysis tool for lawyers, PSLs and information managers, it tracks the implementation of key EU Directives across 20 Member States.
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Great background information into every country's history and legal system. Also listed in the Country-by-Country Guide above. FLG is a comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources in print and on the Internet. This is the electronic version of Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World - Z675.L2 A23 no. 33 - L1 - F/I Reference - (*database available via Yale network only)
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One of the leading sources of information for international arbitration professionals, our subscription includes access to the digital GAR journal; the GAR website also provides news, surveys, and interviews (Yale network access only).
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The Collected Courses Online is the electronic version of the longstanding book series on international law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. They are given by the most prominent legal specialists in the world. All courses at the Academy are published in the language in which they were delivered, either in English or in French. The Collected Courses Online now covers more than 330 volumes (150,000 pages) containing over 1200 lectures given over a period of 85 years. At least seven new volumes are added every year. The result is a constantly growing fully searchable encyclopedic collection on international law.
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An authoritative encyclopaedia of law in England and Wales with 52 main volumes arranged by subject, several indexes, and updating services. It is particularly useful to find the most important cases, legislation, and commentary in a particular area of law.
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Hein Online Searchable database of full-text legal journals. Treaties and Agreements Library (UST 1950 - 1984; ILM; Bevans; Malloy; Miller; Kappler; treaty texts; etc.). Federal Legislative History Library. U.S. Code. U.S. Statutes at Large. Federal Register Library. Code of Federal Regulations. Legal Classics. Phillip C. Jessup Library. U.S. Attorney General Opinions. U.S. Presidential Library. U.S. Supreme Court Library. Foreign Relations of the United States. European Center for Minority Issues. Israel Law Reports. United Nations Treaty Series.
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Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980. These documents emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world.
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Index of foreign and international law review articles (if you don't find the journal via Yalelinks, do a Title search in Morris for the journal just to be sure) - Yale access only
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Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin America and the Caribbean - a single database with documents from the official websites of the dispute resolution systems of the WTO, MERCOSUR, CARICOM, the Andean Community, NAFTA, and SIECA
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Focuses on decisions from the four main international criminal tribunals: International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL); ICL also includes decisions from post-WWII military tribunals such as the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the follow-up trials held under Control Council Law No 10. Available through any Yale-networked computer.
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Search for decisions on human rights from a variety of global and regional courts including: the European Commission of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) from 1961; decisions from the four UN Committees (Committee Against Torture, Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and Human Rights Committee, which monitors the Convention for Civil and Political Rights) which are able to deliver views in individual cases; comprehensive decisions from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) and selected decisions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); cases decided under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, in both the Court and the Commission (Yale access only).
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The site offers open access to research and data on international investment arbitration. This powerful form of international arbitration has become a matter of public debate and research interest as more countries have been sued, especially in the developing world, by companies under investment treaties.
Includes access to a database of known arbitration cases decided under investment treaties, cases by policy area (e.g. agriculture, environmental protection, taxation) and other data and commentary related to international arbitration.
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With over 300 awards at launch and more being added regularly, the International Investment Claims module makes it possible for the first time to search this growing and influential body of jurisprudence alongside other areas of international law.
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Landmark cases from foreign jurisdictions translated into English and commented upon by recognized scholars
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A news and analysis service focusing on cross-border lawsuits between foreign investors and their host governments; specializes in tracking and chronicling so-called investor-state arbitrations, which are often-confidential in nature, but may have major financial, legal and policy impacts (Yale access only).
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OUP's resource for materials and analysis in the field of international investment law and arbitration; contains awards you may not find in ICSID Reports and database (Yale access only).
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The object of the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, without projecting present relationships upon the past, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of current international legal problems.
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Interdisciplinary, full-text, mostly US/UK; includes some F/I journals - subscription database with access to Yale community only
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The Yale Law School Judicial Nominations database tracks judicial nominations from the 103rd congress to the present. Every nominee, and their entire nomination history can be tracked throughout the years. Users can also use RSS feeds to track current nominees and find out when they are moved through the process.
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German-language site providing text of EU-State laws (Yale affiliates only. Password on Sharepoint - Research Sites)
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This database contains French-language legal information: legislation, regulations, and case law. It also gives access to a great volume of secondary legal sources and expert analysis.
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A product of Justis, JustCite is a neutral multi-source electronic citator for UK and EU (and ECHR) material, including cases, statutes, legislation, treaties, scholarly articles, and more; it links your search to case law, legislation and articles from numerous third-party publishers, and shows how they relate to each other (Yale access only).
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Search for English Reports (1220-1873); UK Statutes (1235-present); UK Statutory Instruments (1671-present); International Law Reports (ILR)(1919-present); (Yale access only)
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Kluwer Arbitration offers worldwide coverage of commercial and investment arbitration; includes case law, commentary, conventions, legislation and rules.
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The law library has access to modules in: Criminal Law, Environmental Law, Media Law and Family and Succession Law.
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A variety of business, arbitration, environmental, tax, and trade law titles (Yale access only).
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Database of British legislation and jurisprudence plus EU and human rights materials (Yale access only).
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LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. Covers 1980-present
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LegiStorm Pro gives users access to a variety of information about officials and staffers in Congres, including: Biographical information, contact details, staff position tracking, revolving door tracking, policy reports, social media accounts, Congressional expenditures, salaries, and other disclosures
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Online legal database
LexisNexis Academic Universe is a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information.
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The LexisNexis China Law Database is an authoritative collection of Chinese laws, regulations, tax information, judicial decisions, and other legal documents, collected from government sources, and translated by LexisNexis China Online in Beijing.
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A Digitial collection of the microfiche from the Law Library Microfilm Consortium.
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Providing collection of legal treatises, historical records and works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Providing broad coverage, the collection enables detailed research on centuries of major events of legal history, from public policy and taxation to contract law, sustainable development concerns, and issues of war and peace.
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Based primarily on holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, this product offers online access to early state codes, city charters, constitutional conventions, law dictionaries, and colonial records.
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Part II, 1763-1979: Extends this acclaimed archive into the second half of the twentieth century with more than 1.6 million newly scanned pages drawn from the three world-class American law libraries: the Harvard Law School Library, the Yale Law Library, and the Law Library of Congress. Comprised of United States codes, constitutional conventions and compilations, and municipal codes, Part II enhances scholarly access to essential documents in American legal history and is fully cross-searchable with Primary Sources, Part I.
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A pre-eminent and comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law.*
For Islamic Law reference tools, see International law, Regional developments: Islam, by Mohammad Fadel.
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InterAm database - a collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas; materials in the vernacular (Spanish and Portugese, with some English translations)
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A database of over 50 million pages of newspaper articles mostly from small-town newspapers throughout the United States in the 1800s and 1900s.
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19th Century Masterfile is a vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for historical research prior to 1925.
It brings together over 60 subject indexes to: Periodicals, Newspapers, Books, US Congressional Record, US and UK Government Documents, US Patents.
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Full text search of U.S. treaties and international agreements in force since 1783.
Click on "Connect via IP Access", and select the desired database.
Note: Safari browser for Macintosh will not work with Oceana databases.
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Scholarly bibliographic essays, featuring articles related to broad topics including Criminology and International Law. Additional topics from Yale University Library.
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Oxford Reports on International Law is intended to be a single point of reference for all international law jurisprudence, providing serious researchers access to the widest possible range of international law jurisprudence. All reported decisions have a headnote, the full text of the decision, and are linked to the Oxford Law Citator. We subscribe to all five modules: International Courts of General Jurisdiction, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Investment Claims, and International Law in Domestic Courts.
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Use PACER to access documents from the dockets of pending and resolved matters.
Most of the material that is available on PACER is available in the docket databases on Bloomberg Law and Westlaw. Those databases should be your first docket research stop.
PACER charges $0.10 per page VIEWED. The law libary MAY reimburse you for PACER charges that you incur, however, to be eligible for reimursement, you must meet with John Nann (john.nann@yale.edu) or Julie Krishnaswami (julie.krishnaswami@yale.edu) before you incur the charges.
You must register for your own PACER account here: https://www.pacer.gov/psco/cgi-bin/regform.pl
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Index of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences (including law) from their first issues to 1990/1991+
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Formally founded by the Law School at Beijing University. This bilingual database (formerly known as ChinaLawInfo for its Chinese site and LawInfoChina for the English site) provides a up-to-date selection of key Chinese legislation, cases, yearbooks and official pronouncements. Full-text articles for selective Chinese law journals are available.
The homepage is in Chinese and English and bilingual contents are searchable in the <English> tab.
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Includes full text of banking law manuals and handbooks along with newsletters and Banking law Journal in two libraries: Consumer Lending Library and Account & Payment Systems Library.
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Alt-Press Watch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. As a current and retrospective collection, Alt-Press Watch provides a valuable new source of coverage, viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of ...
Search and Display
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Legislative history research 1789-present. Full text of Congressional hearings (published and unpublished), bills and resolutions, Serial Set, reports, prints, documents, Congressional Record, legislative histories for enacted laws, Congressional Research Service reports, and regulatory materials. Subscription includes access to bill texts and tracking. Dates of coverage vary.
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This database makes nearly every dissertation ever filed in the United States available in PDF format. Not all dissertations are available, however, as authors with dissertations under contract with a press are sometimes encouraged not to make their dissertations freely available. In these cases you can at least read an abstract. Note that you can search by school, department, and adviser.
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ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publicationscreated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.
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Coverage of national, international, and local news. Find full text articles from many major U.S. newspapers - current and historical; includes Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. New papers added frequently, check "Searching: ## databases" for full, current list.
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United States statistical information. Formerly known as LexisNexis Statistical.
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Quicklaw is a Canadian electronic legal research database that provides court decisions from all levels, news reports, provincial and federal statutes, journals, and other legal commentary. It also offers a case citator and case digests.
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Since 1923 The Hague Academy of International Law organizes Collected Courses Online prestigious post-university summer courses in private international law and public international law. The courses are published in the book series "The Hague Academy Collected Courses", now comprising over 320 volumes.
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View and comment on proposed federal regulations, browse CFR by subject.
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Comprehensive database comprising primary and secondary sources on laws of India.
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources in the fields of Medicine, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences. The database also provides information on citation analysis for specific articles, authors, and journal metrics.
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set (in progress). Contains the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Currently Available: 1817-1896 (15th-54th Congress, 1st Session), volumes 1-3456.
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A Hong Kong-based newspaper in English with current news about China and other Asian countries. YLS faculty/students: Check YLS Inside Database Passwords Folder for User ID and password
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An incomplete collection of records and briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States. See also: Landmark series (leading cases), Curiae Project (leading cases), microfiche set (1895- ), microfilm set (1832-1896), historic print holdings (c. 1920 - 1970) and current print holdings [1] and [2] (2001- ).
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Includes Tax Notes Today, State Tax Notes and Worldwide Tax Daily (with tax treaties). Set up daily email news, search archives, documents and treaties.
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Online access to the Congressional Record and other legislative materials.
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This database is a new WTO research product. It is the only database on WTO law that enables the user to "note up" WTO law. "Noting up" refers to examining the judicial treatment of legislation or a case and is a crucial step in legal research.
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TDM is an international commercial arbitration legal and regulatory journal (articles, studies, newsletter) and database (Knowledgebank - modern energy laws, arbitral awards, treaties, voluntary guidelines). You can also join the OGEMID (oil, gas, energy, mining, infrastructure) listserv and browse its archives.*
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Index to United Nations documents since 1979 and catalog of Dag Hammarskjöld Library*
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The most comprehensive collection of official UN documents from 1993. Older UN documents added daily. Resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946*
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New York: United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs, 1946-Present.
United Nations - L1 (tunnel). Available to the Yale community via Access UN index and the UN Treaty Collection.
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World-wide legal database containing legislation, jurisprudence, commentary, forms, legal news, and more from many countries (extensiveness of each collection varies) including Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile (Search in English or the vernacular; materials in the vernacular with some translation capabilities) (Yale access only).
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Policies and Laws of China (in English & Chinese). Primarily Chinese online database covering state and regional laws and regulations of China, selected collection of court cases, administrative documents and texts of treaties. Searching in English is functional but cumbersome. Yale network access.
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Web of Knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not-for-profit organizations.
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full-text searching; not much non-English material
Comprehensive collection of primary and secondary legal materials relating to Chinese law. In Chinese and English.
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Monitor non-U.S. media sources; material provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC); analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials - Yale access only
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Comprehensive source of WTO dispute settlements including index, database of dispute settlement tables and statistics, and summary and analysis of all reports and arbitrations
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Open-access repository preserving and disseminating Yale Law School scholarship and publications, using the Digital Commons platform from Berkeley Electronic Press. The principal series included are the Faculty and Affilitates Series, the Student Series, and the Student Prize Paper Series.
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Leadership Directories, including Congressional, Judicial, Federal, Municipal, Foreign Representatives, etc.
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Index to United Nations Documents, including Official Records, draft resolutions, and the UN Treaty Series. Some full-text.
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Information on the legal, social, political and economic state of African nations.
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The world's largest and preeminent collection of peer-reviewed, African-published scholarly journals.
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News from a variety of African countries and sources - Yale access via Westlaw
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32 chronologically organized chapters that combine bibliographies, biographies, and analysis written by scholars in the field, and conclude with examinations of every part of the world or nation addressed by the United States during that period; includes 18,000+ primary and secondary sources that cover the breadth of American history from the 17th century to the present.
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Arab Law Quarterly covers both Shari´a and secular law. It includes articles on the laws and legal developments throughout the twenty countries of the Arab world, and also includes notes on recent legislation and case law, guidelines on future changes and reviews of the latest literature.
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Arabica is a multidisciplinary academic journal, studying the Arab world's classical and contemporary literatures, languages, history, thought and civilization.
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AudioCaseFiles offers audio opinions of more than 1,000 cases and 4,000 hours of trial video to the legal community. Download MP3s and listen on the go. Watch the best practitioners in the world argue cases on product liability, antitrust, mergers & acquisitions, and more. Create an account using your yale.edu email address.
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Australian and New Zealand legal database.
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A Yale-based project to provide documents in law, history and diplomacy back to the 18th century and earlier.
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German-language database containing German laws, court decisions, and full-text German law reviews published by Beck and selected Nomos journals.
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Law-related working papers and research materials posted by law schools, research units, institutes, centers, think tanks, conferences, and learned societies.
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Bloomberg Law provides online access to U.S. federal & state primary law, docket materials, directories, news, proprietary research reports, some foreign law materials, SEC filings, and an amazing set of model forms and contracts, among other resources. A Bloomberg Terminal, providing hard financial data, is also located near the Reference Desk on L3.
Bloomberg Law accounts are available to YLS faculty, including visiting faculty, students and librarians. Please complete this form to request a Bloomberg Law account: https://www.bloomberglaw.com/register.htm
The Library sponsors Bloomberg Law training sessions throughout the academic year for students who would like hands-on instruction. The sessions are taught by our Bloomberg Law account representatives. Session dates, times and sign-ups are available at the Law Library training calendar: http://morris.law.yale.edu/iii/calendar/month and the Yale Law School events calendar.
For more information or one-on-one training, please contact our Bloomberg Law account representative, Pamela Haahr, at: oribe@bloomberg.net. Bloomberg Law customer support is available at: 1-888-560-2529 and online chat reference is also available from Bloomberg's Law Help Center (once signed in to Bloomberg Law, click the Help link in the upper right corner).
We subscribe to the "BNA-ALL" plan, which provides us with access to most all of BNA's online publications.
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Computer-Assisted Legal Research Exercises. Individual user registration required. Check the Library Database Passwords page on YLS Inside for more information.
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Primary law and CCH analysis on Antitrust & Trade Regulation, Banking, Corporate Governance, Intellectual Property, Products Liability, Securities, Tax, and other law topics. Yale Network grants access to this resource. but users must also register individually.
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Chile and the United States: U.S. Policy toward Democracy, Dictatorship, and Human Rights, 1970-1990
This is a collection of 2,842 declassified records documenting the controversial history of U.S. policy toward, and relations with, Chile from 1970 when the Nixon administration decided to intervene against the Socialist government of Salvador Allende, to 1990 when the U.S.-supported military regime that deposed Allende was finally forced to step down. The collection covers a range of major issues, including the Nixon administration's policy-making process related to overthrowing Allende, the implementation of covert operations to bring about regime change, as well as its assistance in consolidating the military government led by General Augusto Pinochet. The set also contains documentation on U.S. policy toward human rights violations; international terrorism; the historic, and peaceful return to democracy in Chile; and the pursuit of justice against Pinochet.
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The official magazine of the US-China Business Council offers news and commentaries on Chinese trade and business deveopment. 2001-present - UES. Now Available in Westlaw and V-Lex.
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The library has a subscription to the Court cases collection which includes cases from the Supreme People's Court and other lower level courts. In Chinese only.
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E&E's latest publication, ClimateWire, is designed to bring readers unmatched coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment and society.
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Colonial State Papers provides access to thousands of papers concerning English activities in the American, Canadian, and West Indian colonies between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. Also included is a digitized version of The Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739, which contains bibliographic records and extracts for thousands of additional documents.
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
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Current and selected historical Constitutions via Oceana - Click on "Connect via IP Access" and select the desired database.
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A research and reference tool for analyzing the history and development, legislation, powers, and members of the U.S. Congress.
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Criminal Justice Abstracts contains hundreds of in-depth abstracts of current books, book chapters, journal articles, government reports, and dissertations published worldwide.Criminal Justice Abstracts also offers extensive coverage of new books from scholarly and commercial publishers and valuable reports from public and private agencies in many nations.
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The Digital National Security Archive contains a comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes 36 collections consisting of over 80,000 meticulously indexed documents, with more than 500,000 total pages. It covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century.
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Hispanic law collection of more than 250 Spanish language ebooks including interdisciplinary resources on topics such immigration law, colonization, and general political science topics from both Spain and Latin America. Publishers include Trotta, Dykinson, Biblioteca Nueva, Prensas de la Universidad de Zaragoza, Pontificia Catolica del Peru, Universidad del Rosario, Argentina, and more. Updated monthly with new titles.
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Contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English; based on the Bell & Howell microfilm collections Early English Books 1475-1640 and Early English Books 1641-1700;searches can be restricted to legal materials
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Subscription covers usage of the full text Chinese Academic Journals Database (1994- ), Century Journals Project (1955-1993), China Master/Doctoral full-text Database (2000- ) and the Chinese Core Newspapers full-text Database (2000-). Offers easy cross-database searching. Bilingual search platform, bibliographic citations and abstracts but full-text contents in Chinese only.
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Fully searchable digital images of books published during the 18th Century, including history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, and science
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Online version of the print title. This online edition is the most current version.
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The retrospective companion to Ethnic NewsWatch. This interdisciplinary, bilingual (English and Spanish), full-text database of newspapers, magazines and journals from ethnic, minority and native presses provides the historical foreground to the content in Ethnic NewsWatch, with materials dating from 1960–1989.
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EU Tracker is a unique monitoring and analysis tool for lawyers, PSLs and information managers, it tracks the implementation of key EU Directives across 20 Member States.
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Great background information into every country's history and legal system. Also listed in the Country-by-Country Guide above. FLG is a comprehensive list of primary and secondary sources in print and on the Internet. This is the electronic version of Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World - Z675.L2 A23 no. 33 - L1 - F/I Reference - (*database available via Yale network only)
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One of the leading sources of information for international arbitration professionals, our subscription includes access to the digital GAR journal; the GAR website also provides news, surveys, and interviews (Yale network access only).
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The Collected Courses Online is the electronic version of the longstanding book series on international law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. The courses deal with the theoretical and practical aspects of the subject, including legislation and case law. They are given by the most prominent legal specialists in the world. All courses at the Academy are published in the language in which they were delivered, either in English or in French. The Collected Courses Online now covers more than 330 volumes (150,000 pages) containing over 1200 lectures given over a period of 85 years. At least seven new volumes are added every year. The result is a constantly growing fully searchable encyclopedic collection on international law.
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An authoritative encyclopaedia of law in England and Wales with 52 main volumes arranged by subject, several indexes, and updating services. It is particularly useful to find the most important cases, legislation, and commentary in a particular area of law.
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Hein Online Searchable database of full-text legal journals. Treaties and Agreements Library (UST 1950 - 1984; ILM; Bevans; Malloy; Miller; Kappler; treaty texts; etc.). Federal Legislative History Library. U.S. Code. U.S. Statutes at Large. Federal Register Library. Code of Federal Regulations. Legal Classics. Phillip C. Jessup Library. U.S. Attorney General Opinions. U.S. Presidential Library. U.S. Supreme Court Library. Foreign Relations of the United States. European Center for Minority Issues. Israel Law Reports. United Nations Treaty Series.
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Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980. These documents emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world.
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Index of foreign and international law review articles (if you don't find the journal via Yalelinks, do a Title search in Morris for the journal just to be sure) - Yale access only
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Integrated Database of Trade Disputes for Latin America and the Caribbean - a single database with documents from the official websites of the dispute resolution systems of the WTO, MERCOSUR, CARICOM, the Andean Community, NAFTA, and SIECA
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Focuses on decisions from the four main international criminal tribunals: International Criminal Court (ICC), International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (ICTR), International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY), and Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL); ICL also includes decisions from post-WWII military tribunals such as the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg and the follow-up trials held under Control Council Law No 10. Available through any Yale-networked computer.
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Search for decisions on human rights from a variety of global and regional courts including: the European Commission of Human Rights, European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) from 1961; decisions from the four UN Committees (Committee Against Torture, Committee for the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women, Committee for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, and Human Rights Committee, which monitors the Convention for Civil and Political Rights) which are able to deliver views in individual cases; comprehensive decisions from the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (I/A Court H.R.) and selected decisions of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR); cases decided under the African Charter on Human and People's Rights, in both the Court and the Commission (Yale access only).
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The site offers open access to research and data on international investment arbitration. This powerful form of international arbitration has become a matter of public debate and research interest as more countries have been sued, especially in the developing world, by companies under investment treaties.
Includes access to a database of known arbitration cases decided under investment treaties, cases by policy area (e.g. agriculture, environmental protection, taxation) and other data and commentary related to international arbitration.
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With over 300 awards at launch and more being added regularly, the International Investment Claims module makes it possible for the first time to search this growing and influential body of jurisprudence alongside other areas of international law.
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Landmark cases from foreign jurisdictions translated into English and commented upon by recognized scholars
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A news and analysis service focusing on cross-border lawsuits between foreign investors and their host governments; specializes in tracking and chronicling so-called investor-state arbitrations, which are often-confidential in nature, but may have major financial, legal and policy impacts (Yale access only).
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OUP's resource for materials and analysis in the field of international investment law and arbitration; contains awards you may not find in ICSID Reports and database (Yale access only).
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The object of the Journal of the History of International Law/Revue d'histoire du droit international is to contribute to the effort to make intelligible the international legal past, however varied and eccentric it may be, to stimulate interest in the whys, the whats and wheres of international legal development, without projecting present relationships upon the past, and to promote the application of a sense of proportion to the study of current international legal problems.
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Interdisciplinary, full-text, mostly US/UK; includes some F/I journals - subscription database with access to Yale community only
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The Yale Law School Judicial Nominations database tracks judicial nominations from the 103rd congress to the present. Every nominee, and their entire nomination history can be tracked throughout the years. Users can also use RSS feeds to track current nominees and find out when they are moved through the process.
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German-language site providing text of EU-State laws (Yale affiliates only. Password on Sharepoint - Research Sites)
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This database contains French-language legal information: legislation, regulations, and case law. It also gives access to a great volume of secondary legal sources and expert analysis.
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A product of Justis, JustCite is a neutral multi-source electronic citator for UK and EU (and ECHR) material, including cases, statutes, legislation, treaties, scholarly articles, and more; it links your search to case law, legislation and articles from numerous third-party publishers, and shows how they relate to each other (Yale access only).
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Search for English Reports (1220-1873); UK Statutes (1235-present); UK Statutory Instruments (1671-present); International Law Reports (ILR)(1919-present); (Yale access only)
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Kluwer Arbitration offers worldwide coverage of commercial and investment arbitration; includes case law, commentary, conventions, legislation and rules.
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The law library has access to modules in: Criminal Law, Environmental Law, Media Law and Family and Succession Law.
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A variety of business, arbitration, environmental, tax, and trade law titles (Yale access only).
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Database of British legislation and jurisprudence plus EU and human rights materials (Yale access only).
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LegalTrac provides indexing for more than 1,400 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles. Covers 1980-present
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LegiStorm Pro gives users access to a variety of information about officials and staffers in Congres, including: Biographical information, contact details, staff position tracking, revolving door tracking, policy reports, social media accounts, Congressional expenditures, salaries, and other disclosures
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Online legal database
LexisNexis Academic Universe is a full-text news and information service that provides access to newspapers, magazines, transcripts, business and legal information.
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The LexisNexis China Law Database is an authoritative collection of Chinese laws, regulations, tax information, judicial decisions, and other legal documents, collected from government sources, and translated by LexisNexis China Online in Beijing.
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A Digitial collection of the microfiche from the Law Library Microfilm Consortium.
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Providing collection of legal treatises, historical records and works from the 17th century to the beginning of the 20th century. Providing broad coverage, the collection enables detailed research on centuries of major events of legal history, from public policy and taxation to contract law, sustainable development concerns, and issues of war and peace.
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Based primarily on holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, this product offers online access to early state codes, city charters, constitutional conventions, law dictionaries, and colonial records.
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Part II, 1763-1979: Extends this acclaimed archive into the second half of the twentieth century with more than 1.6 million newly scanned pages drawn from the three world-class American law libraries: the Harvard Law School Library, the Yale Law Library, and the Law Library of Congress. Comprised of United States codes, constitutional conventions and compilations, and municipal codes, Part II enhances scholarly access to essential documents in American legal history and is fully cross-searchable with Primary Sources, Part I.
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A pre-eminent and comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law.*
For Islamic Law reference tools, see International law, Regional developments: Islam, by Mohammad Fadel.
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InterAm database - a collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas; materials in the vernacular (Spanish and Portugese, with some English translations)
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A database of over 50 million pages of newspaper articles mostly from small-town newspapers throughout the United States in the 1800s and 1900s.
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19th Century Masterfile is a vast "Index of Indexes", and is the largest resource for historical research prior to 1925.
It brings together over 60 subject indexes to: Periodicals, Newspapers, Books, US Congressional Record, US and UK Government Documents, US Patents.
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Full text search of U.S. treaties and international agreements in force since 1783.
Click on "Connect via IP Access", and select the desired database.
Note: Safari browser for Macintosh will not work with Oceana databases.
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Scholarly bibliographic essays, featuring articles related to broad topics including Criminology and International Law. Additional topics from Yale University Library.
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Oxford Reports on International Law is intended to be a single point of reference for all international law jurisprudence, providing serious researchers access to the widest possible range of international law jurisprudence. All reported decisions have a headnote, the full text of the decision, and are linked to the Oxford Law Citator. We subscribe to all five modules: International Courts of General Jurisdiction, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Investment Claims, and International Law in Domestic Courts.
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Use PACER to access documents from the dockets of pending and resolved matters.
Most of the material that is available on PACER is available in the docket databases on Bloomberg Law and Westlaw. Those databases should be your first docket research stop.
PACER charges $0.10 per page VIEWED. The law libary MAY reimburse you for PACER charges that you incur, however, to be eligible for reimursement, you must meet with John Nann (john.nann@yale.edu) or Julie Krishnaswami (julie.krishnaswami@yale.edu) before you incur the charges.
You must register for your own PACER account here: https://www.pacer.gov/psco/cgi-bin/regform.pl
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Index of periodicals in the humanities and social sciences (including law) from their first issues to 1990/1991+
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Formally founded by the Law School at Beijing University. This bilingual database (formerly known as ChinaLawInfo for its Chinese site and LawInfoChina for the English site) provides a up-to-date selection of key Chinese legislation, cases, yearbooks and official pronouncements. Full-text articles for selective Chinese law journals are available.
The homepage is in Chinese and English and bilingual contents are searchable in the <English> tab.
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Includes full text of banking law manuals and handbooks along with newsletters and Banking law Journal in two libraries: Consumer Lending Library and Account & Payment Systems Library.
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Alt-Press Watch is a full text database of the newspapers, magazines and journals of the alternative and independent press. As a current and retrospective collection, Alt-Press Watch provides a valuable new source of coverage, viewpoints and perspectives to complement and challenge the coverage of ...
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Legislative history research 1789-present. Full text of Congressional hearings (published and unpublished), bills and resolutions, Serial Set, reports, prints, documents, Congressional Record, legislative histories for enacted laws, Congressional Research Service reports, and regulatory materials. Subscription includes access to bill texts and tracking. Dates of coverage vary.
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This database makes nearly every dissertation ever filed in the United States available in PDF format. Not all dissertations are available, however, as authors with dissertations under contract with a press are sometimes encouraged not to make their dissertations freely available. In these cases you can at least read an abstract. Note that you can search by school, department, and adviser.
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ProQuest Legislative Insight is a Federal legislative history service that makes available thoroughly researched compilations of digital full text publicationscreated by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws.
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Coverage of national, international, and local news. Find full text articles from many major U.S. newspapers - current and historical; includes Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, LA Times, NY Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post. New papers added frequently, check "Searching: ## databases" for full, current list.
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United States statistical information. Formerly known as LexisNexis Statistical.
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Quicklaw is a Canadian electronic legal research database that provides court decisions from all levels, news reports, provincial and federal statutes, journals, and other legal commentary. It also offers a case citator and case digests.
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Since 1923 The Hague Academy of International Law organizes Collected Courses Online prestigious post-university summer courses in private international law and public international law. The courses are published in the book series "The Hague Academy Collected Courses", now comprising over 320 volumes.
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View and comment on proposed federal regulations, browse CFR by subject.
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Comprehensive database comprising primary and secondary sources on laws of India.
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Scopus is an abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources in the fields of Medicine, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences. The database also provides information on citation analysis for specific articles, authors, and journal metrics.
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set (in progress). Contains the reports, documents, and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.
Currently Available: 1817-1896 (15th-54th Congress, 1st Session), volumes 1-3456.
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A Hong Kong-based newspaper in English with current news about China and other Asian countries. YLS faculty/students: Check YLS Inside Database Passwords Folder for User ID and password
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An incomplete collection of records and briefs filed in the Supreme Court of the United States. See also: Landmark series (leading cases), Curiae Project (leading cases), microfiche set (1895- ), microfilm set (1832-1896), historic print holdings (c. 1920 - 1970) and current print holdings [1] and [2] (2001- ).
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Includes Tax Notes Today, State Tax Notes and Worldwide Tax Daily (with tax treaties). Set up daily email news, search archives, documents and treaties.
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Online access to the Congressional Record and other legislative materials.
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This database is a new WTO research product. It is the only database on WTO law that enables the user to "note up" WTO law. "Noting up" refers to examining the judicial treatment of legislation or a case and is a crucial step in legal research.
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TDM is an international commercial arbitration legal and regulatory journal (articles, studies, newsletter) and database (Knowledgebank - modern energy laws, arbitral awards, treaties, voluntary guidelines). You can also join the OGEMID (oil, gas, energy, mining, infrastructure) listserv and browse its archives.*
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Index to United Nations documents since 1979 and catalog of Dag Hammarskjöld Library*
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The most comprehensive collection of official UN documents from 1993. Older UN documents added daily. Resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946*
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New York: United Nations, Office of Legal Affairs, 1946-Present.
United Nations - L1 (tunnel). Available to the Yale community via Access UN index and the UN Treaty Collection.
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World-wide legal database containing legislation, jurisprudence, commentary, forms, legal news, and more from many countries (extensiveness of each collection varies) including Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Colombia, Mexico, Chile (Search in English or the vernacular; materials in the vernacular with some translation capabilities) (Yale access only).
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Policies and Laws of China (in English & Chinese). Primarily Chinese online database covering state and regional laws and regulations of China, selected collection of court cases, administrative documents and texts of treaties. Searching in English is functional but cumbersome. Yale network access.
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Web of Knowledge is an integrated platform designed to support research in academic, corporate, government, and not-for-profit organizations.
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full-text searching; not much non-English material
Comprehensive collection of primary and secondary legal materials relating to Chinese law. In Chinese and English.
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Monitor non-U.S. media sources; material provided to the National Technical Information Service (NTIS) by the Open Source Center (OSC); analysts from OSC domestic and overseas bureaus monitor timely and pertinent open-source materials - Yale access only
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Comprehensive source of WTO dispute settlements including index, database of dispute settlement tables and statistics, and summary and analysis of all reports and arbitrations
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Open-access repository preserving and disseminating Yale Law School scholarship and publications, using the Digital Commons platform from Berkeley Electronic Press. The principal series included are the Faculty and Affilitates Series, the Student Series, and the Student Prize Paper Series.
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Leadership Directories, including Congressional, Judicial, Federal, Municipal, Foreign Representatives, etc.
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