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Full-text legal periodicals and foreign, international, and primary legal materials. Includes Federal Register, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Reports, state session laws, and more.
View OnlineContains federal legislative information from the United States government (e.g., legislation, the Congressional Record, committee reports, nominations, treaties, communications, and member profiles).
View OnlineOfficial record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress back to 1789.
View OnlineOpen source collection of institutional repositories from across the United States, including faculty scholarship, law review articles and conference proceedings.
View OnlineFederal and state court opinions, case law, statutes, regulations, constitutions, and court rules. Includes Wisconsin Jury Instructions.
View OnlinePublished and unpublished hearings from U.S. Congressional committee hearings proceedings.
View OnlineFull-text legal periodicals and foreign, international, and primary legal materials. Includes Federal Register, U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Reports, state session laws, and more.
View OnlineArticles and book reviews from legal journals published worldwide, with a coverage from 1984 to present. In-depth coverage of international, comparative, and foreign law in most languages.
View OnlineIndex to legal periodicals, court decisions, legislation and more from the United States and Commonwealth countries. Full text coverage for selected periodicals. Law books indexed beginning in 1993.
View OnlineLegal periodicals of all areas of United States law in full text starting with the earliest volumes.
View OnlineNews, legal and business sources, including print and online journals; television and radio broadcasts; newswires and blogs; local, regional, national and international newspapers.
View OnlineA legal research database that also includes news and business publications.
View OnlineTax and accounting research materials including the complete federal tax code, Federal Tax Coordinator, U.S. Tax Reporter, and state tax materials. All access requires a UW-Madison NetID to log in.
View OnlinePrevious title: Wolters Kluwer Cheetah. Federal, state, and international tax information and materials, and practice materials in antitrust law, securities, and health & human resources.
View OnlineTrace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions using thousands of sources.
View OnlineEntire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) of more than 20,000 cases, and the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports.
View OnlineIncludes full text of current and historical United States state constitutions. Also includes the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the US series, which offers article-by-article co...
View OnlineCurrent constitutions for every country in the original language along with at least one English translation. Includes expert commentary, the complete set of the British and Foreign State Papers, a...
View OnlineHeinOnline's Canada Supreme Court Reports contains the official bilingual series published under authority of the Supreme Court Act. This collection includes more than 9,400 cases which include bac...
View OnlineArchive of primary source materials related to criminal history, law, literature, and justice in nineteenth century Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand).
View OnlineSummaries of key concepts and the latest research on environmental law topics, including climate change law, biodiversity and nature protection, compliance and enforcement, and multilateral environ...
View OnlineSummaries of concepts and terms of international economic law, grouped into four parts: Foundations and Architecture, Principles, Main Regulatory Areas, and Cross-cutting Challenges. Each entry is ...
View OnlineIssues at the junction of law, religion, and state are covered for each country worldwide, as well as special territories and international organizations.
View OnlineA detailed description of the practice and implementation of international law in various Asian states.
View OnlineCollection of page-images of the original bound reprint edition of the English Reports (containing more than 100,000 cases), together with the Indexes and Book of Charts.
View OnlineEuropean Union (EU) law (legislation, case law, treaties) and other public documents.
View OnlineHeinOnline’s collection of European Center for Minority Issues (ECMI) conducts practice-oriented research, provides information and documentation, and offers advisory services concerning minority-m...
View OnlineContains full text international law publications, including prominent Yearbooks from around the world and proceedings of the American Society of International Law. Also contains U.S. law digests o...
View OnlineCurrent sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions around the world.
View OnlineCollection of diplomatic dispatches, correspondence, maps, summaries of events from the British Foreign Office files dealing with India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan between 1947 and 1964.
View OnlineThe Foreign Relations of the United States series presents the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. Before the current ...
View OnlineHansard Online is the official report of all parliamentary debates (proceedings) of both the U.K. House of Commons and the House of Lords. It is similar to the United States' Congressional Record. ...
View OnlinePrimary and secondary source materials (documents and video) of major human rights violations and atrocity crimes worldwide, from 1900 to 2010.
View OnlineArticles and book reviews from legal journals published worldwide, with a coverage from 1984 to present. In-depth coverage of international, comparative, and foreign law in most languages.
View OnlineArchive of materials collected by U.S. diplomats on the internal and foreign affairs of India, from 1945 to 1949.
View OnlineArchive of materials collected by U.S. diplomats on the internal and foreign affairs of India and Pakistan, from 1963 to 1966.
View OnlineBook series published by Brill covers the development, enactment, and impact of the rule of law in Eastern Europe (2 most recent volumes not included).
View OnlineFull-text U.S. Federal and Canadian primary law from the Law Library Microform Consortium, and historical legal treatises, with emphasis on older materials.
View OnlineFour centuries of historical legal codes, statutes, regulations, and code-related commentaries from jurisdictions around the world.
View OnlineTreatises and similar monographs in foreign, comparative, and international law, including Roman law, Islamic law, Jewish law, and ancient law.
View OnlineDocuments from trials in the United States, Britain and other English-speaking jurisdictions, including transcripts, printed accounts, arbitrations, and books.
View OnlinePeer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law. Includes both Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.
View OnlinePeoples Congress (database) - NPC Database is a collection of reports, primarily by People's Daily and People's Daily Online, on National People's Congress, from the 1st Session of 1st NPC to the 3...
View OnlineA database of annotated documents pertaining to the law of international organizations. Each document is accompanied by expert commentary on the context and impact of the document.
View OnlineArchive of materials collected by U.S. diplomats on the internal and foreign affairs of Pakistan, from 1945 to 1949.
View OnlineA digitized and searchable collection of papers and articles by noted scholars on foreign and comparative law, with an emphasis on historical materials. Covers over 200 years worth of scholarship, ...
View OnlineThrough special arrangement with the International Law Students Association (ILSA) this collection provides access to all of the top moot court competitions since 1960. It draws together the Proble...
View OnlineLaws and regulations from China (1949-present) promulgated by the Chinese and local governments. Includes secondary legal information: white papers, law journal articles, legal news, and more.
View OnlineA fully searchable collection of criminal trials held at London's central criminal court including biographical details of the men and women executed at Tyburn. Contains all surviving editions of t...
View OnlineThe Provincial Statutes of Canada contain public and private acts passed by Canadian provincial governments. Current, revised, and historical content is available for Alberta, British Colombia, New...
View OnlineBooks, periodicals, and bibliographies on the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. Also includes Christian Legal Society publications, an assor...
View OnlineOxford Reports on International Courts of General Jurisdiction (ICGJ) covers all contentious and advisory cases from the from the most important international courts of general jurisdiction. Each c...
View OnlineOxford Reports on International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC) covers international law as applied in the domestic courts of around 70 jurisdictions. Case reports contain the full text of each decis...
View OnlineComplete coverage of all six revisions from the official printed volumes of the Revised Statutes of Canada in nearly 48,000 pages. The Statutes of Canada compile all the federal laws of Canada pass...
View OnlinePrimary publications from the Selden Society, including its annual series containing law reports dating back to the Middle Ages, and year books from the Ames Foundation. Also includes other digests...
View OnlineState Papers Online, 1509-1714 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 Mon...
View OnlineThis site provides fact sheets which summarise European Union legislation. The fact sheets are divided into 32 subject areas which are the Activities of the European Union. You will find not only s...
View OnlineDatabase of more than 70,000 online legal documents from 15 French-speaking countries in Africa.
View OnlineFull-text documents of the Tokyo Trials of Japanese war criminals in World War II. Includes transcripts of proceedings and court exhibits, along with historical photos, audio and video.
View OnlineComprehensive collection of United States Treaties and Other International Agreements set, including currently in-force, expired, or not-yet-officially published.
View OnlinePapers issued by the United Kingdom House of Commons including Bills and Acts, Command Papers, House of Commons Papers, and Hansard (the official report of debates in Parliament).
View OnlineCatalog of United Nations publications and documents from 1979 forward, including UN sales publications, selected periodical articles, Official Records, and documents from UN bodies and committees.
View OnlineCurrent constitutions for every country in the original language along with at least one English translation. Includes expert commentary, the complete set of the British and Foreign State Papers, a...
View OnlineThis collection brings together a wide array of treaties from around the world to create one of the largest collection of world treaties ever available, covering the time period from 1648 to the pr...
View OnlineTrial transcripts from some of history's most famous trials. Also includes texts that analyze and debate famous trials, as well as biographies of some of the greatest trial lawyers in history.
View OnlineGovernment documents, legislative histories, books, and journals on legal and regulatory aspects of aviation and space.
View OnlineDigitized newspapers produced by people who have been incarcerated in the United States.
View OnlineHeinOnline's Bar Journals collection contains more than 100 state and local Bar Journals dating from the late 1800s to the present day. You can search by article title, author, description, date, o...
View OnlineVideo and transcripts of C-Span programming since 1987.
View OnlineContains publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, legislative histories on landmark legislation, briefs from relevant U.S. Supreme Court cases, and more.
View OnlineComprehensive coverage of the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) from its inception.
View OnlineGovernment documents, pamphlets, memoirs, and books covering criminal justice and criminology in the United States and the United Kingdom.
View OnlineSummaries of key concepts and the latest research on environmental law topics, including climate change law, biodiversity and nature protection, compliance and enforcement, and multilateral environ...
View OnlineSummaries of concepts and terms of international economic law, grouped into four parts: Foundations and Architecture, Principles, Main Regulatory Areas, and Cross-cutting Challenges. Each entry is ...
View OnlineThe Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents.
View OnlineFree public access to official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government. Includes the Federal Register, Congressional Record, U.S. Code, U.S. Statutes at Large, Code of Federa...
View OnlineWith more than 4 million pages of legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks, this collection allows researchers to search acros...
View OnlineCase information from the U.S. Federal District Courts and U.S. Courts of Appeal. Some cases also include opinions, orders, and other filings.
View OnlineFull-text U.S. Federal and Canadian primary law from the Law Library Microform Consortium, and historical legal treatises, with emphasis on older materials.
View OnlinePapers of the ACLU and its Southern Regional Office, including court documents, case files, project files, correspondence, meeting minutes, newspaper clippings, and more.
View OnlineMultimedia collection of text, government documents, ephemera, interviews, and documentaries covering historical and contemporary themes of mass incarceration and prison infrastructure.
View OnlineGovernment documents and other publications related to the history and administration of the United States military. Also includes some titles on English military history.
View OnlineThe NCJRS Virtual Library contains summaries of more than 225,000 publications on criminal justice, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles...
View OnlineThis database version of Richard Leiter's National Survey of State Laws provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States. Users are able...
View OnlineSubject-based research guides containing in-depth, high-level articles by scholars in the field. Handbooks contain topical introductions and reviews of the key issues and major debates.
View OnlineThrough special arrangement with the International Law Students Association (ILSA) this collection provides access to all of the top moot court competitions since 1960. It draws together the Proble...
View OnlinePreview of United States Supreme Court Cases provides expert, plain-language analysis of all cases given plenary review by the Supreme Court. Issues 1-7 precede the Court's seven argument sessions ...
View OnlineCollection of U.S. federal government publications including acts (laws), bills and resolutions, committee reports and documents, hearings testimony, and selected legislative histories.
View OnlineArchival materials from the African American Police League (based in Chicago) and its education and action arm, the League to Improve the Community.
View OnlinePetitions on race, slavery, and free blacks submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses from 1775-1867. Also includes a record of the state laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
View OnlineA complete collection of publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking, useful for compiling a federal legislative history.
View OnlineU.S. federal administrative law histories organized by federal statute and executive order, as well as Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations content.
View OnlineFull opinions and related documents from Supreme Court argued cases as well as documents related to paid cases the Court declined to hear (certiorari denied).
View OnlineBooks, periodicals, and bibliographies on the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. Also includes Christian Legal Society publications, an assor...
View OnlineCollection of journals, ebooks, and research reports in the field of security studies.
View OnlineHouse and Senate Documents and Reports published by the United States Congress, as well as presidential communications, treaty materials, and official Civil War records.
View OnlineThis Library contains exact replications of the official bound session laws (acts) of all 50 states from inception, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. All states are available back to i...
View OnlineBrings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. Includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute d...
View OnlineA collection of works, scholarly articles and tools for legal research, including AALL GD-SIS State Bibliographies, AALL Publication Series, Legal Dictionaries, Serials, Cataloging Publications, Bi...
View OnlineState Attorney General Reports and Opinions for all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Also includes the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States and...
View OnlineIndex to articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions and Internet sites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects.
View OnlineThis collection features the complete Congressional Record Bound version, as well as the daily version back to 1980. It also includes the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), R...
View OnlineContains the body of reported judicial opinions that are published by each agency. Notable titles include Decisions of the National Labor Relations Board (1934-Current); Federal Communications Comm...
View OnlineCollection of presidential documents, including messages and papers of the presidents, presidential public papers, documents relating to impeachment, executive orders, and more.
View OnlineComplete coverage of the Statutes At Large, containing both public and private laws published in numerical order.
View OnlineThe Wisconsin Administrative Code is the publication, in a continual revision system, of the rules of executive agencies of the State of Wisconsin having rule-making authority. The Wisconsin Admini...
View OnlineBriefs for Wisconsin Supreme Court and Court of Appeals published and unpublished cases.
View OnlineThe Wisconsin Digital Archives is a growing collection of documents about the activities, functions, and policies of Wisconsin State Government. The collection contains documents from 2001 to curre...
View OnlineStatewide public affairs broadcasting network, providing video coverage of the Wisconsin State Legislature and Supreme Court as well as public policy video series.
View OnlineThe Wisconsin Historical Society Archive-It collection includes archived versions of Wisconsin state, county, and municipal government web sites, as well as archived versions of web sites from the ...
View OnlineCurrent and archived editions of all three sets of Wisconsin Jury Instructions (Civil, Criminal and Children's).
View OnlineCurrent editions of all three sets of Wisconsin Jury Instructions (Civil, Criminal and Children's). The Instructions can be printed or downloaded as Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF files.
View OnlineWisconsin bills, acts, statutes, administrative rules, the Wisconsin Constitution, and more, including archived documents. Bill histories and amendments are included back to 1995.
View OnlineThe digital collections of the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau contain documents published by the legislature and legislative agencies (including the Legislative Reference Bureau, Legislativ...
View OnlinePrevious title: Wolters Kluwer Cheetah. Federal, state, and international tax information and materials, and practice materials in antitrust law, securities, and health & human resources.
View OnlineImmigration law information and guidance, including publications of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, statutes, regulations, and cases.
View OnlineA compilation of historical documents and legislation related to immigration in the United States as well as current hearings, debates and recent developments in immigration law. Includes BIA Prece...
View OnlineConnects United States immigration policies with data-driven results and trends of those policies, analytical reports, and news articles. Includes timelines, topic pages and data tools.
View OnlineThe American Indian Experience is a portal and full-text online library of more than 150 titles; hundreds of primary documents and images, including treaties, speeches, traditional tales, and capti...
View OnlineFull-text legal materials by and about indigenous peoples of the United States, including treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.
View OnlineFull-text U.S. Federal and Canadian primary law from the Law Library Microform Consortium, and historical legal treatises, with emphasis on older materials.
View OnlineDocumentation of specific claims made by tribal nations against the United States; includes docket histories, court documents, treaties, congressional publications, and maps.
View OnlineCongress and the Courts, featuring William H. Manz’s Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, brings together materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and st...
View OnlineThis library 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...
View OnlineThe NCJRS Virtual Library contains summaries of more than 225,000 publications on criminal justice, including federal, state, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles...
View OnlineComplete coverage of U.S. Supreme Court opinions as well as preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court.
View OnlineArchive of primary source materials related to criminal history, law, literature, and justice in nineteenth century Europe, North America, India and the Antipodes (Australia and New Zealand).
View OnlineTrace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions using thousands of sources.
View OnlineEntire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) of more than 20,000 cases, and the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports.
View OnlinePrevious title: 19th Century Masterfile. Nineteenth century periodical literature, presidential papers, patents, and government publications. Includes Poole's Index to Periodical literature, Hansard's Index to Debates, and more.
View OnlineThis library 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...
View OnlineNOTE: As of 12/23/20, collection link is being redirected to an archived version at Internet Archive while the collection is being migrated to a new interface.
View OnlineCollection of full text works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, as well as rare items that are found in only a handful of libraries around the world.
View OnlineFull-text U.S. Federal and Canadian primary law from the Law Library Microform Consortium, and historical legal treatises, with emphasis on older materials.
View OnlineLegal treatises from the 19th- and early 20th- century, covering all aspects of American and British law.
View OnlinePublished records of the American colonies; federal, state, territorial, and municipal codes; constitutional conventions and compilations; and other resources.
View OnlineDocuments from trials in the United States, Britain and other English-speaking jurisdictions, including transcripts, printed accounts, arbitrations, and books.
View OnlineRecords and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in over 150,000 cases between 1832 and 1978.
View OnlineEleven archival collections covering three Supreme Court Justices, the first Black federal judge, high-profile cases, and developing ideologies and laws.
View OnlineBooks, periodicals, and bibliographies on the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. Also includes Christian Legal Society publications, an assor...
View OnlineOfficial publications from the Stair Society including the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series and Supplementary Series discussing various aspects of Scots law.
View OnlineState Papers Online, 1509-1714 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 Mon...
View OnlineDigital version of Hein's State Reports Checklist along with linking to the full text of historical state reports from all 50 states, plus Puerto Rico.
View OnlineThe collection includes more than 1,600 volumes and nearly 2,000,000 pages of historical superseded state statutes (but not current state statutes) and offers a valuable source of information for l...
View OnlineThe American Law Institute Library is home to a range of scholarly work that examines and clarifies the law, as annotated and written by a collection of judges and lawyers. The library includes Res...
View OnlineOpen source collection of institutional repositories from across the United States, including faculty scholarship, law review articles and conference proceedings.
View OnlineIssues at the junction of law, religion, and state are covered for each country worldwide, as well as special territories and international organizations.
View OnlineArticles and book reviews from legal journals published worldwide, with a coverage from 1984 to present. In-depth coverage of international, comparative, and foreign law in most languages.
View OnlineIndex to legal periodicals, court decisions, legislation and more from the United States and Commonwealth countries. Full text coverage for selected periodicals. Law books indexed beginning in 1993.
View OnlineLegal periodicals of all areas of United States law in full text starting with the earliest volumes.
View OnlinePeer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law. Includes both Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law.
View OnlineThis database version of Richard Leiter's National Survey of State Laws provides an overall view of some of the most sought-after and controversial legal topics in the United States. Users are able...
View OnlineIncludes full text of current and historical United States state constitutions. Also includes the Oxford Commentaries on the State Constitutions of the US series, which offers article-by-article co...
View OnlineCongress and the Courts, featuring William H. Manz’s Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010, brings together materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and st...
View OnlineContains federal legislative information from the United States government (e.g., legislation, the Congressional Record, committee reports, nominations, treaties, communications, and member profiles).
View OnlineOfficial record of the proceedings and debates of the United States Congress back to 1789.
View OnlineCollection of publications from the Executive Branch of the federal government listed in the 1909 Checklist created by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents as a summary of all publications issues b...
View OnlineFull-text U.S. Federal and Canadian primary law from the Law Library Microform Consortium, and historical legal treatises, with emphasis on older materials.
View OnlineCollection of U.S. federal government publications including acts (laws), bills and resolutions, committee reports and documents, hearings testimony, and selected legislative histories.
View OnlinePetitions on race, slavery, and free blacks submitted to state legislatures and county courthouses from 1775-1867. Also includes a record of the state laws governing American slavery from 1789-1865.
View OnlineA complete collection of publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking, useful for compiling a federal legislative history.
View OnlineU.S. federal administrative law histories organized by federal statute and executive order, as well as Federal Register and Code of Federal Regulations content.
View OnlineHouse and Senate Documents and Reports published by the United States Congress, as well as presidential communications, treaty materials, and official Civil War records.
View OnlineThis Library contains exact replications of the official bound session laws (acts) of all 50 states from inception, as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. All states are available back to i...
View OnlineBrings together all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world. Includes every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, every federal statute d...
View OnlineThis site provides fact sheets which summarise European Union legislation. The fact sheets are divided into 32 subject areas which are the Activities of the European Union. You will find not only s...
View OnlineThis collection includes complete coverage of the United States Code dating back to inception in 1925-1926. Also includes the Early Federal Laws Collection, which represents the most complete colle...
View OnlineThis collection features the complete Congressional Record Bound version, as well as the daily version back to 1980. It also includes the three predecessor titles: Annals of Congress (1789-1824), R...
View OnlineSelected federal legislative histories published by the U.S. GPO and private publishers. Also includes the index, "Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories." Researchers should begin their U.S. fe...
View OnlineComplete coverage of the Statutes At Large, containing both public and private laws published in numerical order.
View OnlineTax and accounting research materials including the complete federal tax code, Federal Tax Coordinator, U.S. Tax Reporter, and state tax materials. All access requires a UW-Madison NetID to log in.
View OnlineExpert commentary, analysis, and special reports on federal taxation issues (Tax Notes), as well as daily tax news and analysis (Tax Notes Today).
View OnlineUnited States regulations, laws and legislative histories relating to tax and to economic reform and stimulus plans. Includes the Carlton Fox legislative history collection and the History of Unite...
View OnlinePrevious title: Wolters Kluwer Cheetah. Federal, state, and international tax information and materials, and practice materials in antitrust law, securities, and health & human resources.
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