Databases

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Off-campus access to databases

Bar Journals
This library includes over 60 Bar Journals. You can search by article title, author, description, date, or across the full text of the articles.

Bloomberg Law**

BNA - Bureau of National Affairs
The most current information in a range of legal, legislative, regulatory and economic areas. Each weekly reporter contains both primary sources (including cases, laws, regulations and agency documents and secondary sources (including news, politics and current trends). Titles include:

CALI
Internet based legal instruction.

Communications Mosaic
Provides comprehensive access to federal law and regulation, FCC rulemaking and procedure, and national communications news via a powerful search engine.

Congressional Publications
Congressional publications, historical documents, statutes and legislative research.

Connecticut Law Tribune
Law school access only

Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories
Searchable, with English translations and commentary on the constitutions of 40 countries and their 170 dependencies and territories.

Constitutions of the Countries of the World
Access to 188 country constitutions with extensive expert commentary from leading scholars worldwide. Accurate, original English translations.

Constitutions of the United States (National and State)
Complete and up-to-date American constitutions: the United States Constitution, each of the 50 state constitutions; plus constitutions of fifteen U.S. territories.

Criminal Justice Periodical Index
CJPI Indexes over 240 journals with subjects related to criminal justice. Links to full text articles when available.

Current Index to Legal Periodicals
Current awareness service; reviews and organizes by subject, articles published by leading legal journals. Published monthly.

Federal Legislative History Library
Two primary sources of content, the first is the "Sources of Compiled Legislative History database" containing all compilations for major laws. The second is the collection of more than 80 full-text compiled legislative histories from renowned Washington, D.C. law firms, Covington & Burling and Arnold & Porter. View webinar

Harvard Research in International Law
The collection includes access to the reprint of The Harvard Research in International Law as well as Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal. The Harvard Research in International Law was originally published in the American Journal of International Law between 1929 and 1939. The various advisory boards that were assembled wrote draft conventions on several topics over a 10-year period.

HeinOnline
Provides online access to tens of millions of pages of image-based research material. Image-based meaning that you can see the PDF version of the original hard copy (including all charts, graphs, and photographs) and is fully-searchable. The 23 collections to which we subscribe includes:

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
A multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide.

Index to Legal Periodicals
ILP is a leading indexer of legal periodical literature. Links to full text journal articles are provided.

Isinolaw is now Westlaw China
You do not need an individual password/login for this resource. To access, select the Westlaw China link. In the Subscriber Area box, click the login after the "If you are a Westlaw China subscriber, please click Log In" question.

LegalTrac
Index of law review articles.

LexisNexis**

LLMC-Digital
The electronic equivalent of legal literature and government documents in the extensive LLMC microform collection.

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides digital images of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching provides researchers access to critical legal history.

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - Archive Publications (NCCUSL)
Included are all available transcripts of the Proceedings of each Annual Meeting, as well as the transcripts of the discussions in the Committee of the whole of each Uniform and Model Act. Also included are the approved "successive drafts" of each Uniform and Model Act. View reference guide.

New York Legal Research Library
This specialized New York Legal Research Library includes the reports and opinions of the New York Attorney General, the New York State Register, tax cases, New York state session laws, New York law journals, the New York State Bar Association Journal, legal classics from or about New York, and New York trials.

PACER - Public Access to Court Electronic Records - case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts. See a librarian for access.

The Philip C. Jessup International Moot Court Library
Primary collection is the International Law Moot Court Competition compendium, 1960-2009. This compilation includes the Problem, the Judges' Bench Memorandum, the Official Rules, the United States Supplement to the Official Rules, a List of Competing Schools, Results, and Best Memorials of the [year's] Jessup Competition.

RIA Checkpoint
Tax and accounting information.

Securities Mosaic
Provides comprehensive disclosure and regulatory information.

Selden Society Publication and the History of Early English Law
The Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law library contains access to the Selden Society Annual Series, Selden Society Supplementary Series and the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society published in 1987. In addition to the Selden publications, you can also find more than 100 English Legal History Classics including abridgements, digests and dictionaries.

Statistical Insights
More than 30,000 individually indexed statistical tables issued by the federal government. Also includes:

  • American Statistics Index (ASI) of federal statistical publications beginning in 1973, including diverse topics such as crime, demography, economics, education, energy, environment, international trade and labor.
  • Statistical Reference Index (SRI) of significant statistical publications of state and private sector sources in the U.S. beginning in 1980, including business organizations, commercial publishers, independent research agencies, professional and trade associations and state government.
  • Index to International Statistics (IIS) from international intergovernmental organizations beginning in 1983, including the European Union, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, United Nations and World Bank.

Subject Compilations of State Laws (1960-2010)
This database provides access to over 18,000 bibliographic records. Many records contain extensive annotations with links directly to articles and other documents residing in HeinOnline. View reference guide.

Taxation and Economic Reform in America, 1781 - 2009
A 225 year archive of taxation reform in the United States. Part 1 is the history of American taxation and includes all major tax legislation, legislative history and administrative documents. Part 2 of this database contains economic reform and stimulus plans. View webinar or reference guide.

Treaties and International Agreements
More than 15,000 treaties and international agreements, including international tax treaties.

United Nations Law Collection
The United Nations Law Collection contains exact reproductions of major United Nations legal publications, including the complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series, the Monthly Statement of Treaties & International Agreements, the United Nations Legislative Series.

  • United Nations Treaty Series, published since 1946 and contains all texts of treaties and international agreements registered with the Secretariat of the United Nations.
  • The League of Nations Treaty Series,1920-1946, collection of treaties and subsequent treaty actions registered with and published by the Secretariat of the League of Nations.
  • The International Court of Justice, Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders 1947-Current.
  • Reports of International Arbitral Awards 1948-Current
  • UN Yearbooks.

View webinar or reference guide.

Westlaw**

World Constitutions Illustrated
This database contains contemporary and historical resources, as well as custom features to enable you to browse and search across the constitutional law of more than 190 countries. Here is a brief list of content:

  • The current constitution for every country.
  • Substantial constitutional histories of the United Kingdom, France, Brazil and Colombia (among others).
  • More than 800 classic books about constitutional law, with specific chapters tied to specific countries.
  • Links to scholarly articles about constitutional development.
  • Links to online resources related to political development.
  • A bibliography of select constitutional books.
  • The Modern Legal Systems Cyclopedia

View webinar.

World Trade Law
Includes full text search engine for GATT and WTO cases and documents, and dispute settlement commentaries for all WTO panel and appellate body reports.

Arnold Bernhard Library Databases
The university undergraduate library pays subscription fees so that members of the Quinnipiac community may use these various databases either on or off campus. See Arnold Bernhard Library resources.

** These databases are available only to QU law school faculty, staff and students.

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