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* Acronyma
"Acronyma.com provides the users an interface to a large database of acronyms found on the Internet using proprietary algorithms."
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* An Annotated Guide to Selected International/Foreign Law Internet Resources
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| * A Selected Guide to Environmental, Energy and Natural Resources Law on the Web (coming soon) |
| * A Selective Guide to Researching Sustainable Growth Issues (PDF) |
* Animals and the Law
E-book from ABC-CLIO. Purchased for use by Animal Law seminar. Remote access is available by using Gelman Library's proxy authentication.
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* BNA Electronic Subscription
BNA, a publisher of news, analysis, and reference products covering legal and regulatory developments. This link provides a listing of the BNA services that the Law Library subscribes to.
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* CALI
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction; online lessons covering legal education subject areas
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* Census Bureau
U.S. Census Bureau website includes the Census 2000 data, the ability to create statistical profiles for states and counties, and American Fact FInder, an online source for population, housing, economic and geographic data and federal statistics for easy to access data from hte Census Bureau and U.S. government agencies.
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* CCH Internet Research Network - Business and Management
Legislation, regulations, case law, administrative decisions, forms, and commentary related to antitrust and trade regulation, banking, capital changes, corporate governance, corporation law, exchanges and SRO's, federal energy guidelines, government contracts, international business, investment management, IP/ IT, mergers and acquisitions, products liability and safety, securities, and transportation law.
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* CCH Internet Research Network - Government Contracts Law
Gov't Contracts Law
Legislation, regulations, case law, administrative decisions, forms, and commentary related to government contracts.
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* CCH Internet Research Network - Health, Human Resources and Labor
Provides online access to primary and secondary material, including Aspen treatises. The content is broken down into tabs/libraries in the areas of Human Resources Management, Payroll, Benefits, Pension, Labor and Employment Law, Safety/OSHA, Health Care Reimbursement, Health Care Compliance, and Food and Drug. Each publication is organized into expandable/collapsable menus, similar to the CCH hardcopy version. Information can be found by browsing through menu topics, retrieving a citation, or through keyword/phrase search functions. Additionally, the Tracker News function allows the researcher to follow topics of interest in the news by providing daily updates with the ability to create personalized searches.
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* CCH Internet Research Network - Intellectual Property/Information Technology
Electronic access to Copyright Law Reporter and Goldstein on Copyright plus copyright news, analysis and commentary.
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* CCH Tax Research Network
Provides online access to primary and secondary material, including Aspen treatises. Available content is broken down into tabs/libraries in the areas of, Federal Tax, State Tax, State Business Income Tax, Sales Tax, and Pension and Payroll. Each publication is organized into expandable/collapsable menus, similar to the CCH hardcopy version. Information can be found by browsing through menu topics, retrieving a citation, or through keyword/phrase search functions. Additionally, the Tracker News function allows the researcher to follow topics of interest in the news by providing daily updates with the ability to create personalized searches.
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* ChinaLawInfo
Chinese language database from the Legal Information Center of the Peking University. This is the sister database to LawInfoChina, an English language database from the same publisher. ChinaLawInfo includes Chinese statutes and regulations plus secondary legal information such as judicial explanations, research articles of legal studies, book reviews, links to online Chinese legal journals, a directory of Chinese law scholars, and information about law making and law enforcement.
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* Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online
Online access to 187 country constitutions. Expert commentary from leading world scholars and English translations enhance the value of this database. Additionally, researchers have the capability to search for topics across nations.
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* Current Index to Legal Periodicals
CILP provides timely topical access to over 500 legal publications by indexing their contents 4-6 weeks before commercial legal periodical indexes (Index to Legal Periodicals, LegalTrac) do the same. It contains complete tables of contents of all journals indexed and the articles are seperately organized by 100 relevant subject headings. Access is restricted to the Law School computer network.
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* EcoAmericas
Ecoamericas is a monthly report of articles on development and the environment in Latin America. Articles are available in English and Spanish and include detailed contact and resource information. A searchable archives covers November 1998 to date.
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* E-journal Finder
An A-Z list of legal and interdisciplinary journals, periodicals, and newspapers collected by the Jacob Burns Law Library and other GW libraries. This resource is limited to electronic (online) publications. WHile use of the A-Z list is freely available on the Internet, authorized users may click through to search or retrieve the full-text content of the publication or to review its tables of contents by issue (if available).
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* ELR: The Environmental Law Reporter
Provides analysis and reporting on every aspect of environmental law. Includes current news, articles, cases, administrative documents, environmental statutes, international treaties, and federal and state regulations.
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* Federal Court Locator
This site is maintained by the Administrative Office of U.S. Courts and serves as a clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. government.
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* Findlaw
Provides a comprehensive set of legal resources including web search utilities, primary law, legal news, a career center, and message boards.
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* Foreign Law Guide
This website, based on the original six-volume print reference source Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World provides information about the legal systems of over 150 jurisdictions. Each jurisdiction includes an introductory essay regarding its historical legal developments along with references to the major codes, national gazettes and collections of laws and jurisprudence issued within the country. There is also a subject compilation of references to laws for each jurisdiction which include references to sources that provide English translations where available. If a particular source is available via the Internet, a link to the resource is included.
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* GPO Access
Service of the U.S. Governemnt Printing Office. Provides free electronic access to the official published version of information produced by the Federal Government.
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* GRUR Plus
GRUR PLus is a module of Beck Online. It is a browsable/searchable archive for 4 IP journals: ICC [available in English], Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. International Teil,Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht,Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht. With the exception of Gewerblicher Rechtsschutz und Urheberrecht, these journals are indexed in the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals.
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* The GW Intellectual Property Research Portal
A comprehensive and frequently updated compendium of links to INternet-based IP information. Arrayed in 14 broad categories, this resource gives researchers convenient access to a wide spectrum of web sites in patent, copyright, trademark and technology law and policy. Developed by Leonard E. Klein, Intellectual Property Research Librarian.
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* HeinOnline
Retrospective coverage of law journals, Federal Register Library (vol. 1, 1936-vol. 51, 1986), U.S. Supreme Court Library (U.S. Reports, preliminary reports and slip opinions), opinions of the U.S. Attorney General and the Office of Legal Counsel of the DOJ, and a Treaties and Agreements Library. This database subscription recently added access to other law related collections including, The American Law Institute Library, English Reports: Full Reprint (1220-1865), Foreign and International Law Resources Database, Legal Classics, Session Laws, U.S. Congressional Documents, and U.S. Federal Legislative History Library. Database is continually enhanced to include more recent volumes and more journal titles.
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| * Hydrogen Technologies: The Legal Issues (coming soon) |
* IndexMaster
Searches book titles, indexes, and tables of contents from over 8,000 legal titles from 65 legal publishers.
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* Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Multlingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide. Coverage 1985-present.
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* Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text
Online equivalent to Index to Legal Periodicals print annuals from 1981 - current. The coverage for this resource includes indexing from 1981 +, abstracting from 1990 +, and select full text from 1994 +. With the new full text version of this online product the researcher can now retrieve the full text of over 200 select periodicals going as far back as 1994.
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* Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
Online equivalent to Index to Legal Periodicals print annuals from 1908-1981. Complete index of over 750 publications [540,000 + indexed items] that allows the researcher to search the content of more than 60 years worth of law with one online search form. The index includes law journals, annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or topic. Additionally, the researcher can click for the citation to the full text in other databases to which the library subscribes including HeinOnline.
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* IngentaConnect
Unrestricted resource that contains citations to research articles from over 25,000 scholarly and popular journals in a variety of disciplines. Coverage varies by title. Full text is available for select journal titles that Burns Law Library and Gelman Library subscribe to in print. The Burns Law Library does not participate in the Ingenta document delivery service.
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* Intellectual Property Treatises: A Jacob Burns Law Library Locator
Indicates the availability of IP treatises and reference works on Lexis, Westlaw, or the Internet. It is divided into the following subjects: General Ip, Patent, Copyright, Trademark & Unfair Competition, Trade Secret, Art & Entertainment, E-Commerce & Information Technology, and Licensing & Franchising. Database names and print call numbers are provided. Developed by Leonard E. Klein, Intellectual Property Research Librarian.
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* Intellectual Property and Technology Law Reviews and Newsletters
A master index to IP and technology law periodicals available in the Library in hard copy or accessible online via Lexis, Westlaw, HeinOnline or the Internet. Arranged alphabetically by publication title, this resource features active links that take you directly to a publication's full text, often in PDF. Developed by Leonard E. Klein, Intellectual Property Research Librarian.
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* Intellectual Property Book Browsing Guide (PDF)
Promotes the fine art of browsing the Library's extensive IP collection by showing the locations and call number ranges for IP materials covering different countries and regions of the world. Developed by Leonard E. Klein, Intellectual Property Research Librarian.
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* Intellectual Property Treaty Finder (PDF)
Simplifies the process of locating multilateral Ip treaties. It consists of an alphabetical listing of official treaty titles, popular names and acronyms. Treaty sources cited include U.S.T., U.N.T.S., and I.L.M.. Developed by Leonard E. Klein, Intellectual Property Research Librarian.
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* InterAm Database
InterAm is an online database containing commercial, trade, investment legislation and other legal materials from 25 countries in the Americas developed by the National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade. The site also includes access to Mexico's Diario Oficial de la Federacion from 1994 as well as other trade-related materials.
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* International Law in Domestic Courts
Database of court decisions by domestic courts on important public international law issues. ILDC presently covers 60 jurisdictions and each decision appears in full-text in the original language with English translations of key passages available for all non-English language decisions. Headnotes are also included and each case is supplemented by expert commentary, references to other relevant materials, annotations regarding subsequent developments in the case, and a table of cases and instruments cited. Quick and advanced search options are available, and a browse mode allows searching by broad subject category. The database contains cases from 2000-present with 150 new cases being added yearly.
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* Journal of Forensic Sciences
"The official publication of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, edited and produced by ASTM. Includes papers on original investigations, observations, scholarly inquiries, and reviews. Its scope encompasses forensic toxicology, pathology, psychiatry, immunology, jurisprudence, criminalistics, odontology, physical antropology, and questioned documents and engineering. Also contains papers dealing with forensic-oriented aspects of the social sciences. All papers are peer reviewed."
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* Journal of World Trade
The World Trade Review was established at the initiative of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in close cooperation with Cambridge University press. Includes articles written from economic, legal, political, and inter-disciplinary perspectives on issues of relevance to the multilateral trading system.
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* JSTOR (Gelman)
This is a Gelman Library subscription. JSTOR is a not for profit organizationwhose goal is to maintain continued access to scholarly journals across a broad range of disciplines. JSTOR offers high-resolution scanned images of journal issues and pages. This is not a current issue database and there is a 1-5 year gap between the most recent issue and coverage in JSTOR.
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* Jurist: The Legal Education Network
Legal news and legal research website from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
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* KluwerArbitration.com
Arbitration database published by Kluwer Law International in conjunction with the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA), and the International Council for Commercial Arbitration (ICCA). KluwerArbitration.com is a fully searchable database allowing for targeted searches through its country index. Coverage includes full text access to primary and secondary materials including legislation, case law, institutional rules, treatises, and commentary from authorative sources such as ICCA publications and the ASA Bulletin. Access to this database is available throught the library's CCH Internet Research Network subscription and by selecting the International Business tab. |
* Law.com
Legal news and information network from American Lawyer Media.
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* LawInfoChina
English language database from the Legal Information Center of the Peking University. This is the sister database to ChinaLawInfo. LawInfoChina provides access to selected regulations from the People's Republic of China, basic laws adopted by the National People's Congress from 1949 onward, administrative regulations, rules, and orders, and local regulations and rules impacting foreign-related activities, technology investment incentives, and municipal economic development. This database provides access to over 2,000 documents in 60 legal subject areas. Most translations are performed by individuals at the Institution of Legal Translation Studies of the Peking University.
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* Lawyer's Weekly
Provides legal information geared towards practicing attorneys including up to the minute coverage of court decisions and legislation. Content includes a bi weekly national newspaper, Lawyers Weekly USA, and seven state specific weekly publications.
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* Legal Information Institute
Non-profit web resource of Cornell Law School that provides public legal information. Primary legal content includes the U.S. Code, U.S. Supreme Court opinions, and NY Court of Appeals opinions. Secondary legal content includes topical pages or explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for over 100 areas of the law.
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* LegalTrac
An index to articles in law reviews, law journals and legal newspapers (1980 - Present). Includes U.S., British Commonwealth and E.U law-related topics.
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* LexisNexis
Broad coverage of primary and secondary legal sources and news databases. Requires individual password only issued to law faculty and students.
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* LexisNexis Congressional
The Law Library has access to LexisNexis Congressional's basic subscription, which includes abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, legislative histories, member biographies, committee assignments, voting records, and financial data; it also includes full text of key regulatory and statutory resources. In addition to the basic subscription, the Law Library also has full text access to three additional collections: the U.S. Serial Set Digital Collection, the Congressional Research Digital Collection (Retrospective Module and Prospective Module), and the Congressional Hearings Digital Collection (Retrospective Module A, Retrospective Module B, and Prospective Module).
The Serial Set Digital Collection. Through this resource, researchers can access full text of U.S. Congressional Serial Set and American State Papers from 1789-1969. For product description and features, please visit
http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/serialset/default.asp ; for product status and updates, please visit http://www.lexisnexis.com/academic/1univ/serial/status.asp .
The Congressional Research Digital Collection. This resource comprises full text of CRS Reports (1916-present) and Congressional Committee Prints (1830-present). This collection includes over 30,000 CRS Reports (including the Major Studies and Issue Briefs of the CRS) and approximately 36,642 Committee Prints. LexisNexis anticipates completing the loading of the retrospective data during the summer of 2007, with monthly updates containing prospective materials.
The Congressional Hearings Digital Collection. This resource comprises full text of published and unpublished hearings (1824-present). The retrospective materials include approximately 117,000 titles, which LexisNexis expects to complete in December 2008. Prospective materials will be loaded on a monthly basis. To keep posted on the status of content delivery, from the LexisNexis Congressional main page, click on the "Help" link, then click the "New!" link in the Contents menu. |
* LLMC Digital
The world's largest digital collection of legal literature and federal executive, legislative, and judicial branch documents in microform format. Provides full text access to a vast collection of law and law-related literature courtesy of the LAw Library Microform Consortium a non-profit library cooperative that has filmed more than 7,500 titles and over 900,00 volumes. The first group of titles mounted on the website are U.S. Federal documents. It is anticipated that constitutional, legal, and law-related materials from commonwealth and civil law countries will begin to appear in 2004. The collection includes statutes, treatise case law, administrative decisions and reports of government agencies, boards, and departments. The current emphasis is mainly on historical documents (1790-2000).
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* Local Jurisdictions: Primary Law Sources
Compilation of websites for locating primary law in D.C., Maryland, and Virginia.
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* Making of Modern Law Digital Archive (Legal Treatises 1800 - 1926)
Digital collection of Anglo-American legal treatises making nearly 10 million pages of 19th and 20th century legal history available online. This collection allows for full text searching of more than 21,000 works covering 99 subject areas.
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* Making of Modern Law Digital Archive (Trials, 1600 - 1926)
Digital collection of more than 2 million pages documenting trials from around the world. Although the collection includes trial texts from around the world, the majority are English-language texts published in the United States or Great Britain. The collection allows for full text searching of more than 10,000 works covering a wide range of legal topics and allowing for the historical examination of social issues such as gender, sex, class, and celebrity for a given era. |
* Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Database of over 1 million lawyers and law firms in 160 countries. Locate a lawyer by name, firm, location, law school attended, or area of practice.
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* National Bureau of Economic Research Publications
Access working papers in pdf format from this private no-profit non-partisan economic research organization.
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* New York Times Historical (1851-1999)
Gelman Library subscription. This database offers full-text and full-image articles for the New York Times for 1851-1999. The collection includes digital reproductions of
every page from every issue--cover to cover--in
downloadable PDF files.
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* Oxford English Dictionary Online
Dictionary
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* Open CRS Network: Congressional Research Reports for the People
"A project of the Center for Democracy and Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS reports."
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* Pike and Fischer: Internet Law & Regulation
Daily coverage of legal developments affecting e-business including full text of decisions and pleadings in major Internet-related cases around the world, as well as the text of major laws and policies affecting the Internet.
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* RIA Checkpoint Tax & Accounting Internet Research Service
This research service is a web based library of RIA and WG&L tax and accounting products. Checkpoint provides online access to the Federal Analytical Reporter Library including the U.S. Tax Reporter and Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, the Public Domain Library including federal tax case law, IRS rulings and the RIA Citator 2d, Journal of Taxation, Corporate Taxation journal, Practical Tax Strategies journal, state and local tax materials for all 50 states, a tax alerts service, and Worldwide Tax Law including access to tax and commercial laws from around the World.
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| * Selected Iraq Reconstruction Documents (coming soon) |
* Stat-USA
Economic, business, and trade data from U.S. gov't sources.
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* Thomas
Library of Congress research system for Federal legislative information.
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* Treaties and International Agreements Online
TIARA provides access to the full text of over 13,000 treaties and international agreements. It includes all treaties and international agreements ratified by the US, major treaties in the process of ratification, and all tax treaties, even those to which the US is not a party. Basic and advanced searching options provide numerous access points to the data. PDF versions of the official texts of many of U.S. treaties are included that have been taken from sources such as Senate Treaty Documents, Treaties and Other International Adts Series (TIAS) and United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (UST).
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* United Nations Official Documents On-Line
As described by the site, "this is the official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1992 is accessible in pOrtable Document Format (PDF) in all official languages of the United nations - Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian, and Spanish.
Documents are stored in two databases, UN Documentation, which includes documents back to 1992 and UN Resolutions, which includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946."
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* United Nations Treaty Collection On-Line
The United Nations Treaty Collection is divided into three parts: The United Nations Treaty Series, Multialteral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General ,and Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties . The collection includes the text of every treaty and international agreement entered into by a member of the UN. The site also provides access to the League of Nations Treaty Series (LNTS) and other treaty-related materials issued by the United Nations.
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* U.S. Congressional Documents & Debates, 1774-1875
Library of Congress initiative to make the records of Congressional proceedings more accesible to scholars and researchers. The website brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43d Congress. this collection includes the Journals of the Continental Congress.
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* U.S. Federal Government Agencies
Federal agencies online directory published by the Louisiana State University Libraries.
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* U.S. House of Representatives Floor Proceedings
Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives makes accessible online the floor proceedings from the last seven legislative days.
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* U.S. Supreme Court Oral Argument Transcripts
Transcripts of arguments are available the same day as the argument is heard by the Court. The Court's current contract reporting service will now utilize the services of a court reporter in the Courtroom and high-speed technology to transcribe the oral arguments more quickly. Beginning with the 2000 term, transcripts are archived on the Court's website.
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* U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs Digital Archive (1832 - 1978)
Digital collection of U.S. Supreme Court historical materials spanning a 140 year period. The collection includes more than 240,000 documents from the years 1832-1978. This collection of primary legal documents is the second installment of Thomson Gale's Making of Modern Law Digital Archives. Transcripts are listed by case name and the date of oral argument.
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* United States Constitution Resources
On September 15, 2004, Senator Robert Byrd introduced S. 2808, a bill to amend the United States Code to make the date of the signing of the United States Constitution a legal public holiday. President George W. Bush signed the bill into law on December 8, 2004 designating every September 17th as Constitution Day. The Burns Law Library has compiled a web page devoted to the United States Constitution.
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* Washington Post Historical (1877-1987)
Gelman Library subscription. This database offers full-text and full-image articles for the Washington Post for 1877-1987. The collection includes digital reproductions of
every page from every issue--cover to cover--in
downloadable PDF files.
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* Westlaw
Broad coverage of primary and secondary legal sources and news databases. Requires individual password only issued to law faculty and students.
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* Westlaw International Law Databases
This page provides a Westlaw interface that collects all of the international law databases available on that system onto one page. After checking the databases they wish to query and clicking the "Search" button, the user is automatically directed into Westlaw where the search is then run.
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* WorldCat (Gelman)
Several databases are available through the OCLC FirstSearch system. Worldcat contains over 27 million monograph and serials.
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* WorldTradeLaw.net - Dispute Settlement Commentary
A comprehensive website containing full-text of GATT?WTO instruments, Appellate Body Reports, and links to international trade news resources. GWU students, staff, and faculty have access to the Dispute Settlement Commentary (DSC) service. According to the site, it "is a comprehensive legal research tool for WTO dispute settlement. Features include summary/analysis of all reports/arbitrations; up-to-date keyword index; and a database of dispute settlement tables/statistics."
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* World Trade Organization Documents Online
The WTO's Documents Online website provides access to the majority of official documents distributed by the WTO. It also provides links to WTO panel and appellate body reports issued as a result of its trade dispute settlement mechanism. There are a number of ways to access documents such as by issuing body, subject, keyword, and by particular provisions of the WTO instruments. |