Legal subscription databases available with a GU network name and password or from computers in the library. Public availability only in the library. PW indicates access limited to GU Law students and faculty with separate username and password.
- Attorney Jobs Online - Attorney job database from Westlaw. PW
- Berkeley Electronic Press Journals (BEPress) - BEPress is an electronic alternative to the traditional system of scholarly publishing in peer-reviewed journals.
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CALI - Interactive, computer-based lessons designed to augment traditional law school instruction.
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Checkpoint - Tax law information service provided by the Research Institute of America (RIA). Includes RIA journals and newsletters.
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- Clearinghouse Review - Periodical published by the Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law.
- Congressional - Comprehensive resource for locating information published by and about the United States Congress. Includes documents such as bills, hearings, reports, some committee prints and floor debates. Contains Congressional Information Services (CIS) indexing and abstracting of publications, 1970 to the present; pre-compiled legislative histories for all federal acts with links to many of the full-text of the legislative documents; the U.S. Congressional Serial Set (1817-1969), and the American State Papers (1789-1838). Includes full-text historical congressional documents.
- FirstSearch - Contains bibliographic records for materials held by libraries world wide. Also provides access to well-known reference databases; full-text and full-image documents from familiar databases and magazines; and Web resources. Use the FirstSearch WorldCat database to locate bibliographic information for your interlibrary loan requests.
- Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World - Essential information on primary and secondary sources of foreign law. Comprehensive in content; contains links to many Internet sources.
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- Code of Federal Regulations - Full-text access to the following coverage: 1938-1949 Editions, all supplements, and 1977-1988.
- English Reports - Full-text access to all 176 volumes of The Enlish Reports, Full Reprint along with its "Index of Cases" and "Index Chart." Encompasses the decisions of the English Courts from 1220 to 1867.
- European Center for Minority Issues - Research & information concerning minority-majority relations in Europe. Full-text access to Journal of Ethnopolitics and Minority Issues in Europe, ECMI Reports and ECMI Working Papers.
- Federal Register Library - Full-image access to the Federal Register (vol. 1, 1936 - present) and related documents.
- Foreign & International Law Resources - Full-image access to International Yearbooks and Serials, U.S. Law Digests, International Tribunals/Judicial Decisions (including the Hague Permanent Court of International Law).
- Foreign Relations of the United States - This series presents the official documentary historical record of U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. It started during Abraham Lincoln's administration and continues through the Nixon years.
- Law Journal Library - Full-image access to over 1,000 law reviews & journals with coverage from a journal's first volume to last year.
- Legal Classics Library - Full-image access to over 1,100 of the most highly regarded works written on the law.
- Philip C. Jessup Library - Full-image access to complete coverage of the annual Jessup Compendium since 1960.
- Treaties & Agreements Library - Full-image access to all U.S. treaties, currently in-force treaties, expired treaties, and yet-to-be published treaties. Includes explanatory documents issued by the Department of State, which present the ramifications of a treaty after official publication.
- Session Laws - Session laws of all 50 U.S. states (includes the Acts of the Parliament of Canada) from approximately 2000 to the present.
- Trials - In addition to trial transcripts this World Trials collection includes monographs that analyze and debate famous trials, as well as biographies of some of the greatest trial lawyers in history. More coming.
- U.S. Attorney General Opinions - Full-image access to Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice (vo. 1-20, 1977-1996); Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States (vol. 1-43, 1791-1982).
- U.S. Congressional Documents - Full image access to Congressional Record (1873 - present); Annals of Congress (1789-1824); Register of Debates (1824-1837); Congressional Globe (1833-1873), and American State Papers (1789-1838).
- U.S. Federal Agency Library - Full image access to the body of reported judicial opinion published by several Federal agencies. Examples include opinions from the National Labor Relations Board, Administrative Decisions under Immigration and Nationality Law, and Federal Trade Commission Decisions.
- U.S. Federal Legislative History Library - Contains the U.S. Federal Legislative History Title Collection (full-text legislative histories on some of the most important and historically significant legislation of our time) and the Nancy P. Johnson looseleaf publication Sources of Compiled Legislative Histories (lists sources of all compilations for major laws).
- U.S. Presidential Library - Contains documents such as the Code of Federal Regulations, Title 3, the Compilation of Messages and Papers of the Presidents by James D. Richardson, Economic Report of the President, Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents of the United States, and the Public Papers of the Presidents.
- U.S. Statutes at Large Library - Full-image access to every law, private and public, enacted by Congress since 1789. Also includes the Declaration of Independence, Articles of Confederation, the Constitution, amendments to the Constitution, treaties with Native Americans and foreign nations (published in the Statutes at Large through 1948), and presidential proclamations.
- U.S. Supreme Court Library - Full-image access to cases published in the US Reports as well as more recent slip opinions.
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Index to Legal Periodicals & Books (WilsonWeb)
- Provides citations to articles in over 800 legal periodicals and to books. Full-text since 1995. Retrospective index from 1908-1981.
- LegalTrac - Find articles in all major law reviews, law journals, speciality law and bar association journals, and legal newspapers since 1980. Also available through Lexis and Westlaw as Legal Resource Index.
- LexisNexis - Access to legal news, law reviews, state and federal case law and statutes, federal regulations, and general, medical, and business news and information. PW
- LexisNexis Academic - Sub-set of the full LexisNexis database. Limited public availability on computers in the library. U.S. federal & state case law, statutes, and regulations; Shepard's Citations; some foreign law materials, and full-text coverage of over 6,000 titles in news, business, medical, and legal publications.
- LLMC-Digital - Produced by the Law Library Microform Consortium, a non-profit cooperative. Items currently available in electronic format includes both historical and current legal literature and government document collections of federal, executive, judicial, and legislative materials.
- Loislaw - Full-text access to case law, statutes, regulations and court rules for federal and state jurisdictions as well as secondary sources, such as Washington Desk Books. PW
- Oceana Online: Constitutions - Full-text access to constitutions for Countries of the World.
- Shepards - Citator service from LexisNexis. License restricts use to single workstation in the Chastek Law Library.
- United Nations Treaty Collection - Provides multiple databases that either index or search the complete collection of multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General. In addition, gives access to the full text of recently deposited treaties in authentic languages and provides translations into English and French.
- US Law Week - Provides the most current information on US Supreme Court activity.
- Washington Lawyers Practice Manual - Access your Westlaw/TWEN account to view an electronic version of this manual compiled by the King County Bar Association Young Lawyers Division. TWEN course title is Washington Lawyers Practice Manual. Print copies available in the library. PW
- Westlaw - Contains legal news, law reviews, state and federal case law and statutes, federal regulations, and general, medical, and business news and information. PW
- WilsonWeb (Index to Legal Periodicals & Books) - Provides citations to articles in over 800 legal periodicals and to books. Full-text since 1995. Retrospective index from 1908-1981.
- WorldCat - Bibliographic records for materials held by libraries world wide. Use to locate bibliographic information for your interlibrary loan requests.
