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RESOURCES FREELY AVAILABLE ON THE WEB | |
| The Reference Desk: Hot topics, Legal research tools, dictionaries, newspapers, current legal news. Federal Sources: Executive, Legislative, Judicial. Federal Bill Tracking California Sources: Executive, Legislative, Judicial, and local. Web sites for specific areas of practice: immigration, labor, criminal law, etc. Other Law Libraries Freedom of Information Resources including the USA Patriot Act. Congressional Research Service Reports | Jessup Moot Court Competition
Collections of Famous Trials In support of our LLM programs, we offer these libraries of web sites specific to the following areas: Environmental Law Intellectual Property Law International Legal Studies Includes resources on human rights, trade & dispute resolution, the EU and the UN. Taxation |
ONLINE DATABASES
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| Annual Survey of Law & Social Science | "Annual Reviews publications are among the most highly cited in scientific literature as indexed by the Institute for Scientific Information's Journal Citation Report. Each year, Annual Reviews critically reviews the most significant primary research literature to guide you to the principal contributions of the field and help you keep up to date in your area of research." Law & Social Science is one of their newer additions. |
| CCH Internet Tax Research Network (Omnitax) | Provides access to the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Federal Estate/Gift Tax Reporter, U.S> Master Tax Guide, most primary federal tax sources, and archived material back to 1978. Also provides access to state tax resources. |
| Foreign Law Guide | The Foreign Law Guide continues the print edition of Foreign law: current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world by Reynolds & Flores. |
| Hein Online | An ever-expanding, comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals, U.S. Reports, the Federal Register, Treaties and Agreements library, and more. |
| IP Law360 | "IP Law360, the newswire for IP professionals, covers developing stories in litigation, law and policy. With more than 1,500 stories published per year, we offer the most extensive coverage of IP issues available anywhere. We cover stories from across the globe, in every jurisdiction, and in every major industry." |
| LegalTrac | Part of InfoTrac, indexes legal periodicals dating from 1980. |
| Lexis - For Law Students Lexis - Faculty Web Course Access | Individual user name and password required. |
| LLMC Digital | The online counterpart of the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC). A non-profit library cooperative which has put many thousands of law books and government documents on microfiche. The collection ranges from court reports to rare, historic and international law collections. This collection is being digitized and made available in this searchable database. |
| RIA Checkpoint | The Checkpoint research system provides a powerful system to optimize tax and accounting research. |
| Index to United Nations Documents and Publications | The Law Library collects the United Nations Documents and Publications on microfiche. The index to this vast collection is available on the web via the link to the left. |
| United Nations Treaty Collection | This is the U.N.'s database of treaties, reports, and other supplemental publications. At the bottom of the web page, click on "Access to Databases" to choose from a drop-down menu or from links on the page. This is the official source of United Nations International Agreements. |
| Westlaw | Individual username and password required. |
ADDITIONAL DATABASESThe following databases are accessible only from inside the Law Library. Please obtain the password from the Reference Librarian. | |
| ADRWorld | "Your single source on the WWW for up-to-the-minute news on arbitration, mediation and all forms of alternative dispute resolution." |
| American Legal Net | "American LegalNet is a leading point of entry for information and research to help attorneys, particularly litigators and their staff, practice law more effectively and efficiently. A Los Angeles-based, privately-held company, American LegalNet provides leading-edge technology and is pioneering the use of electronic filing by attorneys and courts around the nation." |
| Cal-OSHA Reporter | The Cal-OSHA Reporter began its excellent coverage of occupational health and safety more than 25 years ago. The Reporter briefs you on important developments under the state federal occupational safety and health acts focusing on activities within California affecting its workers and employers. The Reporter also covers related issues such as risk management, workers' compensation, ergonomics and toxics. |
| CALI: Computer Assisted Legal Instruction | See the Reference Librarian for password and login instructions. |
| California Criminal Law Reporter | Online version of the print product. |
| CQ Press Federal Collection Library: Congressional Staff Directory | Federal Staff Directory | Judicial Staff Directory | Homeland Security Directory
For use at the Reference Desk only. | These online directories provide access to departments, names, addresses and phone numbers, as well as printable listings in .pdf format. Keyword searching is also available. Includes Bernan Profiles - bios of members of committees, and more. |
| Environmental Law Reporter
Subscription is to the Reporter only, not the Institute. | "ELI is an independent, active, non-profit center conducting policy studies on the environment and sustainability and reaching out with educational programs, publications and technical assistance across the U.S. and abroad.' |
| Forecite California | "The objective of FORECITE is to update, supplement and augment CALJIC or CALCRIM to reflect late developments not yet considered by, or included in, CALJIC or CALCRIM. Hence, by using CALJIC or CALCRIM and FORECITE TOGETHER more accurate, complete and up to date statements of the law will be obtained. While a vigilant attorney might become aware of new developments in the law by analyzing and indexing advance sheets, changes in statutory language, and briefing in pending appellate and supreme court cases, it is extremely time consuming for any single individual to monitor all of these sources. FORECITE, via its team of editors, continually studies these sources to provide timely access to the latest developments in the law. By using FORECITE, the busy practitioner can now quickly access the most current cases, the "hottest" issues and the latest developments in substantive criminal law and jury instructions." |
| George Washington Moot Court Directory | Online supplement to the print publication. |
| The Legal Description | Legislative and legal analysis for the Real Estate industry. |
| LoisLaw | Case law, statutory law, constitutions, administrative law, court rules and other authority for all 50 states and D.C. plus the 18 most important Federal districts. Each student must register as a user. Obtain the registration code from the Reference Librarian. |
| STAT-USA
USA Trade Online Available to us as members of the Federal Depository Library Program. | STAT-USA is a service of the US Dept. of Commerce, and is the site for US business, economic and trade communities, providing authoritative information from the Federal government. USA Trade Online offers specific US export and import information on more than 18,000 commodities. |
| VerdictSearch | Search California jury verdict awards. |
