Dorraine Zief Law Library Digital Legal Research Collection   Tags: databases, online research  

ABA and state ethics rules and codes; practice guides with detailed commentary and analysis; full text of ABA ethics opinions; summaries of state ethics opinions; current news reports.

A finding-tool for United Nations documents from 1945 to the present. Includes Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations). Also has selected U.N. Documents in full text. Of the documents too old to be online, many are available on microfiche on the lower level of the Zief Library.

Tribal constitutions, charters, acts, and bylaws; federal statutes and regulations; legislative histories; other government documents; books; articles.

Restatements, codification projects (including the Model Penal Code); annual reports, proceedings of meetings; ALI journals; UCC drafts; the Statement of Essential Human Rights archive; and other ALI publications.

Cases, codes, rules, selected commentary, and continuously-updated news (from the Bankruptcy Law Reporter) dealing with commercial and consumer bankruptcy law.

Contains more than 70 state and local bar journals.

Cases, statutes, regulations, agency documents, commentary, and news dealing with employee benefits, ERISA compliance, and executive compensation. Includes the treatise Employee Benefits Law, 2d.

Scholarly working papers from a subset of law schools. [Free; no access restrictions.]

Primary law (cases, statutes, regulations); company/business information; BNA secondary sources and practice guides; docket information and court filings. [For current USF law faculty, students & staff.]

"A comprehensive, searchable source of information on California ballot initiatives from 1911 to 2000. The database contains the full text of the initiatives, accompanying material relating to their filing & qualification, related legal and legislative history, and digital images of pertinent documents." From the U.C. Hastings Law Library. [Free; no access restrictions.]

"A comprehensive, searchable source of information on California ballot propositions from 1911 to 2006. The database contains the full text of the propositions, accompanying material contained in the ballot pamphlets, related legal and legislative history, and digital images of the ballot pamphlets." From the U.C. Hastings Law Library. [Free; no access restrictions.]

Official full text of judgments of Canada's high court, from volume 1 (1876) to the present. (Title varies: volumes 1-64 (1876-1923) are Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada and volumes for 1923-1969 are Canada Law Reports.)

Full-text U.S. state and federal cases, statutes, and regulations, and federal court rules. For some states the following may also be available: links to court forms, jury instructions, "unreported" opinions, ethics opinions, worker's compensation opinions, environmental decisions, Attorney General Opinions, and court rules. A Casemaker Digest (which sorts case summaries by topic) is also available. [Individual passwords required. For current USF Law School faculty, students and staff only. Casemaker X registration is required. Others must arrange their own personal subscriptions to Casemaker.]

Primary law (cases, statutes, regulations), practice materials, and news covering: advertising; antitrust & trade regulation; banking; bankruptcy; benefits; consumer financial services; corporate governance; estate planning; food, drugs & devices; government contracts; health care compliance; intellectual property; labor & employment; mergers & acquisitions; pensions; privacy; products liability & safety; securities, commodities; tax; transportation.

Full-text access to more than 100 of CEB's practice guides on California law.

Laws & regulations; judicial cases; tax treaties; gazettes; legal news; journals; Law Yearbook of China; white papers. Chinese-language interface; documents are in Chinese. (For English-language interface & translations, visit LawInfoChina.)

"The No. 1 source of news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty members and administrators." (Gleeson library subscription available to all USF faculty, students, and staff.)

Continuously updated worldwide news and information on climate change. From Bloomberg BNA. Includes Energy and Climate Report (Jan. 2005 to present) and the Climapedia, a listing of significant climate change websites and other reference materials.

The codification of the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the departments and agencies of the Federal Government. [A free CFR is available from FDsys.gov.]

Materials reflecting congressional concern with the composition and structure of Article III Courts. Features William H. Manz's Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010. Also includes Federal Judicial Center publications, articles, CFR Title 28 (Judicial Administration), and other related works.

Part of Hein's U.S. Congressional Documents Library. [A free Congressional Record (Bound) and Congressional Record (Daily) are available from FDsys.gov.]

Constitutions of 40 nations and 170 dependencies, translated into English, with scholarly commentary. From Oceana/Oxford.
[On-campus alternative. Select "Constitutions of Dependencies and Territories" when connected.]

Constitutions of almost 190 countries, translated into English. Also includes scholarly commentary and historical constitutions. From Oceana/Oxford.
[On-campus alternative. Select "Constitutions of the Countries of the World" when connected.]

Fully searchable access to Corporate Compliance Manual, legislation, agency information, codes of ethics, other documents and news.

Authoritative legal analysis of the most important issues affecting corporate governance and reliable news reports on core governance issues. Includes fully searchable access to Corporate Governance Manual, Corporate Governance Report, and numerous worksheets.

"Portfolios" with in-depth explanations of legal principles and transactions. Topics covered: Antitrust and Trade Regulation; Corporate and Securities; Corporate Political Activity; Environment; Forms of Business; Intellectual Property; Labor and Employment; Selected State Corporate Laws.

Current official publication of materials released by the White House Press Secretary. Also available for free in the FDsys.gov collection Compilation of Presidential Documents.

Current news on all aspects of U.S. law of interest to business executives. (Bloomberg BNA, Aug. 18, 1997 to present.)

Environmental topical reports and newsletters. Newsletters include: Land Letter, Environment & Energy Daily, E&ENews PM, ClimateWire, and GreenWire. [USF campus only.]

Includes: Federal Cases (1894-1897) and the so-called "Trinity Series" — American Decisions (1760 to 1869), American Reports (1870-1887), and American State Reports (1888 to 1911). Also includes: Mining Reports (1883-1906), Abbott's National Digest (1884-1889), and American Leading Cases (1872).

More than 100,000 English cases, spanning seven centuries, plus Statutes of the Realm, (1235-1713).

Federal cases, statutes, regulations, agency documents, executive orders, analysis, and news.

Federal and state cases, statutes and regulations; news, analysis, and updates; background information on foreign and international environmental law. [Zief Law Library only.]

A thorough source for key data on current foreign import regulations, tariff systems and exchange controls, trading procedures, and interactive tax forms. From Bloomberg BNA.

The official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. HeinOnline adds the U.S. Gov’t Manual and the Daily and Weekly Compilations of Presidental Documents. [A free Federal Register is available from FDsys.gov.]

Yearbooks of international law, digests of United States practice in international law, decisions of international tribunals.

Covers over 170 countries/jurisdictions. Cites to laws in the original language (and, where possible, in English) in official or other authoritative sources. Also includes brief overviews of each country's legal system.

"The official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and significant diplomatic activity. It is comprised of more than 500 books beginning with Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 and continuing to the administration of Richard Nixon in 1975."

Fusion searches all the materials in USF's library catalog, Ignacio, as well as the content of the majority of USF's many journal article databases. Gleeson library has this overview of Fusion.

Courses given at the prestigious Hague Academy of International Law. Also includes "Law Books of the Academy," workshops, and periodic indexes for volumes 201 forward.

Complete reprint of the original Harvard Research in International Law (1929-1930), plus the Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal (2007). Includes links to law review articles by the contributors to the Harvard Research in International Law.

Primary law (cases, statutes, regulations, and agency documents), analysis, and news on all aspects of health care law.

Full-text legal materials with exact page images. Includes: law reviews and journals; bar journals; federal statutory, congressional, and administrative materials; U.S. Reports; historical law books; some international law materials; English Reports; and more. [If remote access is not working, try this on-campus HeinOnline link.]

Legislative histories, documents, treatises and other classic books, and scholarly articles related to the development of bankruptcy law in America.

Books, articles and other documents dating back to 1690 and covering topics including: War & Peace, Nuremberg Trials, Law of the Sea, International Arbitration, Hague Conferences and Conventions.

Includes the complete Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices, by the Senate Judiciary Committee. A Browse-by-Justice option allows you to see relevant works related to that Justice including links to articles and a bibliography of other works, along with links to Scholarly Articles.

"Portfolios" with in-depth explanations of legal principles and transactions. Portfolios cover: Antitrust; Contracting Issues; Fraud & Abuse; Operational Issues; Structural & Legal Issues; Tax-Exempt Health Care Entities; Transactional Issues. Also includes summaries of recent state legislation and links to Health Law Reporter.

Citations to scholarly articles on foreign, comparative and international law from law journals around the world. Covers 1960 to present; fully searchable from 1985 to the present. For search tips, see the Cheat Sheet. (IFLP from 1960 to 1985 in print is at K 33 .I522 Law Reference.)

Comprehensive citations to articles from 1908 to the present. Full text available for selected recent articles. For search tips, see the Cheat Sheet. (For current USF students, faculty, and staff.) (ILP for years prior to 1908 is at K 33 .I54 Law Reference.)

Searchable tables of contents and indexes of thousands of law books from more than 75 publishers, including,West, LexisNexis, and Aspen. USF campus only.

Primary and secondary documents such as: constitutional texts; case law; state and federal legislation; delegated legislation; parliamentary debates.

Primary and secondary documents such as: constitutional texts; case law; state and federal legislation; delegated legislation; parliamentary debates.

Focuses on copyrights, patents and trademarks in the United States and includes nearly 2 million pages of legislative histories, treaties, and classic intellectual property texts. Includes Manual of Patent Examining Procedure and Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure.

Cases, statutes, regulations, news, analysis (including many respected BNA IP treatises and practice guides), and practice tools for copyright, trademark, and patent law. Also includes: United States Patents Quarterly, first and second series; the Manual of Patent Examining Practice; Patent, Trademark & Copyright Journal.

Primary law (cases, statutes, regulations), practice materials, and news covering: advertising; antitrust & trade regulation; banking; bankruptcy; benefits; consumer financial services; corporate governance; estate planning; food, drugs & devices; government contracts; health care compliance; intellectual property; labor & employment; mergers & acquisitions; pensions; privacy; products liability & safety; securities, commodities; tax; transportation.

An "on-line collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas." A handful of English translations is available.

Selected leading decisions from domestic courts, international courts, and arbitral tribunals . Coverage: 1902 – present. Also available in print, KZ 64 .I55 Law Stacks.

Primary law, analysis, and news covering: criminal law; freedom of speech; intellectual property; commerce and taxation; jurisdiction and procedure; privacy; and telecommunications.

Over 220 English translations of decisions of the Supreme Court of Israel. Includes Israel Law Reports and Selected Judgments of the Supreme Court of Israel . Currently covers 1948 to 2006.

Problems, Judges' Briefs, Rules, and leading written memorials from Phillip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court competitions from 1960 to the present. Also includes several publications from the International Law Students Association..

Multi-disciplinary digital archive of back issues (JSTOR generally lacks the latest three years) of hundreds of scholarly journals. USF has these JSTOR collections: Arts and Sciences I to IV and VI, and Health and General Sciences. (Joint Gleeson Library/Zief Library subscription.)

Cases, statutes, regulations, agency documents, a case digest, summaries of the law, and detailed analysis covering: fair employment practices; individual employment rights; wage & hour law; labor-management relations; labor arbitration; Americans with disabilities. Also includes the Affirmative Action Compliance Manual for Federal Contractors and the EEOC Compliance Manual.

Almost complete, full-text coverage of all United States law reviews and journals, in most cases starting with the first volume of the journal and including all but the most recent volume. (For current USF students, faculty, and staff.) [If remote access is not working, try this on-campus HeinOnline link.]

Laws & regulations; judicial cases; tax treaties; gazettes; legal news; journals; Law Yearbook of China; white papers. English-language interface. Documents are in English translation with parallel Chinese text. For search help, see the Search Tips and FAQ. (For Chinese-language interface, visit ChinaLawInfo.)

Employment law case law database and three newsletters: Employment Law Memo, NLRB Memo, and Arbitration Memo. [For current USF Law School faculty, students and staff only. Advance registration at the LawMemo sign-up page is required. For help, speak to a Zief Law Library research librarian.]

Find legal looseleafs and newsletters by subject, title, or publisher. [USF campus only.]

Directory information for government agencies, law firms, courts, non-profits, colleges and universities, and news media. Includes biographies of judges, attorneys and corporate executives. Includes content from the "Yellow Book" series.

Full-text, exact page images of over 1,400 classic law books, including many early American, British, and Commonwealth titles.

Scholarly working papers (articles in progress) and articles accepted for publication. [No charge for searching and downloading; no access restrictions.]

Comprehensive citations to law review articles from 1980 to the present. Also includes citations to selected legal magazines and newspapers. Full text available for selected recent articles. For search tips, see the Cheat Sheet. (For current USF students, faculty and staff.)

Compiled legislative histories for enacted laws, including (as searchable PDFs): the Public Law text; all versions of enacted & related bills; Congressional Record excerpts; and committee hearings; reports; and documents. Also included: committee prints; Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports; misc. congressional publications; Presidential signing statements. See the Quick Start Guide for more.

Full-text law, legal information, and news. This link leads to Lexis Advance, Lexis.com, and the LexisNexis law school home page. [For current USF Law School faculty, students and staff only. Individual passwords required.]

Full-text law, legal information, and news [For current non-law-school USF faculty, students and staff only.]

Historical full-text case reports, administrative law decisions, government documents, early law books, canon law documents, and more, with exact page images. (Tip for Mac users: try Safari or Chrome.)

50-state primary law (cases, statutes & codes, regulations, court rules), plus selected treatises, practice guides, and forms. [USF campus only — for now.]

Over 22,000 pre-1926 English and American legal treatises covering almost 100 subjects. Fully searchable, with exact page images. (From Gale Cenage Learning.)

Essays on over 1600 topics in international law, written by scholars and practitioners, and including suggestions for further research.

State and federal case law and news related to the regulation of media content, distribution, and ownership. From Bloomberg BNA.

Final uniform acts, plus "all available transcripts of the proceedings of each Annual Meeting, as well as the transcripts of the discussions of the Committee of the Whole of each Uniform and Model Act."

Records, briefs, and other materials from Association of the Bar of the City of New Yorks' National Moot Court Competitions. Covers 1950 to the present.

Includes "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."

Full-text access to more than 100 of CEB's practice guides on California law.

In separate topical "modules," leading scholars recommend the most important and useful sources (books and other materials) in their areas of expertise. Commentary explains the significance of each source and links allow you to find the sources at the USF libraries or elsewhere. USF subscribes to 9 topical modules: Communication; Criminology; Education; International Law; International Law; International Relations; Philosophy; Political Science; Public Health.

Cases from: the International Court of Justice; the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea; the Permanent Court of Arbitration; and the Permanent Court of International Justice.

Jurisprudence from: the International Criminal Court; the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda; the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia; the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg; and the Special Court for Sierra Leone.

Covers: African Commission on Human and Peoples Rights; African Court of Human and Peoples' Rights; Court of Justice of the Economic Community of West African States; East African Court of Justice; European Court of Human Rights; Inter-American Court of Human Rights; Southern African Development Community Tribunal; UN Committee against Torture; UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination against Women; UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination; UN Human Rights Committee

"Case law from international courts and dispute settlement bodies, in addition to states and certain territorial entities that are not generally classified as states"

Decisions of domestic courts "relevant to the identification and interpretation of rules of international law."

PACER offers access to relatively recent federal district and appellate court documents. The search interface can be cumbersome and it is very helpful to know which court the case was in, and the case's docket/filing number.
Contact any of the Zief Law Library's reference librarians for the library's PACER password and a brief PACER orientation.

These "Pentagon Papers" are a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967. Formal title: United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945–1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense.

Congressional hearings, reports, committee prints, Congressional Research Service reports, the Serial Set, and other important federal legislative history materials, covering both enacted laws and non-enacted legislation. (Joint Gleeson Library/Zief Library subscription.) [Formerly "LexisNexis Congressional."]

Compiled legislative histories for enacted laws, including (as searchable PDFs): the Public Law text; all versions of enacted & related bills; Congressional Record excerpts; and committee hearings; reports; and documents. Also included: committee prints; Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports; misc. congressional publications; Presidential signing statements. See the Quick Start Guide for more.

Peer-reviewed online journals in law, economics, business, humanities, political science, technology, science, and medicine.

Part of Hein's American Law Institute Library. Includes final versions and all drafts.

Includes "the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series consisting of 53 volumes (1936-present), vols. 1-3 of the Stair Society Supplementary Series, as well as books, abridgments and links to scholarly articles from HeinOnline's Law Journal Library that discuss Scots law."

Original source materials on "the history of
the law, development of legal ideas, the legal profession, the courts, judges and lawyers, literature and legal
records, and essentially everything that is characteristic of English common law and the legal system."

The Serial Set, a sub-part of ProQuest Congressional, contains "reports and documents either produced or ordered by Congress, as well as presidential communications and treaty materials. Of particular importance to those who study law, the Serial Set contains Congressional legislative reports that provide unrivaled insight into the legislative intent of laws...." Also included are Senate Executive Documents from 1817-1978.

Session laws (chronological, official laws) of all 50 states, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands. Also covers the United States (U.S. Statutes at Large), Canada, Australia, and the Bahamas. Hein's goal is to have the laws of all states and jurisdictions from inception to present.

Cases, statutes, regulations, agency decisions and documents, ethics opinions, commentary, and continuously-updated news dealing with all aspects of social media and the law.

Part of HeinOnline's U.S. Federal Legislative History Library. [For current USF faculty, students, and staff.] Also available in print in the Zief Library at KF 42.12 1979 Law Reference.

Scholarly articles and tools for librarians, faculty, and students. Includes: AALL GD-SIS State Bibliographies, AALL Publication Series, dictionaries, newsletters, serials, cataloging publications, bibliographies, Cohen's Bibliography of Early American Law, Hein's Legal Research Guide series, memorials of law librarians, and more.

Includes: "State Attorney General reports & opinions for all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands; Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice and the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States." California Attorney General opinions are currently available from 1943 to the present.

Superseded state statutes for all fifty states, with coverage extending back to 1717. Searchable by state, date, description, and text.

"The most comprehensive source for identifying thousands of articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions and Internet sites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects." By Cheryl Nyberg and Carol Boast Robertson.

Searchable, exact page images of U.S. Supreme Court petitions, briefs, and other documents. (From Gale Cenage Learning.)

Detailed information about cases pending in, and decided by, the U.S. Supreme Court. A part of Bloomberg BNA's United States Law Week.

Federal and state tax- and accounting-related legislation, regulations, and cases; Treasury Department and IRS documents; Tax Management Portfolios; Accounting Policy & Practice Portfolios; BNA tax newsletters and journals; and practice tools (forms, calendars, working papers, tables, charts and lists), including BNA's Tax Practice Series.

"Documents detailing the historical economic foundation of regulations, laws, bills, hearings, debates and other legislation that have led to America’s current economic state."

Daily publication reproducing the latest full-text, tax-related primary source documents: "official reports, statements, transcripts, memoranda, rulings, and other materials issued by public- and private-sector sources." Covers: Nov. 3, 1997 to present.

Full text of United States treaties published in United States Treaties (U.S.T.), Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America (Bevans), Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, Protocols and Agreements (Malloy), Treaties and Other International Acts of the United States (Miller), Treaties and International Acts Series (T.I.A.S.), KAV agreements. Covers: 1776 to present.

The United Nations Treaty Series, the League of Nations Treaty Series, and supporting materials.

Full text, with exact page images, of "over 50,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties and subsequent treaty actions." Also includes Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General. [Free; no access restrictions.]

All editions of the official U.S. Code. Also includes early federal statutes and the Revised Statutes of the United States. [A free U.S. Code is available from FDsys.gov.]

Includes the Congressional Record and its predecessors, as well as an extensive collection of books and other documents relating to the U.S. Congress.

"Reports, decisions, and records … a complete collection of the official case law of some of the United States most important U.S. Federal Agencies such as: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC), the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)."

Compiled histories of major legislation, plus Nancy Johnson's Sources of Compiled Legislative History, which organizes links and citations to legislative histories by Congress/date and by popular name.

Deals with the "exchange of goods and services between the United States and other nations, as well as the history of Section 337 of the Tariff Act of 1930." Includes: U.S. International Trade Commission publications archive; legislative histories: CFR & U.S. Code Titles 15 and 19(Commerce & Foreign Trade and Customs Duties); notable publications; scholarly articles. Will eventually include US ITC Section 337 investigations.

Bloomberg BNA's weekly news magazine reporting on developments in United States law (state and federal). Includes Supreme Court Today from July 1, 1996 to the present.

Full text of United States Patents Quarterly, first and second series. Part of Bloomberg BNA's comprehensive Intellectual Property Library.

"Includes such titles as Messages and Papers of the Presidents, Public Papers of the Presidents, CFR Title 3 (Presidents), Daily and Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents, and other documents related to U.S. Presidents."

The permanent, chronological collection of all laws and resolutions enacted during each session of Congress. [A free U.S. Statutes at Large is available from FDsys.gov.]

Includes the official U.S. Reports from volume one to the present. Also includes selected books and journals about the Court. [For free U.S. Supreme Court cases, see the U.S. Supreme Court Research guide.]

Searchable, exact page images of U.S. Supreme Court petitions, briefs, and other documents. (From Gale Cenage Learning.)

Full-text U.S. state and federal cases and tribal court cases via VersusLaw's "Premium Plan." [Individual passwords required. For current USF Law School faculty, students and staff only. VersusLaw registration is required. Others must arrange their own personal subscriptions to VersusLaw.]

vLex covers 128 countries, with particular strength in Central and South America, and Europe. Content varies by country, but may include: Legislation (statutes and regulations); case law and administrative decisions; books and journals; news; forms. Some translations are available. Machine translation is free. Manual translations can be requested, for a fee based on the length of the document. [USF campus only - for now.]

The "official publication of presidential statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary." Continued by the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents.

Full-text law, legal information, and news. This link leads to the Westlaw law school site, from which you can link to: WestlawNext, Westlaw Classic, and TWEN [For current USF Law School faculty, students and staff only. Individual passwords required.]

Current and historical constitutions; books; articles; selected web sites.

Materials related to notable trials. Includes: trial transcripts; other court documents; books analyzing trials; biographies of trial lawyers.

Features "Dispute Settlement Commentaries" — succinct analyses of all World Trade Organization dispute settlement panel reports, appellate body reports, and arbitrations. Includes free full-text WTO reports and documents. [USF campus only.]