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21 Databases Found for:Law

Law Databases

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A consortium of mostly US law schools that conducts applied research and development in the area of computer-mediated legal education.
Canadian Parliamentary Historical Resources is a free searchable database of digitized parliamentary publications from the 1st Session of the 1st Parliament in 1867 until coverage at sencanada.ca and ourcommons.ca begins.
Provides access to court judgments, tribunal decisions, statutes and regulations from all Canadian jurisdictions.
A database of case commentary and case summaries which is contributed to, on a daily basis, by lawyers, scholars and others with professional competency in legal analysis.

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e-Laws provides access to official copies of Ontario’s statutes and regulations.
ECOLEX is an information service on environmental law, operated jointly by FAO, IUCN and UNEP.

It includes information on treaties, international soft-law and other non-binding policy and technical guidance documents, national legislation, judicial decisions, and law and policy literature. Users have direct access to the abstracts and indexing information about each document, as well as to the full text of most of the information provided.
A collection of close to 1000 e-boooks on law, public policy, geography, sociology etc.

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GALLOP Portal is intended as a one-stop access point to full-text searchable electronic government documents collected by Legislative libraries in Canada for their jurisdictions. As of 2022-02-06, the portal provides full-text access to the content from the electronic government documents collections of the following:

Alberta Legislature Library
Legislative Library of British Columbia
Manitoba Legislative Library
New Brunswick Legislative Library
Newfoundland and Labrador Legislative Library
Northwest Territories Legislative Library
Nova Scotia Legislative Library
Ontario Legislative Library
Library of the National Assembly, Québec
Saskatchewan Legislative Library
Nunavut Legislative Library

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An online research product with more than 90 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. 
Includes coverage from inception of more than 1,600 law and law-related periodicals, Congressional Record Bound volumes in entirety, complete coverage of the U.S. Reports back to 1754, famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries, the United Nations and League of Nations Treaty Series, all United States Treaties, the Federal Register from inception in 1936, the CFR from inception in 1938, and much more.

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Online access to the entire Irwin digital library, with over 200 titles currently available. New titles are regularly added as they are published.

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The online source of the consolidated Acts and regulations of Canada. The consolidations are generally updated every two weeks.

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Provides Canadian legal news, analysis and current awareness online, on
mobile, and through frequent newsletters for lawyers who need a real-time view on the shifting legal landscape.

LEGISinfo is your primary source of information regarding legislation before Parliament. Stay up to date with recently introduced bills in the Senate or House of Commons. Access a wide range of information, such as:

The full text of the most recent version of a bill and any previous versions of the bill.
The bill's life cycle, from the day it is introduced for first reading until it receives royal assent.
Links to the relevant content in official parliamentary publications associated with the passage of a bill.
Browse all bills from previous sessions going back to the 37th Parliament in 2001. (Note: Essential data, such as bill numbers, titles and the text of most bills considered by Parliament between 1994 and 2000 – the 35th and 36th Parliaments – are also available.)

LEGISinfo is a collaborative effort of the Senate, the House of Commons, and the Library of Parliament.
Full Text Legal database with access to over 150 Canadian legal textbooks.

LexisNexis upgraded legal database for Canada with comprehensive primary and secondary sources. Includes access to Practical Guidance.

All new Law Students will need to register for this product.

Canada’s largest collection of online Court Documents. It combines
litigation-focused research with practice tools to support your strategic
decisions
A collection of archival digital material including government publications and legal materials from Canada, the United States, and other countries.

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The information found here can be used for research projects such as documenting land claims, or for studying independent Statutes and Acts, Treaties and Court Decisions.
Contains summaries of over 189,000 U.S. and international publications on criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Coverage: 1970-
More than 15,000 news, legal and business sources, Nexis Uni helps students find credible sources including:
• Print and online journals, television and radio broadcasts,
newswires and blogs
• Local, regional, national and international newspapers
with deep archives
• Extensive legal sources for federal and state cases and
statutes, including U.S. Supreme Court decisions
since 1790
• Business information on more than
80 million U.S. and international companies and more
than 75 million executives

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Database of Canadian Law and legal research.

Law Students will need to register for this product.
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