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Legal Databases
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HeinOnline - Available through the Faculty of Law LibraryAn 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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Lexis Quicklaw Advanced (Law Patrons Only)LexisNexis upgraded legal database for Canada with comprehensive primary and secondary sources.
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QuickLaw (for Law Students Only)LexisNexis legal database for Canada with comprehensive primary and secondary sources.
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WestlawNext (Law Patrons Only)Largest legal database in the world, exhaustive primary and secondary sources in law and business
Related Databases
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Canadian Business & Current Affairs Database (CBCA)Combines full text and indexed content from all four CBCA database subsets (Business, Current Events, Education, and Reference). Subject coverage is comprehensive and information is available from the broadest range of Canadian sources anywhere. With over 4.5 million records and more than 1,665 titles Coverage: 1971 -
Full text content 1985 – -
JSTORFull-text multidisciplinary archive of journal articles. Includes over 500 open access e-books.
Finding Books in the Library
To find books on a specific topic, try doing a subject search
How do you do that?
- Go to the Online Catalogue and choose Subject Heading from the drop-down menu
- Type in your search term- for example - Canada Politics and Government and then click on the Search button
- Note the different subjects related to the Canada Politics and Government
Subject Headings:
- International Law
You can also find books according to their Call Number:
- KZ2064-3085 Writers on public international law
- KZ(4935)-5275 The United Nations