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A Guide for Law Library Resources: Digital Resources
Bloomberg LawThis link opens in a new windowAvailable by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.
FastcaseThis link opens in a new windowFastcase is a collection of federal and state cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions
Access limited to members of the Washington University School of Law faculty, staff and students
Lexis PlusThis link opens in a new windowAvailable by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.
PLI PlusThis link opens in a new windowContains Practising Law Institute’s PLI Press publications including their Treatises, Course Handbooks, Journals, Answer Books, Forms & Checklists and Program Transcripts.
Access restricted to WU Law School
QuimbeeLaw school study aids including case briefs, video lessons, quizzes, flashcards and more.
Available to current WU Law School Students Only. Requires individual account set up using your law school email address.
To receive an invitation for an account, please email bondareh@wustl.edu and include your law school degree and year.
West Academic Study AidsThis link opens in a new windowThe West Academic Study Aids Collection provides access to hundreds of study aids, audiobooks and lectures, and interactive practice questions. Includes Acing Series, Black Letter Outlines, Concepts and Insights, Concise Hornbook Series, Gilberts, Flash Cards, Law Stories, Nutshells, Sum and Substance Audio & more.
Access limited to WU Law School
To use their ebook reader, annotate, save favorites, listen to the audio or download, you will need to create a West Academic account.
To create an account, click on “Create an account” in upper right-hand corner.
Note that you must use your school email address.
Once you have verified your email address you can log-in independently from the school’s network
WestlawThis link opens in a new windowAvailable by individual password to current Law School students, faculty and staff.
Periodicals
Academic Search Complete (1975-present)This link opens in a new windowCovers topics in most areas of academic study. Full-text provided for over 10,000 publications, with over 7,850 peer-reviewed. Abstracts and indexing available for over 13,780 journals in the collection.
Also includes full-text access to over 5,000 journals. Offers coverage of many areas of academic study including: archaeology, area studies, astronomy, biology, chemistry, civil engineering, electrical engineering, ethnic & multicultural studies, food science & technology, general science, geography, geology, law, mathematics, mechanical engineering, music, physics, psychology, religion & theology, women's studies, and other fields.
Accounting, Tax & Banking CollectionThis link opens in a new windowComprehensive full-text coverage of accounting and tax topics appearing in key industry publications and newspapers, including all journals from the American Accounting Association. Learn more about this database.
China Academic Journals Database (Series F, G, H, J) (1994 - )This link opens in a new windowA periodical database with access to numerous Chinese language periodicals published in or after 1994. A PDF viewer with a Chinese simplified language pack is required to view articles. Access to Series J is 1994 - 2015.
Factiva (6 users)This link opens in a new windowCombines more than 35,000 sources for access to premium content from 200 countries in 26 languages. Worldwide full text coverage of local and regional newspapers, web and social media, tweets, digital video and audio clips, analyst reports, trade publications, business newswires, press release wires, media transcripts, news photos, market research reports, country and regional profiles, company profiles, historical market data. Limited to 6 simultaneous users; logoff when finished. Learn more about this database
HeinOnlineThis link opens in a new windowFull text. Journal index. More than 900 searchable full-text law journals and many legal resources, including the Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code, and U.S. Statutes at Large. Campus-wide access is due to subscription by the WU Law Library.
Index to Legal Periodicals & BooksThis link opens in a new windowIndexing and full text of over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective 1908-1981This link opens in a new windowIndexes legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand between 1908 and 1981.
JSTORThis link opens in a new windowDatabase and full texts of journal articles.
Law360This link opens in a new windowLaw360 is a current awareness service covering federal Appellate, Bankruptcy, Class Action, Competition, Contract, Corporate Finance, Employment, Energy, Environmental, Financial Services, Government Contracts, Health, Insurance, Intellectual Property, International Trade, Product Liability, Securities, Southeast, Technology, Top News and White Collar litigation. State litigation was also recently added under the following headings: California, Midwest, New York, and Texas.
Access Limited to Members of the WU Law School Community
New York Times (Current)This link opens in a new window Create an account using your wustl.edu email address. See the New York Times Libguide and FAQ.
To register for an account,
1. Follow the link to accessnyt.com
2. Type and select "Washington University - Saint Louis” in the box.
3. Create account and complete registration fields.
Wall Street Journal (current)This link opens in a new windowThe Libraries have partnered with Olin Business School to provide online access to the Wall Street Journal. To access, go to WSJ.com/WUSTL. Log in with your WUSTL key and create an account using your WUSTL email as your user ID.
Foreign & International
PKU LAW (Chinese Site)This link opens in a new windowChinese primary and secondary legal sources in Chinese & English (cases, laws, regulations, articles). Access restricted to WU Law School.
PKU Law (China Law Info) (English Site)This link opens in a new windowChinese primary and secondary legal sources in Chinese & English (cases, laws, regulations, articles); Database does not work will with Firefox. Access restricted to WU Law School.
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Electronic Index (1975 - 1996)This link opens in a new windowAn index to the FBIS Daily Reports issued by the U.S. Government covering political, economic, scientific, and cultural issues and events throughout the world. Include translated broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world.
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources 1600-1970This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of superseded foreign statutes and commentaries and analysis from a number of European, Latin American, United Kingdom & other countries. Analogous Canon and Roman law materials are also included. The materials are in English, Dutch, French, German, Irish, and Italian. This archive features some of the most important historical sources of world civil law and jurisprudence, as well as basic materials from a number of common-law jurisdictions.
Max Planck Encyclopedias of International LawThis link opens in a new windowContains peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of international law. This definitive reference work contains both the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law and the Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. Provides cutting edge research on both the substance and the procedure of international law and includes information on issues, procedures, instruments, institutions, and decisions within international law, covering subjects from air law and the law of outer space, to the use of force, war, peace, and neutrality. Includes links to primary documents and other commentary through the Oxford Law Citator.
Access Limited to Members of the WU Law School Community.
Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL)This link opens in a new windowORIL integrates important decisions on public international law from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Our subscription includes the International Investment Claims, International Human Rights Law, International Criminal Law, and the International Law in Domestic Courts modules. Case reports with headnotes, summary of case facts and judicial holdings, analytical commentary from scholarly experts, translations of non-English judgments, and a list of cases and instruments cited are included with the opinions. There are also links to related Oxford online content via the Oxford Law Citator.
Access Limited to Members of the WU Law School Community
vLexThis link opens in a new windowEuropean Package Core plus France, Italy and Spain Premium Cores, EU Core (Eurolex), and Portugal Premium Core
Law School Only
Historical
HeinOnlineThis link opens in a new windowFull text. Journal index. More than 900 searchable full-text law journals and many legal resources, including the Code of Federal Regulations, United States Code, and U.S. Statutes at Large. Campus-wide access is due to subscription by the WU Law Library.
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, Parts I and IIThis link opens in a new windowA fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926This link opens in a new windowThe Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides digital images on every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.
Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926This link opens in a new windowBased on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York, the product offers online access to these important collections.
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources 1600-1970This link opens in a new windowA digital collection of superseded foreign statutes and commentaries and analysis from a number of European, Latin American, United Kingdom & other countries. Analogous Canon and Roman law materials are also included. The materials are in English, Dutch, French, German, Irish, and Italian. This archive features some of the most important historical sources of world civil law and jurisprudence, as well as basic materials from a number of common-law jurisdictions.
Actes Royaux Francais, 1256 - 1794 (Archives Unbound)This link opens in a new windowApproximately 16,000 pamphlets covering the financial, political, and social history of France from the late 13th century to the end of the monarchy are available in this collection.
Adams Papers Digital Edition (Rotunda)This link opens in a new windowCorrespondence, legal papers, diaries, and state papers centering on American statesman and president John Adams. Contents are fully annotated, cross-referenced, and searchable.
Archive FinderThis link opens in a new windowDirectory describing numerous collections of primary source material housed throughout English-speaking regions.
ArchiveGrid (WorldCat.org)This link opens in a new windowNearly a million descriptions of archival collections held by thousands of libraries, museums, historical societies and archives worldwide.
ArtemisThis link opens in a new windowIntegrated research environment that allows users search across Gale primary source collections. Artemis Primary Sources allows users analyze content using frequency and term-relationship tools, supported by intuitive subject-indexing.
Atlanta Constitution (1868-1945)This link opens in a new windowCovers such subjects as post-Civil War reconstruction, the passage of the 14th Amendment, the purging of “Rebels” from the legislature, the giving—then denying—of the right to vote to former slaves, and the passing of economic policies that changed the South and the United States forever. Learn more about this database
Immigrations, Migrations, and Refugees: Global Perspectives, 1941 - 1996This link opens in a new windowNews and analysis from reports gathered every day between the early 1940s and 1996 by a U.S. government organization that became part of the CIA. These include translated and English-language radio and television broadcasts, newspapers, periodicals and government documents. Additionally, the archive contains one-of-a-kind analysis of the reports.
LLMC DigitalThis link opens in a new windowAn extensive collection of over 7000 digitized titles covering approximately 400 jurisdictions worldwide. The content is overwhelmingly in the public domain, with other sources made available with permission. Includes federal and state materials from the U.S. and provincial materials from Canada. Europe, Africa, and South America are also widely represented.
LLMC is a non-profit cooperative of libraries dedicated to the twin goals of, preserving legal titles and government documents, while making copies inexpensively available digitally through its on-line service LLMC-Digital. LLMC provides libraries with a reliable and budget-friendly source of digital replacement when their older, physically deteriorating books became too burdensome to store given diminished use. While aiding libraries in their preservation and space recovery programs, it also provides an economical way to complete retrospective collections.
Nineteenth Century Collections OnlineThis link opens in a new windowA multi-year global digitization and publishing program focused on primary source collections of the long nineteenth century. Collections for this program are sourced through partnerships with major world libraries as well as specialist libraries, and content includes monographs, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, ephemera, maps, statistics, and more. Includes 9,500 English, French and German literature titles of the Romantic era.
Statutes, Regulations, & Legislative History
Congress.govThis link opens in a new windowCongress.gov is the official website for U.S. federal legislative information. The site provides access to accurate, timely, and complete legislative information for Members of Congress, legislative agencies, and the public. It is presented by the Library of Congress (LOC) using data from the Office of the Clerk of the U.S. House of Representatives, the Office of the Secretary of the Senate, the Government Publishing Office, Congressional Budget Office, and the LOC's Congressional Research Service.
Congress.gov is usually updated the morning after a session adjourns.
Legislative InsightThis link opens in a new windowLegislative Insight provides legislative histories with digital full-text publications. It contains over 27,000 legislative histories for federal laws, including some enacted as far back as 1789. It only includes congressional publications that are related to bills enacted into law that are included in this database. For other full-text congressional documents, see ProQuest Congressional.
ProQuest CongressionalThis link opens in a new windowComprehensive access to U.S. legislative information. Includes: CIS Legislative Histories (public laws back to 1969), Congressional publications (1817 - ), testimony from Congressional hearings (1824-), Congressional Record and Federal Register, U.S. Serial Set, 1789-1969, Serial Set Maps, 1789-1969, and more. Learn more about this database
Regulatory InsightThis link opens in a new windowRegulatory Insight continues the research process into administrative rule-making. Many statutory laws are implemented via the promulgation of administrative rules and Regulatory Insight provides administrative law histories organized by public law and including Federal Register entries with direct legal basis in the Public Law, controlled vocabulary subject indexing harmonized with Legislative Insight and multiple display and limiting options.
U. S. CodeThis link opens in a new windowA consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general and permanent laws [public laws] of the United States.
