Online Databases
The Law Library purchases a variety of online databases to assist faculty, students, and staff with their research needs. In addition, links to particularly useful legal research oriented websites are included in the list. The type of access provided to each resource is marked by the following indicators:
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ADRWorld (LAW)(PASS) 
Up-to-the-minute coverage of the latest developments in alternative dispute resolution.
Berkeley Electronic Press -
Global Jurist (LAW)
Global Jurist offers a forum for scholarly debate on issues of comparative law, law and economics, international law, law and development, and legal anthropology.
Berkeley Electronic Press -
Theoretical Inquiries in Law (LAW)
Theoretical Inquiries in Law specializes in the application to legal problems of insights developed in other disciplines, such as moral and political theory, epistemology, social sciences, economics and game theory, probability theory, and cognitive psychology.
Berkeley Electronic
Press-Issues in Legal Scholarship (LAW)
Issues in Legal Scholarship publishes on-line symposia designed to bring together some of the best recent work on an issue in legal scholarship.
BNA's ABA/BNA Lawyer's
Manual on Professional Conduct (LAW)(LEX/WEST)
A current awareness tool and source for news and guidance on virtually every aspect of attorney conduct and legal ethics.
Antitrust & Trade
Regulation Report (LAW)(LEX/WEST)
A current awareness tool and source for news and guidance on antitrust and trade regulation issues.
BNA's Criminal Law
Reporter (LAW)(LEX/WEST)
A current awareness tool and resource on the enforcement and interpretation of criminal law.
BNA's Family Law
Reporter (LAW)(LEX/WEST)
A current awareness tool and resource for information on the all aspects of family law in both state and federal legal environments.
BNA's Labor and
Employment Law Library (Electronic version of BNA's Labor Relations
Reporter) (LAW)(LEX/WEST)
A current awareness tool and resource for information on all aspects of employment relations.
BNA's Securities
Regulation & Law Report (LAW)(LEX/WEST)
A current awareness tool and resource for information on all aspects of securities law and futures regulation.
BNA's United States
Law Week (LAW)(LEX/WEST)
A current awareness tool and resource for information on the most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, and across all areas of the law.
CALI (PASS)
Interactive tutorials in over 25 different legal subject areas. To access this resource from their website, you must register.
California Code of Regulations (INT)
Provides free public access to the full text of the CCR.
Columbia International Affairs
Online (CIAO) (WN)
A resource for materials related to all aspects of international affairs. It contains working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs related to theory, policy, diplomacy, politics and law in the international arena
Current Index to
Legal Periodicals (CILP) (LAW) (WEST)
A current awareness service providing topical access to over 500 legal publications.
CQ Judicial
Staff Directory (LAW)
Provides up-to-date contact information for all federal and state courts and biographical information for judges, including downloading of the records for easy use.
EISIL (INT)
A website for locating the highest quality primary materials, authoritative web sites and helpful research guides to international law on the Internet, developed and maintained by the American Society for International Law.
Findlaw (INT)
A website for locating a wide variety of law related resources, including primary sources materials, news and career related information.
GPO Access (INT)
GPO Access is a service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free electronic access to the information products produced by the Federal Government.
Hein Online (LAW)
Extensive collection of most major legal journals with digitized images of the original pages. The best source for an electronic copy of law review articles published prior to 1980.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (WN) (LEX/WEST)
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books is a bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals and indexes law books.
IndexMaster (LAW)
Indexes and tables of contents of thousands of legal titles from a variety of legal publishers for help in determining whether a book is useful before you read it or check it out.
InterAm Database (PEP)
Laws, regulations, and decrees from Latin America and the Caribbean.
Kluwer Arbitration
(PEP)
"KluwerArbitration offers you a fully-searchable database with materials in the field of International Commercial Arbitration. KluwerArbitration is brought to you by Kluwer Law International in association with the Institute for Transnational Arbitration and the International Council of Commercial Arbitration."
Legal Information
Institute (INT)
The website is one of the most expansive legal reference collections in the world, with links to almost every legal topic, constitutions and codes, court opinions, law by source or jurisdiction.
Legal Scholarship
Network (PASS)
Abstracts of journal articles accepted for publication as well as working papers. Part of the Social Science Research Network (SSRN).
Legal Trac (Electronic version of Current Law Index) (WN)
(LEX/WEST)
Citations to law journals, legal newspapers, and specialty publications from the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. On Lexis and Westlaw this resource is called Legal Resource Index.
Lexis (PASS)
Access to a wide variety of law and news oriented resources.
LexisNexis
Congressional (WN)
Indexing and abstracting of Congressional material since 1970. Some full-text documents.
LoisLaw (PASS)
Full-text service with comprehensive primary authority for all 50 states and District of Columbia, plus many federal resources.
LLMC-Digital (LAW)
Digitized copies of a wide variety of older legal resource materials, such as older federal and state statutes, opinions, and executive branch materials.
Official California
Legislative Information (INT)
Information regarding pending matters before the California legislature.
State Bar of California (INT)
Information about this public corporation with the judicial branch of the California government. This organization is charged with regulating lawyers in California.
State
Bar of California - Attorney Rules and Regulations (INT)
A website for information about the rules and regulations governing attorneys in California.
Thomas (INT)
The Library of Congress' website for current information about the activities of Congress.
University
Libraries' Databases (WN)
Numerous non-law databases covering business, communication, education, humanities, social sciences, psychology, and science.
United Nations Treaty
Collection (LAW)
Full-text as well as status of treaties filed with the U.N. Secretary-General.
Westlaw (PASS)
Access to wide variety of law and new oriented resources and TWEN.
WorldCat (WN)
OCLC's Online Union Catalog contains bibliographic records of all types of materials owned by libraries around the world. WorldCat covers materials dating back to the 11th century, includes holdings information from libraries in 45 countries and is updated daily.
World Legal Information
Institute (INT)
Access to the information found at various legal databases providing reliable legal information throughout the world.
WorldTradeLaw.net (LAW)
Resources of interest to those researching world trade law issues.