Foreign Domestic Law

• Legal Research Guide: Australia from the Law Library of Congress
• New Zealand Legal Research Guide from Harvard Law School Library

Legislation

• Australian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)   provides historical and current session laws, consolidated laws, bills and regulations.
• HeinOnline  Acts of the Parliament of Australia 1901-2015
• New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII)  provides historical and current session laws, consolidated laws, bills and regulations.
• Note there is a full collection of Australian statutes in the  Law Library
• LLMC Digital Provides early 20th century Statutes for Australian Commonwealth and States, and New Zealand
• Lexis+   provides limited access to Australian Commonwealth and State historical and current legislation.
• Lexis+   provides limited access to New Zealand statutes and regulations.

Judicial Decisions

• Austlii   Provides historical and current judicial decisions from Australian courts and tribunals.
• Westlaw Edge Canada*
• Lexis+   provides limited access to Australian Commonwealth and State case law.
• Lexis+  provides limited access to New Zealand case law.
• LLMC Digital provides select historical judicial decisions from Australia  and New Zealand.

Books

• WorldCat Search to access more than 60,000 libraries around the world, including Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Toronto and more

Journal Articles

• AGIS Plus   "Features journal articles for lawyers, educators, business people, law librarians, students and paralegals, connecting them to specialised information for analysis, awareness and advancement of legal knowledge."
• HeinOnline provides Australian and New Zealand full text legal periodicals.
• Westlaw Edge Canada*
• Lexis+.
• Also check Leddy Library's electronic periodical collection

• Guide to Researching US State Law (Law Library of Congress)
• Harvard's Research Guides
• A Guide to Fee-Based U. S. Legal Research Databases
• A Guide to the U.S. Federal Legal System  (Globalex)
• Guide to Researching US Federal Law (Law Library of Congress)

Federal Law

• US Constitution Also available through:
  • Legal Information Institute (Cornell University)
  • Westlaw Edge Canada*
  • Lexis+
  • LLMC Provides historical constitutional documents.

• US Code (Government Printing Office) Also available at:
  • Westlaw Edge Canada* (US Code Annotated - USCA)
  • Lexis+ (US Code Service - USCS)

• US Public Laws (statutes as enacted) - Also available through:
  • HeinOnline - Historical U.S. Statutes at Large Vols. 1-122 (1789-2015).
  • Lexis+ (US Statutes at Large)
  • Westlaw Edge Canada* can be used to find   Public Laws from 2019-2022   as well as from 1973 - 2018. Alternatively, choose the International Tab, then ALL Westlaw US. On the US interface, search for the public law by PL Number. A search function for Statutes at Large  is also available.


• Legislative Materials
  • Congress.gov provides historical and current legislative materials.
  • LLMC Provides historical legislative materials.
  • Congressional Record from 1985 to current  through Westlaw Edge Canada
  • Congressional Record from 1985 to current   through Lexis+


• US Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) (regulations codified). Regulations also available through:
  • CFR via HeinOnline
  • CFR via Westlaw Edge Canada*
  • CFR via Lexis+
  • US Federal Register (regulations as registered) via HeinOnline
  • US Federal Register (regulations as registered) via Westlaw Edge Canada.


• State Law
  • Legal Information Institute - Cornell University
  • Westlaw Edge Canada*
  • HeinOnline
  • Lexis+  Use the filters on the left menu to ensure that you are looking at state materials. Choose "In Plan" to show available sources.
  • LLMC - historical materials
   

  Judicial Decisions

  • Westlaw Edge Canada*
  • Lexis+
  • Google Scholar Search of current U.S. court judgments
  • Ravellaw.com - Free access to historical US case law.
   

  PACER*

  • Public Access to Electronic Records from the United States Federal Courts.
  • "Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts, and the PACER Case Locator via the Internet. PACER is provided by the federal Judiciary in keeping with its commitment to providing public access to court information via a centralized service."
  • To obtain information from this system, please speak to a Reference Librarian.

  Journal Articles

  • Lexis+
  • Westlaw Edge Canada*
  • HeinOnline - This source contains many U.S. law journals, and is good for historical content.
  • Also check Leddy Library's electronic periodical collection.
  • Meta Search of Open Access Law Journals

  Books

  • Making of Modern Law (Legal Treatises, 1800 - 1926) - Full-text, early British & U.S. legal treatises on a large variety of subject areas, as published from 1800 through 1926.
  • Legal Classics - Available via HeinOnline, Legal Classics includes more than 2,000 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history including Joseph Story, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, William Holdsworth, Henry Maine, Federick William Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Benjamin E. Cardozo, and many more! In addition to many “classics” this collection also includes rare items that are found in only a handful of libraries around the world.
  • Note there are a few U.S. legal textbooks available in the Law Library
  • Harvard's book collection
  • Books Worldwide
  • Law users, place an Interlibrary Loans Request

  Reference Materials

  • Westlaw Edge Canada* to locate content, including:
    • Black's Law Dictionary
    • Corpus Juris Secundum (US Law Dictionary)
    • American Jurisprudence (US Law Encyclopedia)
  • Wex - Free legal dictionary and encyclopedia online from Cornell
  • Data sources include USAFacts.org and FedStats.

Session Laws

• http://legislation.gov.uk Official source for UK Legislation, Public and Private Acts, Statutory Instruments and Ministerial Orders.
• VLex provides:
  • All Acts of Parliament (1235 to present) - covering England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from medieval times to the present day as enacted, including repealed legislation.
  • UK Statutory Instruments - The only complete electronic archive of secondary legislation from England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland from the 17th century to the present day.
  • UK Local Acts (1797 to present)- All as-enacted, full-text local legislation from 1797 to date, incorporating a growing collection of private and personal legislation.
• Law Library Provides a full collection of historical UK statutes.
• LLMC Provides select historical laws

Consolidated Law

• http://legislation.gov.uk- The Official Home of UK Legislation
• BaiLII - The British and Irish Legal Information Institute
• Lexis+
• Westlaw Edge Canada*

Judicial Decisions

See Guide to Researching UK Case Law.

Journal Articles

• Westlaw Edge Canada*
• HeinOnline
• Also check Leddy Library's electronic periodical collection.

Books

• Note there are a few U.K. and Commonwealth legal textbooks available in the Law Library.
• British Legal Treatises (1800 to 1926)
  • Full-text, early British legal treatises (or textbooks) on a large variety of subject areas, as published from 1800 through 1926, as well as U.S. legal treatises for the same period. This electronic service is called "Making of Modern Law" by the publisher, Gale.
• Select historical UK Legal Manuscripts are available on LLMC
• Guide to Commonwealth Law Commissions
• Harvard's book collection
• Books Worldwide
• Law users, place an Interlibrary Loans Request by sending an email to lawill@uwindsor.ca

Reference Materials

• Oxford Law Dictionary
• Halsbury's Laws of England (encyclopedia of laws) is available in the Law Library

• Foreign Law Research Guides (Library of Congress)
• Guide to Foreign and International Legal Citations (NYU)
• India Legal Research Guide (Institute of Advanced Legal Studies).

Sources

• WorldCat Search to access more than 60,000 libraries around the world, including Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Yale, Toronto and more
• LLMC - Historical primary sources and manuscripts for foreign domestic law.
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals via HeinOnline
  • Journals list that can be linked via IFLP.
  • Or choose a country on Hein to view its journal collections.
• WorldLii - Worldwide Sources for Law
• Global-Regulation - Search 1.34 million laws from 51 countries, in English. Find, compare and analyse global regulation.