Foreign Domestic Law

• Legal Research Guide: Australia - Law Library of Congress

Legislation

• AustLII - Australian Legal Information Institute
• HeinOnline - Historical Session Laws
• NZLII - New Zealand Legal Information Institute
• Note there is a full collection of Australian statutes in the Law Library
• LLMC Digital - Older Law Reports and Statutes for Australia, its States, and New Zealand

Judicial Decisions

• Austlii
• WestlawNext Canada* - Visit the International tab and choose Westlaw International - Directory to locate content.
• Quicklaw
• LLMC Digital - Select historical judicial decisions

Journal Articles

• AGIS Plus
• Hein Online - some Australian and New Zealand fulltext legal periodicals.
• 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)
  • WestlawNext Canada*
  • Quicklaw
  • LLMC - Historical materials

 

• US Code (Government Printing Office) Also available at:
  • Legal Information Institute(Cornell University)
  • WestlawNext Canada* (US Code Annotated - USCA)
  • Quicklaw (US Code Service - USCS)

 

• US Public Laws (statutes as enacted) - Also available through:
  • Hein Online - Historical U.S. Statutes at Large Vols. 1-122 (1789-2008)


• Legislative Materials
  • LLMC - Historical legislative materials
  • Government Publishing Office
• US Code of Federal Regulations (regulations codified) - Current consolidation also available through:
  • WestlawNext Canada*
  • Quicklaw
  • US Federal Register (regulations as registered)
  
  State Law
  • Legal Information Institute - Cornell University
  • WestlawNext Canada*
  • HeinOnline
  • Quicklaw
  • LLMC - historical materials
   

  Judicial Decisions

  • Ravellaw.com - Free access to historical US case law.
  • WestlawNext Canada* - Visit the International tab and choose Westlaw International - Directory to locate content.
  • Quicklaw
  • Google Scholar Search of current U.S. court judgments
  • Historical judicial decisions are available on LLMC and on Google Scholar.
   

  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

  • Quicklaw
  • WestlawNext Canada* - Visit the International tab and choose Westlaw International - Directory to locate content. The best U.S. collection is Journals and Law Reviews - JLR.
  • Hein Online - This source contains many U.S. law journals, and is good for historical content.
  • Legaltrac - This is a great source for lawyer's magazines. The Subject browse is also helpful.
  • Also check Leddy Library's electronic periodical collection.
  • Meta Search of Open Access Law Journals

  Books

  • Making of Modern Law (US 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 Hein Online, 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

  • WestlawNext Canada* - Visit the International tab and choose Westlaw International - Directory to locate content.
    • 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 - The Official Home of UK Legislation
• JustisOne - Choose "login" from the top right of the page.
  • 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- Full collection of UK statutes
• LLMC - Select historical laws

Consolidated Law

• http://legislation.gov.uk- The Official Home of UK Legislation
• BaiLII - The British and Irish Legal Information Institute
• Quicklaw
• WestlawNext Canada* - Visit the International tab and choose Westlaw International - Directory to locate content

Judicial Decisions

• Guide to Researching UK Case Law
• A print version of these reporters below are also generally available in the Law Library
• All England Reports (1936 - current) AND All England Reports Reprints. (1535-1935).
  • Quicklaw
  • Westlaw- Database: "UK Cases"

• Commonwealth Law Reports
  • ​Westlaw

• English Reports Full Reprint (pre-1865 English law reports, sometimes called "Nominate Reports")
  • HeinOnline
  • BailLII
  • CommonLII
  • LLMC Digital
  • WestlawNext Canada
• Lloyd's Law Reports and Lloyd's Maritime and Commercial Law Reporter
• The Law Reports
  • Users will note that this series is organized by level of court. The current version is divided into four series:  Queen's Bench (QB), Appeals Cases (AC), Chancery (Ch) and Family (Fam)
  • ​ICLR
  • Quicklaw
  • WestlawNext Canada*
  • LLMC Digital
  • ​JustisOne
  • Google Books (selected)
• Citing UK cases including the neutral citation standard adopted by the UK courts

Noting Up Cases

• Quicklaw
• WestlawNext Canada*
  • International Tab - Westlaw International - In the Directory, under "International/ Worldwide Materials" choose "UK" - Choose the folder for cases - Locate the case. Choose "Related Information" tab on the left menu, and then choose "Citing References."

Journal Articles

• WestlawNext* has a nice collection of UK journal articles. Visit the International tab and choose Westlaw International - Directory to locate content.  Legal Resource Index (LRI).
• HeinOnline - may also be useful.
• 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.
• WorldLii - Worldwide Sources for Law
• Global-Regulation - Search 1.34 million laws from 51 countries, in English. Find, compare and analyse global regulation.