Free and Low Cost Legal Research
- CasemakerX Free registration for law faculty and students. Casemaker is a low-cost legal research provider that has partnered with many state and local bar associations and offers basic legal research to its members. CasemakerX registration is free for law faculty and students.
- Casetext Innovative freely available Internet resource. Case law meets social media! Law students can register to help crowd-source annotations.
- Ravel Law Search federal and state case law using natural language or Boolean searches. Visualization map shows relationship between your cases and citing cases. Add notes and annotations to cases. Free access for law students and law professors. Simply click "Sign Up" on the Ravel home screen.
Administrative Law
- Congressional This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of congressional documents from 1789 to the present. This primary source collection offers students an unparalleled opportunity to understand the present by comparing today’s events and opinions with trends and patterns throughout our nation’s history.
- govinfo (GPO)Freely available Internet resource.
- LLMC DigitalOffers a collection of digitized full-text images of legal works and U.S. government documents from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
- regulations.govFreely available Internet resource.
Civil Rights
International, Foreign & Comparative
- Chatham House Online (Gale) This searchable online archive of Chatham House, a leading center for policy research on international affairs, contains over 90 years of high level analysis and research on global trends and key events and issues.
- Columbia International Affairs Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text theory and research in international affairs.
- EISIL (ASIL)Freely available Internet resource.
- Foreign Law Guide (Reynolds & Flores) The Foreign Law Guide by Thomas Reynolds and Arturo Flores is an excellent starting point for locating the statutes of another country. For each jurisdiction there is a brief introduction to the legal system, a list of codifications, gazettes and other sources of law and then a section listing sources of law by subject. There are citations to materials both in the original language and English translations where available. Now edited by Marci Hoffman.
- i.lex: Legal Research System for Int'l Law in U.S. Courts (ASIL)Freely available Internet resource.
- LLMC DigitalOffers a collection of digitized full-text images of legal works and U.S. government documents from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
- The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600–1926 (Gale) Brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. The International Law component features works of great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The Foreign Law component features foreign legal treatises, commentaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, monographs, or festschriften of a variety of countries.
- U.N.Treaty CollectionFreely available Internet resource.
Legal History
- Gale Primary Sources (Gale) Cross-search all available Gale digital archives from a single interface Explore history through digitized, text-searchable primary sources Discover new connections using Topic Finder and Term Frequenc
- CQ Historic Documents This link opens in a new window
1972-2012 ONLY! Full-text of presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, and other primary source documents.
- Eighteenth Century Collections Online (Gale Primary Sources) This link opens in a new window
(Access Provided by the Law Library)
- LLMC DigitalOffers a collection of digitized full-text images of legal works and U.S. government documents from the executive, judicial, and legislative branches.
- The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600–1926 (Gale) Brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. The International Law component features works of great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The Foreign Law component features foreign legal treatises, commentaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, monographs, or festschriften of a variety of countries.
- The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises; 1800-1926 (Gale) Fully searchable database, containing 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. A number of these are reprints of earlier works, dating from the 15th and 16th centuries.
- The Making of Modern Law: Trials; 1600-1926 (Gale) The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926 is the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of documents from Anglo-American trials. In addition to works pertaining to English-speaking jurisdictions such as the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Canada, this digital archive also contains English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions, such as France. Users will find published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and other trial documents that were printed as separate publications; official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions (domestic and international); and books encompassing multiple trials as well as books and pamphlets about a single trial.
- The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs; 1832-1978 (Gale) The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1823–1978 contains the world's most comprehensive online collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners—many who later became judges and associates of the Supreme Court itself. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements, and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society, and government, as well as practicing attorneys.
Legislative History
- Congress.gov Available freely to the general public, the Congressional website offers resources for researching the status and history of legislation.
- Congressional This link opens in a new window
Comprehensive collection of congressional documents from 1789 to the present. This primary source collection offers students an unparalleled opportunity to understand the present by comparing today’s events and opinions with trends and patterns throughout our nation’s history.
National Security Law
- International Security & Counter Terrorism Reference Center This link opens in a new window
Hundreds of full text journals and periodicals, and hundreds of thousands of selected articles, news feeds, reports, summaries, books, FAQs, and proprietary background information summaries that pertain to terrorism and security.
U.S. Courts
- CQ Historic Documents This link opens in a new window
1972-2012 ONLY! Full-text of presidential speeches, international agreements, Supreme Court decisions, and other primary source documents.
- The Making of Modern Law: Trials; 1600-1926 (Gale) The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926 is the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of documents from Anglo-American trials. In addition to works pertaining to English-speaking jurisdictions such as the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Canada, this digital archive also contains English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions, such as France. Users will find published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and other trial documents that were printed as separate publications; official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions (domestic and international); and books encompassing multiple trials as well as books and pamphlets about a single trial.
- The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs; 1832-1978 (Gale) The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1823–1978 contains the world's most comprehensive online collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners—many who later became judges and associates of the Supreme Court itself. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements, and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions. This collection serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society, and government, as well as practicing attorneys.
- OYEZFreely available Internet resource.
- Supreme Court Database (National Science Foundation)Freely available Internet resource.
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