Law

Best Database Choices for Law Databases

University of Virginia Library

PO Box 400113

Charlottesville VA 22904-4113

434.924.3021

fax: 434.924.1431

All Law Databases

see also the U.Va. Law Library Guide in the More Information box on the left.

CCH Internet Research Network (Business and Finance)

Online version of CCH loose leaf services, providing primary sources, analysis, and daily news updates in securities, banking, trade regulation, product liability and safety, government contracts, information technology, energy, and transportation law.

CCH Internet Research Network (Human Resources/Health, and Medical)

Online version of CCH loose leaf services, providing primary sources, analysis, and daily news updates in employment law, human resources management, payroll, pension/benefits, food and drug law, health law, and safety/OSHA/workers compensation.

CCH Internet Tax Research Network

Online version of CCH loose leaf services, providing primary sources, analysis, and daily news updates in securities, banking, trade regulation, product liability and safety, government contracts, information technology, energy, and transportation law.

Hein Online   

Lists nearly 225,000 law review articles, with searchable full text and page images.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals    1985-present

Lists journal articles, congress reports, essay collections, yearbooks, and book reviews on all legal subjects from journals published outside the United States.

Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text   1985-present

Lists articles from English-language legal periodicals from 1982-present and has full text for some 200 articles, mostly beginning in the mid 90s. See Index to Legal Periodicals Retro for coverage 1918-1981.

Index to Legal Periodicals Retro   1918-1981

Indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic will also be covered. See Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text for coverage 1985-present.

Legal Periodicals Full Text    1985-present

Lists articles from English-language legal periodicals from 1982-present and has full text for some 200 articles, mostly beginning in the mid 90s. See Index to Legal Periodicals Retro for coverage 1918-1981.

Legal Periodicals Retro   1918-1981

Indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic will also be covered. See Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text for coverage 1985-present.

LegalTrac

Indexes North American and a few other journals in law and related areas. Some journals include the full text of the articles.

LexisNexis Academic

News and business information from sources around the world; book reviews, biographical, and other reference sources; U.S. Code, constitution, and court cases. Includes many newspapers. Most entries are full-text, some updated daily.

LexisNexis Congressional

Full-text information by and about the U.S. Congress including publications, Legislative Histories for public laws, biographical information, and testimony from hearings. Search the Congressional Record, Federal Register, and the National Journal.

LexisNexis Statistical

Statistical information of all kinds, current and historical, US and international..

Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises 1800-1926

Derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of more than 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more.