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A collection of books, documents, reports, and more illustrating the ways humans interact with and explore the earthly skies and distant reaches of outer space.

Provides access to ALI publications including: ALI Annual Reports; ALI Reporter; Annual Meeting Proceedings and Speeches; "Statement of Essential Human Rights" Archive; Restatement of the Law; Principles of the Law; Uniform Commercial Code; Model Penal Code; ALI-ABA publications

nominative reports (law reports) of the U.S. Supreme Court before official reporters were appointed to the Court. The federal government assumed publication of the U.S. Reports in 1874.

Includes titles from the Animal Legal Defense Fund and Animal Welfare Institute, as well as philosophical books dating back to the 1800s, videos, periodicals, and brochures.

Presents a comprehensive list of casebooks intended for use in law schools and published in the United States from 1871 through present day. Entries are arranged into more than 200 subject categories and are indexed by subject, author, title, publisher and series.

Compilation of Congressional materials pertaining to Article III Courts. Topics include the purpose, formation, organization, and restructuring of the federal government, focusing on the development and growth of the federal courts and judiciary as a source of original material of congressional fact-finding and decision making.

Interactive digital edition of Tocqueville's classic text; provides annotations, references, and full-text links to the works Tocqueville read while he traveled, researched, and wrote Democracy in America in the early 1800s. Keely's annotations provide insight into Tocqueville's thinking, grounding the work within the context in which it was written.

Contains primary documentary sources from 1787 - 1791 focused on the debate concerning ratification of the U.S. Constitution. Includes convention and legislative records, private papers, newspapers, broadsides, and pamphlets. First twenty volumes available online with all the annotations, appendices, biographical gazetteers, maps, and indexes preserved.

Collection of case law from the 1800s.

Features Poole's Index to Periodical Literature as its centerpiece, with a number of other indices to the contents of nineteenth-century journals, newspapers, and books such as Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature (1786-1922), Palmer's Index to the Times (London) (1880-1890) and other indexes.

nominate (or nominative) reports for England published before 1865. After 1865, the Incorporated Council of Law Reporting started to publish the Law Reports.

Provides access to legislative histories, treaties, documents, books and scholarly journal articles relating to bankruptcy in the United States

Digital version of the Eugene G. Wanger and Marilyn M. Wanger Death Penalty Collection: A Descriptive Bibliography; also includes hearings, trials, periodicals, scholarly articles, and more.
Includes more than 900 titles dating back to 1690 on international law subjects such as war and peace, the Nuremberg Trials, the law of the sea, international arbitration, and Hague conferences and conventions.
Features the complete series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee. You can also browse by justice to see relevant works, including articles and a bibliography of other works
Collections of primary sources on widely studied topics in 20th Century American History including: the Black Freedom Struggle; the Vietnam War; and International Relations and Military Conflicts. Consists of digitized letters, papers, photographs, scrapbooks, financial records, diaries taken from the University Publications of America (UPA) Collections.

Provides digital access to the Ratified Indian Treaties held by the US National Archives, a collection of 374 treaties between indigenous peoples and the United States. Also includes key historic works that provide context for the agreements.

Indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.

With more than 700 unique titles and 750,000 pages dedicated to Native American law, this collection includes an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence.

nominative reports (judicial reports) for Ireland before 1866 when the Irish Council for Law Reporting began publishing the Irish Reports. Select Irish Reports are also available.

Includes titles on the American workplace, from the labor rights movement in the 19th century to the struggles of today; content related to the establishment of a minimum wage and the 40-hour workweek, hazards faced by workers in the workplace and the safeguards in place to protect them
Includes more than 2,500 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.
Digitization collection of older legal print resources. Contains U.S. federal, state, and territorial and international and foreign material. Includes treatises, case law, statutes, journals, and a variety of other legal material.
Provides through monograph publications an interpretive analysis of various legal codes, Jurisdictions include Great Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, as well as other countries in Northern and Eastern Europe.
Collection of 2,700 titles that address issues in the realms of foreign, comparative, Islamic, Jewish, and even Roman and ancient law. Over 2,000 titles concentrate on international law, while more than 800 titles devoted to foreign law address legal systems in specific countries.

Titles explore questions of law and legal history specific to Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Egypt, Germany, India, Italy, Japan, Mexico, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, and Switzerland, with strong representation of works on France from 1800 to 1925
This database includes nearly two million pages of briefs from appellants, appellees, and supporters (amicus briefs), with their respective replies, as well as appendices, memoranda, petitions, plaintiff statements, transcripts, and more from the various circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals. Includes Second Circuit (New York) -- enormously influential, especially for business and corporate law, DC Circuit (Washington, DC), and Ninth Circuit (California).
Provides access to over 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. It offers various retrieval and browsing options, including full-text searching on more than 10 million pages.
Fully searchable archive of the published records of the American colonies, state constitutional conventions, state, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more
Containing nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court between 1832-1978.
Provides a comprehensive index to over 1.2 million items published by the U.S. government between January 1895 and June 1976.
Full text of the Consolidated Treaty Series, the only comprehensive collection of treaties of all nations concluded from 1648 through 1919
Provides comparisons of world legal systems, ancient and modern, incorporating statutes, administrative rulings, judicial decisions, and descriptions of legislatures, agencies, and courts.
Officially titled "United States - Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense." Presents the United States Department of Defense history of US political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
Collection of primary source congressional publications and legislative research materials. Finding aid for congressional hearings, committee prints, committee reports and documents from 1970-present, and the daily Congressional Record from 1985-present.
Content targets the entire range of executive branch publications listed in the authoritative 1909 Checklist, created in 1911 by the U.S. Superintendent of Documents.. Executive Branch Documents 1789-1932 includes nearly all of the 200,000+ executive branch titles listed in the 1909 Checklist that were not included in the U.S. Serial Set, as well as an additional well-chosen 200,000 titles from 1910-1932.
Complete collection of Executive Orders and Presidential Proclamations, including those that are published in other sources as well as the Federal Register and cumulated annually in Title 3 of the Code of Federal Regulations; This collection is part of the Congressional Insight platform

U.S. Federal legislative histories; researched compilations of digital full text publications created by Congress during the process leading up to the enactment of U.S. Public Laws; associated publications include all versions of enacted and related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and Presidential signing statements.

Offers U.S. federal administrative law histories organized by federal statute and Executive Order.

Collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs; also includes certiorari denied

Consisting of more than 1200 titles, the collection includes books, periodicals, and bibliographies that provide a research platform for the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. Includes the Christian Legal Society publications, an assortment of Canon Law, and rare historical bibles.
includes the Stair Society Main (Annual) Series consisting of all volumes from 1936-present, volumes 1-3 of the Stair Society Supplementary Series, as well as books, abridgments and scholarly journal articles that discuss Scots law
Collection of all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the Engish-speaking world.
Includes access to the State Attorney General Reports & Opinions for all fifty states as well as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. Also includes access to the Opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the United States Department of Justice and the Official Opinions of the Attorneys General of the United States.

Contains historical and current constitutions for all fifty U.S. states. The original text of state constitutions is available from the session laws and from corresponding state constitutional conventions. With nearly 9,500 constitutions and constitutional documents, this database will continue to grow.

Provides a digital version of Heins State Reports Checklist along with linking to the full text of historical state reports. Includes a convenient state-by-state bibliographic guide to published court reports and how they interrelate with the National Reporter System.
Includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states. Search the statutes by state, date, description and text. Coverage goes back until 1717. Note: Does not include current state statutes.

This collection offers complete coverage of the Statutes at Large, plus various early federal compilations.

Searchable collection of articles, books, government documents, loose-leaf services, court opinions and websites that compare state laws on hundreds of subjects. Researchers may browse by subject, review historical compilations (1960- present) or browse the State Law Index (1925-1948), an index and digest of state laws.

This collection includes preliminary prints and slip opinions in addition to complete coverate of U.S. Reports.

Provides access to tax regulations, laws, and hundreds of legislative histories dating back to the 1700s.

Complete archive of the Taxation Foundation, which collects data and publishes research studies on tax policies at the federal and state levels. Includes of 900 titles covering 1937 to date.

Includes all U.S. treaties, whether currently in-force, expired, or not-yet officially published. This is the world's largest and most complete online collection of U.S. treaties and agreements and includes such prominent collections as the United States Treaties and Other International Agreements set (commonly referred to as the "Blue set"), as well as famous sets from Bevans, Miller, Malloy and others.
The U.S. Congressional Documents Library includes the Congressional Record and preceding publications covering the period form 1789-1943 and 1971-present. It also includes the Daily Record from 1994-2008, as well as the American States Papers, U.S. Statutes at Large, diplomatic and legislative works of the Federal Convention, Continental Congress, U.S. Territories, and more.
Includes full-text versions of U.S. International Trade Commission documents, the U.S. Court of International Trade reports, and legislative histories and other publications relating to U.S. international trade law.
Includes over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the present, with supplementary material back to 1688.
Contains books, treatises, reports, legislative histories, congressional hearings and more on the electoral process
Focuses on the various uses for water, from hydropower, to agriculture, to drinking water, and how increasing pressures on water supply exacerbates historical tensions over who has access to water for what purposes. Also includes documents on the effects of the Clean Water Act within this framework. Consists of government documents, reports, and legislative histories, as well as books, scholarly articles and more
Access to thousands of casebooks from West, one of the most prominent legal publishers in the United States. Divided into four series, these casebooks form the backbone of U.S. legal instruction.
Women and the Law is a collection that brings together books, biographies and periodicals dedicated to women's roles in society and the law. This unique collection of materials provides a platform to research the progression of women's roles and rights in society over the past 200 years. Also included are more than 70 titles from Emory University Law School's Feminism and Legal Theory Project which provide a platform to view the effect of law and culture on the female gender.
Collection includes more than 3,000 trials including complete sets of American State Trials, Howell's State Trials, and the Nuremburg Trials. It also includes famous trials from Philadelphia's Jenkins Law Library, Cornell University, and the University of Missouri-Columbia's trials collections. It contains trial transcripts, critical court documents, and trial-related resources such as monographs which analyze and debate the decisions of famous trials, as well as biographies of many of the greatest trial lawyers in history.
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