Research Databases - Alphabetical

Please note: Databases with the security icon Security Lock, require authentication using your University username and password. 
The following selected databases are those most useful for legal research. A comprehensive list of all research databases available at the University of Melbourne is available via Discovery

 A    B    C    E    F    G    H    I    J    K       M    O    P    R    S    T    U    V    W          

 
Academic Search Premier Journal articles- full text  Security Lock
Multi-disciplinary full text database containing more than 4,500 journals, including more than 3604 peer-reviewed titles. 374 mostly full text law titles. US focus, but includes some international. Coverage: mainly from mid 1980's.
AGIS - see INFORMIT
Asian Law Online
Asian Law Online is the University of Melbourne Asian Law Centre's bibliographic database. It is offered as a public service to assist students and scholars of Asian legal system. You can search the database or browse by country or subject area (eg. Constitutional Law, Family Law).
 AustLII Australian Flag Australasian journal articles, cases and legislation 
Primary legal material includes legislation for all Australian jurisdictions, treaties and decisions of courts and tribunals. AustLII also includes 60 full text Australian and New Zealand law journals.
(AustLII is excellent for cases. For legislation, the Law Library recommends using ComLaw, TimeBase or the relevant state government legislation websites).
 Australia Parliament HouseAustralian Flag Bills, hansard
Links to full text Commonwealth bills and bills digests, House, Senate and Committee Hansard, parliamentary papers and other publications, all browsable and seachable via the ParlInfo search engine. The Parliamentary Library's website includes information on elections and referendums, historical and current parliamentary information, and full text publications such as Background Papers and Research Papers on various topical issues (such as climate change - this paper includes the latest government announcements and legislation) a list of all Royal Commissions from 1902 to the current date, a Parliamentary Paper Index 1992 to date, an index to Explanatory Memoranda 1901-1982, and a comprehensive set of external links.
  BAILLIUnion-Jack UK and Irish cases and legislation
 
The British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) provides free access to a comprehensive set of British and Irish primary legal materials. 
 CALI Online tutorials  Security Lock
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CALI provides online access to 850+ web-based, interactive education lessons all on aspects of US and some aspects of International law. Click here to get registrations instructions you must register before using CALI.
 Cambridge Journals Online Journal articles - full text  Security Lock
Over 20 law journal titles covering a range of legal areas such as international and comparative law.
 CanLII Canada Flag Canadian cases, legislation and commentary
CanLII provides free access to primary sources of Canadian Law, including legislation and decisions from federal, provicial, and territorial jurisdictions. CanLII also provides full text legal commentaries.
 Capital Monitor Australian Flag Australian legislation, cases and legal news  Security Lock
Capital Monitor provides legal news, press releases, ministerial announcements and information services from Parliament, Government and the Courts. Up to date Bills Monitors, Acts Proclamations and Assent sections and lists and links to all Acts during the current year are available for Federal, NSW and Victorian jurisdictions.
 CaseTrackUnion-Jack United Kingdom cases  Security Lock
UK case citator. Click here to get password You may need to click on "Login as a different user". Full text UK judgments may also be accessed on Westlaw and Lexis. Coverage 1996+
 CCH Online - IntelliconnectAustralian Flag Australian commentary and cases  Security Lock
 
Full-text of CCH loose-leaf services and law reports. Covers many areas of law, including corporations, trade practices, tax, HR, medical, industrial relations, torts and climate change.
 CIAO (Columbia International Affairs Online)  Security Lock
 
CIAO publishes international affairs scholarship from 1991+. The database includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, conference proceedings, policy briefs, full text books and journals, as well as teaching materials such as case studies and course packs of background readings on such topics as terrorism and human rights.
 CLJ Legal Network Malaysian Flag Malaysian law Security Lock
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 ComLaw/FRLIAustralian Flag Australian legislation
Official Commowealth legislation and legislative instruments.
 Connect 4Australian Flag  Security Lock
Australian Annual Reports, Company Prospectuses and company financial information.
 English Reports - full text Union-Jack
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Full text replicas of the English Reports are browsable by year and searchable by eg: party name or keyword, and include the nominate report citations. The Reports are available:
 Expanded Academic Journal articles  Security Lock
Multi-disciplinary database. More than 4,300 journals indexed, 2,500 full-text titles and 3,000 peer-reviewed journals. This platform includes the Legaltrac database. Coverage from 1980+.
 Factiva News  Security Lock
More than 25,000 authoritative sources including full text articles from more than 3000 newspaper titles, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires, the Associated Press, and D&B company profiles.
 Foreign Law Guide   Security Lock
Guide to primary and secondary sources of law for over 170 countries, including overviews of their legal systems. Browse by country or search using keywords.
 Getting The Deal Through (GTDT)   Security Lock
Getting The Deal Through Online provides concise explanations of the most important legal and regulatory matters that arise in business deals and disputes worldwide. These international guides cover law and regulations in 46 practice areas and more than 150 jurisdictions. Material can be searched, or browsed by title, jurisdiction or practice area.  
 Globalex
 
GlobaLex is an open access electronic legal publication dedicated to international, comparative and foreign domestic law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law, Globalex provides excellent and up to date overviews of the legal systems of individual countries, guides to legal research and links to primary and secondary material. Browse by country or search using keywords.
be searched, or browsed by title, jurisdiction or practice area.  
GovPubs - the Australian Government Publications Guide

A guide to selected Australian Commonwealth and State Government publications located in Australia's National and State Libraries and on the Internet. A historical description of each publication is provided, and location information will enable you to locate resources in each library or online. Publications include Acts, Bills, budget papers, Explanatory Memoranda, Gazettes, government directories, notice papers, Hansard, parliamentary handbooks, parliamentary papers, standing orders, subordinate legislation/Regulation, votes and proceedings/journals.

 Greens List
 
Greens List Barristers conduct continuing practice development courses commercially, however there is also much free material available on their site. They provide free acccess to their online legal video seminar material, as well as notes from the sessions. Students can register here.
 The Hague Academy Collected Courses Online / Recueil des cours en ligne  Security Lock
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The Collected Courses Online is an encyclopedic collection on international law - it covers more than 330 volumes, containing over 1200 lectures given by prominent legal specialists over a period of 85 years. At least seven new volumes are added every year. All courses are published in the language in which they were delivered, either in English or in French. The database is searchable and can be browsed.
 Hart Legal Publishing   Security Lock
Hart Law Publishing specialises in law texts. It has 571 books, available in full text, available on this website.  Texts cover UK, EU and international jurisdictions, and deal with a wide range of law subject areas.
The site offers sophisticated advanced searching, including full text searching options of all the online material.
 Hein Online  Journal articles, primary sources - Full text Security Lock
Collection of full text legal 'libraries' which replicate the original documents and are available in fully searchable printable PDF format. HeinOnline includes: the Law Journal Library (containing more than 1,400 law and law-related periodicals from vol 1), US primary material such as the Congressional Record and U.S. Reports back to 1754, Famous World Trials dating back to the early 1700’s, Legal Classics - texts from the 18th & 19th centuries,  Treaties and Agreements, English Reports - full Reprint (1220-1867), United Nations Law Collection and Foreign & International Law Resources Database.
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HukumOnline (English Version) News and Legislation

Website featuring news and articles about law in Indonesia.  The website has 6 sections: Indonesian Legal News; Indonesian Legal Brief; Indonesian Law  Digest; Opinion and Articles; the Clinic where users can post questions; and a Forum. You will need a username and a password to gain access.
HukumOnline (Bahasa Indonesian Version) News and Legislation
Website featuring news and articles about law in Indonesia.  The website has 5 sections: Awal; Berita; Peraturan; Klinik; Hukumpedia. You will need a username and a password to gain access.
 Human rights, Humanitarian Law and International law e-book collections (Martinus Nijhoff full text e-books)  Security Lock
These full text e-books are published by  Martinus Nijhoff / BRILL from 2006 onwards. They  are browseable and searchable.
Please note: most of the e-books in this package can also be accessed via the catalogue.
The e-books books are grouped into the following collections:
  • Centre for Studies and Research in International Law and International Relations
  • Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
  • International Law
  • The Hague Academy Collected Courses Online / Recueil des cours en ligne
 House of Commons Parliamentary Papers Online Union-Jack Parliamentary Papers  Security Lock
This full text database contains over 200,000 House of Commons sessional papers from 1715 to the 2003/04 session, with supplementary material back to 1688. 
 IBFD (International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation) - Cross border taxation portal  Security Lock
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International Tax resource -  case law, journals, legislation, treaties and news covering cross border tax issues. Information can be selected by practice area, country organisation or special topic. Detailed explanation of what is covered in IBFD  
 Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals  Journal Article Index/Some full text  Security Lock
Multilingual index with some full text, to more than 500 legal journals from jurisdictions not covered by the major indexing services.
Also indexes yearbooks, book reviews, and published collections of legal essays. This database is part of HeinOnline. Coverage: 1985+
 Index to Legal Periodicials & Books Full Text   Security Lock
Provides coverage of important legal information, including access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. It also provides international coverage, including periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.  Content includes:
  • Indexing of over 1,000 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications, university publications, and government publications
  • Full text for more than 400 periodicals—many of them peer-reviewed—dating back to 1994
  • Nearly 300 law reviews
Indexes articles from over 1,025 legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks and bar association publications, and over 1,400 books per year. Includes full text coverage for over 320 periodicals from 1994. Mostly US content, but includes major periodicals from Canada, the UK, Australia and New Zealand. ILP combines 2 databases: ILP Full Text (Index from 1982 +, some full text from 1994 +) and ILP Retrospective (index only, vol 1 – 1981 for most titles). Coverage: 1908+

 Indian KanoonIndian Flag Indian Cases (open access)
Kanoon is a free database containing up to date full text superior court cases back to the inception of the courts - for example the Supreme Court of India decisions are available from 1902+ The cases have a citator function - both cites and cited by link not only to cases but also to full text Law Commission Reports and legislative provisions cited in casesThe cases can be downloaded as pdf files.
INFORMIT - Australasian journal articles Security Lock
The INFORMIT platform contains many multidisciplinary indexing and abstracting services, with predominantly Australasian and Asia/Pacific content. AGIS is the most comprehensive tool for finding Australasian legal articles. A number of other individual and collected databases are also pertinent to law, including SNIPER (intellectual property), CINCH (criminal justice), WORKLIT (employment and industrial relations), APA-FT (public affairs), the Indigenous Collection, Humanities & Social Sciences Collection and Family & Society Collection.

We recommend you "select all" databases to use the full range of INFORMIT databases for comprehensive searches, or select collections of databases (eg: the New Zealand Collection) or individual databases for more specific searching.
 
  Intellectual Property Resource CenterUS Flag (US - Full Text)  Security Lock
The Intellectual Property Resource Center, from the Bureau of National Affairs, Inc.  includes:
 International Trade Daily  Security Lock
International trade news from the Bureau of National Affairs Inc. The news archive goes back to 1998 and is browsable and searchable. The database includes full text cases.
 
 Investment Arbitration Reporter  Security Lock
Electronic news service tracking cross-border arbitration between foreign investors and their host governments. The Reporter provides information on the latest lawsuits and policy developments related to nationalisations, privatisations, and other regulatory disputes. 
 Investment Claims  Security Lock
Investment Claims is a regularly updated collection of materials and analysis used for research in international investment law and arbitration. Investment Claims contains fully searchable arbitration awards and decisions, bilateral investment treaties, multilateral treaties, journal articles, online books, and arbitration laws all linked and cross-referenced by the Oxford Law Citator.
 ISI Web of Science Journal Articles - Full Text  Security Lock
Multi-disciplinary database which covers agriculture, art, biology, computer science, earth sciences, engineering, environmental studies, humanities, life sciences, medicine, science, social sciences and technology.
 JADE (Australian cases)
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Jade (Judgments and Decisions Enhanced) is a free current awareness service that collects recent decisions of selected Australian Courts and Tribunals.  Jade can be used to search for Australian decisions, receive alerts on new decisions by email, and court digests by RSS. Jade has digitised copies of the Commonwealth Law Reports (CLRs) from 1903-1952. Jade is a BarNet initiative.
 JSTOR Journal Articles - Full Text Security Lock
 
Full text archives of over 1000 leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences. Includes approx. 60 law titles. Coverage: Does not hold issues from the most recent 3-5 years.
 Juriglobe (open access)
Juriglobe provides useful snapshots of the legal systems of the world - presented graphically and divided into civil law, common law, muslim law, customary law and mixed systems.
 Juris NotesUnion-Jack Case summmaries and Newsletter Security Lock
 
Searchable database incorporating newsletters archive, full text of the cases summarised, and latest US Intellectual Property law developments. Allows for sign up to the weekly IP News.
Note: You will need a user name and password to log in. Use your normal University student/staff log in to get to the Juris Notes Username/password information.
 JustisUnion-Jack EU Flag UK and EU Cases and Legislation Security Lock
Full text of the The Law Reports (1865 +), the Times Law Reports (1990 +), the Weekly Law Reports (1953 +) , the Daily Law Reports (1999 +), the English Reports 1220-1873, the International Law Reports (1919 +) and the European Court of Human Rights cases 1961+. Reports are available in printable PDF format replicating the hard copies exactly.
Justis also includes current and historical UK legislation.
Also includes the Justcite search engine and case citator, which cross-references search results from case law, legislation and journal article databases.
 Kluwer Arbitration Commentary, journal articles full text, primary materials Security Lock
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An international commercial arbitration database of full text primary and secondary materials. The database includes conventions, legislation, institutional rules, model clauses, case law and commentary from leading publications. Includes many full text e-books and arbitration journals. 
Kluwer Law Online Security Lock
Full text access to the following titles in the International Encyclopaedia of Laws:
 Law Cite Worldwide Case Citator (open access)
  
Law Cite is a free worldwide case citator which is contributed to by the LIIs, and is a useful way to check whether a particular case has been considered in other jurisdictions. There are currently almost 4 million indexed cases, law reform documents and journal articles included in the system. Searches can be conducted by case citation or parties, legislation or cases considered, or title of an article.
 LawLexAustralian Flag Australian legislation (open access)
Some free access on this site, including up to date legislation for all Australian jurisdictions.
 LawNetSingapore Flag Singapore cases, legislation and commentrarySecurity Lock
Includes case law, legislation, Hansard and treaties from Singapore.  Click here for the password
 Legal OnlineAustralian Flag Australian cases, legislation, journals and commentary - Full text (includes Firstpoint)  Security Lock
Please note: Thomson Legal Online is in the process of being replaced by a new Thomson platform, Westlaw AU . For more details on the change and updates as they happen, see the News section of the Law Library website.
This database includes:
  • unreported cases from Australian federal courts and the superior courts of all Australian jurisdictions
  • law report series such as the Commonwealth Law Reports (CLRs), Australian Law Journal Reports (ALJR), Federal Court Reports (FCRs) and Australian Criminal Reports (A CrimR)
  • Firstpoint  - case digests and citator (reported cases from 1825; unreported from 1999)
  • the encyclopaedic Laws of Australia
  • commentaries (looseleaf services) which provide an up to date overview of the law and link to cases and legislation in subject areas such as Commonwealth and Victorian Administrative Law, Trusts, IP and Trade Practices law
  • 22 full text Thomson journals such as the Australian Law Journal, the Public Law Review, the Journal of Law and Medicine and the Building and Construction Law Journal
Coverage: varies, some 1900+.
 LegalTracUS Flag Union-Jack EU Flag Journal Article index/abstracts  Security Lock
Extensive legal journal article database. Indexing for approx 1700+ journals, with some full text. Mostly US content, though includes some UK and European Union material. Part of Expanded Academic. Coverage:1980+
 LEGENDcomAustralian Flag Full text  Security Lock
Australian Government Department of Immigration and Citizenship information database. Click here to get password. You then may need to click on "Login as a different user".
 Legifrance France Flag French primary materials (open access)
 
Official French government site, largely in French, with full access to Codes currently in force, and other legislative documents. Several Codes are also provided in unofficial English translation. Searches can be conducted by keywords, document types/numbers, or dates. The site also provides links to:
• the decisions and publications  of national, European, and international courts, including selected decisions of the Constitutional Council in English
• documents  of the French Parliament , independent administrative bodies, public service organs and research centres
• the Official Journal which publishes laws and other legislative measures
• a guide to the organisation of French law (in French)
 Lexis.com     US Cases, Legislation, Commentary & Journal Articles  Security Lock
Focus on US but also has cases and material from Australia, Canada, UK, the United Nations and other international organisations and the Shephards Citator service. Includes federal public laws and the United States Code Service, as well as state codes, federal and state registers and state constitutions. The database also contains over 900 full text US legal journals and law reviews.
 LexisNexisAUNew Zealand Flag Union-Jack Australian journals, cases, legislation and commentary (includes Casebase) Security Lock
This database includes:
  • unreported cases from Australian federal courts and the superior courts of all Australian jurisdictions
  • law report series such as the Australian Law Reports (ALRs), Victorian Reports (VRs), New South Wales Law Reports and Family Law Reports
  • Casebase  - case citator service and journal articles on individual cases.
  • the encyclopaedic Halsbury's Laws of Australia
  • Dictionaries - Australian Legal Words & Phrases and Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary
  • 13 full text LexisNexisAu journals such as the Australian Journal of Labour Law, the Australian Journal of Family Law and the Australian Property Law Journal
  • commentaries (looseleaf services) which provide an up to date overview of the law and link to cases and legislation in subject areas such as defamation law, immigration law, family law, evidence, native title and corporations law
Coverage: varies, mostly 1990's +.
 Lexis-Nexis Academic News and Journals  Security Lock
Over 350 full text worldwide newspapers, and includes top news, general news topics, and news/broadcast transcripts, foreign language news sources; company, industry, market news, legal news, US federal case law; U.S. Code; and US state legal research. The database also contains many full text journals.
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The Making of Modern Law - Full Text  Security Lock
  • Trials 1600 - 1926: collection of more than 7000 publications describing UK and US trials – from notorious, scandalous and sensational courtroom dramas to cases of great constitutional, historical and  precedent-setting value, such as the Dred Scott case, the Scopes “Monkey” Trial and the Amistad Slavery case.
Both of the above databases contain fully searchable digital images of exact replicas of the original books.
  •  Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600-1926 Commentary service. Combines foreign, comparative, and international titles into a single resource. The International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists while the Foreign Law component features foreign legal treatises of a variety of countries. The Comparative Law component features online books that compare more than one legal system and includes Ancient, Roman, Jewish Law, and Islamic Law.
  ManupatraIndian Flag Indian Law   Security Lock
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Case law coverage includes full text decisions from the Supreme Court, all High Courts, the Federal Court, Privy Council and many tribunals. Coverage is mostly from the inception of each Court. Legislation covered includes bare acts, amending acts, repealed legislation, subordinate legislation and bills from all jurisdictions. Primary material is grouped by topic, and secondary material includes annotated acts and commentary.
  Managing IP Commentary and Articles   Security Lock
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Website providing international news, analysis and commentary for intellectual property. Specifically provides full text articles from the Managing IP and Managing Internet IP magazines. The site focus includes trademarks, copyright IP, patents and internet.
 Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Law  Security Lock
The updated online edition of the reference work, Encyclopedia of Public International Law.
 OECD ilibrary
Full text e-books, datasets and Working Papers Security Lock
This new service replaces Source OECD. OECD ilirbary is a cross-searchable online database  containing over 5000 e-books, 5000 MS Excel spreadsheets, 400 statistical datasets and 2500 working papers.
 Oxford Bibliographies Online Security Lock
Oxford Bibliographies combines the features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia to provide authoritative research guides on a range of subject areas such as criminology, international law and international relations.
 Oxford Journals  Full text Journal Articles Security Lock
Over 200 full text academic and research journals covering a broad range of subject areas, including 22 law titles. 
 Oxford Reference
Oxford Reference provides quality, up-to-date reference content on a range of subject areas such as law. It contains reference materials such as dictionaries, encyclopaedias, guide books, and includes reference material such as the Oxford Companion to the High Court of Australia.
 Oxford Reports on International Law
Oxford Reports on International Law brings together decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals. The database includes decisions from international courts of general jurisdiction, international human rights courts and international criminal courts, as well as international decisions in domestic courts. The decisions are accompanied by expert analysis and cross-case navigation via the Oxford Law Citator. New cases are added daily.
 Oxford Scholarship Online - Law Full text e-books Security Lock
Over 400 e-books on law from Oxford University Press.
  PKU LawChinese Flag  Full text  Security Lock
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PKU is a bilingual English and Chinese legal database. The database includes a large database of Chinese Case law and all national legislation and administrative regulations promulgated by the State Council from 1949 onwards.  It also includes many administrative rules promulgated by Agencies, and important local regulations. Legal news is provided,  journal content is available mostly in Mandarin. 
 Primary Sources on Copyright (1450 - 1900) Full text  Security Lock
Digital resource concerning the history of copyright in five key jurisdictions including France, Germany, Italy, the UK and the US, for the period before 1900.
Recueil de Dalloz France Flag  French Legal News (in French) Security Lock
Dalloz.fr is a comprehensive French daily legal news service, with a database of nearly a thousand legal news sources, covering legislative and judicial news and reports. These can be searched by key words and browsed by themes, or you can view all the news for a specific date (see Accès à un fonds documentaire > Dalloz Actualité).  Please note: a password is required to access this database, click here to get your password).
 RefWorks Reference management tool  Security Lock
RefWorks is a website based application that organises, sorts and stores your reference citations. Citations can be added to your RefWorks database, which can then insert them into your MS Word document.
 Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation Digital Library Full text e-books  Security Lock
More than 2,000 articles in 159 books and manuals written by experts for the Foundation.
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  SourceOECD Journal articles, commentary - full text  Security Lock
This service has been replaced with OECD ilibrary (see above)
 Selden Society Publications - History of English LawUnion-Jack  Security Lock
Includes a range of historical English legal material dating from 1066. Database covers important historical documents inlcuding primary source documents, influential digests, abridgments and encyclopedias. Includes Ames Foundation publications.
 SSRN (includes Legal Scholarship Network) Journal Articles
Registered users can use the search facility to access over 230,000 abstracts and 192,000 full text forthcoming articles and working papers.
To register, click on SSR User HQ > in the new members registration box , enter your email address and press submit > you will receive an email with your username and password. Law School Faculty members receive access to the LSN alerting service. Contact Bernard Lyons (Blyons@unimelb.edu.au) for more information.
 State Papers Online Government Documents  Union-Jack
State Papers Online is a database of English government documents originating from the 16th and 17th centuries. The collection includes information on every facet of English government, including law and order, social and economic affairs, religious policy and crown possessions.
 Tax and Accounting online (TaxPoint)Australian Flag Journal Articles, Cases, Legislation, Commentary - Full text   Security Lock
 Extensive Australian taxation database. Search or browse by topic.
 TimebaseAustralian Flag Australian Legislation  Security Lock
Searchable legislation for Australian jurisdictions. It also includes alerting service on legislation developments, bills, EMs and repealed legislation. Point in time for some law subjects. 
 Times Digitial Archive Union-Jack The Times Newspaper articles  Security Lock
Searchable database of digitised issues of The Times Newspaper. Coverage is from the 1785 - 1985.  
 TradeLawGuide Full text  Security Lock
Searchable commentary on International Trade Law. Provides a number of search options including search by subject or by words and phrases. Also includes annotated instruments and agreements, as well as an article citator.
 UN Law Collection UN Flag  Security Lock
Major legal publications issued by the United Nations. Includes League of Nations materials, UN Treaty series, various yearbooks, law reports, UN legislation and other material dating from 1920 to the present.
 UN Official Documents System UN Flag  Security Lock
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ODS covers all types of official United Nations documentation. No password required.
 UN Treaty Collection UN Flag Full Text Security Lock
Full-text of the United Nations Treaty series and other UN and League of Nations documents.
  Victorian Legislation and Parliament DocumentsAustralian Flag (open access)
 
Includes full-text, up-to-date Vicorian legislation. For off-campus access click here.
 Vietnam Laws OnlineVietnam Flag Legislation - Full text  Security Lock
Online searchable database of English translations of over 2,500 Vietnamese laws covering a wide range of subject areas relevant to foreign investment and beyond. Click here to get password. You then may need to click on "Login as a different user".
 Washington & Lee Current Law Journal Content
 
W&L CLJC is a fabulous journal article index, providing access to the content of over 1,600 law journals from all jurisdictions. The index is searchable by eg: keyword, and browsable by individual journal titles. Please note - as of May 2011 this index is no longer updated.
 Westlaw International Cases, Legislation, Commentary & Journal Articles Security Lock
Westlaw is a US based collection of full text databases. Coverage includes US, UK & Canadian case law, US legislation, more than 700 law reviews, selected international materials and newspapers form most parts of the world including Australia (Abstracts only for Fairfax content eg. The Age). Individual staff password access
 Westlaw AU        Cases, Legislation, Commentary & Journal Articles  Security Lock Australian Flag
 
This database includes:
  • unreported cases from Australian federal courts and the superior courts of all Australian jurisdictions
  • law report series such as the Commonwealth Law Reports (CLRs), Australian Law Journal Reports (ALJR), Federal Court Reports (FCRs) and Australian Criminal Reports (A CrimR)
  • Firstpoint  - case digests and citator (reported cases from 1825; unreported from 1999)
  • the encyclopaedic Laws of Australia
  • commentaries (looseleaf services) which provide an up to date overview of the law and link to cases and legislation in subject areas such as Commonwealth and Victorian Administrative Law, Trusts, IP and Trade Practices law
  • Full text Thomson journals such as the Australian Law Journal, the Public Law Review, the Journal of Law and Medicine and the Building and Construction Law Journal
Coverage: varies, some 1900+.
 Worldtradelaw.net Dispute Settlement Commentary Security Lock
Trade law, GATT/WTO agreements, Panel/Appellate Body reports, and some journal articles on various WTO issues.
 Worldlii Journal Articles, Cases, Legislation, Commentary -
World Legal Information Institute. Free access to worlwide legal resources.
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