Legal Studies

NOTE: Abu Dhabi on-campus access only. TR Westlaw Campus Research provides access to a comprehensive and widely-used indexing system for caselaw materials to make legal research easier, more accurate, and more relevant.

NOTE: Abu Dhabi off-campus via NYU VPN only. TR Westlaw Campus Research provides access to a comprehensive and widely-used indexing system for caselaw materials to make legal research easier, more accurate, and more relevant.

Westlaw Gulf and Lexgulf have been integrated and upgraded into Westlaw Middle East and provides online legal information, including legislation and cases from the Middle East through to insights into the latest industry news.

Lexis Advance gives you access to more than 60,000 legal, news and public records sources, breaking legal news, and access to the latest federal decisions. Includes case law from the United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, India, Malaysia, Hong Kong, and Mexico (in Spanish).

Manupatra is India’s premier legal information resource. It is the largest content aggregator of Indian and International material, linking primary information, secondary material and proprietary analytical content.

HeinOnline contains the full-text of law review journals and related legal documents, including the Code of Federal Regulations, English Reports (1220-1867), U.S. Presidential Library, U.S. Statutes at Large, and U.S. Supreme Court Library, and World Trials Library, and more.

ICLR Online has searchable texts and PDFs of the English Law Reports from 1865 to present, Weekly Law Reports, Industrial Cases Reports and Digests, Business Law Reports and Digests, and Public and Third Sector Law Reports and Digests. The present Law Reports series are the Appeal Cases, Chancery Division, Family Division, and Queens Bench Division. The Citator+ indexes and stores information about all cases published by leading English case report series, including but not limited to those cases published by the ICLR. Citator+ information includes appellate history and subsequent judicial consideration of the case and statutes and statutory words and phrases considered in the case.

Lexis Library provides authoritative content for UK and European legal research through access to its four primary databases: Halsbury's Laws of England, Butterworths Corporate Law Service, Butterworths Company Law Handbook, and Tolley's Inheritance.

Legal Source provides access to an extensive range of full-text legal content. It offers information centered on the discipline of law and legal topics, such as criminal justice, international law, federal law, organized crime, medical law, labor and human resource law, ethics, and the environment. Legal Source includes the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective and the Index to Legal Periodicals & Books.

Law Journal Library is a collection of more than 1,250 law and law-related periodicals. Coverage is from the first issue published for all periodicals and goes through the most current issue allowed.

Legislative Insight contains access to all of the various publications that become available as as a bill moves through the legislative process on its way to becoming a law. These include the full text of the Public Law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Legislative Insight offers a research citation page that not only links to the full text of the associated primary source publications, but also allows the user to search within these documents.

The Foreign Law Guide (FLG) offers information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations, and selected references to secondary sources in one virtual destination. Broad in content and global in scope, the FLG is an indispensable resource for comparative law research and a fundamental tool for developing a foreign and comparative law collection.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews in publications appearing worldwide. The collection provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia. IFLP also analyzes the contents of individually published collections of legal essays, Festschriften, Mélanges, and congress reports each year. Dates of coverage: 1985 to present.

Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926 provides access to international and foreign law, including monographs on the laws of foreign jurisdictions. This resource includes titles from the 19th and early 20th century, as well as classics in European international law since the 17th century.

Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970 complements the collection of treatises found in Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600-1926. Importantly, it provides an interpretive analysis with books on codes, the “primary sources” of law.

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides access to all US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Users can search the full text of these documents.

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources 1620-1926 is a fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more from 1620-1926.

Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926 covers a vast range of legal history from the beginnings of the modern period to the early twentieth century.

Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 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. It serves the needs of students and researchers in American legal history, politics, society and government, as well as practicing attorneys.

Library catalog for the NYU Law School Library.