Here is a list of online resources available to College of Law students
and faculty. If you would like to search for the availability of an item
at a Florida International University library, search the catalog here.
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Bureau of National Affairs newsletters, reporters, and reference libraries.
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CALI:
The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction
CALI includes hundreds of lessons in a number of fields of law
that law students can use to improve their comprehension.
Restrictions: Passwords and CDs available at the Reference
Desk. |
Congressional
Universe
Congressional Universe is a database of U.S. congressional
information, including the full text of bills, reports, and
hearings. Most publications are searchable by keyword or by
citation, in addition to other terms, such as witness or bill
sponsor.
Click here
to connect to Congressional Universe |
Constitutions of the Countries of the World
Constitutions of the Countries of the World Online contains the full text for the constitutions of 192 nations, 144 territories and dependencies and the Constitution of the United States and each of the 50 states. The database gives the full text of the constitutions in their original language with translations into English and notes that examine recent amendments and highlights of pertinent historical, political and economic information
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here to connect to Constitutions of the Countries of the World |
Florida
Law Weekly
Online version of the Florida Law Weekly, Florida Law Weekly
Supplement and the Florida Law Weekly Federal, this contains
Florida state, county and traffic cases. It also contains federal
cases from the state of Florida.
Click
here to connect to Florida
Law Weekly |
Foreign Law Guide
An invaluable source for locating primary sources of legislation for foreign jurisdictions. For each country there is a brief introduction to the legal system, a list of codifications, gazettes and other sources of law. After clicking on Foreign Law Guide, click on "Subscriber Login."
Click here to
connect to Foreign Law Guide |
HeinOnline
HeinOnline has four major library collections: the Law Journal
Library, the Federal Register Library, the Treaties and Agreements
Library, and the U.S. Supreme Court Library. The Law Journal
Library includes older issues of many journals.
Click here to
connect to HeinOnline |
Index
to Foreign Legal Periodicals
The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals indexes articles from more than 450 legal periodicals from 1985 to the present. The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals covers international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth.
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here to connect to the Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals |
Index
to Legal Periodicals
The Index to Legal Periodicals indexes articles from legal periodicals
(beginning as early as 1981, depending on the periodical) and
indexes law books (since 1993). Periodical coverage includes
law reviews, bar journals, institutes, government publications
and more. Once logged into the Index to Legal Periodicals, the
researcher can get additional information on this resource by
clicking on the "i" button.
Click
here to connect to the Index to Legal Periodicals |
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective
Index to Legal Periodicals information from 1918 to 1981.
Click here to connect to the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective |
InterAm
InterAm database is an on-line collection of primary and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas, on trade and investment and other related topical areas (environment, intellectual property, immigration, family law, real property, banking & credit) primarily in original language (Spanish or Portuguese) but with increasing numbers of materials translated into English.
Click here to connect to InterAm |
International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC)
A case reporting service for public international law issues from domestic courts around the world. Includes detailed analysis of the cases and is fully searchable.
Click here to connect to International Law in Domestic Courts |
The
Internet Guide for the Legal Researcher
Online version of the book, The Internet Guide for the Legal
Researcher, this source provides detailed information on using
the internet as a legal research tool, from email to web sites.
Restrictions: Passwords available at the Reference Desk
Restrictions: Passwords available at the Reference
Desk. |
KluwerArbitration
KluwerArbitration.com, in association with the International Council of Commercial Arbitration (ICCA), the Institute for Transnational Arbitration (ITA), and the Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA); is a fully-searchable database of primary and secondary materials in the field of International Commercial Arbitration. Covers conventions, legislation, rules, model clauses and case law; includes ICCA Yearbook of Commercial Arbitration, Asian Journal of International Arbitration, Journal of International Arbitration.
Click here to connect to KluwerArbitration Click “Enter” , provide “e-mail”, under “International”.
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Latin Lawyer
The definitive resource for business lawyers in Latin America.
Click here to connect to Latin Lawyer |
Leadership Directories
There are a number of different Yellow Books, which contain biographical and contact information on leaders and executives from over 30,000 organizations across the United States. The books include federal and state government officials. Restrictions: Passwords available at the Reference Desk.
Click here to connect to Leadership Directories |
Legal Affairs
Online articles "at the
intersection of law and life."
Click here to connect to Legal Affairs |
LegalTrac
(also known as Legal Resource Index)
LegalTrac indexes over 800 legal periodicals by subject or keyword.
Coverage begins around 1980 for most journals. For earlier articles,
see HeinOnline.
Click here to connect to LegalTrac |
LexisNexis
Argentina
Lexis-Nexis Argentina contains the full text of primary and secondary legal sources from Argentina; national and state (provincial) constitutions, laws, statutes, resolutions and conventions; summaries and full text of cases and commentaries to cases with links to books citing the specified case since 1864; it provides the full text of over 400 books from Abeledo-Perrot and Depalma, publishers.
Restrictions: Passwords available at the Reference
Desk. |
LLMC
Digital
Full text searchable database of legal literature and government
documents digitized from microform. |
Microjuris International - Chile – Argentina - Venezuela
Microjuris provides full text access to statutes, laws, decrees and regulations, decisions and commentaries for cases from Chile, Argentina and Venezuela in the original language. Each country is a separate database accessed thru a common interface. Venezuela provides for English translations of main laws.
Restrictions: Passwords available at the Reference
Desk. |
Social
Sciences Abstracts [via FirstSearch]
Social Sciences Abstracts indexes 350+ international scholarly
journals and popular magazines in the social sciences, from
1983 to the present.
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here to connect to Social Science Abstracts |
Terrorism Online
Terrorism: Documents of International and Local Control, First Series is an extensive collection of significant documents covering all major and minor issues and events regarding terrorism. Government reports, executive orders, speeches, court proceedings and position papers are presented in full text reprint.
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here to connect to Terrorism Online |
Treaties Index Online
Treaties Index Online is a comprehensive index to United States Treaties and International Agreements. Treaties Index provides a list of relevant treaties and includes all index information available for the treaty.
Click
here to connect to Treaties Index Online |
United Nations Treaty Collection
The United Nations Treaty Collection includes the texts of treaties from the UN Treaty Series and the League of Nations Treaty Series.
Click here to connect to the United Nations Treaty Collection |
World
Law Index [via RLG/Eureka]
The World Law Index describes the laws and regulations of
Spanish- and Portuguese- speaking countries, 1976-1997. It
is continued by the Global Legal Information Network.
Click
here to connect to World Law Index |
