Databases
Expand your legal research options with online sources provided by the William M. Rains Library. These services are available to LLS faculty, students, and staff. For information about off-campus access, scroll down to the bottom of the table.
| Database Name | Contents |
|---|---|
| AccessUN |
Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations More Details |
| AudioCaseFiles |
MP3 files of Judicial opinions with full text of the opinion, a brief fact summary and the rule of law More Details |
| Bloomberg BNA |
100+ newsletters and reports More Details |
| Bloomberg Law |
Case law, dockets, secondary sources, news, companies and people More Details |
| BNA Corporate Practice Library |
In-depth analysis and practical guidance from expert legal practitioners in the series portfolios, plus the latest news in the weekly More Details |
| BNA Health Law & Business Library |
In-depth legal analysis of the most important issues affecting the health care industry More Details |
| BNA Intellectual Property Law Resource Center |
Resources on patent, trademark, copyright, and other areas of intellectual property law. Includes cases, statutes, regulations, analytical materials, and more More Details |
| BNA Labor & Employment Law Resource Center |
Complete resource for cases, guidance and news in: fair employment practices; individual employment rights; Americans with Disabilities; wages and hours; labor-management relations; collective bargaining; and labor arbitration More Details |
| BNA Tax & Accounting Center |
Expert analysis, news & commentary, primary sources, cases/decisions, and practice tools More Details |
| Cambridge Journals Online |
Over one hundred journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities More Details |
| CCH IntelliConnect |
Primary and secondary materials relating to domestic and global securities, banking, trade regulation, government contracts, telecom, information technology, federal energy guidelines, transportation law, and products liability and safety More Details |
| Constitutions of Dependencies & Territories |
English translations of the constitutions of territories and dependencies and relevant federal constitutional provisions More Details |
| Constitutions of the Countries of the World |
English translations of 192 national constitutions More Details |
| Current Index to Legal Periodicals |
A weekly current index to legal periodicals available as an HTML file, in MS Word, or as a PDF More Details |
| CVN Courtroom Video |
Online courtroom video repository with thousands of hours of trials, hearings, and oral arguments from civil cases More Details |
| De Gruyter Journals |
High quality peer-reviewed journals, on a variety of topics, that offer cutting edge research quickly More Details |
| Directory of Open Access Journals |
Quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages More Details |
| EBSCOhost Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text |
More than 300,000 records selected from the most important sources within the discipline. Full text for more than 200 titles More Details |
| EBSCOhost EJS |
8000+ journals across multiple disciplines More Details |
| Encyclopedia of Human Rights |
Comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history More Details |
| Foreign Law Guide |
Current Sources of Codes and Basic
Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World More Details |
| Hein Online |
Law Journal Library: 1,200+ law review journals; 600,000+ articles
More than 80 million pages of legal history available in a fully-searchable, image-based format. More Details |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals |
550+ law reviews & legal periodicals, US & worldwide; international and comparative More Details |
| Index to Legal Periodicals & Books |
Cites articles from the most important legal periodicals and law books: access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews, and more More Details |
| Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective |
750+ legal periodicals published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand More Details |
| InterAm * |
Commercial, trade and investment legislation and other legal materials from 25 countries in the Americas More Details |
| International Courts of General Jurisdiction |
Comprehensive coverage of decisions from the most important and general international courts More Details |
| International Criminal Law |
Decisions from a range of international criminal courts and tribunals. More Details |
| International Encyclopaedia of Laws |
25 distinct reference works; information and insight into both national and international legal frameworks More Details |
| International Human Rights Law |
International decisions on human rights from a variety of global and regional courts More Details |
| International Law in Domestic Courts |
Expert English translations of case law from over 65 jurisdictions. More Details |
| Justis |
Justis is a full text online legal library of UK, Irish and EU case law dating back to 1163 and legislation from 1235 More Details |
| KluwerArbitration.com |
World's leading online resource for international arbitration research More Details |
| Law Journal Press Online |
Online version of Law Journal Press print treatises. More Details |
| Legal Information Reference Center |
More than 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the full-text legal reference books are provided through Nolo. More Details |
| Legal Resource Index (LegalTrac) |
1,300+ English-language law reviews, legal newspapers & bar journals More Details |
| LexisNexis |
Cases, codes, legislation, secondary sources, legal and business news, public records More Details |
| LLMC Digital |
Court opinions from the US Supreme Court, Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit & Court of Customs & Patent Appeals More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML I): TREATISES |
22,000 legal treatises on US and British law More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML III): TRIALS |
The world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American trials. More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML IV): PRIMARY SOURCES I |
Early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML V): PRIMARY SOURCES II |
Early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. More Details |
| Mango Languages |
More than 40 foreign language courses and 16 English as a Second Language (ESL) courses. More Details |
| Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law |
Comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law. More Details |
| Nolo |
The nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. More Details |
| OnLAW |
Access to more than 130 of CEB's California practice guides. Expert step-by-step guidance, legal analysis and forms needed to practice law in California More Details |
| Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History |
Provides both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems. Covers legal history from ancient to modern times. More Details |
| Oxford Scholarship Online - LAW |
Over 3,000 carefully-selected Oxford books. Full-text access to the Law module. Abstract and keyword access in all other subjects. More Details |
| Parry and Grant Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law |
Coverage in growing areas of international law including diplomatic law, criminal law, human rights, and more. More Details |
| ProQuest® Congressional |
Hearings, Bills, Committee Reports and Prints, Congressional Record, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register and Public Laws More Details |
| ProQuest® Legislative Insight |
Legislative Histories include Public Law text, enacted and related bills, Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and documents; committee prints, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications. More Details |
| ProQuest® Statistical Datasets |
Access to 12 billion data points from licensed and public domain datasets. Scan the contents of over 580 datasets, select subjects and variables of interest, and view your data in side-by-side tables and charts. More Details |
| RIA Checkpoint Tax Library |
Tax Court cases, Internal Revenue Code & regulations, tax treaties, administrative materials, tax journals, U.S. Tax Reporter & Federal Tax Coordinator More Details |
| Social Science Research Network (SSRN) |
Abstract Database containing abstracts on over 153,600 scholarly working papers and forthcoming papers; Electronic Paper Collection containing over 121,500 downloadable full text documents in PDF format. More Details |
| Tax Analysts Web Services |
Tax Notes
Tax Notes Today
Federal Research Library More Details |
| TradeLawGuide |
All jurisprudence and procedural documents from World Trade Organization (WTO) More Details |
| Treaties and International Agreements Online |
15,000 treaties and international agreements More Details |
| United Nations Treaty Collection |
Multilateral, bilateral, and recently deposited multilateral treaties More Details |
| United States Congressional Serial Set |
Reports, Documents, and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives More Details |
| United States Supreme Court Records and Briefs (MoML II) |
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court More Details |
| v|Lex |
Case law, legislation, books & magazines, forms & contracts, news and other legal content from over 140 countries More Details |
| Westlaw |
Laws, statutes, regulations, court decisions, KeyCite, AmJur, ALR, and law reviews More Details |
| Westlaw China |
Single-source access to law from the People's Republic of China More Details |
| WorldTradeLaw.net |
Summary and analysis of reports and arbitrations; dispute settlement tables and statistics More Details |
For off-campus access:
- If a database is marked with as asterisk, you must call the reference desk, at 213-736-1177, to obtain the password.
- Log in to your My Library Record. Or click on a database link, and if you're off-campus, you will automatically be re-routed through the proxy link to log in. You will only be required to login once using your First Name Last Name, and 7-digit ID number, located on your ID card, in the barcode box. After initial login you'll be authenticated for off-campus access.
Many more databases, indexes, and other research tools covering a wide variety of topics are available via LMU's Hannon Library. LMU databases are only accessible on-campus, unless you're an LLS faculty or staff with a LMU OneCard.
Law School faculty, students, and staff may also use LexisNexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law. For more information, see Computer Lab.
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