Expand your legal research options with online resources provided by the William M. Rains Library. These resources are available to LLS faculty, students, and staff. For information about off-campus access, scroll down to the bottom of the table.
*In the event the proxy server goes down, authenticating for off-site access will not be possible, however, if on-campus, you can access these databases directly using the links from the On-Campus Database List page.
| Database Name | Contents |
|---|---|
| AILAlink |
AILALink is a research database intended to be a one-stop shop for immigration law research. AILALink contains an electronic copy of most AILA publications, including popular publications such as Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook, Business Immigration: Law and Practice, AILA’s Asylum Primer, Immigration Consequences of Criminal Activity, AILA’s Toolbox series, and many more. More Details |
| American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990 |
American Civil Liberties Union Papers, 1912-1990, part of the Making of Modern Law collection, draws from the records of the ACLU. It focuses on civil rights, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. More Details |
| Archives of Sexuality and Gender |
Archives of Sexuality & Gender presents aspects of LGBTQ life in the second half of the twentieth century and beyond. This collection contains material drawn from hundreds of institutions and organizations, including both major international activist organizations and local, grassroots groups. More Details |
| Aspen Learning Library (formerly Wolters Kluwer) |
The Aspen Learning Library platform contains over 200 study aids, including Examples & Explanations series, Glannon Guides, Emanuel Law Outlines and Crunchtime and Casenote Legal Briefs. It also includes the Bar Collection. More Details |
| Bloomberg BNA |
100+ newsletters and reports More Details |
| Bloomberg Law |
Case law, dockets, secondary sources, news, companies and people More Details |
| Brill Online Books and Journals |
Founded in 1683, Brill is a publishing house with a rich history and a strong international focus. Brills publications focus on the Humanities and Social Sciences, International Law and selected areas in the Sciences. More Details |
| CALI Lessons |
Over 1,000 CALI Lessons covering narrow topics of law. More Details |
| CEB AccessLaw |
Access to OnLaw content covering over 150 California-specific secondary sources across 20+ practice areas. Step-by-step procedural assistance. Legal practice guides. Legal action guides. Legal reporters. Attorney drafted forms. Arbitration and contract language. Searchable primary case law with citator. Unlimited lawyering skills programs.
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| CEB OnLAW |
Access to more than 150 of CEB's California practice guides. Expert step-by-step guidance, legal analysis and forms needed to practice law in California. More Details |
| Checkpoint Edge |
Tax Court cases, Internal Revenue Code & regulations, tax treaties, administrative materials, tax journals, U.S. Tax Reporter & Federal Tax Coordinator More Details |
| Current Index to Legal Periodicals |
A weekly current index to legal periodicals providing legal researchers with the fastest, most cost-effective current awareness tool. More Details |
| Directory of Open Access Journals |
Quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals. Aims to cover all subjects and languages More Details |
| DocketBird for Libraries |
DocketBird is one of the world's largest repositories of federal court cases and documents. They have millions of cases and documents in their database, including nearly every pending case. DocketBird is trusted by hundreds of law firms, consulting companies, and investment firms to provide up-to-the-minute updates in civil, criminal, bankruptcy, and appellate cases. More Details |
| EBSCOhost eBook Collection |
This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary e-book titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter. Also included in this package are Wolters Kluwer casebooks. More Details |
| EBSCOhost Research Databases |
Humanities, Social Science, and General Science databases including full-text from Business News, Education, History, Legal, and Psychology publications. More Details |
| Elgar Online |
The Elgar online content platform provides browsable and searchable access to Edward Elgar Publishing's e-books online. The law collection focuses on a wide range of legal areas including: international and comparative law, intellectual property, trade, finance and commercial law, information and technology, antitrust, environmental and energy law, European law, corporate and financial law, and law and economics. 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 |
| Gale Primary Sources |
Allows searching across all Gale Primary Source holdings in our subscription, which includes The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926; The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources; The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926; and U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978. More Details |
| Hein Online |
The world’s largest image-based legal research collection with more than 100 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. Comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,800 law and law-related periodicals. More Details |
| ICLR Online |
Online platform including ICLR's Law Reports and Weekly Law Reports covering case law from the Superior and Appellate Courts in England and Wales. The platform also includes: case summaries, a citator service, access to legislation, and individual profiles in order to manage complex research. More Details |
| Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals |
550+ law reviews & legal periodicals, US & worldwide; international and comparative 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 |
| 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 |
| Kluwer Competition Law |
KluwerCompetitionLaw is a fully searchable collection of primary source material, commentary and analysis covering competition law, organized into the specific topics of antitrust, mergers, state aid and special sectors. Its principal focus is the European Union and its member states, but it does provide materials for other jurisdictions. More Details |
| KluwerArbitration.com |
World's leading online resource for international arbitration research More Details |
| Law.com |
Law.com is the premiere source for trusted and timely legal news and analysis. Publications include The American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, The National Law Journal, The New York Law Journal, and The Recorder. A full list of titles in our enterprise-wide subscription are listed on the law.com/publications page. More Details |
| Law360 |
Law360 provides daily coverage of the emerging litigation, policy developments and legal trends you need to know about to stay ahead. Unlimited access to all 43 Law360 news sections and to Law360 archive. More Details |
| Law360 Pulse |
Law360 Pulse combines Law360's award-winning journalism with powerful data and analytics from Lexis+™ to deliver unparalleled business of law coverage, timely insights and industry intelligence to stay on top of issues and trends. 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 Source (includes Index to Legal Periodicals) |
The authoritative source for current issues, studies, thoughts and trends of the legal world. More than 1,100 full-text journals. Detailed indexing for legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications and university publications. More than 300 law reviews. Over 2 million records, including book reviews and case studies. 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 |
| Loyola Law School Digital Library |
An extensive collection of eBook resources, including Study Aids Series: Questions & Answers and Understanding Series More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML I): Legal Treatises, 1800-1926 |
22,000 legal treatises on US and British law More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML II): U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs |
Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML III): Trials 1600-1926 |
The world's most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American trials. More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML IV + V): Primary Sources |
Early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML VI): Foreign, Comparative, and Int'l Law, 1600-1926 |
Worldwide-focused legal theory texts, historical accounts of foreign law, and close comparative inspections of international law systems in a wide array of legal fields. More Details |
| Making of Modern Law (MoML XI + XII): Records/Briefs in US Court of Appeals |
Hard-to-find legal briefs and records which mark the transformation of the American federal appellate court system. More Details |
| Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law |
Comprehensive work covering the central and essential topics in international law. More Details |
| New York Times |
NYTimes.com is a multi-platform news tool that provides full access to New York Times and International New York Times content, including breaking news, multimedia, reviews and opinion, blogs, videos and more. NYTimes.com is updated 24/7 with corresponding time stamps. From the home page, one can access more than 25 Times sections, including World, Politics, New York, Opinion, Business, Technology, Science, Sports, Arts, Fashion & Style, and Video. More Details |
| Nolo |
The nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. More Details |
| Oxford Constitutions of the World |
Fully-translated English-language versions of all the world's constitutions (both national and sub-national), accompanied by individual commentaries, supplementary materials, including foundation documents, historical constitutions, and amendment Acts/laws. More Details |
| Oxford Handbooks Online |
Oxford Handbooks Online is an outstanding collection of the best Handbooks areas across many different subject areas. One of the most prestigious and successful strands of Oxford’s scholarly publishing, the Handbook series contains in-depth, high-level articles by scholars at the top of their field. 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 Legal Research Library |
Oxford Legal Research Library (OLRL) provides integrated access across collections of key law titles in a variety of subject areas. OLRL includes four collections, three of which are included in our subscription: International Commercial Arbitration, International Commercial Law, and Private International Law. More Details |
| Oxford Reports on International Law |
Current coverage of public international case law, reporting on international courts, domestic courts and ad hoc tribunals. Case reports contain the full text of each decision, headnote, as well as analytical commentary and English translations of a number of key non-English decisions. More Details |
| Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law |
Over 180 full-text online editions of market-leading reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, including Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law. More Details |
| Oxford Scholarship Online |
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® Congressional Hearings Digital Collection |
Indexing/abstracting United States Congressional Hearings, including unpublished Hearings, with searchable PDFs. 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® Regulatory Insight |
Companion to Legislative Insight. Regulatory Insight takes you to the next stage after a law has been passed. Provides researchers with workflow solutions to facilitate research tasks associated with administrative law. More Details |
| ProQuest® Supreme Court Insight |
Supreme Court Insight, is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document by document basis. More Details |
| SCC Online |
India's legal database. Access complete coverage of the Supreme Court, all High Courts, Tribunals and Commissions, Statutory Material and many foreign jurisdictions and International material. 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 Notes |
Tax Notes
Tax Notes Today
Federal Research Library More Details |
| Trends & Policy: U.S. Immigration |
Trends & Policy is a series of in-depth primary source collections to support research and learning on policy related to today’s most pressing issues. This collection connects policies implemented by the U.S. government with the data-driven results and trends of those policies and provides context with analytical reports and news articles. Includes Public Laws, Hearings, Bills, Vote reports, Congressional Research reports, Government Accountability Office reports, Executive Branch reports and statistics, news articles from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, and the Los Angeles Times 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 |
| University Press Scholarship Online |
Access thousands of academic books across the humanities, social sciences, sciences, medicine, and law. Our library has purchased scholarship modules from the following presses: NYU, Princeton, Cornell, Illinois, Yale, Manchester, Oxford, Chicago, Edinburgh, and Policy Press.
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| VitalLaw™ Platform (formerly known as Cheetah) |
VitalLaw provides access to in-depth knowledge and expertise from WK attorney specialists and experts including deep, rich, analytical content and explanations; curated primary source (laws, regulations, and cases) with history lines and notes; a variety of CCH and Aspen Publishers titles; practical tools, news, webinars, white papers, and blogs. Practice areas include Antitrust & Competition, Banking & Consumer Finance, Bankruptcy, Cybersecurity and Privacy, Government Contracts, Health Care, Intellectual Property, Labor and Employment Law, Litigation, Products Liability & Insurance, Securities and Tax. More Details |
| vLex Justis |
Case law, legislation, books & magazines, forms & contracts, news and other legal content from over 140 countries. Includes International Law Reports, English Reports, State Trials, vLex United Kingdom Core, Global News Collection, vLex Canada Core, vLex India Core, vLex United States Core, vLex Europe , vLex America Latina. More Details |
| Washington Post |
Expert reporting and analysis from Washington and around the world, including award-winning investigative coverage and editorial commentary. More Details |
| West Academic Study Aids |
The West Academic Study Aids Digital Collection offers you unlimited digital access to hundreds of study aids covering virtually every law school subject. You’ll have comprehensive coverage authored by noted law professors, exceptional mobility, 24/7 digital access, easy searching, professional-quality audio and video, and economical plan options. The content includes audio lectures and interactive Exam Pro practice questions that let you prepare for multiple choice exams. More Details |
| Westlaw |
Laws, statutes, regulations, court decisions, KeyCite, AmJur, ALR, and law reviews More Details |
| Westlaw ProView |
Various legal e-books and looseleafs on California and Federal Law, such as the Rutter Group California Practice Guides, Federal law and practice. More Details |
For off-campus access:
- If a database is marked with as asterisk, you must contact the reference desk, at 213-736-1177 or reference@lls.edu, to obtain the password.
- If you're accessing these resources 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 LLS credentials. 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 licensed databases are accessible to LLS faculty, students, and staff by using their LLS login at the MyLMU login prompt.
Law School faculty, students, and staff may also use LexisNexis, Westlaw, and Bloomberg Law. See Westlaw/Lexis/Bloomberg quick links page. For additional information, see Computer Lab.