Subscriptions A - N
NOTE: As a registered law student at Santa Clara University Law School, you have access to the following subscription legal research services. In order to access the majority of these, the link will direct you to the OSCAR Library Catalog record. Please follow the proxy link provided in the OSCAR record; you may need to be on campus in order to follow the proxy link for access. Additionally, you already have a login and password to some of these services, notably Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis, Westlaw, and CEB OnLaw. These logins and passwords were provided to you in your first semester as a law student. If you do not have your login and password, please contact the research librarians at lawref@scu.edu.
- Access UN
Extensive index to United Nations documents including official records, draft resolutions, and the UN Treaty Series citations.
Please use your login and password provided to you by the research librarians in your first semester of law school. If you do not have your login or password, please contact the reference librarians at lawref@scu.edu.
Bloomberg Law provides access to primary and secondary legal materials including cases, statutes, regulation, federal trial documents, and secondary sources. It also offers extensive company and market information.
Please use your login and password provided to you by the research librarians in your first semester of law school. If you do not have your login or password, please contact the reference librarians at lawref@scu.edu.
CEB OnLaw provides access to all CEB California secondary sources in curated practice area libraries.
- Checkpoint Edge (formerly RIA Checkpoint)
Checkpoint Edge contains a number of databases dealing with estate planning, international taxation, accounting, auditing, corporate finance, pensions, benefits, and payroll.
CQ Almanac is an annual reference source that reports on the annual activities of the U.S. Congress. It was published from 1945-2010. It contains original narrative accounts of every major piece of legislation that lawmakers considered during a congressional session.
A news magazine featuring in-depth reporting on public policy, politics, congressional legislation, and elections extending back to 1983, including: a complete wrap-up of news on Congress, the status of bills in play, behind-the-scenes maneuvering, committee and floor activity, debates, and all roll-call votes
Fastcase libraries include primary law from all 50 states, as well as deep federal coverage going back to 1 U.S. 1, 1 F.2d 1, 1 F.Supp. 1, and 1 B.R. 1. The Fastcase collection includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. Fastcase also provides access to a newspaper archive, legal forms, and a one-stop PACER search of federal filings.
- Foreign Law Guide
Global Jurist offers a forum for scholarly cyber-debate on issues of comparative law, law and economics, international law, law and society, and legal anthropology.
HeinOnline is a premier online research platform that provides more than 204 million pages of multidisciplinary periodicals, essential government documents, international resources, case law, and much more.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books is an excellent resource for attorneys, educators, business people, law librarians, students, paralegals and others involved with the law, providing complete coverage of the most important English language legal information, with international coverage of scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more.
Index of Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981 is a retrospective database that indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.
Kluwer Arbitration is a leading resource for international arbitration. It contains commentary from expert authors and a collection of primary source materials of more than 9,500 court decisions and arbitral awards including ICC and ICCA.
The above link does not provide direct access to Law.com materials. Please contact a research librarian at lawref@scu.edu in order to obtain access.
Law.com provides access to the legal news materials of The Recorder as well as the California Daily Opinion Service.
Law 360 provides news and analysis on legal developments including litigation filings, case settlements, verdicts, regulation, enforcement, legislation, corporate deals, etc.
A sophisticated directory of people in government, business and media, with contact information. Search by person or office/entity.
Please use your login and password provided to you by the research librarians in your first semester of law school. If you do not have your login or password, please contact the reference librarians at lawref@scu.edu.
LexisNexis is a comprehensive database of primary and secondary legal information, business sources, news, and public records.
LexisNexis China contains a wide variety of Chinese legal materials, including statutes, cases, and secondary sources.
Nexis Uni is a full-text database of federal and state laws, newspapers, and magazine articles. This is a selective version of LexisNexis and is available to all SCU students, including undergraduates.
Subscriptions M - Z
NOTE: As a registered law student at Santa Clara University Law School, you have access to the following subscription legal research services. In order to access the majority of these, the link will direct you to the OSCAR Library Catalog record. Please follow the proxy link provided in the OSCAR record; you may need to be on campus in order to follow the proxy link for access. Additionally, you already have a login and password to some of these services, notably Bloomberg Law, LexisNexis, Westlaw, and CEB OnLaw. These logins and passwords were provided to you in your first semester as a law student. If you do not have your login and password, please contact the research librarians at lawref@scu.edu.
- The Making of Modern Law Series
The Making of Modern Law is a series of databases featuring primary and secondary legal resources dating back to the 1600s.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926 is the most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises available today. Sourced from the world's foremost law libraries, this archive covers nearly every aspect of American and British law and encompasses a broad array of the analytical, theoretical, and practical literature for research in U.S. and British legal history. It features casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other works from the most influential writers and legal thinkers of the time.
The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1626-1926 contains a virtual goldmine of information for researchers of American legal history—a fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state and territorial codes, municipal codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests, and more. Note that the term "primary sources" is used not in the historian's sense of a manuscript, letter or diary, but rather in the legal sense of a case, statute or regulation.
The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926 is the world's most comprehensive full-text collection of documents from Anglo-American trials. In addition to works pertaining to English-speaking jurisdictions such as the United States, Britain, Ireland, and Canada, this digital archive also contains English-language titles about trials in other jurisdictions, such as France. Users will find published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and other trial documents that were printed as separate publications; official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings, and arbitration sessions (domestic and international); and books encompassing multiple trials as well as books and pamphlets about a single trial.
The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600–1926 complements The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926 and provides researchers with instant, full-text access to foreign, comparative, and international legal literature. This collection gathers together over 2,700 titles across nearly 3,500 individual volumes, totaling 1.4 million pages, that address issues in the realms of foreign, comparative, Islamic, Jewish, and even Roman and ancient law. The vast majority of the titles—over 2,000—concentrate on international law, while more than 800 titles devoted to foreign law address legal systems in specific countries.
The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978 contains the world's most comprehensive online collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners—many who later became judges and associates of the Supreme Court itself. It 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.
PLI Plusis the Practising Law Institute’s research database which provides electronic access to the full collection of PLI Press publications, including treatises, form books, and CLE course handbooks.
Proquest Congressional is a comprehensive and excellent source of information for Congressional materials, including House and Senate committee reports and hearings.
The above link does not provide direct access. In order to access the tax materials, please contact a research librarian at lawref@scu.edu.
VitalLaw Tax provides access to various and extensive CCH tax materials.
Please use your login and password provided to you by the research librarians in your first semester of law school. If you do not have your login or password, please contact the reference librarians at lawref@scu.edu.
Westlaw is a comprehensive database of primary and secondary legal information, business sources, news, and public records.
