Comprehensive legal research database. Extensive coverage of law reviews and historical access to resources such as the Federal Register, the Code of Federal Regulations, and US Supreme Court decisions. Legislative history and select foreign and international materials. Contains specialized libraries: intellectual property, taxation and economic reform, etc.
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Indexing for major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals, and international legal journals. Law-related articles from business and general interest titles.
U.S. and international scholarly journals, it includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other material relevant for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement and related fields. A recommended resource for researching criminology, prisons and incarceration, policing, the criminal justice system.
Trial transcripts, court proceedings, police and forensic documents, photographs, true crime literature and detective novels, and newspaper accounts derived from French, German, Spanish, Australian, British and U.S. sources.
The documents in this collection are from the US Federal Courts. A large collection come from the federal government's project for Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER). The PACER Service Center is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.
Comprehensive news on criminal justice in the US and abroad. Investigative reports, analysis, blogs and commentary by criminologists, practitioners, law enforcement/corrections professionals, and legal experts. Daily summaries criminal justice news covered by the national and international press.
News and newspaper stories, federal and state court cases, US law reviews and journals, company profiles and directories. Company Dossier; data on public figures.
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Over half a million pages of briefs from appellants, appellees, and supporters (amicus briefs), with their respective replies, as well as appendices, memoranda, petitions, plaintiff statements, transcripts, and more from the various circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.
Digital images of legal treatises on British Commonwealth and American law. Coverage includes casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.
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