Abbreviationes currently comprises over 70,000 entries containing a total of 80,098 references to manuscripts. Based on a large number of manuscripts from all fields, held at a wide variety of libraries throughout Europe – from Catania in the South, Uppsala in the North, Coimbra in the West to St. Petersburg in the East, Abbreviationes includes large collections such as the manuscripts held by the Vatican Library and the libraries at Oxford and Paris as well as many smaller collections. Major collections in the U.S. such as the manuscripts held by the Morgan Library (New York City) and the Huntington Library (San Marino, California), are also included. The entries in the database cover the period from the 8th century up to and including the 15th century. (BC Access)
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A collection of local, regional, and international news sources. Additionally it provides access to many sources of foreign news in translation. (BC access)
AccessUN access to current and retrospective United Nations documents and publications from 1991 - present. Includes official records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Also includes the full-text of several thousand UN documents. (BC Access)
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Comprises John Adams’s complete diaries, selected legal papers, and the ongoing series of family correspondence and state papers. This XML edition presents in a searchable online environment all 30 volumes of the Adams Papers from the founding generation published through 2006. The contents are fully annotated, feature linked cross-references, and may be accessed by date, series, author, or recipient, as well as through a master index (coming shortly). Future volumes will appear in installments. (BC Access)
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A comprehensive web-based library of primary and secondary immigration law materials, AILALink is created by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. It includes the full text of Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook and many other books, as well as links to cases, statutes, regulations, forms and the newsletter Immigration Law Today. (BC Law Access)
This database covers the multitude of ways humans interact with and explore the earthly skies and distant reaches of outer space. Content in this database is separated into Suborbital Space and Orbital Space. (BC access)
An integrated research environment that covers the correspondence of a number of key figures from America’s founding era. Included are the papers of George Washington, Adams Family members, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Dolley Madison and the correspondence of Eliza Lucas Pinckney and Harriott Pinckney Horry. Also includes The Documentary History of the Ratification of the Constitution. (BC Access)
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Comprises more than 900 unique titles and more than 900,000 pages dedicated to American Indian Law, including an expansive archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence, as well as rare compilations edited by Felix S. Cohen that have never before been accessible online. (BC Access)
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The American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline) contains the Guide to ALI Publications, the Statements of Essential Human Rights, and drafts of the Uniform Commercial Code. (BC Access)
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Papers of the Presidents contain most public messages, statements, speeches, and news conference remarks. Documents such as Proclamations, Executive Orders, and similar documents that are published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations, are usually not included for the presidencies of Herbert Hoover through Gerald Ford (1929-1977), but are included beginning with the administration of Jimmy Carter (1977). The documents within the Public Papers are arranged chronologically.
American State Papers, 1789-1838 includes legislative and executive documents from the first through the 14th U.S. Congresses. (BC Access)
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To obtain access to the Arizona Handbooks, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. Arizona Handbooks comprise the following: The Government Honors and Internship Handbook is a current and continually updated comprehensive source of available programs for law students, LLM students, and judicial clerks seeking government internships or post-graduate honors programs. The Public Policy Handbook provides information on internships and after-graduation positions in organizations, federal agencies and other institutions engaged in policy analysis and implementation.
Digital versions of popular Aspen online study aids, including Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel CrunchTime, Casenote Legal Briefs, and others. Register to create an account for personalized services: password must be between 6 and 32 characters and include all of the following: upper case, lower case, numerical, and special characters (BC Law School access)
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BC Libraries Electronic Databases provides access to the many electronic databases to which Boston College subscribes. Search by database name or by subject. Select the CrossSearch tab to search across multiple databases. (Web)
BillTrack50.com is a free web service that provides searching and access to currently-pending legislation in all 51 state jurisdictions and the U.S. Congress.
Consists of 4 modules: two modules of Federal Government Records, and two modules of Organizational Records and Personal Papers offering documentation and a variety of perspectives on the 20th century fight for freedom. (BC Access)
Bloomberg Law is a legal research database that includes case law, unannotated statutory codes, regulatory materials, docket information, news analysis, and financial information. Access is via personal username and password, and is limited to current Boston College Law School students, faculty, and library staff.
Built on the foundation of the Tax Management Portfolios™, Bloomberg Law: Tax is a comprehensive tax research solution, providing an easy-to-use interface with fast and easy access to expert analysis, in-depth news, extensive primary source materials, and a full range of practitioner-developed tools exclusive to Bloomberg BNA. (Personal password required)
Bridgeman Education is a dedicated service that supports the use of high-quality images in education, be it teaching, research or reference. With over 300,000 images from museums, galleries, private collections and contemporary artists all copyright cleared for educational use, Bridgeman Education provides access to the visual culture of every civilization and every period from Prehistory to the present day across continents and civilizations. (BC Access)
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CALI: The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction - CALI is a consortium of law schools that researches and develops computer-assisted legal instruction. The CALI Library of Lessons is a collection of over 600 interactive, self-paced computer-based lessons covering 32 legal education subject areas. The lessons are designed to augment traditional law school instruction and can be assigned as supplemental study material or integrated with other course materials. (Password Access)
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Each Casenote Legal Brief volume provides expert case summaries including the black letter law, facts, majority opinion, concurrences, and dissents, as well as analysis of the case. Part of the Aspen Learning Library. (BC Law access)
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Checkpoint (formerly RIA Checkpoint) provides full-text access to a wide variety of federal, state and international tax resources, including US Tax Reporter, Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, US tax treaties, a citator service, a dictionary, tax alert services, and selected journals and WG&L tax treatises. Use the drop-down menu on the left to select a practice area -- e.g. Federal, International, State & Local, etc. (BC Law Access)
[See LawInfoChina for English language version.] This resource is an up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive database of Chinese laws and regulations in Chinese. It also includes cases, tax treaties, WTO & China, gazettes, and law journals. (BC Access)
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Provides daily coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business, the environment, and society. (BC Access)
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Colonial State Papers has two components. First, the "CO1" collection "Privy Council and related bodies: America and West Indies, Colonial Papers," contains scanned images of about 7,000 documents (over 50,000 pages) that were presented to the Privy Council and the Board of Trade between 1574-1757, and which relate to England's governance of, and activities in, the American, Canadian and West Indian colonies. Second, the "Calendar of State Papers, Colonial: North America and the West Indies 1574-1739," is a bibliographic database containing over 40,000 descriptive records. The Calendar provides summary records for CO1, as well as many other collections relating to the colonial past. Many of the bibliographic entries in the Calendar include full transcriptions, extracts or summary abstracts. The entire database is fully searchable. (BC Access)
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Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) covers a wide range of scholarship focusing on theory and research in international affairs; includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs. 1991 to present. (BC Access)
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Congressional Documents (HeinOnline): This database contains the full text of the Congressional Record, plus its predecessors, the Annals of Congress, Register of Debates and the Congressional Globe. Also included are the Journals of the Continental Congress and American State Papers. (BC Access)
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Oxford Constitutions of the World contains fully-translated English-language versions of all the world's constitutions (both national and sub-national), accompanied by individual jurisdictional commentaries, and supplementary materials, including foundation documents, historical versions of constitutions, and amendment Acts/Laws. (Formerly known as Constitutions of the Countries of the World, Dependencies and Territories, and United States, National and State) (BC Access)
News and analysis of virtually every act of Congress. Each issue provides announcements of upcoming Congressional events, as well as a summary of the previous week's news, including the status of bills, committee and floor activity, debates, and roll-call votes. Browse articles by date or topic or search articles and floor votes by keyword, date, bill number, or topic. (BC Access)
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CQ Supreme Court Collection (Congressional Quarterly) includes biographies of Justices; statistical analysis of cases by Justice and by bloc voting for cases from 1946 forward; CQ's "Cases-in-Context" for an analysis of the Court's cases on interesting or controversial public policy topics; and encyclopedia entries detailing the constitutions of 100 countries worldwide. (BC Access)
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Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) is a weekly subject index and tables of contents service for recently published scholarly legal publications. (BC Access)
Published since 1936, Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) indexes, by subject heading, the most recent issues of primarily American law journals. Maintained diligently by an experienced team of editors and published weekly, CILP provides timely topical access to more than 650 legal publications organized within 104 relevant subject headings.
Integrated into the ProQuest Congressional platform, Digital U.S. Bills and Resolutions provides searchable access to the full text of all versions of all U.S. public and private bills and resolutions from 1789 to the present.
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Provides full-text access to over 100 scholarly journals published in Germany or neighboring countries since the late 1700s. The journals are in German, English, or other European languages and date back to their first volumes. Fields most prominently represented are mathematics, literature, history, the arts, economics, and law. Other fields covered include education, geology, librarianship, music, religion, sciences, and sociology. (BC Access)
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This landmark work in historical and legal scholarship draws upon thousands of sources to trace the Constitution’s progress through each of the thirteen states’ conventions. The digital edition allows users to search the complete contents by date, title, author, recipient, or state affiliation and preserves the copious annotations of the print edition. (BC Access)
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Containing over 1,300 letters, with another thousand letters to follow in periodic updates, this archive will constitute the first complete edition of all of her known correspondence. The letters may be accessed directly through a sortable list or read in chronological order. Proper names link to a glossary that identifies over 2,500 people and places, providing a unique biographical view on the elites of the early Republic. (BC Access)
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The e-CFR is a currently updated version of the Code of federal regulations. It is not considered an official source for the C.F.R. even though it is sponsored by the U.S. Government Publishing Office.
Provides daily tracking of Congressional activity affecting energy and the environment. (BC Access)
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E&E News is a news organization offering an in-depth look at energy and environment issues in Washington, D.C. and around the nation. It includes five daily publications (ClimateWire, E&E Daily, E&E News PM, EnergyWire, GreenWire) that deliver original journalism targeted at decision makers in government, business, NGOs, and academia. (BC Access)
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Provides a late afternoon roundup of breaking and developing news of energy and environmental policy from Capitol Hill, around the country and around the world. (BC Access)
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Each E&E title offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis. Part of the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library. (BC Law Access)
As a tool for exam studying, Emanuel CrunchTime volumes contain flowcharts and capsule summaries of major points of law and critical issues, as well as exam tips for identifying common traps and pitfalls, sample exam and essay questions with model answers. (BC Law access)
Emanuel Law Outlines contain comprehensive and understandable coverage of topics, cases, and black letter law found in your specific casebook. Self-quizzes, essay Q&As, exam tips, and capsule summaries may be helpful for exam preparation. (BC Law access)
Edited by David Forsythe, offers comprehensive coverage of all aspects of human rights theory, practice, law, and history in over 300 entries signed by leading scholars and human rights experts. The coverage includes major figures, organizations and institutions, human rights events and crises, and human rights norms. (BC Access)
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The Encyclopedia of Law and Religion covers all independent nations and jurisdictions as well as the major international organizations, treating the relation between law and religion in its various aspects, including those related to the role of religion in society, the relations between religion and state institutions, freedom of religion, legal aspects of religious traditions, the interaction between law and religion, and other issues at the junction of law, religion, and state. (BC Access)
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Daily coverage of business and political issues affecting the rapidly expanding unconventional energy industry in the US and the world. (BC Access)
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This database is a fully searchable PDF reprint of volumes 1-176 of the English Reports, covering cases from 1220 to 1865. A two-volume index is available as well. (BC Access)
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A web-based collection of materials about the environment, health and safety, toxic torts, natural resources, and land use. It includes state, national, and international news. (BC Law Access)
To obtain access to Equal Justice Works, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. Equal Justice Works connects law students, law school professionals, lawyers, and advocates with fellowships at legal services organizations and other opportunities in public interest law.
EU Law Live contains news, analysis, and op-ed articles concerning the law of the European Union. Organized in 11 sections, it covers developments in all fields of law, including taxation, institutions, technology and intellectual property. EU Law Live is updated during the day. (BC Law Access)
EUobserver is an independent, not-for-profit news organization that produces and publishes daily news reports, analyses and investigative journalism from Brussels, the 28 EU member states, and neighboring countries. Users have the option of registering for a personal account using a BC email address. (BC Access)
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Each E&E title offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis. Part of the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library. (BC Law Access)
Includes the full text of the Wall Street Journal back to 1979; news and financial information for companies, industries, and general business and economic news. Sources are both U.S. and international and include: newspapers, magazines, media transcripts, wire services, pictures and web sites. Also contains over 20,000 company reports and various company and industry specific data. (BC Access)
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A 50-state and federal primary law database that includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules and constitutions. (BC Access)
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Provides access to federal government publications from all three branches of government; a product of the U.S. Government Publishing Office. (In December 2018, FDsys will be replaced by govinfo)
Web: Resource is freely available via the Web. (Now called Dodd-Frank Newsletter and removed from A-Z list due to diminished relevance -- per Amy Bruce)
Provides same day access and 10 year archive. First-time users: You need to complete the sign-in form using your Boston College email address. After registering, the Boston College subscription will be recognized automatically.
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To obtain access to Firm Prospects, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. Firm Prospects is a law firm intelligence platform offering detailed analytics about law firms as well as trends in the lateral hiring market.
To gain access, please register for an account using your Boston College email address
Detailed career information for job-seekers in a wide variety of industries and for those considering specific companies. Includes internships and job listings.
Foreign and International Law Resources Database (HeinOnline) This database contains the full text, in PDF, of many international law yearbooks and serials, U.S. law digests, international tribunals/judicial decisions and more. (BC Access)
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Foreign Law Guide is the electronic version of the well-known 8-volume “green set” entitled “Foreign Law: Current Sources of Codes and Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World,” by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores. It provides essential information on primary and secondary sources of foreign law—what it is, where to find it, and how to use it. It covers more than 170 jurisdictions worldwide. (BC Access)
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Gallup Analytics offers access to nearly a century of U.S. public opinion data and a decade of global data. It includes the Gallup Poll Social Series, World Poll (covering over 140 countries since 2006) and the U.S. Daily Poll. View and compare data by demographic, geography and more. Please Note: Access is limited to one user at a time. If you are unable to login and receive an error message, please try accessing it at a later time.
Included in the online Aspen Learning Library, Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations (interspersed with hypotheticals) of complex legal topics, and offer multiple-choice questions with clear and often humorous explanations of both correct and incorrect answers. (BC Law access)
GCR is a leading competition law and policy journal and news service, providing breaking news, commentary, and analysis five days a week, as well as original in-depth reports, interviews, and features on antitrust enforcement worldwide. (BC Access)
Provides daily coverage of environmental and energy policy, politics, and markets. (BC Access)
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To obtain access to the Guide to State Judicial Clerkship Procedures, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. The Guide is produced annually by Vermont Law School.
The Hague Academy of Collected Courses Online (HeinOnline) is the electronic version of the longstanding book series on international law: Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law. It is a fully searchable encyclopedic collection on international law. The Hague Academy’s purpose is to encourage a thorough and impartial examination of the problems arising from international relations in the field of law. Given by the most prominent legal specialists in the world, the courses deal with theoretical and practical aspects, including legislation and case law. The courses are published in the language in which they were delivered, either English or French. The Collected Courses Online contains over 1200 lectures given over a period of 85 years and is constantly growing. Also contains indexes from vol.210 onwards as well as the Academy's Workshop publications. (BC Access)
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Designed for use by international trade law practitioners, the Handbook provides access to a vast legal research database that includes updated summaries of 300+ WTO/GATT panel, appellate body, or arbitrator reports; nine comprehensive indexes cross-referencing the reports by keyword, article, country, subject, panelist, member, and more; easy citation lists to track adoption status of reports. (BC access)
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HathiTrust is a partnership of academic & research institutions, offering a collection of millions of titles digitized from libraries around the world. This includes both in copyright and public domain materials digitized by Google, the Internet Archive, and Microsoft, as well as through in-house initiatives.
HeinOnline provides access to law journals with retrospective coverage and many pre-1980 titles not available in other databases; also includes the Federal Register, a Legal Classics Library of treatises, a Treaties and Agreements Library, and additional federal resources. Materials are available as pdf images and as searchable text files. Additional titles and years added regularly. (BC Access)
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Historical Statistics of the United States presents the numerical history of the United States. This definitive reference work contains more than 37,000 annual time series of quantitative historical information covering virtually every quantifiable dimension of American history: population, work and welfare, economic structure and performance, governance, and international relations, all from the earliest times to the present. (BC Access)
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History of Bankruptcy (HeinOnline) contains legislative histories, treaties, documents and more related to bankruptcy in America. It also features classic books dating back to the late 1800s, plus links to scholarly articles pertaining to the study of bankruptcy laws. More material will be added to this library over time. (BC Access)
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History of International Law (HeinOnline) includes more than 500 titles and 550,000 pages dating back to 1690 on international law subjects such as War & Peace, the Nuremberg Trials, Law of the Sea, International Arbitration, Hague Conferences and Conventions and much more. (BC Access)
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The Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management. The HSDL is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's National Preparedness Directorate, FEMA and the Naval Postgraduate School Center for Homeland Defense and Security. The HSDL is composed of homeland security related documents collected from a wide variety of sources. These include federal, state, tribal, and local government agencies, professional organizations, think tanks, academic institutions, and international governing bodies. Resources are carefully selected and evaluated by a team of librarians and subject-matter specialists. (BC Access)
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HotShot provides online training on transactional, litigation, accounting & finance, and business skills. Courses are available on topics such as e-discovery, depositions, M&A term sheets, and start-up funding. Each course consists of short videos, approximately 10 minutes in length, which come with interactive quizzes and for faculty, there are recommendations for exercises on each topic. Sign up using your BC email. Contact the BC Law librarians at lawresearchhelp@bc.edu for further assistance.
IBFD Tax Research Platform. IBFD, the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation, offers a comprehensive package of international and country-specific tax materials, searchable by format, topic, or country. Materials include journals, e-books, case law databases, news services, and surveys and analyses which enable researchers to research tax-related topics in one or more countries at a time.(BC Access)
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ICLR Online includes the full suite of UK case law in the Law Reports (1865 – present) and Weekly Law Reports (1953 – present), plus Industrial Case Reports (ICR, from 1972), Business Law Reports (Bus LR, from 2007), Public & Third Sector Law Reports (PTSR); and two case summary services, Case Notes (CN) and WLR Daily.A retrieved case can be viewed in HTML (with live links to other cases) and browsed by clicking ahead to segments of the document, such as “Catchwords,” Facts, Judgments and Orders. Users can also click through to appearances of search terms (“next match”). Cases can be viewed, printed or downloaded in PDF format. (BC Access)
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Immigration Law & Policy in the U.S. (HeinOnline) is a compilation of the most important historical documents and legislation related to immigration in the United States as well as current hearings, debates and recent developments in immigration law. This first comprehensive database includes BIA Precedent Decisions, legislative histories, law and policy titles, extradition titles, scholarly articles, an extensive bibliography, and other related works. (BC Access)
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Covers the investigations made by the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) during the immigration wave of 1880-1930, including immigration to the U.S. by Asians, Mexicans and Europeans, as well as extensive files on the INS’s regulation of prostitution and white slavery and on suppression of radical aliens. (BC Access)
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (HeinOnline) indexes articles and book reviews published worldwide, including journals, essays, festschrifts, and congress reports. Covers comparative law, international law (public and private), and municipal law of countries other than the United States and the United Kingdom. 1985 - present. (BC Access)
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Incorporated into the 19th Century Masterfile database; Select >Advanced Search > Source > Index to Legal Periodical Literature 1786-1937 (Jones and Chipman) (BC Access)
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Index to Legal Periodicals and Books is a bibliographic database that cites articles from legal periodicals from 1980, and indexes law books published in 1993 and later. Periodical coverage includes law reviews, bar association journals, yearbooks, institutes and government publications. Includes indexing of court decisions. (BC Access)
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Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective is a bibliographic database with links to full-text databases, including HeinOnline. Cites articles from legal periodicals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications. Includes book reviews and case citations. Covers legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. Covers 1918 – 1981. (BC)
Index to Unpublished BIA (Board of Immigration Appeals) Decisions
Contains links and summaries to hundreds of unpublished decisions selected for their potential to assist respondents in removal proceedings. The Index is organized by subject matter and updated on a monthly basis. For more information, contact Karen Breda, Legal Information Librarian.
Inside EPA provides daily news and a full range of services relating to its family of 7 environmental newsletters: Inside EPA Weekly Report, Superfund Report, Clear Air Report, Water Policy Report, Inside/CAL EPA, Risk Policy Report, Environmental Policy Alert. (BC Law access)
From NALP (National Association for Lawyer Placement) this resource provides background information on legal education systems and rules for qualification and admission for 58 countries. Allows users to gain a deeper understanding of a particular individual’s legal credentials or a country’s legal system as a whole. Included are sample resumes, grading systems and comparisons, and an explanation of awards and honors offered in law schools. (On-site access only. See Reference Librarian to for login assistance)
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International Law Reports (included in vLexJustis) covers all significant cases of public international law from 1919 to the present day. It features regular and systematic reporting in English of decisions of international courts and arbitrators as well as judgments of national courts concerning international law. Cases reported are prepared at the Lauterpacht Centre for International Law at the University of Cambridge (BC Law School Access)
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ISOnet Forms Library - Offered by the Insurance Services Office, the Forms Library on ISOnet offers access to more than 9,000 personal and commercial insurance forms and endorsements from all fifty states. The database contains all simplified ISO forms in effect (based on ISO filings) on or after January 1, 1994, and is updated daily. Forms are searchable by state, effective date, line of business, or form type, and may be downloaded as PDF or MS Word documents. To access ISOnet's Forms Library, click "Forms Library" in the drop-down menu at the top left of the page and then ask a reference librarian to log you in with the Library's username and password. (Password Access)
The JSTOR project is a digital archive of fully searchable back issues of scholarly journals in anthropology, Asian Afro American studies, ecology, economics, education, finance, general science, history, literature, mathematics, music, philosophy, political science, sociology, and statistics. Coverage dates vary. (BC Access)
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Focusing on international commercial arbitration, this database includes case law, conventions, legislation, rules, and commentary. (BC access)
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LatinNews provides expert political, economic, and security analysis on Latin America and the Caribbean region. Included LatinNews Intelligence Service Level II are the following: Latin American Weekly Report, Latin American Economy & Business, Latin American Security and Strategic Review, Latin American Special Reports, Latin American Regional Reports, and LatinNews Country Database
Consists of 11 collections of manuscripts: the papers of Albert Levitt, Felix Frankfurter, Livingston Hall, Louis D. Brandeis, Richard H. Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., Roscoe Pound, the Sacco-Vanzetti Case, Sheldon Glueck, William H. Hastie, and Zechariah Chafee. (BC Access)
Provides up-to-the-minute legal news, data, analysis, and peer guidance, as well as access to all ALM (American Legal Media) national and regional publications, including The American Lawyer, The National Law Journal, and Supreme Court Brief. To register for an account, go to:
Once registered, you can visit the law.com site and sign in with your username and password. You can also sign up to receive alerts and briefings. (BC Law access)
A source of detailed legal industry business information, competitive intelligence, and market data. Includes Am Law 100 data as well as other surveys, lists, rankings, special reports, detailed law firm profiles, etc. (BC Law Access)
Previous versions of this database were known as ALM Legal Compass and ALM Legal Intelligence.
To obtain access to Lawfit, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. Lawfit is an online career assessment tool that helps lawyers and law students make better career decisions by measuring interests, preferences, and values, to find the most compatible career options, both within and beyond the practice of law.
Up-to-date, authoritative and comprehensive database of Chinese laws and regulations in Chinese and English. Also includes cases, tax treaties, WTO & China, gazettes, and law journals. (BC Access)
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Leadership Connect (formerly Leadership Library on the Internet) provides high-quality contact information for the leaders of major United States government, business, professional, and nonprofit organizations at the federal and state levels, including courts and law firms. This is the electronic version of the “Yellow Book” directories. (BC Law School Access)
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Legal Scholarship Network (LSN) (part of SSRN) contains abstracts of scholarly working and forthcoming papers in the field of law as well as an electronic paper collection currently containing over 37,700 downloadable full text documents in Adobe Acrobat pdf format. (Web)
LegalTrac (a.k.a. Current Law Index a.k.a Legal Resource Index) indexes legal publications from the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand; includes some full-text articles; covers academic law reviews, professional bar journals and legal newspapers, case notes, biographies, and legislative news and analysis. Comparable coverage to the publisher's print index, Current Law Index. Also includes law-related articles from business and general interest titles. 1980 - present. (BC Access)
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Lex Machina provides strategic litigation analytics about courts, judges, lawyers, law firms, and parties. Currently covering 21 specific practice areas, it offers information on resolutions, timing, findings, damages, and remedies. Data is compiled, cleaned, and enhanced by a combination of machine learning and in-house experts. Included are analytics for Federal District Courts, Federal Appellate Courts, certain specialty venues, and an expanding list of state courts. Create a personal account (BC email address required) at https://law.lexmachina.com/enterprise/bc.edu
Lexis is a comprehensive legal research system that includes case law, annotated statutory codes, regulatory materials, and secondary sources. (Personal Password Required)
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Contains digital versions of treatises published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender, including a number of Massachusetts-related titles. Readers can add personal annotations, create bookmarks, and download text for offline reading. iOS and Android apps are available. (BC Access)
The BC Libraries catalog can be used to locate BC's physical library collections (books, DVDs, CDs, etc.) and to link to electronic materials (e-books, BC Digital Collections, streaming video, etc.) that BC subscribes to.
LLMC Digital - Law Library Microform Consortium Digital: federal legislative, administrative and judicial materials from the collections of government and academic law libraries; new materials added regularly; this on-going digitalization project will eventually include full-text of materials in many areas including canon law, military law, Native American law, the Yale Blackstone collection, the law of Commonwealth countries, and civil law of western European countries. Each title is cataloged individually in Quest. (BC Access)
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Online version of the treatise Lundin on Chapter 13 by Judge Keith Lundin (ret.) covers research in Chapter 13 bankruptcy practice and procedure and includes ongoing revisions and updates.
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The records of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) on free speech, citizenship, race, discrimination, immigration, labor, radicalism, and related topics support the study of American legal history and complement the modules in the Making of Modern Law series. Documents include newspaper clippings, scrapbooks, court files, memorandums, telegrams, minutes, and legal case records. The papers are held at the Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University. (BC Access)
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Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources (parts I and II) consists of historical legal codes, statutes, regulations, and commentaries on codes from the United Kingdom, France, Germany, and other countries in northern Europe. Included are crucial sources of historical statutes and regulations for the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, sourced from the law libraries of Yale, Harvard, and George Washington University. (BC Access)
Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926 includes pre-1926 treatises and similar monographs, sourced from the collections of the Yale, George Washington University, and Columbia law libraries, in the following areas: International Law; Comparative Law; Foreign Law; Roman Law; Islamic Law; Jewish Law; and Ancient Law. (BC Access)
From the hundreds of thousands of cases that were considered for inclusion, The Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals selects those from the circuit courts that remain among the most heavily cited in the legal literature. Included are 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. These records often address extralegal matters with individual circuits, emphasizing specific areas of legal and historical interest. The records collected here are often unique and notoriously difficult to access via other sources. (BC Access)
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Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 provides digital images of more than 21,000 legal treatises on nineteenth and early-twentieth century American and British Commonwealth law. Covers domestic and international law, legal history, business and economics, politics and government, national defense, criminology, religion, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice. Includes analytical, theoretical, and practical literature available in casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. Keyword and full-text searching. Each title is cataloged individually in Quest. (BC Access)
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources. Based primarily on holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, this product offers online access to early state codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. (BC Access)
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Covering over 500 different cases, this collection puts a concentrated focus on key issues that continue to occupy the American social and political landscape, such as reproductive rights, gun ownership laws, incarceration and the rights of prisoners, environmental policy, and more. (BC access)
Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926 is an extensive full-text collection of Anglo-American trials. This archive grants researchers access to unofficially published accounts of trials, as well as briefs, arguments and other trial documents where these were printed as separate publications. Documents are in PDF format and are fully searchable. (BC Access)
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 is a fully searchable database of approximately 11 million pages and more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are featured, the majority consisting of those for which the Court did not give a full opinion. (BC Access)
Mango Languages is an online language-learning system that teaches conversation skills in 35 languages, including 11 English courses for non-English speakers. (BC Law Access)
International in scope, this database (also known as Marquis Biographies Online) includes biographies of people in business, law, science, medicine, the arts, government, and entertainment. Updated daily, this source also includes biographies that have appeared in 24 Marquis Who's Who print titles since 1985, plus historical biographies from our Who Was Who in America volumes from 1607-1985. (BC Access, One simultaneous user.)
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Provides a comprehensive analysis of Massachusetts criminal law and courtroom practice. The online text links to a database of Massachusetts court decisions maintained by the Commonwealth's Trial Court Law Libraries at masscases.com. The text also cites and discusses significant criminal law cases decided by the Supreme Court, the federal Courts of Appeals, and state appellate courts from around the country. The principal focus is on Massachusetts criminal law and criminal law cases prosecuted in the District and Superior Courts of the Commonwealth. (BC Law Access)
Reports decisions issued by all the state and federal courts in Massachusetts, as well as changes to court rules, verdict & settlement reports, bar-discipline notices and other news pertaining to legal practice in Massachusetts. (Password access)
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Massachusetts state regulations, Governor's executive orders, Attorney General opinions, notices of public hearings and other notices from the MA Secretary of State's office are first published in the Massachusetts Register. Onlne access allows searching by keyword, code section, or agency. (In-library use only. Please see a Legal Reference Librarian for access.)
Encyclopedia articles address a focused range of topics covering all aspects of constitutional law from a global perspective, including the basis and foundations of state and constitutional formation, human rights, state protections, legal structures, and legal constitutional concepts. (BC Access)
The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online is written by over 650 scholars and practitioners from around the world, and edited by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. This online resource includes more than 700 new topics not covered in the previous print edition, and will be updated quarterly. The database features an extensive search functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries, and access to the Oxford Law Citator. (BC Access)
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Provides unlimited access to all available online content from MCLE (Massachusetts Continuing Legal Education) including on-demand webcasts, downloadable MP3 audio programs, MCLE's entire collection of practice manuals, and over 400 ebooks, as well as all content in MCLE's professional development plans. (BC Law Access)
Available in Westlaw, Miller's Standard Insurance Policies Annotated provides access to standard property and casualty insurance policies, with links to editorial annotations for all U.S. caselaw interpreting policy language. (Westlaw personal password required.)
Consists of 6 modules that provide a comprehensive view of the NAACP's evolution, policies, and achievements from 1909 to 1972. Contains internal memos, legal briefings, and detailed activity summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the U.S, documenting the realities of segregation in the early 20th century to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and beyond. (BC Access)
The NAIC Compendium of State Laws on Insurance Topics contains the most current and comprehensive compilation of state insurance related legislative and regulatory data available. It includes more than 100 comprehensive topical charts, with clear, concise information. The majority of these charts have been expanded into searchable text at individual state level. They are also available, at topical level, as a chargeable Portable Digital Format (PDF) image to view and/or print. (Password required)
National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library comprises 20 treatises considered to be definitive texts on consumer law for lawyers, government, and industry. These volumes provide the most up-to-date analyses of all areas of consumer law in both print and digital formats. Click on the "My NCLC" link to view database contents. (BC Access)
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1851 to present (1923-1980 is limited to five view/downloads per day) Site-wide license to the New York Times, including Chinese and Spanish editions. Registration required.
(Formerly Oceana Law's Constitutions of the Countries of the World, Dependencies and Territories, and United States, National and State) This integrated resource contains fully-translated English-language versions of all the world's constitutions (both national and sub-national), accompanied by individual jurisdictional commentaries, and supplementary materials, including foundation documents, historical versions of constitutions, and amendment Acts/Laws. (BC Access)
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The Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History is a comprehensive, international, interdisciplinary reference work that includes approximately 1,000 articles on all aspects of legal history throughout the world from ancient to modern times. Articles deal with private law, public law, and constitutional/higher law throughout the world; each article is signed by one of the set's many noteworthy contributors, which include major scholars and experts. (BC Access)
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Oxford Reports on International Law is a website that contains several international case law modules of material from international courts and tribunals, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals. 2 modules are currently available at Boston College: International Human Rights Law and International Law in Domestic Courts. Select "Browse All" and then "Narrow Your Choices" by selecting the desired module. Cases are all linked to the Oxford Law Citator, which is also available at this site. (BC Access)
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PACER is a fee-based electronic subscription service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal courts. Due to the fees incurred for PACER access, BC Law faculty and students should use Bloomberg Law to access federal court dockets and filings. If something is not available via Bloomberg that you believe would be available through PACER, please contact the law reference librarians, who can check PACER and other docketing services for you.
Contains all twenty-seven volumes of the print edition—all the writings by and to Hamilton known to exist, some 12,500 documents—including all editorial annotations. (BC access)
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The papers of Eliza Lucas Pinckney (1722–1793) and her daughter Harriott Pinckney Horry (1748–1830) document the lives of two observant and articulate founding-era women who were members of one of South Carolina’s leading families. Their letters, diaries, and other documents span nearly a century (1739–1830) and provide a window on politics, social events, and people of the late colonial and early national periods. (BC Access)
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Includes all 59 volumes of the print edition published through 2009, encompassing five series and the complete diaries. Includes a single master index and linked internal document cross-references. (BC Access)
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Includes all of the content of the print edition along with an enhanced search functionality, linked cross-references, and the ability to navigate chronologically or by series volume.
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Incorporates all 36 volumes published through 2009 into a single searchable online resource. Includes the first four volumes of the Retirement Series which documents the time between Jefferson’s return to private life and his death in 1826. Includes all the illustrations and bibliographical content of the print edition as well as linked cross-references and indexes. (BC access)
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This collection includes more than 50 publications from the Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law at Columbia Law School, such as the 22-volume set, A Bibliography on Foreign and Comparative Law. Book and Articles in English by Charles Szladits, along with An Introduction to the Legal System of the United States by E. Allan Farnsworth, among others. (BC Access)
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Electronic access to the complete catalog of PLI treatises, course handbooks and answer books. Also includes downloadable legal forms and a growing list of transcripts of PLI seminars. (BC Access)
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PowerNotes is available as both a Chrome and a Firefox extension enabling you to capture citations, text excerpts, and source information from all your web searches. Captured links and citations are incorporated into a PowerNotes project, which is an annotated outline that you structure into topics and subtopics (color-coded for easier visual reference) to aid in organizing your research. This outline can be saved as a Microsoft Word document and later expanded into a draft document. (BC Law Access)
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Available via Westlaw, Practical Law offers a variety of practice-oriented resources such as checklists, model contracts with drafting notes, and overviews of practice areas. It is a particularly valuable resource for transactional-based law practice. (Westlaw personal password required)
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ProQuest Congressional (previously LexisNexis Congressional) provides full text access to hearing transcripts, congressional committee reports, bills, public laws, selected committee prints, congressional documents, the Congressional Record from the 99th Congress forward, Federal Register from 1980 forward, the current Code of Federal Regulations, and the current US Code. 1970-present. (BC Access)
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Primary source content and editorial perspectives of the significant African American newspapers in the U.S. Each of the eleven Historical Black Newspapers provides access to information typically excluded or marginalized in mainstream sources. Includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more. Titles include: Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, Cleveland Call and Post, and Michigan Chronicle. (BC Access)
Combined searching of the historical New York Times, Boston Globe, Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Atlanta Constitution, Christian Science Monitor, Wall Street Journal, NY Amsterdam News, and Chicago Defender. Look up any one of these titles individually to search only that publication. (BC Access)
Proquest Legislative Insight (Parts A&B covering 1789-2012) contains legislative histories with links to fully searchable PDFs of full-text Congressional documents, including the public law itself, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports and prints. Also included are presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous publications that provide background to the creation of the law. (BC Access)
As a companion to Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories beginning in 1936, organized by federal statute and Executive Order. The scope of coverage is ongoing. Consult the product libguide at: https://proquest.libguides.com/reginsight/about for information about current coverage.
Index to local, national and international intergovernmental statistical publications from 1983 to the present. Includes citation information with large number of pdf or spreadsheet downloads available. (BC Access)
To obtain access to the Public Interest Jobs Clearinghouse, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. This resource provides a semi-monthly listing of public interest job openings in legal services, policy, government, Capitol Hill, law schools, and law firms.
To obtain access to PSJD, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. PSJD (formerly PSLawNet) is a unique online clearinghouse for law students and lawyers to connect with public interest job listings and career-building resources. Job listings in the PSJD database include internships (fall, spring, and summer), postgraduate fellowships, and a wide variety of permanent positions. PSJD is an initiative of NALP (National Association for Law Placement.)
RBSource is a securities law database that contains statutes, rules, regulations, forms, and SEC administrative guidance in an easy to use interface. RBSource also integrates access to SEC EDGAR filings, exhibits, SEC comment letters and no-action letters. Current Boston College Law School students, faculty, and staff can register for an RBSource account. Contact a Legal Reference Librarian to obtain a registration link. Access is on-campus or via Eagle VPN only.
The Bureau's voluminous records, including correspondence, research reports, brochures, court hearings and speeches, represent a large and important collection of primary material for the study of the family and the health and well-being of children in the twentieth century. Not only do the documents enable researchers to trace the various stages of Federal involvement in the welfare of children and the development of family law, they also throw a fascinating light on the way welfare policies affected ordinary women. (BC Access)
Provides access to proposed regulations and related documents published by the U.S. Federal government. Content includes final regulations, notices of proposed rulemaking, guidance documents, agency adjudications, and comments submitted regarding proposed regulations. Includes the text of the Unified Agenda and Regulatory Plan.
Rise of American Law (Westlaw) is a full-text collection of about 400 historic 19th and 20th-century legal texts, including treatises, histories and early editions of the legal encyclopedias American Jurisprudence and Corpus Juris. The material is integrated into Westlaw and is searchable using the Westlaw search functionality (click on Westlaw Research tab and then type "Rise of American Law" or "ROAL" into the "Search for a Database" box). (Password Assigned)
A product of the University of Virginia Press, Rotunda is a series of digital publications in the humanities, some of which are available to the Boston College community. See the listing for American Founding Era Collection. (BC Access)
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The Selden Society Library (HeinOnline) "contains official publications from the Selden Society including the Selden Society Annual Series vols. 1-117 (1887-2000), the Supplementary Series vols. 1-13 (1965-2000), and the Centenary Guide to the Publications of the Selden Society." (BC Access)
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A collection of American historical documents including virtually all extant petitions to State Legislatures on race, slavery and free Blacks as well as petitions filed in southern county courts gathered from local county courthouses. Also included are state slavery statutes, a master record of the laws that governed American slavery from 1789-1865. (BC Access)
The Social Law Library site provides access to Massachusetts court opinions including daily slip opinions from the general state courts, and opinions of special courts, such as the Housing and Land Courts; the Code of Massachusetts Regulations (CMR); and decisions of many administrative boards and departments, such as the State Ethics Commission. (BC Law Access)
The Social Science Research Network/SSRN is composed of specialized research networks in the social sciences which index submitted abstracts on accounting, economics, financial economics, legal scholarship, and management (including negotiation and marketing). (Web)
Web: Resource is freely available via the Web. BC Law faculty can sign up to receive customized email alerts for SSRN institution- and subject-based eJournals.
State House News Service is a private reporting service located in the Massachusetts State House. Access to reporters' coverage of all Senate and House debates from 1986 to present; reporters' articles on legislative public hearings from 1986 to present; and feature stories authored by News Service staff on political and policy issues, including Governor's Council activities. Press releases issued by individual legislators, local lobbying groups, and governmental offices which are distributed to the State House News Service are included from 1998 to present. (BC Access)
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Part III of a 4-part series, offering original historical materials across a wide range of government activity and concern. Includes correspondence, reports, memoranda, and parliamentary drafts from ambassadors, civil servants and provincial administrators to present a full picture of this period of British history. (BC Access)
State Session Laws (HeinOnline) This database contains PDF images of the session laws of all fifty states, plus the United States and Canada. Coverage varies among jurisdictions. (BC Access)
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Includes the records of three important women's rights organizations: the National Woman's Party, the League of Women Voters, and the Women's Action Alliance. Originally a committee of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA), the National Woman's Party (NWP) was founded in 1913 when Alice Paul and her colleagues broke away from NAWSA in dissent over strategy and tactics. The Women's Action Alliance, established in 1971 as a grass-roots organization, concerned itself with issues such as employment and employment discrimination, childcare, health care, and education. The League of Women Voters collection documents almost every facet of women's involvement in U.S. politics from 1920 to 1974. (BC Access)
Personal account registration is required. Click the SIGN IN button. Enter your "@bc.edu" email address and follow prompts to register. Once registered, you can access https://www.taxnotes.com from any location. Tax Notes provides comprehensive news commentary and analysis of federal, state, and international tax issues and policy.
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Taxation & Economic Reform Library (HeinOnline) contains tax regulations, laws, and hundreds of legislative histories of tax laws dating back to the late 1700s. A custom-built index tool enables a researcher to quickly locate a document in HeinOnline just as if you were using the printed index volumes. It also allows you to search across decades of tax laws, thus tracing the development of a law back to its inception. The collection also contains legislative histories of laws pertaining to the history of economic reform, stock reform, stimulus plans and other economic regulations in the U.S. (BC Access)
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Taxes in Europe database is the European Commission's on-line information tool covering the main taxes in force in the EU Member States, containing information on around 650 taxes, as provided to the European Commission by the Ministries of Finance of the EU Member States. Access is free for all users.
The Practice is a bimonthly digital publication produced by the Harvard Law School Center on the Legal Profession showcasing empirical research and commentary on the legal profession in a way that is accessible to busy law students, law faculty, and legal practitioners. The Center is a leading research organization dedicated to providing a richer understanding of the rapidly changing global legal profession. (BC access)
TheCorporateCounsel.net is an educational service that provides practical guidance on legal issues involving corporate and securities regulation and corporate governance practices - as well as many other areas affecting today's corporate practitioner. The site features news, specialized topic areas, sample documents and law firm memos. An e-mail newsletter is also available. (Password Access)
TRACfed (Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse: Federal) is a nonpartisan data gathering, data research and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University. A data warehouse and interactive access tools provide detailed data about federal enforcement agencies, federal staffing, and income and demographic statistics compiled largely through Freedom of Information Act requests. NOTE: TRACfed includes some features that have monthly limits. Please contact us if you plan to make regular or heavy use of this resource. (BC Law access)
TradeLawGuide is the standard for methodical and efficient research in the area of WTO (World Trade Organization) law. Features include "noting up," the examination of judicial treatment of legislation and cases, a crucial step in legal research. (BC Access)
To obtain access to Traverse Jobs, contact Boston College Law School's Career Services Office. Traverse Jobs is a comprehensive database of job listings for D.C. jobs and positions across the country, covering government, political, Capitol Hill, and PR jobs. Updated daily.
Trellis is a state trial court legal research and analytics platform with AI-based insights on judges, opposing counsel, motions, dockets, and legal issues. States covered: Massachusetts, New York, Delaware, and California. Personal registration requires a BC email address. (BC Law access)
The Office of Law revision Counsel within the U.S. House of Representatives maintains this database for the U.S. Code. Content includes tables of distribution (classification tables) for public laws in each Congressional session back to 1995.
The United States Congressional Serial Set, commonly referred to as the Serial Set, is considered the most essential publication for unveiling American history. Spanning more than two centuries with more than 17,000 bound volumes, the records in this series include House and Senate Documents, House and Senate Reports, the American State Papers, and much more. This ongoing project in HeinOnline will be released in phases and will soon contain complete coverage of the Serial Set. The Serial Set is indexed from inception to date and contains comprehensive full-text coverage from 1978-date. In addition, the HeinOnline interface is easy to search and browse and contains unique tools to help users quickly locate specific content. (BC Access)
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1980 includes reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes. (BC Access)
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U.S. Law Week provides the full-text of U.S. Supreme Court cases retrievable by name, date of decision, and topic; includes daily updates, docket information, and petition summaries for the Court; also includes "case alerts" highlighting significant lower court cases and providing summaries and analysis; e-coverage of issues since June 24, 1997. (BC Law School faculty and students: Log in with your Bloomberg Law username and password for full Bloomberg Law functionality, including off-campus access)
The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online by the UK's Statutory Publications Offices. It contains the current versions of statutes, statutory instruments and related materials, as well as some historical information. Click here for a chart that compares this website to Justis, another database of English statutory information to which the library subscribes. (Web)
United Nations Law Collection (HeinOnline) offers digital access to exact reproductions of the major United Nations law publications, including a complete collection of the United Nations Treaty Series (1946-current), International Court of Justice Reports of Judgments, Advisory Opinions and Orders (1947-current), Reports of International Arbitral Awards (1948-current), the United Nations Treaty Handbook, Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General, and more. Also included are several U.N. Yearbooks. Finding aids allow researchers to search for treaties by UNTS citation, treaty number, country, popular name, short title, signing date, and more. (BC Access)
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United Nations Treaty Site contains the treaty guide "Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary General", as well as the full text of all treaties appearing in the United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), the League of Nations Treaty Series, and the text of recently deposited multilateral treaties. (Web)
IRAC (Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center) collects and posts noteworthy unpublished decisions from the Board of Immigration Appeals as a public service. By making these decisions available to the immigration community, IRAC hopes to promote consistency in decision-making and to benefit attorneys with similar cases. For information about the index to unpublished BIA decisions, contact BC Law School Legal Information Librarian Karen Breda. (Web)
Web: This resource is freely available via the Web.
Detailed career information for job-seekers in a wide variety of industries, including law, and for those considering specific companies. Includes internships and job listings. (BC Access)
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VitalLaw is a comprehensive collection of legal content in many subject areas, including labor and employment, securities, taxation, environmental law, banking, and many more. Primary sources, secondary sources, law practice materials, and indexes are included. Researchers can select individual sources to search, or can search across all content. (BC access)
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Collections of common law and civil law content in a single intuitive search platform. Includes over 120 million legal information documents from over 130 jurisdictions, including UK and Ireland, Europe and the EU, Caribbean, Latin America, Asia and Oceania, and North America. Also includes Vincent, an artificial intelligence/machine learning tool that provides research/document analysis. (BC Law Library access)
Access is limited to current members of the BC Law School community.
Full access to wsj.com. Provides same day access and 4-year archive. Access Requirements: You must create a personal account using your Boston College email address.
You are encouraged to create a different password than your Agora credentials and to read the privacy policy for this site before using it.
Full-text access to the national and world news provided by The Washington Post with coverage on a rolling basis for the previous 15 years. (BC Access)
Access limited to current BC students, faculty, and staff.
Focuses on legal issues surrounding access to and the delivery of water, the various uses for water from hydropower to agriculture to drinking water, and how climate change exacerbates historical tensions over who has access to water for what purposes. Includes documents on the effects of the Clean Water Act, and other government documents, reports, and legislative histories, as well as books, scholarly articles and more.
This archive brings together thousands of casebooks from West Publishing, and includes all out-of-print and superseded casebooks in West Academic’s American Casebook Series, University Casebook Series, Hornbook Series, and Nutshell series, except for the two most recent editions of any title. This ever-expanding archive will grow on a regular basis. (BC Access)
Provides law students with unlimited online access to more than 430 titles from West Academic Publishing, Foundation Press, and GIlberts. Over 10 series are available, including the Acing Series, Black Letter Series, Career Guides, Concise Hornbooks, Law Stories, Nutshells, Sum & Substance, and Short & Happy Guides. To access audio books, you must create a personal account. (BC Access and Personal Account Access)
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Westlaw is a comprehensive legal research system that includes case law, annotated statutory codes, regulatory materials, and secondary sources. (Personal Password Required)
Personal passwords are restricted by our contract to currently enrolled law students and law faculty only.
Westlaw Edge UK is a legal database containing a comprehensive case-finding database for England and Wales, all primary and secondary legislation for the UK, England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, a Legal Journals Index with coverage of most UK legal journals, as well as international and EU legal materials, a UK newspaper database, and a library of full-text commentary titles and other standard works. (Login with your personal Westlaw credentials)
Personal passwords are restricted by our contract to currently enrolled law students and law faculty only.
These collections from the Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe College consist of three distinct series of collections from the Schlesinger Library: voting rights, national politics, and reproductive rights. The voting rights papers include documentation of national, regional, and local leaders. National leaders featured in this module include Carrie Chapman Catt, Matilda Joslyn Gage, Helen Hamilton Gardener, Julia Ward Howe, Alma Lutz, Anna Howard Shaw, and Lucy Stone. Papers of regional and local leaders include Harriet Burton Laidlaw, Helen Barten Owens, Clementina Rhodes Hartshorne, Mary Garrett Hay, Nellie Nugemt Somerville, Lucy Somerville Howorth, Margaret Foley, Grace Allen Johnson, and Olympia Brown. On the topic of national politics, major collections are those of Molly Dewson, Emma Guffey Miller, Sue Shelton White, Jeannette Rankin, and Jessica Weis. Collections on reproductive rights are the Schlesinger Library Family Planning Oral History Project, and the papers of Mary Ware Dennett and the Voluntary Parenthood League.
World Constitutions Illustrated (HeinOnline) brings together modern and historical constitutional documents, books, articles, bibliographic references, and web sites for approximately 200 countries. Though it varies by country, most material is in English as well as the source language. Also included is the complete set of the British & Foreign State Papers, one of the greatest collections of legal and political documents ever published. (BC Access)
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Provides access to current and archived issues of Inside U.S. Trade newsletter as well as a database library comprising over 100,000 trade-related documents including policy papers, WTO decisions, draft and final regulations, court decisions, legislation and more. (BC Law access)
World Trials (HeinOnline) This database contains searchable full-text PDF images of U.S., English and international trial collections, including Howell’s State Trials, American State Trials, Nazi war crimes trials, famous individual trials such as Baby M, Sacco & Vanzetti, and Leopold and Loeb, and related treatises on jury trials and criminal evidence. (BC Access)
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WorldCat is a union catalog providing information on the holdings of libraries all over the world. BC users can log in and request items from other WorldCat libraries be delivered using Interlibrary Loan.
WorldTradeLaw.net is a legal research tool for WTO dispute settlement. Features include an up-to-date keyword index and a database of dispute settlement tables and statistics. (Web)
The newspapers and news pamphlets gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757 - 1817) represent the largest single collection of 17th and 18th century English news media. The 700 or so bound volumes of newspapers and news pamphlets were published mostly in London, however there are also some English provincial, Irish and Scottish papers, and a few examples from the American colonies, Europe and India. (BC Access)
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The 17th and 18th Century Nichols Newspapers Collection features the newspapers, periodicals, pamphlets and broadsheets that form the Nichols newspaper collection held at the Bodleian library in Oxford, UK. All 296 volumes of bound material, covering the period 1672-1737 are presented in digitized format here. This collection charts the history of the development of the press in England and provides invaluable insight into 17th-18th century England. The collection includes approximately 300 primary titles of newspapers and periodicals and 300 pamphlets and broadsheets. (BC Access)
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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
Lex Machina provides strategic litigation analytics about courts, judges, lawyers, law firms, and parties. Currently covering 21 specific practice areas, it offers information on resolutions, timing, findings, damages, and remedies. Data is compiled, cleaned, and enhanced by a combination of machine learning and in-house experts. Included are analytics for Federal District Courts, Federal Appellate Courts, certain specialty venues, and an expanding list of state courts. Create a personal account (BC email address required) at https://law.lexmachina.com/enterprise/bc.edu
Contains digital versions of treatises published by LexisNexis Matthew Bender, including a number of Massachusetts-related titles. Readers can add personal annotations, create bookmarks, and download text for offline reading. iOS and Android apps are available. (BC Access)
Covering over 500 different cases, this collection puts a concentrated focus on key issues that continue to occupy the American social and political landscape, such as reproductive rights, gun ownership laws, incarceration and the rights of prisoners, environmental policy, and more. (BC access)
Primary source content and editorial perspectives of the significant African American newspapers in the U.S. Each of the eleven Historical Black Newspapers provides access to information typically excluded or marginalized in mainstream sources. Includes articles, obituaries, photos, editorials, and more. Titles include: Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, Cleveland Call and Post, and Michigan Chronicle. (BC Access)
As a companion to Legislative Insight, Regulatory Insight offers U.S. federal administrative law histories beginning in 1936, organized by federal statute and Executive Order. The scope of coverage is ongoing. Consult the product libguide at: https://proquest.libguides.com/reginsight/about for information about current coverage.
Taxes in Europe database is the European Commission's on-line information tool covering the main taxes in force in the EU Member States, containing information on around 650 taxes, as provided to the European Commission by the Ministries of Finance of the EU Member States. Access is free for all users.
TheCorporateCounsel.net is an educational service that provides practical guidance on legal issues involving corporate and securities regulation and corporate governance practices - as well as many other areas affecting today's corporate practitioner. The site features news, specialized topic areas, sample documents and law firm memos. An e-mail newsletter is also available. (Password Access)
Focuses on legal issues surrounding access to and the delivery of water, the various uses for water from hydropower to agriculture to drinking water, and how climate change exacerbates historical tensions over who has access to water for what purposes. Includes documents on the effects of the Clean Water Act, and other government documents, reports, and legislative histories, as well as books, scholarly articles and more.
This archive brings together thousands of casebooks from West Publishing, and includes all out-of-print and superseded casebooks in West Academic’s American Casebook Series, University Casebook Series, Hornbook Series, and Nutshell series, except for the two most recent editions of any title. This ever-expanding archive will grow on a regular basis. (BC Access)
A collection of local, regional, and international news sources. Additionally it provides access to many sources of foreign news in translation. (BC access)
A comprehensive web-based library of primary and secondary immigration law materials, AILALink is created by the American Immigration Lawyers Association. It includes the full text of Kurzban’s Immigration Law Sourcebook and many other books, as well as links to cases, statutes, regulations, forms and the newsletter Immigration Law Today. (BC Law Access)
Digital versions of popular Aspen online study aids, including Examples & Explanations, Glannon Guides, Emanuel Law Outlines, Emanuel CrunchTime, Casenote Legal Briefs, and others. Register to create an account for personalized services: password must be between 6 and 32 characters and include all of the following: upper case, lower case, numerical, and special characters (BC Law School access)
Available to Boston College Law School current students, faculty, and staff.
Checkpoint (formerly RIA Checkpoint) provides full-text access to a wide variety of federal, state and international tax resources, including US Tax Reporter, Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, US tax treaties, a citator service, a dictionary, tax alert services, and selected journals and WG&L tax treatises. Use the drop-down menu on the left to select a practice area -- e.g. Federal, International, State & Local, etc. (BC Law Access)
Each E&E title offers hypothetical questions complemented by detailed explanations that allow you to test your knowledge of the topics in your courses and compare your own analysis. Part of the Wolters Kluwer Online Study Aid Library. (BC Law Access)
Included in the online Aspen Learning Library, Glannon Guides provide straightforward explanations (interspersed with hypotheticals) of complex legal topics, and offer multiple-choice questions with clear and often humorous explanations of both correct and incorrect answers. (BC Law access)
HeinOnline provides access to law journals with retrospective coverage and many pre-1980 titles not available in other databases; also includes the Federal Register, a Legal Classics Library of treatises, a Treaties and Agreements Library, and additional federal resources. Materials are available as pdf images and as searchable text files. Additional titles and years added regularly. (BC Access)
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Electronic access to the complete catalog of PLI treatises, course handbooks and answer books. Also includes downloadable legal forms and a growing list of transcripts of PLI seminars. (BC Access)
BC Access: Resource is available via computers connected to the BC network. Off-campus access requires a BC username and password, and is available to the BC Community only (current students, faculty and staff.)
Provides law students with unlimited online access to more than 430 titles from West Academic Publishing, Foundation Press, and GIlberts. Over 10 series are available, including the Acing Series, Black Letter Series, Career Guides, Concise Hornbooks, Law Stories, Nutshells, Sum & Substance, and Short & Happy Guides. To access audio books, you must create a personal account. (BC Access and Personal Account Access)
BC Access: Resource is available via computers connected to the BC network. Off-campus access requires a BC username and password, and is available to the BC Community only (current students, faculty and staff.)
Personal Account Access: Click on the "Create an Account" link and follow online instructions. (BC email address is required)