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)
Information on companies, deals, funds, investors and service providers across the private investment lifecycle. PitchBook access is limited to academic, educational and scholarly use only and does not include PitchBook mobile app. Download limits: Accounts under the university subscription allow for 10 daily and 25 monthly rows of data downloads. Profile views are limited to 250 per day. Faculty may purchase additional data download capabilities of 1000 daily/2000 monthly rows of company, deal or fund data. Contact Boston College CSOM Librarian Doug Olsen at douglas.olsen@bc.edu for more information.
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)
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.)
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)
