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• CCH Tax Research Network
  Internal Revenue Code, International tax news and Tax Treaties Reporter, Federal and State tax archives, and State Tax Reporters. 1978-current (Federal Tax Archives); 1994-current (State Tax Archives) 1999-current (International Tax Information).
  

  

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• CQ Congress Collection
  Provides an analytical survey of the history and development; powers; personalities; current developments; and legislation considered and passed by the United States Congress. From the Congressional Quarterly. current.
  

  

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  • Public Policy Legislation presents legislative information and analysis under 23 broad topics such as agriculture, civil rights, national security, and transportation and hundreds of subtopics.
  • Members of Congress includes biographical, political, and electoral data about every member of Congress since the 97th Congress (additional Congresses will be added periodically). It also includes links to each member's "CQ Key Votes" voting record and data on how various interest groups rate the members. An advanced member search allows the user to search for members by various demographic fields.
  • CQ Key Votes organizes, by Congress and topic, the preferred data for scholarly research. Each individual "CQ Key Vote" is presented with a description of the vote along with the vote outcome by political party and includes links to the roll call vote, the full text of the legislation, and a state delegation vote map. It also provides the ability to conduct advanced vote analysis by various demographic fields.
  • The Legislative Branch provides encyclopedic information, statistical data, legislative analysis, and Supreme Court case summaries relating to the structure and powers of Congress including committee information and its relationships with other branches of government and the media.

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• Hein Online
  Full-text of law reviews, federal documents, and Supreme Court materials. Much material is pre-1980 and some dates back to the 1800s. See details for coverage.
  

  

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  Pages appear as they would in the original hardcopy including all charts, graphs and photographs. Current issues of journals may not be available due to licensing restrictions. Hein call this a 'moving wall' and these journals are added when the next issues are published. Articles also may be retrieved using the standard legal citation format. Includes:

  • Law reviews
  • Federal Register Library and Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)
  • The Treaties and Agreements Library
  • The U.S. Attorney General Opinions Library
  • The U.S. Federal Legislative Histories Library
  • The U.S. Presidential Library
  • The U.S. Statutes at Large Library
  • The U.S. Supreme Court Library

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• LexisNexis Legal
  Primary source materials such as federal and state case law, statutes and codes, federal regulations, international legal materials, and patents. Secondary sources include legal news and law review articles. 1980s-current.
  

  

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  Also includes the Martindale-Hubbell Directory of lawyers and law firms and a Law School Directory. See also LexisNexis News and LexisNexis Business Publication groups within the database include:

  • Law reviews and legal news
  • Federal and state case law (search by case number or topic)
  • Topical law
  • Federal Code
  • Federal Regulations
  • State Codes
  • Canadian Legislative Materials
  • European Union Law (CELEX)
  • Patents
  • Tax law
  • Martindale-Hubbell lawyer directory
  • Law school directory

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• Making of Modern Law
  Covers domestic and international law, legal history, national defense, criminology, education, labor and social welfare, and military justice and more. Over 21,000 U.S. and U.K. legal treatises from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. 1800-1926.
  

  

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  Includes casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches. 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.

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• Westlaw Campus Research
  Includes American Jurisprudence 2d, American Law Reports, and law reviews, plus hundreds of news sources. Also includes U.S. Code Annotated, all federal, state, and Supreme Court cases, plus state statutes and regulations.
  

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  Analytical Sources

  • American Jurisprudence 2d (Am Jur 2d). An encyclopedia that provides summary and analysis of all fields of American state and federal law. It contains many citations to cases, statutes, and law review articles. It also includes analysis of the spirit and intent of the courts in construing the law, and Legislative intent in enacting and amending the law.
  • American Law Reports (ALR). ALR provides a continually updated series of articles (annotations) on legal topics discussed in key cases. The articles provide objective analysis of different sides of an issue, written in a narrative style.
  • Law reviews and journals. Law reviews are scholarly journals published by most accredited law schools. They contain thorough discussions of current issues and trends in the law, with comprehensive analysis by scholars and legal professionals. They are also an excellent source of citations to cases. Harvard Law Review, Yale Law Journal, American Journal of Legal History, Stanford Law Review, and International and Comparative Law Quarterly are just a few of the hundreds of highly respected publications available.

  Primary Law Sources

  • United States Code Annotated (USCA) . USCA combines the official text of the United States Code with relevant cases, historical notes, indexes, cross-references and other annotations.
  • All federal and state cases including U.S. Supreme Court cases . Easily accessible through West's National Reporter System, an exclusive system of reporting federal and state cases that’s editorially enhanced for complete research.
  • State statutes and regulations. Includes statutes from all 50 states and D.C. and administrative codes from all 44 states.
  • Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) . The full body of federal administrative regulations.
  • Federal Register. Includes 50,000 pages of current regulatory, administrative and executive materials generated by key federal entities.

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