LibGuides: Legal Resources: Legal Resource Databases

Legal Resource Databases

HeinOnline
HeinOnline is a database for law journals, legal history, treaties, and government documents including the entire Congressional Record, Federal Register, and Code of Federal Regulations, complete coverage of the U.S.
WestLawNext
Access to U.S. and international law sources. Access includes: legal encyclopedias, cases, statutes and legislative materials, and law reviews.
Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
Nexis Uni features news, business and legal sources from LexisNexis. A good source for current articles in the New York Times and other major newspapers, and for looking up information about companies, industries and countries.
Jurist Legal News & Research
Current legal news stories, both domestic and international.

Library of Congress Guide to Law Online
An annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information anout international, federal, state, and indigenous law

Governmental Resources

ProQuest Congressional (1789 - Present)
Congressional documents, including bills, statues, hearings, reports, and legislative histories.
ProQuest Congressional Hearings
The Congressional Hearings Digital Collection, or CHDC, is a collection of published and unpublished hearings held by Congress.

Looking for inspiration?

Browse the K section of the library in the Southeast Stacks for books on law and legal history or try a Browse Search in the library catalog for Library of Congress call number = K.

We also have many law school journals online. Search "law" in the catalog and narrow your results to Journals.