Law e-resources and databases
- Gale OneFile: LegalTrac
LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals. It offers coverage of British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.
- Halsbury's Laws of Australia
Halsbury's Laws of Australia is a legal encyclopaedia providing a comprehensive overview ofAustralian law, and is a must-have reference tool for legal professionals in private and public sectors, librarians and students. Halsbury's 90 titles cover both mainstream and little known subject areas.
- HeinOnline
An online, fully searchable, image-based collection of law journals, treaties, reports, historical legal texts, constitutions and more. Provides full text access with exact page images of the documents in PDF format as they appear in the original print. The collection has a strong focus on the United States, but also includes Australian, UK and international sources.
- HKLII (Hong Kong Legal Information Institute)
Provides free access to primary legal materials and some publicly available secondary materials from Hong Kong including access to databases on cases, legislation and other legal reports, decisions and papers.
- House of Lords Parliamentary Papers 1800- 1910
Coupled with the already digitized House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, the House of Lords Parliamentary Papers will provide a complete picture of the working and influence of the UK Parliament during the pivotal 19th century. The research reveals previously unknown material such as statistical data, oral evidence, and letters and business papers relating to not only Britain, but also to the many parts of the world that were under British influence. As the working documents of government, the papers encompass wide areas of social, political, economic and foreign policy, and many contributors were found outside the official world — providing evidence to committees and commissions during a time when the Lords still wielded considerable power.
- ICLR Online
The full text of UK cases from 1865 onwards. The series (Appeal Cases, Chancery, Family, Queens Bench, Weekly Law Reports and Industrial Cases Reports) report cases from the High Court, Court of Appeal, UK Supreme Court, Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
- Index to Laws and Regulations in early Meiji Japan (日本法令索引-明治前期編)
Covers pre-1887 Japanese bills, laws, decrees, treaties and their amendments.
- Index to the Japanese Laws and Regulations (日本法令索引)
Covers post-1886 Japanese bills, laws, decrees, treaties and their amendments.
- Informit Indigenous Collection
This multidisciplinary resource offers both topical and historical issues within Indigenous studies, with material from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, New Zealand, North America and the Pacific.
- Jus Mundi - Academic Research [Trial]
The Jus Mundi platform offers a comprehensive, multilingual search engine for advanced academic research in international law. Jus Mundi covers over 16,000 international law and investor-state arbitration documents, including treaties, ICJ, PCIJ, PCA, ITLOS, ICSID and other arbitration institutions, UNCITRAL, IUSCT documents (judgments, arbitral awards, orders, pleadings, etc.), and decisions of the Mixed Claims Commissions. Commercial arbitration is exclusively available on Jus Mundi.
- Kluwer Law Online journals
Kluwer Law Online publishes a high-quality collection of peer-reviewed journals on international legal matters in many different practice areas, written by experts from around the world.
- LawnB Legal Information Service [Korea]
A collection of Korean legal material including law information; judicial precedents; official documents, and information on lawyers and law firms.
- LawNow legislation
LawNow Legislation is a full text legislation service, including current, repealed and historical versions of Australian legislation. LawNow is accurate, current and reliable, and includes direct links to relevant government web sites.
- Laws of Australia - A Legal Encyclopedia
An Australian legal encyclopaedia covers over 330 topics and every Australian jurisdiction. It includes links to FirstPoint case entries for fast checking of case details and currency, and integration with full-text case law including Commonwealth Law Reports, Federal Court Reports and other authorised Australian law reports.
- Lawyerly
An independent news source devoted exclusively to legal news, lawyerly is the daily current awareness tool of choice for Australia's best commercial lawyers.
- LegalTrac
LegalTrac provides indexing and selective full-text for major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty publications, Bar Association journals, and international legal journals. It offers coverage of British Commonwealth, European Union, and international law.
- LEGENDcom
Maintained by the Australian Commonwealth Department of Home Affairs, LEGENDcom is an electronic database of migration and citizenship legislation and policy documents.
Please note: Users need to have an ImmiAccount to access. ONE user at a time ONLY.
- legislation.gov.uk
This website is managed by The National Archives on behalf of HM Government. As the official government archive for England, Wales and the United Kingdom, it holds over 1,000 years of the nation's records. This website also contains legislation of the Scottish Parliament, and the Welsh and Northern Ireland Assemblies.
- Lexis + : Australia
New access method, same database
A bibliographic and full text legal database of Australian publications published by LexisNexis including the case citatory, CaseBase; full text legal research publications; legislation via LawNow; law reports; unreported judgments; looseleaf services; journals, and bulletins in a variety of legal areas.
- Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law
The Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law is a comprehensive resource on every aspect of international law. The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law contains peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of the substance of international law. The Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law maps and analyzes the systems and processes through which international law is made and adjudicated in practice.
- New Westlaw AU
Provides access to Australian cases, legislation and commentary, including the case citator and digest, FirstPoint; authorised law reports, including Commonwealth Law Reports and Federal Court Reports; leading practitioner journals such as Australian Law Journal; legislation and commentary, updated to reflect current law; and The Laws of Australia encyclopaedia.
- Nineteenth-Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers
Parliamentary Papers are the most detailed primary source for nineteenth-century Britain, its colonies, and the wider world. They are the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy. They influenced public opinion and social and political philosophy, and provided a forum for the ideas of hundreds of thinkers, among them Jenner, Arnold, Trollope, Mill, Faraday, Babbage, Telford, and Brunel. This comprehensive collection includes all of the papers issued by the House of Commons between 1801-1900 in all formats, including: bills, reports of Royal Commissions, reports of select committees, accounts and papers and command papers.
- NZLII (New Zealand Legal Information Institute)
A collection of free legal databases of New Zealand case law, legislation, journals and other legal materials pertinent to the New Zealand jurisdiction. It is a source of reported and unreported cases and is linked to other Legal Information Institute pages including AustLII and WorldLII.
- Oxford Academic (formerly Oxford Journals)
This online resource offers full text access to over 230 journals published by Oxford University Press on a range of subjects, two-thirds of which are in collaboration with learned societies or international organisations.
- Oxford Bibliographies Online - International Law
Oxford Bibliographies are exclusive, authoritative research guides, combining features of an annotated bibliography and an encyclopaedia. The International Law guide is a tool that helps to filter through the proliferation of information sources to material that is reliable and relevant.