Legal databases - subject


Passwords and external access key

Each database in the subject list has a "password key" in square brackets next to the title. The password code tells you

  1. If you need a password to access the database when you are on campus (within the Oxford network)
  2. How to access the database if you are off campus

[FREE] - web site in the public domain (you will never need a password). 

[OSS] You will be prompted to log on with your Oxford Single Sign on details.

[P.WORD] A password is required.  When you follow the [P.WORD] link you will be prompted to login with your  OSS.   Once you have logged in you will be taken to a "passwords page" where you will be given a password for the appropriate databaase.

[EXTERNAL: OXLIP+ ]  When you are off campus you will need to use Oxlip+.

 For more detailed information please see the passwords page.

Arbitration

Kluwer Arbitration [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+] GUIDE
Kluwer Arbitration provides access to resources on international commercial arbitration.
[Sponsored by Norton Rose]

Transnational Dispute Management and OGEMID Archive [P.WORD]  Recent developments in investment arbitration and dispute management.

Case law

All South Africa Law Reports [P.WORD]

British & Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) [FREE]
Free transcripts of judgments from the UK Appeals and Higher Courts, c. 1996 -.

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations [FREE]

Carilaw [P.WORD]
Primary materials from the Caribbean.

Caselex  [P.WORD]
Summaries (original language & English translation) of cases dealing with EU law heard before the highest courts of the member states of the EU and/or EFTA.

Casetrack [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Transcripts of judgments from the UK Appeals and Higher Courts, the ECJ and ECHR.

Common Market Law Reports (available via Justis) [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
NB: You may need to disable the pop-up blocker. 

Current Legal Information [P.WORD]
Case and legislation citator, case digest and legal journals index. No longer updated. 

English Reports 1220-1865 on CD ROM [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
[Sponsored by City Solicitors' Educational Trust]

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) [FREE]
A public database (US) of laws, regulations, judicial decisions and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organisations.

Justcite [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
Index to UK and EU case law and legislation with links to Justis, Westlaw, LexisNexis Butterworths and BAILII.

Justis [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
UK and EU case law legislation.
[Selected databases sponsored by City Solicitors' Educational Trust]

LawAfrica Law Reports [P.WORD]

Lawtel [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ] [To use the alerting service use a personal LAWTEL USERNAME]
UK judgments, UK statutes and SIs.

Lexis®Library [OSS] (formerly LexisNexis Butterworths)
Full text UK cases, legislation, journal articles, legal commentary and forms and precedents.
Take the tutorial Introduction to Lexis®Library or Halsbury's Laws and the Directory on Lexis®Library

Lloyd's Law Reports [EXTERNAL: OXLIP+]
Lloyd's Law Reports covering commercial and maritime cases from 1919 -  available on i-law.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674-1834 [FREE]

State Trials [EXTERNAL: OXLIP+]
State Trials are available via Justis 

vlex Global [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

Westlaw UK [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
UK - but also EU, USA and international legal materials.
Take the tutorial Introduction to Westlaw or Westlaw for all jurisdictions

Westlaw AU [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]  This is the new platform for Australia Law Online.Click on IP Users to access.

WorldLII [FREE]
Free source of case law and legislation from various jurisdictions, international courts and tribunals. Includes a catalogue of free legal web sites organised by jurisdiction and subject.

Family law

Family Law Online[EXTERNAL:OXLIP+ ]
Publications from publishers Jordans: including Family Law Reports, Child & Family Law Quarterly and Family Law (journal)

Journals, abstracts and working papers

Directory of Open Access Journals [FREE]
Provides access to scientific and scholarly electronic journals that are freely available on the web.

Dissertation Abstracts Online [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+] 

Berkley Electronic Press [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Working papers plus Issues in Legal Scholarship, Global Jurist and Theoretical Inquiries in Law.
[Sponsored by Baker & McKenzie]

Factiva [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
News from around the world.

FreeFullText.com [FREE]
Hosted by Stanford University. Links to scholarly journals which allow some or all of their content to be accessed free of charge.

HeinOnline[EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
US, UK, Australian and international law journals, US treaties and agreements, US Supreme Court opinions and a legal classics library.

Index to Common Law Festchriften [FREE]
Festschrift is the term used for a published collection of legal essays written by several authors to honour a distinguished jurist or to mark a significant legal event. This is the first index of contributions to common law Festschriften.

Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Index to articles in the field of non Anglo-American law.

Index to Legal Periodicals [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Index to articles in the field of Anglo-American law published in the UK, US and Europe, 1908 -.

Index to Theses [EXTERNAL: OXLIP+]
Index of abstracts to theses from Great Britain and Ireland 1716 - .

Jean Monnet Working Papers [FREE]
A collection of working papers from the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law, established to promote teaching in European integration in particular Law, Economics, Political Science and History.

LiveRe [FREE]
A portal that provides access to free journals available on the Internet. The portal covers scientific journals, magazines, bulletins and newsletters and can be accessed in English, Spanish and Portuguese.

Oxford University Research Archive (ORA) [FREE]

Social Science Citation Index [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Index of journals in behavioural and social sciences.

Tax Analysts [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Includes access to Tax Notes Today and Tax Notes International.

Zetoc [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
The British Library's Electronic Table of Contents service. Tables of contents of approximately 20,000 journals and 16,000 conference proceedings published annually.

Labour law

NATLEX [FREE]
 ILO's database of national labour, social security and related human rights legislation, providing abstracts of legislation and relevant citation information, and, where possible, either the full text of the law or a link to an electronic source.

Trade Unions in Western Europe since 1945 [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

Law gateways

Eighteenth Century Collections Online [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL) [FREE]
Portal to international law resources including treaties, international agreements and UN documents.

Elections in Western Europe since 1815 [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

FLAG [FREE]
Foreign Law Guide - holdings of foreign primary source materials in UK libraries.

Guide to Law Online - Law Library of Congress [FREE]
Prepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division. An annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online, including useful sites for legal information.

Infolaw Lawfinder [FREE]
Gateway to UK legal resources.

Inner Temple's Access to Law [FREE]

Jean Monnet Working Papers [FREE]
A collection of working papers from the Jean Monnet Center at NYU School of Law, established to promote teaching in European Integration in particular Law, Economics, Political Science and History.

Legal History: The Year Books [FREE]
Year book reports printed between the years 1378 and 1535 and a large number from 1268 onward.

ORA [FREE]
A digital archive for research papers written by Oxford University authors.

 

Public policy

PAIS International [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Index to literature of public policy, social policy and the social sciences in general.

Reference

Afkortingenlijst voor juridische tijdschriften [FREE]
A free guide to European legal abbreviations maintained by K.U. Leuven

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations [FREE]

Foreign Law Guide [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Introduction to the legal systems of over 189 jurisdictions.

History of Parliament [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Contains the text and illustrations from the 23 printed volumes of "The History of Parliament", coveirng the majorityof parliaments between 1386 and 1820.  You may need thinclient software to view this, if so then look for the resource on SOLO and there are links to the software.

Index to House of Commons Parliamentary Papers [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]

Parliamentary Papers [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
19th Century House of Commons Parliamentary Papers printed betweeen 1801-1900. Includes Bills, House Papers and Command Papers.

Proceedings of the Old Bailey [FREE]

UK Official Publications (UKOP)[FREE ]
Official catalogue of UK official publications.

US Government Publications [EXTERNAL:OXLIP+]
Access via OCLC.