Legal Databases

 

 

National law 

• Beck online : selection of German legal journals and commentaries
• Constitutions of the countries of the world : full-text of constitutions of over 190 nations in English translation
• DeJure : full-text of Italian legislation, case law, codes, regional laws and legal doctrine
• Foreign Law Guide : important reference tool for finding national codes and legislation
• International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law : online edition of multi-volume looseleaf edition 'International Encyclopaedia for Labour Law and Industrial Relations' covering over 60 countries and with English translations of important labour and industrial relations laws 
• Juris : full-text of German legislation, case law and references to journal literature  
• Legifrance : free French database containing the full-text of legislation, reported and unreported case law of the highest courts, international agreements (formerly Jurifrance) 
• Lex Polonica : full-text of Polish legislation and case law and commentaries
• LexisNexis Academic : full-text of many legal and news sources, mostly Anglo-American
• Lexis Nexis Juris Classeur : full-text of French case law and legislation, Official Journal, a selection of legal journals and the Juris Classeur encyclopedias 
• Westlaw International : full-text database of case law, legislation, law reviews, treaties and directories for (amongst others) the USA ,UK and Canada
• Westlaw Spain : full-text of Spanish legislation, case law, some journals and include references to journal literature; includes as well the case law of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights
• vLex : multinational and multilingual database of case law and legislation of over a 100 countries. It gives access as well to a number of full-text legal journals, books and news and business magazines. Especially Spanish and Portuguese speaking countries are well represented.
• World Constitutions Illustrated: Contemporary & Historical Documents & Resources  (Hein online): constitution of every country in the world in the original language and with at least one English translation. Included as well historical documents and a link to scholarly articles and commentary, and a bibliography of select constitutional books available elsewhere.

International Law 

• Annotated Leading Cases of International Criminal Tribunals : Text of the most important decisions of the ICTY, ICTR, The Special Court for Sierra Leone, The International Criminal Tribunal for Timor-Leste and the ICC. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law have commented these decisions. 
• Hague Academy Collected Courses online : electronic version of the Recueil des Cours/Collected Courses of the Hague Academy of International Law
• HeinOnline United Nations Law Collection : reproductions of major United Nationals legal documents, including the complete collection of the UN Treaty Series
• ICC Dispute Resolution Library : articles, reports and bulletins on international arbitration issued by the ICC International Court of Arbitration.
• Investment Arbitration Reporter : an electronic news service tracking cross-border arbitrations between foreign investors and their host governments. Specialized in international arbitrations involving states and claims before international human rights courts.
• Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law Online (MPEPIL) : online edition of the Encyclopedia of Public International Law published by the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law. The Oxford Law Citator links to decisions, instruments, commentary or articles on the website or accessible for free on the Internet. 
• Oxford Reports on International Law : database covering important international law issues international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals.
• ODS : United Nations Optical Disk System (ODS) comprises the full-text of all UN parliamentary documents since 1993 and all UN resolutions since 1946 issued by the General Assembly, the Security Council and the Economic and Social Council
• Transnational Dispute Management : recent trends in the area of arbitration and dispute management.
• UN Treaty Collection  (free resource): includes the United Nations Treaty Series (a collection of treaties and international agreements registered or filed and recorded with and published by the Secretariat since 1946, pursuant to Article 102 of the Charter), the status of the multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary General, and texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties (texts in English or French; the United Nations Treaty Series in microfiche up to 1987 (please check the online catalogue)
• Westlaw International : full-text database of case law, legislation, law reviews, treaties and directories for (amongst others) the USA ,UK and Canada
• WorldTradeLaw.net : includes primary source documents related to international trade law, a full-text search engine for GATT/WTO decisions, a large collection of links to other sources of information on the web, and a discussion forum. In addition, the Dispute Settlement Commentary (DSC) service is a comprehensive legal research tool for WTO dispute settlement and includes summary/analysis of all reports/arbitrations, up-to-date keyword index and a database of dispute settlement tables/statistics

European Law 

• Caselex : database of important national case law linked to EU law, cases of all EU and EFTA states are in the original language with a summary in English and date back to 2000, subject areas covered are competition law, labour law, company law, intellectual property law and consumer law
• European Union Online : all online information and databases of the EU

Working Papers 

• ERPA  European Research Papers Archive: common access point for working papers series in the field of European integration research (free resource)
• SSRN  Social Science Research Network, composed of various research networks, each with a growing number of abstracts and papers