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Law Library Databases & Indexes: A-G

AILA Link (The Affordable Immigration Law Library)
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AILALinkOnline is a fully searchable, web-based immigration law library filled with practical guidance and authoritative resources key to the practice of immigration law. Contains immigration-related statutes, cases and regulations as well as treatises and practice materials in immigration law.

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American Indian Law Collection (HeinOnline)
This collection contains an archive of treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions and jurisprudence.
American Law Institute Library (HeinOnline)
This library includes special ALI publications, Restatements of the Law, Codifications, and other ALI projects.
Bankruptcy Law Resource Center (Bloomberg BNA)
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The resource center includes access to bankruptcy news, statutes, regulations, analysis, case law, and practice tools. Coverage of consumer and commercial bankruptcy.

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Benefits Practice Resource Center (Bloomberg BNA)
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This BNA Resource Center features authoritative, in-depth, and practice-oriented news, analysis, and practice tools in the area of employee benefits and pensions. The materials are organized into six topical areas — Pensions & Retirement, Health Benefits, Fringe & Welfare Benefits, Compliance & Enforcement, Litigation, and Executive Compensation.

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Bloomberg BNA Law School Professional Information Center
This library of databases provides information on a variety of legal topics such as employment law, tax law, environmental law and others. Each of the over 200 titles includes primary material, commentary and an updating component. Many titles offer alerting services to keep researchers aware of the latest developments.

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CALI (Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction)
Provides more than 800 interactive, computer-based lessons on more than 35 legal subjects to supplement students' legal coursework. Some lessons are keyed to specific casebooks and so may be useful in exam preparation. Lessons vary in length from 15 minutes to a few hours, from short lecture podcasts to longer interactive tutorials.

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What is CALI?

Short for “Computer-Assisted Legal Research.” Self-paced tutorials used to review, reinforce and refresh what you’ve learned in class.

How do you access CALI?

Two ways. Install the software disk on your computer or go to http://www.cali.org. The lessons can be accessed with a computer, an iPad or an iPhone. You will need an access code to set up your account. Please visit the law librarians for assistance or email lawreference@stthomas.edu.

What subjects does CALI offer?

There are over 800 lessons on various legal topics. Students hoping to specialize in business law, intellectual property, tax, employment law, environmental law or estate planning will all find lessons to sharpen their skills.

What’s particularly good for 1Ls?

Many of the lessons cover topics of interest to 1Ls and there is a 1L topics link on the CALI lessons home page. Most of UST’s first year subjects including Civil Procedure, Contracts, Criminal Law, Legal Research, Legal Writing, Property Law and Torts are covered in CALI lessons.

Besides doctrinal subjects, CALI lessons offer information on how to succeed in law school. These lessons include:

How to Brief a Case.
Preparing for Your First Semester of Law School.
Exam Taking Skills, Outlines, and Advice for Law Students. Tips for Multiple Choice Exams in Law School.
Top 10 Tips for Successfully Writing a Law School Essay.
Writing Law School Exams: The Importance of Structure.
Plagiarism: Keeping out of Trouble.
Punctuation and Grammar for Law Students.
Punctuation and Grammar: Advanced.
Checkpoint
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Checkpoint is a comprehensive tax and accounting research database covering tax and accounting laws and news on the international, federal, state and local levels; includes treaties, statutes, codes, rules, regulations, decisions, tax citators, IRS publications, legislative materials, current awareness tax news sources, and periodicals.
Congress and the Courts (HeinOnline)
Includes materials related to congressional concern with the composition and structure of Article III courts. Also included are Federal Judicial Center publications, periodicals, links to scholarly articles, CFR Title 28 - Judicial Administration, and Congress and the Courts: A Legislative History 1787-2010.
Congressional Publications (ProQuest)
Covers a variety of congressional documents from 1789 to present, including House and Senate reports and documents from 1817, hearings from 1824, committee prints and publications from 1830, CRS reports from 1916, and legislative histories from 1969. Serves as an index to a microfiche legislative history system pre-1969.

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Congressional Publications Search (from ProQuest)
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Includes bills, legislative history, and most importantly here, access to Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports from 1916-present. Use the checkboxes in the search form to limit sources.
Corporate Compliance Library (Bloomberg BNA)
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This library is an information resource of legal analysis and news for attorneys to use to design, implement, and monitor organizational compliance programs that qualify as effective under the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines for Organizational Defendants. The library contains the Corporate Compliance Manual and Prevention of Corporate Liability: Current Reports.

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Corporate Governance Library (Bloomberg BNA)
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This BNA library includes portfolios that examine critical areas of corporate governance.
The materials are organized into eight parts: Board of Directors, Audit Committees, Compensation Committees, Special Committees of Independent Directors, Corporate Minutes, Annual Meeting of Shareholders, Shareholder Proposals, and Corporate Governance of the Financial Reporting Process.

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Corporate Practice Library (Bloomberg BNA)
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This Library features in-depth analysis and practical guidance. It includes Corporate Practice Series and Financial Reporting Portfolios. The portfolios cover a broad range of topics, including antitrust, securities, labor and employment, environment, intellectual property, types of legal entities that can be used to conduct business, corporate political activity, and state corporate law.

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Digital Discovery & eEvidence (Bloomberg BNA)
Provides in-depth intelligence and expert insights from leading courtroom and computer forensics experts on the evidentiary value of electronic data in litigation. Includes legal and policy developments governing electronic evidence. Includes legislation, regulations, court and administrative decisions, including rulings of magistrate judges.

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Economist Historical Archive This link opens in a new window
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The Economist Historical Archive delivers a complete searchable copy of every issue of The Economist from 1843 to 2006. The Economist presents the world's political, business, scientific, technological and cultural developments and the connections between them. Includes images, multiple search indexes, exportable financial tables and a gallery of front covers highlighting a key topic of each week.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online This link opens in a new window
Eighteenth Century Collections Online captures the essence of the Enlightenment in Great Britain between 1701 and 1800 through digital access to materials ranging from books and directories to Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements. It delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.

Environment & Safety Library (Bloomberg BNA)
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This Library includes federal and state environment and safety laws and regulations (U.S.) and environment and safety laws and regulations in Canada and Mexico; full text of European Union directives and regulations; legal decisions made by federal, state, and administrative courts; and EHS forms, guidance and presidential documents, agency memoranda, and international treaties and agreements.

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Export Reference Library (Bloomberg BNA)
Contains market-specific trade and shipping data for more than 200 overseas markets. Includes basic export reference data and important market-specific characteristics, distribution channels, marketing laws, and intellectual property rights. Foreign rules and regulations governing product standards, labeling, packing, and marking are explained to ensure compliance. Also contains directories of embassies, consulates, government offices and the interactive U.S. forms for international commerce.

Access for law patrons only. Password needed for off-campus access. Please see a law librarian for assistance.
Fastcase
Includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions from all 50 states as well as federal coverage. Also provides access to a newspaper archive and legal forms.
Financial Times Historical Archive 1888-2006
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The Financial Times Historical Archive offers the complete run of the London edition of the paper, from its first issue (1888) to the end of 2006. Every individual article, advertisement and market listing is included and shown individually and in the context of the full page and issue of the day. Search full-text or browse by subject or edition.
Federal Register Library (HeinOnline)
Includes full-text of the Federal Register (Vol. 1-76: 1936-2011), updated daily; the Code of Federal Regulations (1938-2011); CFR List of Sections Affected; Presidential documents; and the U.S. Government Manual.
Foreign & International Law Resources Database (HeinOnline)
This database includes access to International Yearbooks and periodicals, U.S. law digests, international tribunals/judicial decisions, and other significant works related to foreign and international law.
Foreign Relations of the United States (HeinOnline)
Features the documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity. Provides access to more than 500 books from Abraham Lincoln's administration in 1861 through the Nixon/Ford administration in 1976.

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Law Library Databases & Indexes: A - G

Law Library Databases & Indexes: A-G

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