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Full A-Z list
Below is an alphabetical list of the online legal resources available to researchers at the University of Cambridge Faculty of Law.
Use of the online resources is authenticated via one of three routes:
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BAILII: British and Irish Legal Information Institute
British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.
BeckOnline
Münchener Kommentar zum Bürgerlichen Gesetzbuch [BGB] plus several journals including Neue Juristische Wochenschrift and Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht.
Bloomsbury Professional Online
Includes access to practitioner ebooks on family law, banking and finance law, charities, criminal negligence, company and commercial law, employment law, environmental law, insolvency law, local government law, maritime law, mediation, partnerships, pensions, professional negligence property and land law, sports law and UK law.
The Bluebook
Guide for legal citation.
Business Source Ultimate
Peer reviewed business journals.
Cambridge Law Reports
International Law Reports
International Law Reports 1919- present. Via CUP. Covers all significant cases of public international law from 1919- present..
ICSID Reports
ICSID Reports Vol 1- present. Via CUP. Reports of cases decided under the Convention on the Settlement of Investment Disputes between States and Nationals of Other States 1965, and related decisions on international protection of investments. (Incorporated in the Cambridge Law Reports.)
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
Search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States.
Commentaries on World Trade Law Online
Comprehensive, standard reference on WTO Law. The Commentaries explain provisions of WTO Agreements article by article.
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources
Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources" is a British Academy research project at the University of Oxford. Based entirely on original research, the DMLBS is the most comprehensive dictionary of Medieval Latin to have been produced and the first ever to focus on British Medieval Latin. Completed in print in 2013, the DMLBS is a definitive survey of the vocabulary of one of the most important languages in British and European history.
Dissertations & Theses Abstracting & Indexing Service (Proquest)
Dissertations and theses from around the world spanning 1743 to present day. Access to abstracts only. Full text may either be purchased online via ProQuest directly, or by contacting the Inter-Library Loans Department by email: ill@lib.cam.ac.uk.
Doctrinal
Le Doctrinal Indexing service provides access to a wide range of primary and secondary materials, mainly in the French language, with the help files solely in French.
Factiva
Includes business and general news. News pages include the Financial Times, Wall Street Journal and The Economist.
Foreign Law Guide
Current sources of Codes and legislation of about 160 jurisdictions. Good guide to official sources.
HeinOnline
English Reports
Coverage from 1220-1865. Reprint in which the original footnotes are given. The reprint contains over 100,000 cases, representative of 265 separate series of reports, arranged by courts.
Foreign and International Law Resources Database
Includes Yearbooks, Serials, Digests and International Tribunals/Judicial Decisions.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
Multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in more than 500 legal journals published worldwide.
Law Journal Library
Image based collection of legal periodicals. Coverage is from the journals' inception and continues to the most current volume.
Legal Classics Library
Includes early British & Commonwealth titles as well as titles listed in the Bibliography of Early American Law.
Philip C Jessup Library
Jessup Compendium, including the winning memorials from the Dillard and Baxter awards as well as bench memoranda.
Treaties & Agreements Library
Full text of several important treaty series.
US Statutes at Large
Full text access from 1789-2007.
World Constitutions Illustrated
This collection contains the current constitution of every country in the world in its original language.
IBFD Tax Research Platform
A portal for cross-border tax expertise, including Corporate Investment Income, Value Added Taxation and EU Law.
ICC Digital Library Dispute Resolution
Access to the ICC Bulletin, ICC Arbitral Awards, and other ICC publications.
i-Law (for Lloyds Maritime and Commercial Law Quarterly)
NB: This service requires users to register using their @cam email address as their username.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
A source available from HeinOnline.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books
Abstracts, citations and in some cases, full text of over 1025 legal journals. Coverage from 1908.
International Encyclopaedia of Ethics
Comprehensive reference work incorporating metaethics, practical ethics and normative ethics
International Maritime Boundaries
Provides up-to-date, regionally organised content with hyperlinked maps and keyword search functionality.
Investment Arbitration Reporter
Electronic news service tracking cross-border arbitrations between foreign investors and their host goverments.
Investor-State LawGuide
International Investment Treaty Law and Arbitration. Includes all publicly available decisions and awards where the subject of the claim is an investment treaty.
Kluwer Arbitration
Major service for international arbitration research. Contains inter alia BITs, Conventions and Decision Summaries. Also included is commentary through books and journals.
Kluwer Law Online
Full text of 18 journals covering European, European Union and International Law. Includes titles such as Common Market Law Review and Journal of World Trade.
Legal Scholarship Network (SSRN)
Access to new scholarship including inter alia law and economics. Teaching staff may subscribe to electronic journal distributions. For further information contact Kate Faulkner, Legal Research Librarian (kef39@cam.ac.uk).
Legislation.gov.uk
The official government site for UK legislation, revised and as enacted 1267-present. Managed by The National Archives.
Lexis+ (now including PSL)
ICLR, All England Law Reports, Halsbury's Laws of England, Legislation Service, Newspapers. (Plus also PSL resources: Practical guidance for lawyers; practice notes, checklists, forms, precedents, cases, Acts, calculators and links to Butterworths sources.) Supported by Hogan Lovells International LLP.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
GALE Cengage Learning: provides scholars and students with a digital collection covering the watershed period of legal development during the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Manupatra (Indian Legislation and Court Reports)
Indian Legislation and Court Reports.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law
Maps and analyzes the systems and processes through which international law is made and adjudicated in practice.
Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
Major reference work containing 1,700+ peer- reviewed articles on substance of international law.
Northern Ireland: A Divided Community, 1921-1972: Cabinet Papers of the Stormont Administration
Presents a full record of every cabinet meeting for the duration of the Stormont administration, the devolved government of Northern Ireland, 1921-72. Separate files exist for each Cabinet meeting and include minutes and memoranda.
Oxford Bibliographies: International Law
Authoritative research guides across international law. Combines the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
Oxford Bibliographies: International Relations
Authoritative research guides across international relations. Combines the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.
Oxford International Organizations (OXIO)
Annotated documents on the law of international organizations. Includes material on acts and practices about international law, including international institutional law.
Oxford Law Trove
A collection of approximately 200 law textbooks
Oxford Reports on International Law (ORIL)
International Law in Domestic Courts. A regularly updated repository of cases in international law from over 70 jurisdictions.
Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL)
This service provides full text access to reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press (OUP). Titles include Oppenheim’s International Law as well as many of the Oxford Handbooks (e.g. The Oxford Handbook of International Adjudication, The Oxford Handbook of International Human Rights Law).
Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO)
Full text of OUP published books. Also includes books published by Stanford and Chicago University Presses.
Parliamentary Papers (UK)
Includes House of Commons papers 1715-2004, House of Lords Papers 1714-1805, Command Papers 1833-2004 and various forms of parliamentary proceedings between 1660-2005. Fully searchable and indexed and includes many PDFs of the original texts.
Practical Law Company (PLC) Thomson Reuters
Practical Law Company is the leading provider of know-how for lawyers. (Corporate law sources only).
PLC is now integrated into Westlaw UK. To access from Westlaw UK, use the menu in the upper left-hand corner to select 'Practical Law'.
Public Information Online
Public Information Online is a complete collection of parliamentary papers from Westminster, Scottish Parliament, Northern Ireland Assembly, Welsh Parliament (Senedd) and the Scottish Government.
Recueil des Cours en ligne
The Hague Academy of International Law Collected Courses Online in private international law and public international law since 1923. Published in the book series "The Hague Academy Collected Courses", now comprising 422 volumes.
Tax Notes
Daily news, analysis and commentary
Times Digital Archive
Complete digital edition of The Times newspaper (London) with full facsimile images from 1785-2012.
TradeLawGuide
TradeLawGuide provides nine research tools for comprehensive and granular research of WTO law. Its document collection contains WTO legal agreements and instruments, negotiating history, precursor agreements, all related WTO and pre-WTO case law, dispute documents and other related content. Individual registration is required for long-term offsite access (current University members only). Please contact Sarah Hammond (sh974@cam.ac.uk) to enquire.
Transnational Dispute Management
Peer-reviewed journal publishing on aspects on international arbitration with special focus on investment arbitration.
UN Online Disc System
Freely available since 1 January 2005. Comprises the full text of all United Nations parliamentary documents, including resolutions and decisions.
United Nations Treaty Database
Freely available since 18 April 2008. Includes text of bilateral & multilateral treaties published in UN Treaty Series.
vLexJustis
Cases and legislation from the UK and commonwealth, including the Singapore, Bermuda and Cayman Island Law Reports.
Westlaw Australia
Authorised reports including the Commonwealth Law Reports and the Federal Law Reports. Journal content includes the Australian Law Journal and the Property Law Review.
NB: This service requires users to register for individual access via Raven. Please contact the Squire Law Library team.
Westlaw International
Direct link for US and International Law (including the Legal Journals Index).
Westlaw UK
UK caselaw, statutes (including annotations), journals and books.
Who's Who and Who Was Who
Published every year since 1849, Who's Who is the leading source of up-to-date information about over 33,000 influential people in British public life today. Who Was Who is an invaluable historical archive which collects together the entries of nearly 90,000 people, now deceased, which were included in previous editions of Who's Who.
WorldTradeLaw.net
Searchable full texts of the WTO and NAFTA agreements, GATT Panel Reports, WTO Panel and Appellate Reports and Arbitration Decisions and NAFTA Chapter 20 Panel Reports. Also contains excellent dispute settlement commentaries of the WTO Panel and Appellate Body Reports.