Political Science — Law and Courts

BNA Labor and Employment Law Library Access to cases, manuals, newsletters, and analysis in U.S. Labor and employment law.
Bureau of Justice Statistics
Collins Dictionary of Law
Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy: The Avalon Project at Yale Law School Dedicated "to providing access via the World Wide Web to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, and Politics, Diplomacy and Government. We intend to add value to these primary sources by linking to other documents expressly referred to in the body of the text." Includes pre-18th century through 21st century documents.
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Federal Register Online "... the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents." Documents of Federal administrative agencies.
Find Law Extensive Federal and State law resources and specialized guides.
Global Corruption Report Download all of parts of the annual report by Transparency International.
Great American Court Cases
Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals Citations to articles as well as book reviews from more than 450 legal periodicals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports from 1985 to the present. Covers international law (public and private), comparative law, and municipal law of countries other than the United States, British Isles, and British Commonwealth.
Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Indexes articles from over 800 legal periodicals, from 1918 to the present; and works from major law books, since 1993. "Open Database Selection Area" to include materials older than 1981. Links to some full text sources available.
International Bibliography of the Social Sciences Citations from an international selection of publications, including over 2600 journals, in all areas of the social sciences with emphasis on economics, political science, sociology and anthropology.
International Law in Domestic Courts Fully searchable, regularly updated case reporting service of domestic cases in international law from over 60 countries. Analyses, commentaries, full texts of judgments in original languages and translations. Includes case alert service.
JSTOR Provides electronic access to back issues of core scholarly journals including almost 30 in Political Science. To browse the list of archives, click here. Articles have been digitized, providing full-image access.
Law & Politics Book Review Sponsored by the Law and Courts Section of APSA. Delivers electronic access to book reviews of works on the legal process and politics.
LexisNexis Congressional (formerly Congressional Universe) Congressional publications on key American public policy issues. Full text of proposed legislation and its status in the legislative process and the full text of recently signed law. Also contains full-text of U.S. Congressional Serial Set and American State Papers of 1789-1969 (to be completed by Dec. 2005).
Making of Modern Law More than 22,000 legal treatises on British Commonwealth and American law; full-text, fully searchable works published between 1800 and 1926.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data Includes full text documents and reports.
OYEZ Project OYEZ Project Multimedia database of information about the United States Supreme Court providing abstracts of all recent cases and selective abstracts for older cases, digital audio of the Oral Arguments in all recent cases either streamed or as MP3 downloads, several recordings of the announcement of the Court's opinion, and links to the written opinions of the court in all cases since 1791, through Justia. Contains access to more than 3000 hours of Supreme Court audio. Objective is to make accessible all audio from 1955 to the present. Before 1980, the audio collection is selective. The project will ultimately be a complete audio archive of the Court spanning from October 1995 to the present. (Principal Investigator: NU Professor Jerry Goldman)
PAIS International Bibliographic index to the literature of public policy, social policy, and the social sciences in general. Journal articles, books, government documents, statistical compilations, committee reports, directories, serials, reports of public, intergovernmental, and private organizations, and most other forms of printed literature from all over the world are indexed. This database covers 1972 to the present. Go to PAIS International Archive for coverage from 1937-1976. (The archive will eventually cover 1915 through 1976.)
Pritzker Legal Research Center at NU School of Law Most resources are available to all -- some are restricted to NU School of Law community.
Supreme Court Decisions FindLaw's searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893. Browsable by year and US Reports volume number. Searchable by citation, case title and full text.
Supreme Court Yearbook A component of the CQ Press Political Reference Suite . Case summaries, essays, tables and figures on voting patterns, and overviews of Supreme Court terms from 1989 to recent.
THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet Access bill summaries and statues, the Congressional Record, and information about House and Senate committees.
U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832-1978 "This database contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. The collection is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America’s first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States." (Publisher’s web site)
West's Encyclopedia of American Law , 13 volumes, 2nd edition, 2005.
World of Criminal Justice
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.

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Lucy E. Lyons
Collection Analysis, Journalism, and Political Science
Northwestern University Library
1970 Campus Drive
Evanston, IL 60208
(847) 491-2229, fax 467-7899
l-lyons@northwestern.edu
Office Location: Room 2623, 2nd Floor, East Tower, Main Library

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