The United Nations Treaty Series, the largest collection of treaty documents, is available online at no charge and in pdf format. The UNTS, which contains more than 150,000 treaties, conventions and agreements, is a primary citation source for legal publications. Published by the Secretariat of the United Nations, it contains the texts of all international …
Now that the phase-in of Lexis Advance is complete, the research service has added some foreign law primary sources to its collection. Like other commercial research services, Lexis offers access primarily to the law of countries that are significant trade partners of the United States. For instance, there is extensive case law coverage for Canada, …
Westlaw has long provided access to most British caselaw, but it has not offered those cases in the PDF format needed by citecheckers. Recently, though, Westlaw has begun to include PDF versions of the two most-cited British case reporters, Law Reports and English Reports. The Law Reports is a series of the most significant U.K. …
A campaign to make all the world’s legal information more widely available is gathering steam. The Free Access to Law Movement (FALM) is an ambitious program devoted to making legal information available online at no cost. In its Declaration on Free Access to Law, the group holds that legal information “is part of the common …
There’s a useful tool now in HeinOnline that helps researchers locate difficult-to-find, older English cases. Because English cases were historically published in scores of “nominate” reporters – few of which are available to American researchers – it is often difficult to find them. To make them more available to practitioners, significant cases decided between 1220 …
Three new, specialized research vehicles are now available from Bloomberg Law. Called “Workflow Solutions”, they cover the topic areas Banking, Corporate Transactions and Privacy & Data Security. Accessed through the Practice Centers tab, the three Workflow Solutions platforms offer all the Bloomberg content related to those areas, but in discrete, stand-alone versions that allow practitioners …
