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 …
SSRN, founded in 1994, has become one of the primary tools that legal scholars use to communicate their ideas to the world. UNC Law faculty are heavy users. As of August 2016, UNC Law faculty have posted over 600 articles to SSRN, and have received over 143,000 downloads. By “total number of new downloads” (downloads …
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 …
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 …
