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General Legal Databases

• Aspen Learning Library (formerly WK Study Aids)
• Bloomberg Law (password required)
  Law faculty and students may request an individual password from the library.
• Fastcase
  Law Onyen or individual password needed for off-site access.
• HeinOnline
• Internet Guide for the Legal Researcher (password required)
• Kluwer Arbitration
• Law360
• Lexis + (password required)
• LexisNexis Digital (E-Book) Library
  This database provides mobile and desktop access to the full text of major NC and national legal treatises and desk books, including the full set of NC General Statutes.
• National Consumer Law Center Digital Library
• Nexis Uni (formerly LexisNexis Academic)
• PLI Plus
• Practice of Law (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Transportation (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• United States Law Week (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• VitalLaw (Cheetah)
  Replaces CCH IntelliConnect. Contains legal resources for business, finance, energy, health, and tax research. Provides news, analysis, and guidance and includes full-text of state and federal statutes and regulations.
• West Study Aids
• Westlaw (password required)

Administrative Law

• University of Virginia Library: Administrative Decisions

Antitrust

• Antitrust & Competition (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Antitrust Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Mergers and Antitrust News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

Banking

• Banking & Consumer Finance (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Banking & Finance Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Banking News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

Bankruptcy

• Bankruptcy (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Bankruptcy Law News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Bankruptcy Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

Employee Benefits

• Benefits & Executive Compensation News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Benefits & Executive Compensation Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Payroll & Entitlements (VitalLaw/Cheetah)

Employment and Labor

• Construction Labor News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Daily Labor Report (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Human Resources (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Labor & Employment Law (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Labor & Employment Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Occupational Safety News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

Environment and Safety

• ClimateWire (E&E)
• E&E Daily (Environment & Energy Daily)
• E&E News
  Environment & energy industry news.
• E&E News PM (E&E)
• Energy & Environment (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Energywire (E&E)
• Environment & Energy Report (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Environmental Due Diligence News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Greenwire (E&E)

Family Law

• Domestic Violence Report

Federal Executive

• Code of Federal Regulations (GovInfo)
• Federal Register (GovInfo)
• HeinOnline
  Provides access to the Federal Register from inception (1936). Materials are available in Adobe PDF format.
• ProQuest Regulatory Insight

Federal Judicial

• Federal Court Locator
  A service provided by the Villanova University School of Law intended to give net citizens a means to access information related to the federal judiciary, including slip opinions.
• ProQuest Supreme Court Insight
• Supreme Court Today Tracker (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
  Links to dockets for recent U.S. Supreme Court cases.
• Supreme Court Web Citations
  Preserves and provides access to Internet resources cited in U.S. Supreme Court decisions
• The Oyez Project
  Database on major constitutional cases heard by the United States Supreme Court, with multimedia resources including digital audio of oral arguments.
• U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs: 1832-1978
• U.S. Supreme Court website

Federal Legislative

• Congress.gov
  Legislative Information from the Library of Congress
• GovInfo
  Federal government information site with links to major sites within the 3 branches of government.
• ProQuest Congressional
• ProQuest Legislative Insight
  Fully searchable PDFs of full-text publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking.
• ProQuest Regulatory Insight
• ProQuest Statistical Insight

Foreign & International

• African Union
  Website of the African Union, an international organization founded as the Organization of African Unity to promote cooperation among the independent nations of Africa.
• Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)
• Council of Europe
• EISIL: General International Law -Courts and Tribunals
  Links to international tribunal websites, as well as some research guides
• EISIL: International Organizations
• EUR-Lex
  Access to European Union law
• Europa
  Website of the European Union
• European Court of Human Rights
  Judicial Branch of the Council of Europe
• European Union Court of Justice
  Interprets and applies law as found in European Union treaties and legislation
• Foreign Law Guide (Reynolds & Flores)
• GlobaLex
  GlobaLex is an electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law.
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
• International Court of Justice
  Principal judicial organ of the United Nations
• International Criminal Court
• Law Library of Congress Guide to Law Online: Nations
  Web resources by country
• Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, c. 1600-1926
  Features international and foreign law primary source materials, including monographs on the laws of foreign jurisdictions. Coverage is primarily from the 19th and early 20th century, but includes several hundred classics in European international law since the 17th century.
• Organization of American States (OAS)
• Treaties in Force 2018
  U.S. State Department database of treaties to which the U.S. is a party.
• United Nations
• United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL)
• United Nations Treaty Collection
  Includes United Nations Treaty Series (UNTS), a database of multilateral treaties
• World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII)
  The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility which provides access to worldwide law.
• World Trade Organization (WTO)

Health Care

• Health Care Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Health Law & Business News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Healthcare (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Life Sciences (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Pharmaceutical & Life Sciences News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

Intellectual Property

• Intellectual Property (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• IP - WK Trademark Navigator (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• IP Law News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Patents & Trade Secrets Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Tech & Telecom News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Tech & Telecom Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Trademarks & Copyrights Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

Job Search

• Martindale
  Free directory of lawyers practicing in the U.S. and in other countries. Searchable by practice area, attorney or location. Lawyers must register to be listed and can create a basic profile for free.
• Public Services Jobs Directory (PSJD)
  Online clearinghouse for law students and lawyers to connect with public interest job listings and career-building resources. PSJD is free for law students and alumni of subscriber schools, to search among thousands of public interest job opportunities and employer profiles. Employer organizations may also post job opportunities for free.
• State of North Carolina Internship Program
  Summer internship program for permanent North Carolina residents attending a college, university, law school, technical institute, or community college. Opportunities include clerkships at the N.C. Court of Appeals.
• Westlaw (password required)
  Westlaw's Directory of Corporate Counsel, West Legal Directory, West Profiler, Almanac of the Federal Judiciary, and other tools allow job applicants to gather information about prospective employers.
• Work for NC
  NC Office of State Human Resources' searchable database of currently open NC government positions, including attorney positions. Search and browse jobs by keyword (e.g., "attorney"), salary range, or job title. To apply for jobs, some agencies require that you register for a free account.

Legal History

• ACLU American Civil Liberties Union Papers 1912-1995
  The ACLU defended the rights of citizens against government. It focused on defense of the freedoms of speech and press, the separation of church and state, the free exercise of religion, due process of law, equal protection of the law, and the privacy rights of all citizens. The ACLU files cover numerous topics including: the first “Red Scare” following the Russian Revolution of 1917; debates in the 1920s on immigration; the American Birth Control League; lynchings in the 1930s; debates on aliens and immigrants in the years immediately preceding the U.S. entry into the Second World War; and the ACLU’s involvement in two of the mid-century’s most important issues: the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement.
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online 1701-1800 (LAW)
• Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800-1926
• Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources
• Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600-1926
• Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978

Legislation & Government

• Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (GPO Access)
• Congress.gov
• Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (ArchiveIt)
• Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (U of North Texas Libraries)
• Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute
• Government Contracts (Cheetah)
• Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC) Digital
• ProQuest Congressional
• ProQuest Legislative Insight
• ProQuest Regulatory Insight
• U.S. House of Representatives website
• U.S. Senate website
• United States Census Bureau
• USA.gov
• USA.gov - Data and Statistics

Litigation

• Bloomberg Law Docket Search (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Class Action News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• E-Discovery & Legal Tech News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• E-Discovery Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Litigation (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Litigation Intelligence Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Supreme Court Today Tracker (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
  Links to dockets for recent U.S. Supreme Court cases.
• United States Law Week (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

Periodicals

• American Lawyer
• Chronicle of Higher Education
  Use UNC email address to create personal password at "login" link on Chronicle home page. Download app for easier access.
• Connecticut Law Tribune
• Corporate Counsel
• Current Index to Legal Periodicals (Onyen required)
• Daily Business Review
• Daily Report
• Delaware Business Court Insider
• Delaware Law Weekly
• Directory of Open Access Journals
• HeinOnline
• Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
• Index to Legal Periodicals and Books Full Text
• Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective: 1908-1981
• Journal Citation Reports (InCite)
• JSTOR
• Law.com
• Legal Intelligencer
• Legal Tech News
• Litigation Daily
• Mid-Market Report
• National Law Journal
• New Jersey Law Journal
• New York Law Journal
• New York Times - Law School Registration
• Periodicals Index Online
• Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
• Supreme Court Brief
• Texas Lawyer
• The Recorder
• Washington Post

Privacy

• Privacy & Data Security News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Privacy & Data Security Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Privacy and Cybersecurity Law Deskbook (VitalLaw/Cheetah)

Product Liability

• Product Liability & Toxics Law News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Products Liability & Insurance (VitalLaw/Cheetah)

Securities and Corporate Responsibility

• Corporate Law Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Securities - All (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Securities - Corporation Law & Governance (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Securities - Federal & International (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Securities - State (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• Securities Law News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Securities Practice Center (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• White Collar & Criminal Law News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)

State Materials

• Bloomberg Law State Chart Builders (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Legislative Reporting Service - Daily Bulletin (NC)
  Reports on bills introduced into the NC General Assembly.
• Municode (Municipal Code Corporation)
• North Carolina Administrative Code
• North Carolina Pattern Jury Instructions (PDF)
• North Carolina Register

Tax and Accounting

• Bloomberg Law: Tax (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Checkpoint Edge
• Tax Analysts (password required)

Trade and Commerce

• Federal Contracting News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)
• Government Contracts (VitalLaw/Cheetah)
• International Trade News (password required) (Bloomberg BNA)