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Alternate Name(s):Juris Arbitration Law

All 11 Juris Arbitration journals.
U.S. Law as well as International Law.

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This database contains two sets of resources: International Cultural Property Ownership and Export Legislation (ICPOEL), and Case Law and Statutes (CLS). 
ICPOEL contains legislation governing the export and ownership of cultural property from dozens of countries. The legislation is presented in both summary form and as complete text; the latter in the original language and in translation. Selected historical legislation is also included.
CLS contains an extensive body of primarily U.S. case law, including both litigated cases and hard-to-find, out-of-court settlements.

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Beck-online is a German legal research database containing cases, statutes, journals and books. It contains materials of interest to lawyers, tax professionals, economists, and human resources professionals.
To find the Library's subscribed materials, click on "Unser Beck" on the landing page.
On your phone or tablet, while you are on the Columbia campus, connect to the Columbia U Secure wireless network. You will be recognized as belonging to the Columbia Law School community, and will have access to Beck.
Beck-online is available ONLY from the Law School campus. The Library's subscription does not include access from offsite.

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Access at a dedicated terminal on site or by personal account. Contains a wide variety of legal and financial information, including court dockets and transactional news.

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Borderlex.net is an online resource for news and analysis on trade policy and free-trade negotiations in Europe. Its focus is European Union trade policy in Europe, Britain's post-Brexit trade policy, and key World Trade Organization developments.

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C

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Chinese-language legal database integrating content officially sanctioned by the People's Republic of China.
User Manual from the publisher.  (There is now no English-language interface.)

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Alternate Name(s):National Consumer Law Center

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Subscription-based current awareness service for legal research. Provides subject indexing and listing of tables of contents for more than 500 legal journals.

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Alternate Name(s):Hōjōhō Sōgō Dētabēsu

Database of Japanese law. Includes full-text cases (判例体系), and index to cases and periodical articles (法律判例文献情報). TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE.
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Alternate Name(s): The Deal

Students, faculty, and staff of Columbia Law School.
Please fill out this form (name, email address, graduation date). The Library transmits your information to the publisher. The publisher will send you "Welcome" emails to set up your account. This process is not automated. It may take a workday or two.

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Dispute Resolution Data is a global database pertaining to international commercial arbitration and mediation dispositions. DRD is a database for data collection and reporting. New data is added continuously as cases are closed.
Click on "Subscriber Login". On the next screen, click on “Organization Login.”

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E

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2023 Edition. Bringing together over 225 authors from 50 countries, the Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law is a comprehensive reference work in the field of comparative law. 
The Encyclopedia contains five types of entries: 

  • Articles on specific areas of the law (criminal law, administrative law, etc.) and on specific topics (accident compensation, privacy, tort, etc.)
  • More methodological questions in comparative law (the aims of comparative law, the idea of a European Civil Code, legal history, etc.) 
  • Reports on legal systems of the world writ large, from a global perspective and without focussing on a specific legal culture, [or] legal systems of specific countries
  • Entries focussing on institutions that are relevant beyond their jurisdictions (Supreme Court of the United States, German Constitutional Court, etc.)
  • Entries that go beyond the traditional boundaries of comparative law (legal linguistics, colonialism, cosmopolitanism, globalization, etc.) second type of entries deals with more meth-
    odological questions in comparative law (the
    Court, etc.). Finally, a last group of entrie
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Alternate Name(s):South East Europe, Central Europe & Baltic States, Russia & CIS

Librarian assistance required. Current issues + previous 2 years in PDF format.

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Alternate Name(s):Max Planck Encyclopedias of International Law: Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law; Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law

Includes the Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law, as well as the recently launched Max Planck Encyclopedia of International Procedural Law. The two Encyclopedias can be searched and browsed together, or separately by using appropriate filters.

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Alternate Name(s):HeinOnline English Reports, Statutes of the Realm, Pre-1865 law reports for England and Wales

English Reports Full Reprint (1220-1867) (a collection of judgments of the higher English courts between 1220 and 1866), Statutes of the Realm (Acts of the Parliament of England from 1235-1713), Pre-1865 law reports for England and Wales, and other related works.

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Online 50-state and federal case law database.
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Alternate Name(s):Reynolds and Flores

This database provides information on sources of foreign law for most countries. It includes citations to legislation, references to translations when available, and select secondary sources. This database is commonly referred to as Reynolds and Flores.

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Alternate Name(s):GAR

2006 - the present. Issues in PDF format are available beginning with v.8 (2013).

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Indexes more than 160,000 regulations (linking to the official full-text source) from 20 jurisdictions (English translation available - e.g., China & Japan), plus 500 manually indexed case studies.

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Alternate Name(s):Foreign and International Law Resources Database

Provides access to numerous international yearbooks and periodicals, U.S. law digests on international law, and some international tribunals and judicial decisions.

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Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is an excellent multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in over 500 legal journals published worldwide. It provides in-depth coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia.

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Full text image-based searchable database of legal periodicals.

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The HeinOnline Legal Classics Library offers more than 1,200 works from some of the greatest legal minds in history, including Joseph Story, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo and Edwardo Coke. In addition to many "classics", this collection includes rare items that are found in only a handful of libraries around the world. The collection focuses on constitutional law, political science, and other classic topics.

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This database contains references to more than 18,000 sources of 50-state surveys including law review articles, books, court briefs and opinions, federal and state government publications, looseleaf services, LexisNexis and Westlaw documents, and websites. The database contains the contents of more than 20 volumes in the Subject Compilations of State Laws bibliography series prepared by Cheryl Nyberg.

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Alternate Name(s):Treaties and Agreements Library

HeinOnline's Treaties and Agreements library includes a formidable array of U.S. treaty sources in PDF format. Bevans, UST, TIAS, KAV documents and more are reproduced in full. Treaties in Force and the Guide to the United States Treaties in Force are also included. Includes a powerful search mechanism.

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HeinOnline's United Nations Law Collection includes access to many UN law titles, including the United Nations Treaty Series, Reports of International Arbitral Awards, International Court of Justice Reports, and several UN yearbooks.

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A searchable database providing the latest international taxation news, arranged by countries, regions, international organizations, and topics. The journals included in IBFD Online Publications are incorporated into the IBFD Tax Research Platform.

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Repository of dispute resolution resources, including extracts of awards and procedural decisions, a country-by-country enforcement guide, bulletins and bulletin supplements, ICC Institute Dossiers, books, statistical reports, commission reports, model contracts, DOCDEX Decisions, and Rules and Practice Notes. On the Jus Mundi platform.

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Database of the most authoritative series of English case law reports.

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Alternate Name(s):Immigrant & Refugee Appellate Center

Contains links to more than 1,000 unpublished BIA decisions obtained from the law library of the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) or provided to IRAC by the attorney of record. Decisions are organized by topic and listed in reverse chronological order within each category. Updated monthly. 
Contact Reference Department for access. Librarian assistance required. 
This is not a web-based resource.

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Index to over 500 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Annual surveys of the laws of a jurisdiction, annual surveys of the federal courts, yearbooks, annual institutes, and annual reviews of the work in a given field or on a given topic are also covered.

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Retrospective index to over 500 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

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Alternate Name(s):International Commercial Arbitration

International Commercial Arbitration (ICMA) includes texts that cover the key arbitral bodies and jurisdictions and provide coverage of the rules of particular arbitral bodies. Also included are a number of key treatises looking at specific areas of international arbitration practice, with topics ranging from consent and annulment through to the calculation of damages.

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Alternate Name(s):International Encyclopedia of Law, IEL

Select "Encyclopaedias".
The volumes of the International Encyclopaedia of Law provide timely information and insight into the latest developments in international, regional, and national legislation, regulation, and case law.
The Library subscribes to the following parts of the International Encyclopaedia of Law:
IEL Civil Procedure
IEL Commercial and Economic Law
IEL Constitutional Law
IEL Contracts
IEL Corporations and Partnerships
IEL Criminal Law
IEL Energy Law
IEL Environmental Law
IEL Family and Succession Law
IEL Intellectual Property
IEL Intergovernmental Organizations
IEL Privacy and Technology Law
IEL Private International Law
IEL Tort Law
 

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The International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Online offers full-text searching across all archival content published in this renowned reference work over the last three decades. The Encyclopedia contains extensive and thorough examination of comparative law on the international level. It incorporates detailed descriptions of the legal systems of more than 150 countries, and offers thoroughly documented comparative analyses of the main issues in civil and commercial law and related issues world-wide. 

Contents of each volume:  v.1. National reports -- v. 2. The legal systems of the world : their comparison and unification -- v. 3. Private international law -- v. 4. Persons and family -- v. 5. Succession -- v. 6. Property and trust -- v. 7. Contracts in general -- v. 8. Specific contracts -- v. 9. Commercial transactions and institutions -- v. 10. Restitution -- unjust enrichment and negotiorum gestio -- v. 11. Torts -- v. 12. Law of transport -- v. 13. Business and private organizations -- v. 14. Copyright and industrial property -- v. 15. Labour law -- v. 16. Civil procedure -- v. 17. State and economy.

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Alternate Name(s):U.S. State Trademark and Unfair Competition Law

Founded in 1878, INTA is a not-for-profit membership association dedicated to the support and advancement of trademarks and related intellectual property as elements of fair and effective commerce. Their website provides access (some open and some by subscription, librarian assistance required) to multiple resources for researching worldwide trademark law. 
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Alternate Name(s):IA Reporter

Electronic news publication that tracks, reports, and analyzes key developments in the field of international investment law.

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This database from Oxford University Press includes both primary materials and commentary and analysis about international investment law and arbitration. The database includes full-text investment awards with official documents and authoritative commentary, treaty sector overviews, relevant international treaties and domestic legislation from jurisdictions including the US and UK, arbitral rules, as well as online versions of key Oxford University Press arbitration books and journal articles.

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Librarian assistance required. The Journal des tribunaux is published by Lefebvre Sarrut, Belgium. -– It presents the material under three main categories: doctrine, case law, and judicial chronicle.

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EZPROXY GROUP: Columbia

Search Engine for International Law and Arbitration.
Now includes ICC Dispute Resolution Library. Under Libraries, at the top of the page, click on ICC DRL.

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Alternate Name(s):Jutastat

The Library's subscription includes:
Juta's Constitutional Library
Juta's Digest of South African Law
Namibian Law Reports
The South African Law Reports (1947 to date)
Statutes and Regulations of South Africa
Statutes of Namibia
Statutes of Zimbabwe (July 2002)
The Tanzania Law Reports (1983-1997)
Juta's Unreported Judgments
Zambia Law Reports 1963-1997
Zimbabwe Law Reports

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Alternate Name(s):Arbitration online, Kluwer arbitration

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Alternate Name(s):Law.com My Bookshelf.

Treatises on various subjects in American law in e-book format.
You may have to wait while the screen redraws itself in various odd ways.

The list of titles which this link brings up may not be complete. For a current complete list of the Library's subscriptions, search in Pegasus, our catalog, using this link.

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Legal news and analysis. Platform for New York Law Journal, New Jersey Law Journal, National Law Journal, American Lawyer, Corporate Counsel, Delaware Law Weekly, Supreme Court Brief, and other ALM national and regional publications. Provides access to recent court filings, decisions, and cases.

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Alternate Name(s):LawAfrica.com, Law Africa, LawAfrica Law Reports, Law Africa Law Reports

The database contains Law Reports and legal resources of East Africa. The Library subscription includes:
LawAfrica Law Reports (LLR)
Odunga's Digest
Uganda Law Reports (ULR)
Tanzania Law Reports (TLR)
Southern Sudan Law Reports & Journal (SSLRJ)
East Africa Law Reports (EALR)
East Africa Court of Appeal Reports (EACA)
East Africa General Reports (EAGR)
East Africa Protectorate Law Reports (EAPLR)
Zanzibar Protectorate Law Reports (ZPLR)
Company Registry
Uganda Law Society Reports (ULSR)
Kenya Industrial Property Institute
Each section contains a very brief introduction to that section.
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Product of LexisNexis of South Africa. The Library's subscription includes: Gambia: Laws of The Gambia. Ghana: Laws of Ghana. Mauritius: Revised Laws of Mauritius, The Mauritius Reports. Nigeria: The Laws of the Federation of Nigeria, All Nigeria Law Reports. Botswana: Laws of Botswana, Tax Service. Namibia: Tax Service. Swaziland: Statutes of Swaziland. Uganda: Laws of Uganda. Zimbabwe: Laws of Zimbabwe. De Rebus - SA Attorney's Journal. You may be asked to sign on with your name and email address. These are used to allow the saving of your searches. 
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Provides full-text articles, abstracts, and references from legal publications such as law reviews, law speciality publications, bar association and international legal journals, and legal newspapers. Covers federal and state cases, laws and government regulations, legal practice, taxation, and international law. Includes British Commonwealth and European Union cases and law. Updated daily.

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Alternate Name(s):LexisNexis
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Alternate Name(s):Law Library Microform Consortium

Full text image-based searchable database of U.S. primary source materials.

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Collection of maritime and commercial case decisions. 
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Alternate Name(s):Gale Primary Sources

This link offers searching and browsing of all the Gale Primary Sources databases to which Columbia subscribes, including all the parts of Making of Modern Law:
Making of Modern Law: American Civil Liberties Union Papers
Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926
Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970
Making of Modern Law: Landmark Records and Briefs of the U.S. Courts of Appeals, 1950-1980
Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 
Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources. Part I, 1620-1926; Part II, 1763-1970
Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926
Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978
 

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This collection of papers spans the majority of the twentieth century, from 1912 to 1990. Covers American social history and politics, with a focus on civil rights, civil liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court.

 

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Alternate Name(s):MoML, MLFP
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Alternate Name(s):MoML, MMLF
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Alternate Name(s):MoML

This collection contains briefs from appellants, appellees, and supporters (amicus briefs), with their respective replies, as well as appendices, memoranda, petitions, plaintiff statements, transcripts, and more from the various circuits of the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

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Alternate Name(s):MoML

Full-text database of treatises on United States and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

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Alternate Name(s):MoML, MMLP

Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources was published in two parts. Part I spans 1620-1926, Part II spans 1763-1970. The two parts use the same search interface, and searching will retrieve materials from both parts.

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Alternate Name(s):MoML

Based on holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, and the Library of the Bar of the City of New York as well as some from the British Library. Collections include published trial transcripts, popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes.

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Alternate Name(s):MoML, SCRB
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Includes information, news, annual reports and legal materials for a variety of subjects (including Arbitration, Company law, Human Rights, Environmental law and Intellectual Property). It also includes case laws of the Supreme Court and High Courts of India across all subjects, orders of tribunals and commissions, Central Bare Acts (including various States Acts) and rules, regulations, schemes and orders.

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Alternate Name(s):HeinOnline

Topics featured in National Survey of State Laws (NSSL) fall into eight general legal categories: business and consumer laws, criminal laws, education laws, employment laws, family laws, general civil laws, real estate laws, and tax laws.

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A comprehensive Israeli legal database. Includes official text of court decisions, legislation, case summaries and histories, books, legal periodicals and some international treaties.

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Alternate Name(s):HeinOnline
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Alternate Name(s):Official documents of the United Nations

Official repository for documents published by the United Nations. The full text of documents dating back to 1993 is accessible in all official languages of the United Nations: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Documents are stored in two databases, UN Documentation, which includes documents back to 1993, and UN Resolutions, which includes resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and Trusteeship Council since 1946.

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Alternate Name(s):OGEL journal, Oil, gas, energy law intelligence

Global energy law and regulation.

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International Law in Domestic Courts (ILDC): Contains domestic cases in international law from over 65 jurisdictions. Features expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.

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Alternate Name(s):OSAIL

Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law (OSAIL) contains over 180 full-text online editions of reference works and treatises published by Oxford University Press, including Oppenheim, and the Oxford Commentaries on International Law.

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Alternate Name(s):Chinalawinfo

Online database of statutes and legal information presented by Chinalawinfo Co. and the Peking University Center for Legal Information.

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Provides legislative histories of federal Public Laws starting in 1969. Provides full text of bills starting in 1789, Public Laws starting in 1988, Committee Reports starting in 1990, Committee Hearings from 1824 through 2003, House and Senate documents starting in 1995, Congressional Record (Daily Edition) starting in 1985, Federal Register starting in 1980, and other government information. Also provides links to websites with related information.

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In depth legislative history database for federal statutes. Provides collected legislative histories with links to​ all relevant Congressional reports, hearings, documents and bills.

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Contains compilations of Federal Register notices, proposed rules, and rules, representing the complete rulemaking process associated with specific Public Laws. You can search by Federal Register or CFR citation, or by Public Law Number, Statutes at Large Citation, US Code Citation, Regulation Identifier Number (RIN) or Agency Docket Number. Covers 1936-the present.
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Alternate Name(s):ProQuest Supreme Court Insight Cert Denied ProQuest Supreme Court Insight Certiorari Denied

Supreme Court Insight is a complete online collection of full opinions from Supreme Court argued cases, including per decision, dockets, oral arguments, joint appendices and amicus briefs. Content associated with each case is compiled on a dynamic page organized to facilitate understanding of the judicial process, and is also retrievable on a document by document basis. The Library's subscription covers 1975-2016/17.
Supreme Court Insight Certiorari Denied is divided into two modules: 1975-1996/97 and 1997-2017/18. Cert Denied covers paid cases in which the petition for writ of certiorari (PWC) is denied (the Court decided not to hear the case). This includes fully searchable PDFs of the docket, PWC, and all petition stage briefs. Supreme Court Insight Cert Denied is available as a stand-alone product or fully integrated with other Supreme Court Insight modules, and offers links from case-specific records to Legislative Insight and Regulatory Insight.

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Alternate Name(s):Quicklaw Advance

Quicklaw is available through Lexis Advance using the Product Switcher button on the top navigation bar. 
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Colección digital que incluye: Aranzadi Tendencias Jurisprudenciales (dossiers temáticos de las principales tendencias jurisprudenciales sobre materias jurídicas controvertidas), Practicum Legal (monografías digitales actualizadas continuamente, con toda la información jurídica relevante en todas las ramas del Derecho, con comentarios actualizables interrelacionados con jurisprudencia y legislación) y Revista Aranzadi Doctrinal, referente de la doctrina jurídica española.
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Indian Case Law, Indian Statutory Law (Primary & Secondary legislation), Indian Secondary Materials, Foreign Materials, International Materials.
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Alternate Name(s):HeinOnline Selden Society Publications
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Alternate Name(s):Tax Notes International

From Tax Analysts. The Library subscribes only to the weekly federal and weekly international services, primary law, and treatises.
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Alternate Name(s):RIA Checkpoint

Thomson Reuters Checkpoint (formerly known as RIA Checkpoint) is a web-based database of authoritative tax information. Resource contains both current and archival tax research materials, including a complete library of federal, state, local and international tax materials, RIA's analysis, daily updates of cases and rulings, WG&L treatises and journals and Tax Analysts' TaxBase.

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Alternate Name(s):Código civil y comercial, Laboral y seg. social, Comercial y consumo, Penal y criminología, Resp. civil y seguros, Familia y persona, Administrativo. La Ley. Abeledo Perrot.

A union of the databases La Ley and Abeledo Perrot. 
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TKC ローライブラリーis a database of Japanese law. Includes full-text cases (LEX/DB), legislation (Super法令Web), full texts of articles (最高裁判例解説, ジュリスト, 判例百選, NBL, 金融法務事情 等), and index to legal periodicals.
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This database provides tools for researching WTO legal issues in a comprehensive, methodical and efficient manner. The on-line Learning Centre demonstrates the principal features of each of the research tools including the Subject Navigator, Article Citator, Jurisprudence Citators, Treaty Interpretation, Terms & Phrases, DSB Minutes, Jurisprudence Pending, Full Text Search, and Selected Annotations. It includes a search engine that can update WTO decisions by searching across PDF files of official awards, decisions and other WTO documents.

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Alternate Name(s):TDM journal

This global transnational dispute management portal provides information on developments in the fields of arbitration and dispute magagement. The website includes access to the Transnational Dispute Management Journal, published every two months, and to the last two years of back issues.

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U.S. Congressional Serial Set on HeinOnline platform

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U.S. Congressional Serial Set on the Readex platform.

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Includes online versions of the print publications: Multilateral treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, which incorporates the detailed status of over 485 multilateral treaties, and: (United Nations) Treaty series, which contains the texts of over 30,000 bilateral and multilateral treaties in their authentic language(s), along with a translation into English and French, as appropriate, for those treaties registered with the Secretariat.

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The United Nations Digital Library is the online catalogue of UN documents and publications. It provides access to UN documents, voting data, speeches, maps, and open access publications. 
The United Nations Digital Library was formerly known as the United Nations Bibliographic Information System.

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Accessible from the Law School campus by IP recognition. If you are using a phone or tablet, you must select the wi-fi network called "Columbia U Secure". Ignore login buttons and invitations to subscribe.

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The West Academic Study Aids Collection provides access to study aids, audiobooks, lectures, and interactive practice questions.

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Alternate Name(s):Uesutoro Japan

ウエストロー・ジャパンincludes full-text cases, legislation, index to legal periodicals, and full texts of journal articles (京都大学法学論叢, 法の支配, 時の法令 等). 
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Alternate Name(s):China Law and Reference

This database (威科先行 · 法律信息库) provides Chinese laws, regulations, cases, commentaries, articles, legal forms, and news in Chinese and English translation. It includes all sections of China Laws for Foreign Business (中国对外经济贸易法规汇编): Business Regulations, Taxation & Customs, Special Zones & Cities.
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Alternate Name(s):Cheetah

VitalLaw is the new name for Cheetah, the previous name of the Wolters Kluwer platform. The library subscribes to Wolters Kluwer (CCH) tax and arbitration materials.
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Alternate Name(s):HeinOnline World Constitutions
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Alternate Name(s):Dispute Settlement Commentaries

Includes summary/analysis of all WTO reports/arbitrations up-to-date keyword index and a database of dispute settlement tables/statistics.

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