General Legal
General Legal
Access to databases licensed by the VLS library for educational use for both on and off campus users. Off campus users can now click through to log into the database with VLS username and password.
Antitrust and Trade Regulation Report
Coverage from 1996–Present. Published weekly. Scope includes federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law.
CALI (Computer Assisted Legal Instruction)
CALI Library of Lessons is a collection of over 600 interactive, computer-based lessons covering 32 legal education subject areas.
Cambridge University Press - MyiLibrary
A collection of over 150 ebooks from Cambridge University Press and Wolters Kluwer Law & Business.
Casemaker X
CasemakerX is a free service supported by the Casemaker Bar Consortium and its 475,000 attorney membership consisting of State Bar Associations across the USA. The purpose of CasemakerX is to provide a conduit to network law students and legal professionals, creating an information portal for self-promotion, education, mentoring and future opportunities in the legal profession. Our mission is to help law students connect and use the power of group knowledge and professional/social outreach to help facilitate personal growth and to create bridges to new opportunities. Casemaker’s suite of products are provided for free to facilitate knowledge discovery in case law, codes & statutes, medical support documents and experts, and legal languages.
Columbia International Affairs Online
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) is a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGOs, foundation-funded research projects, proceedings from conferences, books, journals and policy briefs.
Congressional Documents (Also known as ProQuest Congressional)
Congressional allows you to explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research.
Cornell Lii
The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School.
Criminal Law Reporter (BNA)
Coverage from 1996. Published weekly. Scope includes coverage of federal and state court decisions, federal legislative activities, and administrative developments in criminal law.
CQ Today
A daily briefing of congressional activity, CQ Today provides a wrap-up of the previous day’s entire Hill news in addition to forward-looking reports on all activity scheduled for that day. Regular features include: “Today at a Glance” providing a quick look at the day’s scheduled House and Senate floor and committee actions and news events; “Pulse of Congress” provides an insider's briefing on the players and activities of both chambers; and “People on the Move” covers job changes on and off the Hill.
CQ Weekly
CQ Weekly contains a roundup of all-important Capitol Hill activity from the previous week. CQ Weekly takes each legislative issue being debated and provides an explanation of its historical significance, how it's evolving and what to look for in the future. Status of legislation, agendas of individual members and the appropriations process are all covered.
CVN Law School Requires Personal Login
CVN Law School is the academic portal for Courtroom View Network. CVN Law School provides students and faculty with a next-generation legal learning platform by integrating text, audio, video, and rich media into an easily searchable and browsable database. CVN Law School is the home of audio opinions from AudioCaseFiles, real trial videos from CVN, and litigation training from The Video Training Library.
Family Law Reporter (BNA)
Family Law Reporter offers you the national perspective you need to practice family law effectively and profitably in today's complex and fast-changing state and federal legal environments.
Findlaw
FindLaw.com is a popular site for free legal information on the Internet with more than four million legal consumers visiting each month and the largest legal directory available. FindLaw's law firm marketing solutions feature award-winning Web sites, online video, online attorney profiles, search engine marketing and Internet advertising.
Hein Online
HeinOnline, the place to find law review articles that precede coverage on Westlaw and Lexis, includes such valuable collections as: Legal Classics, Law Journal Library, U.S. Supreme Court Library, U.S. Federal Legislative History Library, Treaties and Agreements Library, U.S. Congressional Documents, Foreign & International Law Resources Database, World Trials, Session Laws and many more.
Labor Relations
Within this collection, you can search for any word or phrase in the text of opinions and/or in the editorial materials prepared by BNA. You also can combine words and phrases with any “field” searches, for example, with date, jurisdiction, judge, or case name. Cases included in your search results are arranged in tribunal order, highest to lowest, and in reverse chronological order (latest cases first) within each tribunal.
Legal Scholarship
On LSN you can find announcements and job postings, research paper series, professional directories, or submit your own papers.
Legal Trac
LegalTrac provides indexing for approximately 875 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals. Each title included in LegalTrac is selected on the basis of criteria provided by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries. LegalTrac also contains law-related articles from over 1,000 additional business and general interest titles.
PACER
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts, and the U.S. Party/Case Index via the Internet. Please ask a librarian for assistance accessing information within PACER.
Proquest Congressional
Congressional allows you to explore Congress in action with the most comprehensive online resource available for congressional publications and legislative research.
United States Law Week (BNA)
There's no more complete, authoritative way to keep up with the most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law. This database contains all issues published since June 24, 1997.
*These databases are licensed by the VLS library for educational use by members of the VLS community. Any problems with access should be brought to the attention of the Electronic Resources and Technology Librarian
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