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Avalon Project - Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy (Yale's)
The Avalon Project provides access to digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. Yale intends to add value to the text by linking to supporting documents expressly referred to in the body of a work. Keywords: historical documents, legislative, history, original text
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Bloomberg law
Individual user access is given to USD law students and faculty. You must register with Bloomberg to gain access to its products and services.
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BNA resources
BNA is the largest independent publisher of information and analysis products for professionals in business and government. BNA's news services covering the full range of legal, legislative, regulatory, and economic developments. Our subscription includes U.S. Law Week as well as publications on accounting, antitrust & trade regulation, bankruptcy, criminal law, electronic commerce, employment discrimination, environmental law, family law, intellectual property, international trade, labor and employment, professional conduct, securities regulation, and tax.
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BNA's Tax Management Portfolio Plus
The Tax and Accounting Center is organized by subject or “Practice Area,” accessible via the tabs located at the top of any of the “home” pages. Clicking the “All” tab at the far left will enable you to access all the content that is included in USd's subscription.
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Bottom Line
This journal offers practical tips to further the knowledge of CA attorneys in law office administration, financial management, legal ethics, time management, marketing a law practice, office systems and procedures and law office technology.
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CALI Lessons
Increase your knowledge of an area of legal study by completing the lessons online or downloading them and completing them on your computer.
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California Courts Opinions
CA court website provides an open access search of published appellate and supreme court case law. Unpublished opinions are available for 60 days.
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California Election Results
County, city, school district & ballot measure election results.
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California Law Revision Commission
The California Law Revision Commission is an independent state agency created by statute in 1953. It assists the Legislature and Governor by examining California law and recommending needed reforms, providing relevant studies and reports.
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California Legislative Information
This site contains legislation from the 1993-1994 Regular Session of the Legislature to the current time. Information on older legislation may be obtained by contacting the State Law Library at 916-654-0185.
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California State Assembly Archives
This site lists and describes sessions of the California Legislature from 1849 - 2005
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California State Publications
California State Publications (CSP) is a monthly listing of official publications received by the State Library from California governmental agencies. Each issue includes three parts: an introductory section, a register (consisting of the catalog records produced for new state publications for that month), and an index.
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CasemakerX
Access to Federal documents, California and 27 other state primary and secondary source materials, and legal forms.
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Casetext
Casetext provides free legal research and publishing so you can search state and federal cases, statutes, and regulations, for free, annotated by insights from the country’s leading attorneys, law firms, and academics.
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CEB OnLaw
OnLaw provides electronic access to California law practice areas for titles of CEB's treatises and forms.
Keywords: practice guides
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Checkpoint (RIA)
You must be using a Mozilla Firefox or Internet Explorer browser. RIA Checkpoint provides access to tax and accounting topics such as: Federal Tax;
State & Local Tax; International Tax; Accounting, Auditing, and Corporate Finance; Estate Planning; Payroll; Pension and Benefits. check point
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Child Law Practice Journal
The American Bar Association is one of the world’s largest voluntary professional organizations, with nearly 400,000 members and more than 3,500 entities.
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Congress.gov
In 1995, the Library of Congress launched a portal to make federal legislative information freely available to the public. Materials found in the old system have been relocated to CONGRESS.gov to provide access to U.S. federal government: Bills, Resolutions Activity in Congress, Congressional Record Schedules, Calendars, Committee Information, Presidential Nominations, Treaties, and other Government Resources.
Keywords: legislative history
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Congressional Publications (Proquest)
Publications generated by the U.S. Congress and accessed via ProQuest, including: CIS Legislative Histories, 1969-present; House & Senate Reports, 1817-present; House & Senate Hearings, 1824-present; Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports, 1916-present; House & Senate Documents, 1817-present, and Committee Prints & Miscellaneous Publications, 1830-present; Executive Reports, 1843-present, & Executive Documents, 1825-1980; Serial Set, 1789-present. Keywords: legislative history, proquest
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Consumer Law Center's Manuals and Publications
NCLC publishes a 18-volume manual series that details state legislation and case law in all 50 states, with analysis of federal laws, regulations, cases, agency interpretations, and letters. All manuals come with access to a companion website and are revised or supplemented every year.
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Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP)
To view CILP files, you must obtain the LRC login & password before accessing CILP directly. CILP is a weekly index of legal periodicals arranged by subject headings. The listing is also cross-indexed by publication title. current law index
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ECOLEX
ECOLEX provides law professionals, policy makers, and students access to digital documents in the area of environmental law. Available on the database are international treaties, national legislation from countries around the world, court decisions, and legal and policy literature.
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Employment LawMemo
All full time faculty, students, and staff can receive Employment Law Memo, NLRB Law Memo, and Arbitration Law Memo; access to "Latest Cases;" access to Advanced Search. Graduates get a one-year individual subscription.
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Entertainment Law Review
ELR is an international law journal published once or twice a year by the UCLA School of Law.
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Environmental Law Reporter
The Environmental Law Reporter (ELR) News & Analysis is the Institute’s flagship publication. Publishing submissions from academic and practicing attorneys, the journal’s authors review court cases, laws, legal trends, and agency actions. Articles address topics in state and federal law.
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Europa
The official web page of the European Union, Europa provides excellent access to official EU documents, especially recent documents through a service called Eur-Lex.
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Every CRS Report
EveryCRSReport.com includes 8,255 CRS reports. The number changes regularly. It’s every CRS report that’s available on Congress’s internal website. We redact the phone number, email address, and names of virtually all the analysts from the reports. If you’re looking for older reports, our good friends at CRSReports.com may have them. We also show how much a report has changed over time (whenever CRS publishes an update), provide RSS feeds, and we hope to add more features in the future. Help us make that possible. To receive an email alert for all new reports and new reports in a particular topic area, use the RSS icon next to the topic area titles and a third-party service, like IFTTT, to monitor the RSS feed for new additions.
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Fastcase
The database includes primary law from all 50 states, as well as federal coverage going back to 1 U.S. 1, 1 F.2d 1, 1 F.Supp. 1, and 1 B.R. 1. The Fastcase collection includes cases, statutes, regulations, court rules, and constitutions. Fastcase also provides access to a newspaper archive, legal forms, and a one-stop PACER search of federal filings. Through Fastcase access, search HeinOnline Law Reviews.
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FLARE - Index to Treaties
The FLARE Index to Treaties (FIT) is a fully searchable database indexing and listing over 2,000 of the most significant multilateral treaties concluded from 1353 onwards and a number of significant bilateral treaties signed between 1353 and 1815.
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Foreign Law Guide
The Foreign Law Guide (FLG) is an essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources in one virtual destination. Broad in content and global in scope, the FLG is an indispensable resource for comparative law research and a fundamental tool for developing a foreign and comparative law collection. Approximately 190 jurisdictions are systemically covered and updated by a global team of experts.
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Foreign Law Research Country-by-Country Database (Yale's)
The Yale Law Library has compiled a country-by-country guide of online free and subscription-based foreign law research materials. As a USD patron, you will have access to any subscription-based sources USD has also purchased.
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Global-Regulation
Global-Regulation allows you to search in English a rapidly growing index of more than 1.3 million laws and regulations (linking to the official full-text source) from 48 countries and 96 data sources, providing exclusive access to machine translated legislation (e.g., China, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Denmark, Finland and more).
Building on this massive database, Global-Regulation offers a unique analytic tool that illustrates the complexity level of a given search query across jurisdictions, using downloadable graphs.
In addition, Global-Regulation.com provides an integrated searchable database of 180,000 technical standards that allows you to search standards and find references of the standards in the legislation.
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GlobaLex
An electronic legal publication dedicated to international and foreign law research. GlobaLex contains articles and research guides written by legal academics, practicioners, and other specialists around the world. It is especially helpful for providing guidance on the research of foreign jurisdictions, e.g. A Guide to Legal Research in Israel.
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GovInfo - U.S. Government Publishing Office
Access to current publications of the U.S. Government as well as legislative history information.
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HeinOnline
Access to a wide variety of law review publications, secondary sources, primary federal legislative and government documents, patent information, and many more legal treatises. Access the law journal library through Hein.
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Human Rights Documents Online
Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980. These documents emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world.
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IBFD - International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation
IBFD is the world’s foremost authority on cross-border taxation. Tax practitioners from all over the world rely on its high-quality, independent tax research. Access the World Tax Journal, and international tax news.
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ICLR Online
ICLR is a not for profit organisation that was established in 1865 as the authorised publisher of the official series of The Law Reports for the Superior and Appellate Courts of England and Wales.
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Industry Statistics Portal
provides access to the Census Bureau programs that provide economic data for a selected industry. Data is available from most recent census studies and reports.
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IntelliConnect (CCH)
IntelliConnect provides access under USD Law's subscription to publications, forms, practice guides, and practice tools in over 38 legal practice areas. (Please create your individual account at first login using your sandiego.edu email address.) Keywords: tax
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International Arbitration
KluwerArbitration.com is an online resource for international arbitration research. It contains commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. Plus, access to materials including ICC cases and awards.
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International Justice Resource Center
An excellent starting point for researching international human rights law, international courts and monitoring bodies. IJRC provides regular updates on practical and legal developments, thematic guides on specific human rights, and more.
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JSTOR
Provides access to a variety of both legal and non-legal scholarly works. It includes archives of over one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, as well as select monographs and other materials valuable for academic work.
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Kluwer Arbitration
Kluwer Arbitration is an online resource for international arbitration research. It contains commentary from expert authors and an extensive collection of primary source materials. Plus, access to materials including ICC cases and awards.
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Law Journal Press
USD Law currently subscribes to e-books in nine practice areas available at Law Journal Press online.
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Law Review Commons
The Law Review Commons contains over 75,000 articles from open-access law reviews with issues dating from 1904.
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Law360
Available to the USD Law community only through Lexis Advance. Law360 is a subscription based, legal news service operated by the Portfolio Media company a subsidiary of LexisNexis. Marius Meland founded Portfolio Media in October 2003 and in 2004 began publishing a daily online newsletter on intellectual property law which expanded into 11 news bureaus across the U.S.and continues to grow its legal subject areas.
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LawMemo - Employment Law
LawMemo provides summaries on employment law, arbitration law and NLRB cases and decisions. You must use your .edu email address to receive alerts and access the database.
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Legal Information Institute (Cornell's LII)
Provides access to federal primary statutory, regulatory, and procedural materials as well as some international and foreign law primary materials.
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Legislative History Library (U.S. Federal)
Hein provides access to compilations of legislative history documents to include congressional documents, legal periodicals, treatises and looseleaf services.
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Legislative Insight
ProQuest Legislative Insight makes available more than 18,000 histories covering laws from 1929 to the present. Nine thousand of these histories are new and 4,000 include new research. Includes only bills that have passed.
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Lexis Advance
Individual user access codes are given to USD students and faculty. You must register your access code to enter the LexisNexis databases and Blackboard educational services.
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LLMC Digital
The LLMC database contains archival and other digitized documents online in these topic areas: U.S. Federal Government, U.S. States, U.S. Territories, Anglo-American Collections, Foreign Jurisdictions, International Law and Organizations, and Multijurisdictional Subject Collections.
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Making of Modern Law
Making of Modern Law is a comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises of the period from 1800-1926. Contains historical works from both the United States and Great Britain.
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MetaLib - Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
MetaLib is a federated search engine that searches multiple U.S. Federal government databases, retrieving reports, articles, and citations while providing direct links to selected resources available online.
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Municodes by state
American Legal Publishing's Code Library provides quick access to approximately 25 state administrative and regulatory codes.
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National Center for State Courts
The National Center for State Courts is an independent, nonprofit court improvement organization founded at the urging of Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren E. Burger. He envisioned NCSC as a clearinghouse for research information and comparative data to support improvement in judicial administration in state courts.
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National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL)
The National Conference of State Legislatures is a bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. NCSL provides helpful charts and graphs of states’ legislative sessions.
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NatLaw World
A collection of laws, regulations, case law, and secondary source materials for countries in the Americas. This collection, primarily in original language (Spanish or Portuguese) but with increasing numbers of materials translated into English, is updated daily and arranged in over 25 topical areas related to trade and investment.
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Oxford Scholarship Online
Provides access to hundreds of research-level legal titles, includes a citation exporter. Search the full text to find materials that you will need to obtain at the library or via interlibrary loan.
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Oxford University Press Journals
OUP is a major publisher of academic journals, both in the sciences and the humanities. It has been noted as one of the first university presses to publish an open access journal and probably the first to introduce Hybrid open access journals.
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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 PACER Case Locator via the Internet.
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Practical Law Company
Available to the USD Law community also through Westlaw. PLC provides transactional and practice-oriented materials. Find foreign business practices, US federal and state forms as well as how-to guides in 22 practice areas: Corporate and Securities, Employee Benefits and Executive Compensation, Finance, Labor and Employment, Antitrust, Commercial, Environmental, Intellectual Property and Technology, Copyright, General IP, Information Technology, Internet, IP and IT in Corporate Transactions, Patents, Privacy, Data Security, Trademarks, Trade Secrets, Litigation, Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR), Real Estate, Tax.
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Public Library of Law (PLOL)
PLOL provides access to cases from the U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals; Cases from all 50 states back to 1997; Federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states as well as state regulations, state court rules, and state constitutions.
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RAND Research Reports
RAND is a nonprofit institution, providing research reports for government agencies, foundations, and private-sector firms.
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Ravel Law and Judge Analytics
You must first create an academic ravellaw.com account to use Ravel Law. To access the Judges portal you must be on the USD campus. Simply search for a particular judge from campus and find information on how your judge thinks, writes and rules. Identify patterns and increase predictability for Federal judges and appellate judges in New York, California, Florida, Illinois, and Delaware (more states coming soon).
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SALLY (Classic) Catalog
Access to the older version of the USD library catalog system.
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San Diego Daily Transcript
Daily newspaper providing business and legal news for the local Southern California community.
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SSRN: Social Science Research Network
SSRN contains published papers relating to the social sciences with abstracts and full bibliographic descriptions. SSRN also provides information on seminars and other social science-related events. Choose desired network from frame on the left side of the SSRN homepage.
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Study Aids
The West Academic Study Aids Subscription offers school of law patrons online access to hundreds of popular study aids to help students anytime during the semester. Authored by noted law professors, the subscription offers up-to-date information, advice, and tips for virtually every course you take.
24/7 access; Full-content searching; Dictionary definitions;Highlight and take notes; Mobility, all the content is available via a web-connected computer, tablet or smartphone.
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Taxation & Economic Reform in America
Hein provides access to historical tax documents, including Internal Revenue Acts of the United States, Legislative Histories, and Administrative Documents
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Trusts and Estates
is a peer review journal and website for wealth management professionals serving the needs of high-net-worth clients, family business owners, family offices, charitably inclined donors and non-profit corporations.
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U.S. House of Representatives - Legislative Activities
Receive up-to-the-minute U.S. Congressional House of Representatives' floor activities; find current bills, votes, and timelines.
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UN Digital Library
A result of the successful collaboration between the Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the United Nations Office at Geneva Library, the platform provides access to UN-produced materials in digital format free of charge. At the same time it is a major service for the long-term preservation of the Organization’s collective memory incorporating the latest relevant international standards.
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Uniform Law Database
Online access to state uniform acts and state model laws. The Uniform Law Commission (ULC) has worked for the uniformity of state laws since 1892. It is a non-profit unincorporated association, comprised of state commissions on uniform laws from each state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
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United Nations - AccessUN
Index to United Nations documents including Official Records, masthead documents, draft resolutions, meeting records, UN Sales Publications, and the UN Treaty Series citations. Many are available in full-text on this Website. Those not available online are reproduced on microfiche and are available for viewing at the LRC.
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United Nations - Official Document System of the United Nations (ODS)
ODS includes PDFs of all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are added to the system daily. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.
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United Nations Treaty Collection
Treaties and international agreements entered into by member states and registered with the United Nations.
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United States Code
The United States Code is prepared and published by the Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Code contains the general and permanent laws of the United States, organized into titles based on subject matter. The Code currently consists of 51 titles and five appendices. While every effort has been made to ensure that the Code database on the website is accurate, those using it for legal research should verify their results against the printed version of the Code.
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US Supreme Court
Find opinions, oral arguments, case documents, rules and guidance, news and other materials about the Supreme Court of the United States.
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Westlaw
Individual user access codes are given to USD students and faculty. You must register your access code to enter the Westlaw databases and Twen educational services.
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Westlaw China
Westlaw China is a research tool customized for legal professionals who specialize in Chinese laws. The editors are lawyers and experts with years of experience in legal work. They review and organize laws and regulations, as well as court cases of mainland China, to provide users with well-processed legal information and value-added data services.
Containing both a Chinese and an English database, Westlaw China is designed not only to provide users with accurate and bilingual legal information, but also to satisfy customized needs of both Chinese-speaking and English-speaking users. Westlaw China is updated daily, ensuring the currency and accuracy of the information.
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