Le Moyne College

Legal Resources

 

My Recommendation

Westlaw w/ Key Cite 
- search the legal literature
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full-text legislation and case law for federal and state law as well as selected journal and encyclopedic information

Databases

BNA Human Resources Library  [BNA]
- includes labor law
- information on policies, laws, and regulations, as well as expert analyses and guidance in the areas of personnel management, fair employment practices, compensation, wages and hours, and labor relations.

BNA Labor and Employment Law Library  [BNA]
- supports research into federal and state labor and employment law issues -- decisions, statutes, regulations, litigation, negotiations, trends, and other new developments, plus explanations, insights, and commentary

FindLaw  
- law, legislation, and case law on the World Wide Web
- online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers and small businesses

GPO Access (US Government Documents) [OCLC FirstSearch]
- 1976- present, updated monthly
- 450,000 records for documents printed by the U.S. government
- Congressional reports, hearings, debates, and records; judiciary materials; documents issued by executive departments

Guide to Law Online : Nations of the World
- laws of foreign countries on the World Wide Web provide by the Law Library of Congress
- access to many fully reliable, complete and officially certified texts of primary legal materials

Legal Information Institute (Cornell University) 
- full-text legislation and case law for federal and state law. Very strong on Supreme Court Cases

Lexis Nexis Academic Universe
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LAW REVIEWS:  over 220 law review journals concentrating on both state and national issues of legal significance

Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet 
- full text federal law and legislation
- Congressional Record and full text of legislation available from 1989 (101st Congress) to the present
- a century's worth of congressional proceedings, statutes, and other information

USA.gov 
- a finding aid to government web resources and online publications

WorldCat [OCLC FirstSearch]
- locate books in other libraries
 

 

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