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BNA Publications Full text of BNA looseleaf publications in: patent, trademark, copyright, securities, labor relations, environmental, family, health, electronic commerce, criminal , labor, employment, international trade, and antitrust law. Includes the ABA Manual on Professional Conduct and "United States Law Week", which provides updates on U.S. Supreme Court and federal appellate cases.
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Beck Online A German-language database containing cases, statutes and journal articles.
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Citation Linker Enter citation information for an article directly into the Citation Linker form. This produces a Get it @ Duke menu with links to the article's full text, if available.
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Audio Case FilesProvides MP3 files of cases from law school casebooks, as well as video from trials in a variety of practice areas. Register with your Duke e-mail address.
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CatalogSearch the collections of Duke Libraries and link to electronic resources available to the Duke community.
Constitutions of the United States: National & StateCurrent and historical constitutions for the U.S. government and the 50 states.
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Comparative & International Law LinksAnnotated list of links to comparative and international law resources. Current Index to Legal Periodicals (CILP) From the Marian Gould Gallagher Law Library, CILP provides a weekly subject index and table of contents service for recent scholarly legal publications.
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CALI Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction is a consortium of law schools that develops computer-mediated legal instruction exercises on over 250 legal subjects.
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Duke University LibrariesAccess subject guides and other resources from the other libraries at Duke University.
IntelliConnect (formerly CCH)Comprehensive research system for Commerce Clearing House (CCH) publications, including primary and secondary legal materials in taxation, securities, and health care.
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Constitutions of the Countries & Territories of the World Current and historical constitutions for countries, dependencies, and territories around the world.
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Current Law Journal Content Washington & Lee Law School indexes the tables of contents for more than 1,400 English-language law journals. Searches can be saved as email alerts or RSS feeds. Comparative & International Law Annotated list of links to comparative and international law resources. More Research DatabasesLinks to hundreds of research databases and other electronic resources (organized by subject and alphabetically) available to the Duke community.
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LexisNexis A comprehensive, full text database of legal materials, including cases, statutes, regulations and especially strong for news resources.
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Foreign Law Guide Provides information about the legal systems of countries around the world and citations to their legal publications; best first stop for researching the law of other countries.
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HeinOnline Database with full text and page images of thousands of law review articles, focusing on retrospective coverage unavailable in other digital databases.
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Empirical Research Support Links to data sources, information about computer programs and training opportunities for empirical legal research. Reference Resources Annotated list of links to selected general reference tools on the Web, such as directories, maps, weather, currency exchange and quotation resources.
LexisNexis Academic Campus-wide version of Law School's LexisNexis database, with selected legal, news, and government materials.
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Index to Foreign Legal PeriodicalsIndexes articles from more than 450 legal periodicals published worldwide, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports.
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Index to Foreign Legal PeriodicalsIndexes articles from more than 450 legal periodicals published worldwide, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports.
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Federal Law Annotated list of links to important and reliable legal resources from all three branches of the U.S. government, plus general federal government and court web sites. Research Guides Guides on a variety of legal topics highlighting the best resources for research in both electronic and paper formats.
LexisNexis CongressionalProvides excellent indexes to federal legislative history materials, including the U.S. Serial Set and the CIS Index. Selected full text includes Congressional reports from 1995-present, and PDFs for hearings from the 1800s-present.
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International Law in Domestic Courts Provides English translations of case law from over 65 jurisdictions, covering 2000 to the present. All judgments are also available full-text in their original languages. Also includes scholarly commentary and analysis.
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Index to Legal Periodicals Index to scholarly law journals and books from 1981 forward, full-text from 1995 forward, via WilsonWeb. Choose Legal Periodicals Full Text.
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Intellectual Property Law Detailed list of important US and international intellectual property web sites including governmental, academic and law firm sites. SearchTRLN Combined library catalog for Triangle-area academic research libraries, including Duke, UNC, NCCU, and NCSU. Use your Duke NetID to request expedited delivery of titles.
LLMC Digital Federal administrative, legislative and judicial materials digitized from microfiche collections of Law Library Microform Consortium. Growing database will include Anglo-American and foreign law treatises, periodicals and European civil law.
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International Legal Research Tutorial A tutorial designed to teach students research strategies and methodology for researching international legal materials. Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective Index to scholarly law journals and books from 1918 to 1981, via WilsonWeb. Choose Legal Periodicals Retro.
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Legal Blogs Links to law blog directories, search engines, and hosting sites. WorldCat OCLC catalog of books and other materials in libraries worldwide.
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LoisLaw A full text database of primarily state cases, statutes and regulations. Law faculty, staff and students register for free access that continues through the summer.
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Law Info ChinaProvides text of cases, statutes, regulations, treaties, legal news, and journals in English and Chinese. The Chinese version also includes model contracts and legal documents.
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Journals from Duke Law Full text of the nine student-edited journals published at Duke Law School. Legal & Local News Annotated list and links to local news sources and legal news web sites.  
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926A searchable full-text collection of American and British legal treatises from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries (1800-1926).
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LAWnB Legal Information Service 로앤비법률정보서비스A Korean-language legal portal, indexing Korean legal materials such as statutes, precedents, administrative documents, and news articles.
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JSTOR Fully-searchable database containing back issues of scholarly journals in history, economics, political science, demography, mathematics and other fields.
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Legal Profession Annotated list of links to bar associations, legal education and scholarship portals, lawyer directories, e-mail discussion groups for attorneys and legal ethics web sites.  
The Making of Modern Law: Trials 1600-1926Trial transcripts, popular printed accounts, briefs, and arguments for Anglo-American trials from 1600 to 1926.
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Manupatra A full-text English-language database of Indian law materials, including case law and statutes.
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LegalTrac Contains article abstracts or references from more than 800 legal publications; law journals, law reviews, bar association journals, and legal newspapers.
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North Carolina Law Annotated list of links to NC court opinions, legislative and executive sources, and North Carolina state agencies and bar organizations.  
PACER PACER (Public Access to Court Electronic Records) contains case and docket information from United States federal appellate, district and bankruptcy courts. Access is limited to current Duke Law students, faculty and staff.
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Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International LawOnline edition of the seminal encyclopedia features completely updated scholarly articles on international law topics.
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ProceedingsFirst Index of published proceedings of meetings, conferences, symposia, and workshops, in all subjects from 1993-present.
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State Legal Sources on the Web Links to state and territorial web sites for legal resources, as well as major newspapers and state law libraries, from University of Michigan's Documents Center.  
RIA Checkpoint Web-based research database that includes important RIA tax products, including the US Tax Reporter, the Federal Tax Coordinator 2d, a citator service, tax journals and a tax news e-mail alerting service.
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UN Treaty Collections Database that includes the full text of the UNTS, with over 40,000 international agreements plus the status of multilateral treaties deposited with the UN.
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Proquest Dissertations & Theses Indexes more than 2 million dissertations (1637-present) on all subject areas, including law; full text in PDF provided where available.
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Web Portals Annotated list of links to free legal web portals  
SNL FinancialFinancial data, news and analysis. Register with your Law School email address in order to create an account.
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vLex GlobalLegislation, case law, and other materials from a variety of jurisdictions, with a focus on countries in Central America, South America, and Europe. Documents presented in their original language, although translations are available for many documents.
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Social Science Research Network SSRN provides early distribution of abstracts of scholarly writing and full-text publication of working papers and journal articles with email update service.    
U.S. Congressional Serial Set Digital Collection Full-text of all the Reports, Documents and Journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives in PDF format. Produced by READEX; available to Duke community.
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Worldtradelaw.netContains the Dispute Settlement Commentary (DSC) service, a comprehensive legal research tool for WTO dispute settlement. Also provides summary and analysis of all reports and arbitrations.
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U.S. Supreme Court Records & Briefs, 1832-1978Provides the full text (in PDF) of records and briefs from approximately 150,000 historical U.S. Supreme Court cases.
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WestlawA full-text database with a comprehensive collection of legal materials including cases, statutes, regulations, news and periodicals.
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