Law & Legislation Databases

Provides full-text primary and secondary sources for legal and government information. Collections include scholarly journals, judicial and Congressional publications, and legal reference materials, with a substantial focus on historical resources.

Provides comprehensive legislative histories for federal laws. Each legislative history links to full text content that may include Congressional hearings, committee prints, and research reports related to legislative topics.

Includes full-text resources and indexing for the U.S. Congress. Access Congressional hearings, committee reports, witness testimony, and other publications. Content also includes the Congressional Record and its predecessors, documents from the Congressional Research Service, and information about current and historic members of Congress.

Includes scholarly law journals from around the world, and provides information on current issues, thoughts, and trends in the legal world. EBSCOHost Tutorial

A searchable full-text database of early primary government documents and legal literature.

Provides digital images on every page of legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through 1926.

Digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.

Describes the courtroom dramas that rocked society in America, the British Empire and the world through unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitrations. Collections include not only published trial transcripts, but also popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery and other scandalous crimes.

Digital archives of early U.S. Supreme Court records and briefs.

Provides indexing and substantial abstracts for books, book chapters, scholarly journal articles, government reports, and dissertations related to the field of criminal justice. EBSCOHost Tutorial

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Bloomberg Law provides access to legal content integrated with proprietary company and market information as well as world-class news.

Covers U.S. government information resources, including Congressional, judiciary, and executive branch documents.