See below for a list of recommended databases for Law and legal studies.
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Dissertations Abstracts is the largest single source of information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses available.
You can choose to either search dissertations and theses produced by students at Dublin City University (Dissertations & Theses @ Dublin City University) or the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day (ProQuest Dissertations & Theses A&I) or both.
HeinOnline is the world's largest image-based legal research database offering access to tens of millions of pages of research material. Fully searchable and browseable access to full-text collections, including:
The European Court of Human Rights HUDOC Portal is a powerful, user-friendly information system which provides free online access to the case-law of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers.
Includes Acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments, the official versions of which remain the printed versions published by Government Publications. Track amendments to legislation, access the Constitution and a selection of pre-1922 legislation while links to external legislation resources are also provided.
A comprehensive legal database containing case law, expert commentary, and primary and secondary legislation as amended.
The new Lexis-Nexis platform for news and business, containing full text access to thousands of newspapers and company, financial and market research data.
MoML provides access to 10.6 million pages of legal history relating to American and British Commonwealth law from 1800. It allows full text searching of 22,000 rare works from casebooks to local practice manuals to speeches - all of which are subdivided into 99 subject areas.
vLex Justis is the new platform enabling access to upgraded JustisOne collections and offers a global index of legal materials to search across. It provides full text access to Irish, EU, UK, Canadian case law, as well as the ability to access legislation and much more for these jurisdictions.
Updated daily, Westlaw IE offers online access to Irish legal materials such as case reports, case digests, legal journals and unreported judgements. Search Round Hall's legal material dating as far back as 1976.
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Westlaw UK is an online legal database containing a comprehensive collection of UK Law Reports, legislation and Law journals as well as EU, US and International content. Combined with a highly sophisticated online platform, the constantly updated database provides superb access to UK, European and International Law. includes CELEX.
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