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Researching International Tax Law

Online guide to international tax law written by Christopher Dykes who is Head of Public Services at the University of Houston Law Center’s O’Quinn Law Library. The guide was published in 2012 (and updated in 2024) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School at the New York University School of Law. The guide provides an introduction to the subject covering both primary and secondary sources with links to materials made available online.

Law Review Commons

The Law Review Commons website brings together law reviews and legal journals provided online by United States universities via bepress Digital Commons repositories. This open access collection contains both current and archive issues, which can be freely searched across a common platform. A simple keyword search engine is offered along with an advanced option allowing users to search within fields and by date range. Reviews are organised by title and subject. Individual articles can be browsed by legal topic, such as litigation, contracts, courts, criminal procedure or environmental law.

Database of Federal Statute Names

Free database of popular names of US federal statutes, compiled by Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library. The main focus is on names which do not communicate clearly the subject of the legislation, for example the ‘Rankin Act’ and the ‘Serve America Act’. For each statute, the official citations and short title (if any) are given. Each statute title is categorised using the following list of types: Sponsor, Description, Honor, Case, Tribe, Victim, Political Description, Location, Undefined, Award, Abbreviation, Acrostic, Private Law, Institution.

Discover Criminal Justice

Free website providing a directory of more than 5,000 accredited criminal justice courses available in the United States, together with careers articles and interviews with criminal justice experts from academia, legal practice and the police force. All degree levels are covered by the directory, including doctoral programmes, and it includes a variety of specialisms, such as court reporting, juvenile justice, criminology, counter-terrorism, IT, international criminal justice and legal studies.

Empirical Research

A comprehensive online research guide describing resources useful for empirical legal research including information on data sets and statistical packages, compiled by Alissa Black-Doward at Fordham University Law Library. The guide identifies relevant online and print resources including collections of statistics, empirical legal research centres, websites, books, journals and articles.

Society for Empirical Legal Studies

Official website of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), an international association of scholars interested in empirical legal studies, highlighting recent articles and publishing information on events, news and conferences in the field of empirical legal studies and research . The site includes information about the Society's official journal, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) and the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) organised by the Society. Resources presented on the site include PDFs of presentations from past conferences.

Empirical Legal Studies

A law blog focusing on topics related to empirical legal studies. The blog features posts and comment on current topics, conferences and workshops, and database services relevant for empirical legal studies and research. A monthly archive of discussions is available. The blog has been created and developed as a collaborative project by Vermont Law School, Cornell Law School, John Marshall Law School in the USA.

Congress.gov

Congress.gov is the official website for United States federal legislative information, launched in September 2012. The service includes bill texts, summary and status information with a timeline feature. The Congressional Record is available from 1989/90 (101st Congress) onwards. There are also member profiles showing legislation sponsored and co-sponsored.

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