The Law Library—plus the Stanford University Libraries generally—provides access to hundreds of online research tools. For detailed descriptions off our most popular databases, please scroll down or click “i”. To learn about these and other available tools from a reference librarian, please e-mail reference@law.stanford.edu or call 650 725.0800.
BNA
BNA publishes over 200 print and electronic news, analysis, and reference products that provide intensive coverage of legal and regulatory developments for decision makers in business and government. Please inquire at the Reference Desk. BNA access is limited to the Stanford Law School community. Stanford Law students and faculty can request electronic subscriptions to:
- ABA/BNA Lawyers’ Manual on Professional Conduct
- Antitrust & Trade Regulation Report
- Criminal Law Reporter
- Electronic Commerce & Law Report
- Family Law Reporter
- International Trade Daily
- Labor and Employment Law Library
- Patent Trademark & Copyright Journal
- Securities Regulation & Law Report
- Tax Management Portfolios Plus
- U.S. Law Week
Bloomberg Law
This product is from the well-known provider of business and financial news data and described as an “all inclusive tool providing in-depth legal analysis, filings, opinions, real-time and archival news, indexes, rankings, company and biographical information, research and streaming live trial coverage on a single, integrated desktop platform.” Access is via either of the two dedicated Bloomberg terminals on the first floor of the law library or, more conveniently, using “Bloomberg Anywhere” together with a biometric device (called the “B-Unit”) on any computer connected to the Internet/World Wide Web. For information, please inquire at the reference desk by telephone to 650 725.0800 or by e-mail to reference@law.stanford.edu. One new, publicly-accessible feature is the current Bloomberg Law Report library of topical law reports in areas like antitrust & trade, banking & finance, and director & officer liability, among others.
CasemakerX
Free service (and a product of Lawriter, LLC, a division of Collexis Holdings, Corp., a “contextual” search software company) supported by the Casemaker Bar Consortium and its 475,000 attorney membership consisting of state bar associations across the United States. The suite of free materials includes case law, codes & statutes, medical support documents and experts, and languages. Each user signs up individually at the Member Login box.
CCH Legal Professional
CCH Legal Professional provides research products and tools in numerous key practice areas, including securities law and regulation, corporate governance, corporation and business organizations law, investment management, mergers and acquisitions, international business, banking, antitrust and trade regulation, insurance coverage litigation, products liability and safety, government contracts, intellectual property, and transportation law. It includes such titles as the Federal Securities Law Reporter, Blue Sky Laws and Regulations, the Federal Banking Law Reporter and the Trade Regulation Reporter. Access is limited to the Stanford Law School community. Users will be prompted to enter an email address.
Eighteenth Century Collections Online
Use Eighteenth Century Collections Online to access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th Century. With full-text searching of approximately 33 million pages, the product allows researchers new methods of access to critical information in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more.
Environmental Law Reporter
Published by the Environmental Law Institute, the ELR covers recent developments in the courts, Congress, and agencies and contains primary law sources and articles and analysis of environmental law issues. Stanford Law students and faculty can request the password at the Reference Desk.
Foreign Law Guide
Current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions from around the world. Foreign Law Guide access is limited to the Stanford Law School community.
Foreign Legal Periodicals Index
Foreign Legal Periodicals indexes articles from over 450 legal periodicals from 1985 to the present. The index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is updated quarterly.
Access to Foreign Legal Periodicals Index is limited to the Stanford University community.
HeinOnline
The Modern Link to Legal History…Hein-On-Line contains full text of many law journals dating back to the 1800’s. Users may browse by journal name, author or article, and full-text searching is also available.
Access to Hein-On-Line is limited to the Stanford University community. For easy access use: HeinOnline EZPROXY
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books
Bibliographic database citing articles from legal periodicals (including law reviews, bar association journals, university publications, yearbooks, institutes, and government publications) and indexing law books.
Access is limited to the Stanford University community.
Knowledge Mosaic
Online information resources for legal professionals working in highly regulated industries, including securities, energy, and communication.
Access is limited to the Stanford Law School community Please inquire at the Reference Desk.
LawInfoChina
English-language resources on Chinese law created and maintained by Chinalawinfo Co., Ltd., and the Legal Information Center of Peking University. It includes full-text databases for laws, regulations, cases, and legal news.
LLMC Digital
LLMC is a non-profit cooperative serving member libraries’ needs for preservation, space recovery, and collection development on film and online. In its first 27 years of operation, it filmed over 7,500 titles, some 90,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history. Its backfile comprises the world’s largest collection of legal literature and government documents in microform. That backfile, and future filming of some 10,000 volumes per year, are being made available for online access on this website.
Leadership Library
The Leadership Library Online provides who’s who information from 14 sectors in the United States, including corporate, financial, government (federal, local and state) and non-profit.
Access is limited to the Stanford Law School community. Please inquire at the Reference Desk.
Legal Scholarship Network
The Legal Scholarship Network publishes a series of electronic journals of abstracts — of working papers as well as articles — in various areas of law. The Legal Scholarship Network also publishes weekly Professional Announcements that include announcements such as important professional meetings, calls for papers and special issues of journals, and Professional Job Listings.
Our subscription is limited to the Stanford Law School Community. Please inquire at the Reference Desk.
LEXIS/NEXIS
Contact Information:
In the Library:
Use the “hot line” phone located by the computer in the Library. No dialing is needed, but the connection may take a few moments.
At Home:
Lexis/Nexis Customer Service: 1 800 45.LEXIS
Additional Service
Legal Education Applications Consultant: Jessica Bride
E-mail: jessica.bride@lexisnexis.com
Student Reps:
E-mail: lexis-help@lists.stanford.edu
Messages:
Messages for the student associates may be left in their mail slots downstairs
LoisLaw
Loislaw.com’s database includes statutes, acts, caselaw and administrative regs from all 50 states, decisions from federal appellate courts, and the U.S. Code, CFR and Federal Register. More databases probably will be added in the future.
An activation code is required to register. Please inquire at the Reference Desk.
MoML
Ten million pages of legal history from America and Britain. Full text searching of more than 21,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, etc. separated into 99 subject areas.
Access is limited to members of the Stanford community. For easy access use: Gale Group EZPROXY
MoML Trials 1600-1926
More than 10,000 titles – and almost two million pages of fully searchable content – derived from the holdings of the law libraries of Harvard and Yale, as well as The Library of the Bar of the City of New York, about the courtroom dramas between 1600 and 1926 that rocked society in America, England and the British Empire. The texts give insights into familial relations and gender conventions, and may be the best source available for nineteenth-century divorce and marriage. The database also contains material offering constitutional value. Many trials engage important historical issues, including the Dred Scott case and the Scopes Monkey Trial.
Access is limited to members of the Stanford community. For easy access use: Gale Group EZPROXY
Newspapers
Newspapers (current and historical) such as the Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and Washington Post can be accessed via ProQuest’s Social Science Module on the Stanford University Databases webpage by searching under the subject “News” or for “ProQuest” or the individual newspaper’s name.
Access is limited to members of the Stanford community.
RIA Checkpoint
RIA Checkpoint is a database of authoritative tax information, which includes current as well as archival tax research materials. Included in RIA is a complete library of federal, state, local and international tax materials, as well as WG&L treatises and daily updates of cases and rulings.
Please inquire at the Reference Desk if you would like to set up an account.
PACER
Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts, and from the U.S. Party/Case Index.
A password is required. Please inquire at the Reference Desk.
Stanford University Databases
This is an alphabetical list of many networked databases available at Stanford. Many of the resources are restricted to members of the Stanford community.
Supreme Court Records and Briefs
Provides nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs from over 150,000 cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. Also contains full-text search capabilities to more than 350,000 documents, including appellant’s and appellee’s briefs, oral transcripts, and petitions for writ of certiorari.
Access is limited to members of the Stanford community. For easy access use: Gale Group EZPROXY
TRACFED
TRACFED is a unique source of authoritative information about federal enforcement activities. Coverage includes all criminal matters recommended for prosecution in the federal courts and t he civil income tax audits by the IRS. TRACFED allows you to enter TRAC’s massive data sets and order your own customized data package.
WESTLAW
Contact Information
In the Library:
Use the “hot line” phones located in the Swig Room and the Bibliographic Room. No dialing is needed, but the connection will take a moment or two.
At Home:
West Customer Service: 1 800 850.WEST
West Reference Attorneys: 1 800 850.9378
Additional Service
West Academic Rep: Mark Cygnet
E-mail: Mark.Cygnet@thomsonreuters.com
Student Reps: Schedule
E-mail: westlaw-help@lists.stanford.edu
Messages:
Messages may be left for the student reps. in their mail slots downstairs.
WorldTradeLaw.net
WorldTradeLaw.net provides searchable full text of GATT/WTO Panel and Appellate Body reports; WTO arbitration awards and decisions; Uruguay Round agreements; Tokyo Round agreements; Doha decisions/declarations; NAFTA Chapter 20 Panel reports; NAFTA and related legal instruments; Dispute settlement commentaries (DSCs) for awards and decision, and primary source documents related to international trade law.