Electronic Subscriptions

This page lists databases available to Law School faculty and students by subscription. Some databases are limited by contract to use by Law School faculty, staff and students, or restricted to access from the Law School network. Most databases, however, can be used anywhere at the University. These “UVA access only” databases can also be used off-grounds by any current University of Virginia students, faculty, and staff, but it is necessary to use UVA Anywhere or have an account on the UVA proxy server. More Information

LexisNexis

A comprehensive commercial collection of legal and general databases, including cases, statutes, Shepard’s Citations, journal articles, and news. Law School use only; password required.

A comprehensive commercial site from West Group, including cases, statutes, KeyCite, journal articles, and access to Dialog and Dow Jones databases. Law School use only; password required.

Online version of CCH looseleaf services, providing primary sources, analysis, and daily news updates in securities, banking, trade regulation, product liability and safety, government contracts, information technology, energy, and transportation law. UVA access only.

Online version of CCH looseleaf services, providing primary sources, analysis, and daily news updates in employment law, human resources management, payroll, pension/benefits, food and drug law, health law, and safety/OSHA/workers compensation. UVA access only.

Tax Notes Today, Tax Notes, State Tax Today, State Tax Notes, Worldwide Tax Daily, Tax Notes International, Worldwide Tax Treaties (UVA access only)

This collection concentrates on the history of the Supreme Court from the final years of the court’s fourth chief justice, John Marshall, through the first 10 years of the court’s 15th chief justice, Warren Earl Burger.

The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) Web site supplements students' in-class learning with more than 700 interactive legal education lessons in 33 areas of law. Registration is required. To register, go to LawWeb. Law School use only; password required.

Special Ed Connection is an online resource center that provides daily news items, judicial and administrative decisions and rulings, and federal and state guidelines dealing with special education. It is licensed for use by UVA Law School faculty, staff and students only. UVA access only. No login or password is required.

Legal Periodicals Full Text indexes more than 850 journals 1981-date, with full text coverage of more than 200 journals beginning in the late 1990s and page-image PDFs for most of these titles 2001-date. Legal Periodicals Retro provides index coverage 1918-1981. Both databases can be searched simultaneously. (UVA access only)

InfoTrac’s index to more than 900 law-related periodicals, with coverage 1980-date. Contains some full-text articles. UVA access only.

Multilingual index to articles and book reviews appearing in more than 500 legal journals, yearbooks, and collected works published worldwide, with coverage 1985-date. UVA access only.

Retrospective, full-text .pdf coverage of more than 600 legal periodicals, U.S. Supreme Court cases, the U.S. Statutes at Large, Federal Register, U.S. Attorney General opinions, U.S. treaties and agreements, English Reports and selected federal legislative history compilations. Accessible by citation, author/title, and keyword. UVA access only.

Retrospective coverage, similar to HeinOnline, for scholarly journals in several disciplines, including economics, history, philosophy, and political science. UVA access only.

Full-text database access to a wide range of news, business, medical, and legal information, including case law, statutes, and law review articles. LexisNexis Congressional provides legislative history information and access to a wide range of congressional documents. LexisNexis Statistical provides access to a wide range of statistics produced by federal agencies, states, and intergovernmental organizations. UVA access only.

A service that provides access to audio recordings of opinions found in case books. Audio files are arranged by course or by casebook. Can be downloaded to an MP3 player or burned to an audio CD. Video files of selected trials and hearings are available for viewing online. Law students and faculty may register with their virginia.edu email address.

Access to docket information for federal courts. May contain full text .pdf documents. Includes the U.S. Party Case Index for nationwide searches by specific party or nature of suit. Law Library ID and password limited to staff use; Law School faculty and students should consult Law Library reference staff for further information.

Derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of more than 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more. (UVA access only)

A growing retrospective collection of legal sources from Law Library Microform Consortium. Includes a wide range of federal and state court reports, the U.S. Statutes at Large, and federal administrative decisions, as well as the English Reports (Full Reprint) and other British and Canadian court reports. Also includes subject collections on British Empire studies, military law, and Native American legal documents. (UVA access only)

Virgo “Other Databases” links provide access to hundreds of indexes and full-text sources in law and other disciplines. Click on Journal Articles/Newspaper Articles, EBooks, or Reference Sources. UVA access only.