Comparative Constitutional Law
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Professor: George Isaacson
Librarian: Ginny Hopcroft
Spring 2009
Journals, Databases and Indexes
- Lexis Nexis Academic
- Full text legal information and news. Law Reviews and International Legal Materials will be most useful.
- Westlaw Campus
- Full text legal information and news. European Union law sources and encyclopedias most helpful here.
- Index to Legal Periodicals
Main Per Index 1926- - Print citation index to U.S. and a few international law journals.
- Academic Search Premier
- Index/Database with about 60% full text articles. Variety of subjects including law and government.
- PAIS (Public Affairs Information Service) 1972-
- Citation index only. PAIS indexes "publications on all subjects that bear on contemporary public issues and the making and evaluation of public policy, irrespective of source or traditional disciplinary boundaries."
- CIAO
- Full text database of working papers, conference proceedings, policy briefs and journal articles for the study of international relations, published from 1991 forward, and produced collaboratively by the Columbia University Libraries and Columbia University Press.
Web Sites
- European Court of Human Rights
- Constitution Finder
- Human and Constitutional Rights
- Researching Constitutional Law on the Internet
- See section called Case Reports, Books, Journals, Articles, and Current Commentary
- World Legal Information Institute Catalog
- Nations of the World: Guide to Law Online (from the Library of Congress Law Library)
Case Law Sources
Please see the Library Course Guide for Constitutional Law for an overview of case citation and basic structure of case law reporters.
- Information helpful in locating international cases:
- Name of case.
- Date.
- Country or jurisdiction of court.
- Legal terminology and/or keywords for subject.
International Legal Materials
Main Periodical (print journal)
- LexisNexis Academic
- Find "International Legal Materials" under the Sources tab.
- Westlaw Campus
- Under the heading "European Union Library," select "European Union Case Law."
Nations of the World: Guide to Law Online (from the Library of Congress Law Library)
World Legal Information Institute: Courts and Case Law
European Law: portal European Caselaw through EUR-LEX and CELEX
World Law Guide (Courts/Cases)
Global Courts: Supreme Court Decisions from Around the World
Constitutional Courts from the Council of Europe
