Law and Criminology: Databases/eResources

Open access database of British and Irish case law & legislation, European Union case law, Law Commission reports, and other law-related British and Irish material.

Allows you to search for the meaning of abbreviations for English language legal publications, from the British Isles, the Commonwealth and the United States, including those covering international and comparative law.

The official site for UK legislation from 1267 to the present.

Comprehensive multidisciplinary database that enables searching across thousands of journals and other scholarly publications, with links to subscribed journal collections.

Indian Legislation and Court Reports as well as information and materials on a variety of related subjects.

Full text database covering materials on international arbitration.

Provides access to case law and other information.

Provides access to primary materials and other resources for all aspects of international law.

Provides access to European Union legislation, case law and the Official Journal.

Official website of the European Union.

Provides access to case law, official texts and other information.

Online edition of the daily newspaper with a special emphasis on international business and economic news.

The official report of Parliamentary debates in the House of Commons and the House of Lords from the earliy 19th century to the present.

Includes bibliographic references to journal articles and books, reviews and selected chapters dating back to 1951. Its broad coverage includes anthropology, economics, political science and sociology, and is international in scope.

Provides access to documents and judgments.

News and analysis service tracking international arbitrations between foreign investors and sovereign governments.

Offers international investment treaty law materials as well as advanced research tools. From the ISLG home page, click the 'LOGIN' button at the top right.

Comprehensive collection of legal treatises on U.S. and British law published from 1800 through to 1926.

Provides access to peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law.

UK government website for information on the criminal justice system, with links to related agencies and public bodies.

Indexing and abstracts for US and international criminal justice publications.

Overton is a citation database of policy documents, parliamentary transcripts, government guidance and think-tank research. Globally collected data is made available through the Overton web application, reports and an API. Overton can be used to see how research is impacting on policy, and can also be used in literature searching to help identify grey literature.

Access to thousands of books from the scholarly lists of Oxford University Press.

Provides access to legal materials from the People's Republic of China.

Supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as law enforcement and security services.

Full text access to UK Parliamentary and Non-Parliamentary publications, Scottish Parliamentary, Northern Ireland Assembly, Scottish Government and Non-Parliamentary publications from 2006 onward.

Enables you to answer methodology questions during the research process. It links full-text book, journal and reference content with advanced search and discovery tools, including visual search tools called Methods Maps. We have temporary access to the Foundations collection until 31 July 2022. Foundations are bite-sized introductions to research concepts and methods written by global experts.

World Trade Organization (WTO) law research database. It contains WTO agreements, instruments and jurisprudence, as well as commentary and other materials.

The UK data archive is curator of the largest collection of digital data in the social sciences and humanities in the UK.

Provides access to data from the Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS), Census Programme, Secure Data Service and international sources.

Official website of the UK Parliament, providing access to current House of Commons and House of Lords publications and information.

Provides access to the working documents of the British government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy stretching back to 1695.

Information about current and decided cases.

Free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility, providing access to databases of case-law, legislation, treaties, law reform reports, law journals, and other materials from over 100 jurisdictions worldwide.