Law

It includes in-depth coverage for thousands of publications, most of which are available in full text and the latest business and financial information for researchers at all levels.

English and Welsh, Irish and Scottish legislation and law reports.

Over 360 journals across the sciences, social sciences and humanities.
Coverage: 1997-

Provides the meanings of legal citations.

Written judgments made available by the Supreme Court from 2001, the Court of Appeal from 2014 and the High Court from 2004.

This collection supports research on crime, its causes and impacts, legal and social implications, as well as law enforcement and security services. It includes the National Criminal Justice Reference Service (NCJRS) Abstracts Database, with further index and full-text coverage of scholarly journals. It also includes correctional and law enforcement trade publications, crime reports, crime blogs and other relevant material for researchers or those preparing for careers in criminal justice, law enforcement, and related fields.

The Library has purchased a number of individual e-book titles on the ProQuest Ebook platform.
Books published by a variety of publishers in a number of subject areas are available to browse and search. You may check the Library Catalogue for specific titles.

The UK's national doctoral research theses service.
This is a free electronic resource and TCD cannot guarantee the stability of the connection.

Direct free access to European Union law.

Links to EU documents, from legal texts to historical records, the latest EU-wide surveys and opinion polls.

Comprehensive, image-based collection of legal periodicals, providing the exact page images of legal journals.

Explore a range of topics broken down by subject for targeted results based on your interests such as: Biology, Chemistry, Criminal Justice, Economics, Environmental Science, History, Marketing, Political Science, Psychology.

A Google database focusing specifically on scholarly literature. To add links to TCD subscriptions of journal articles, follow our video guide.

Government of Ireland. Information on the Irish State.

UK government services and information.

Digitised editions of Commons and Lords Hansard, the Official Report of debates in Parliament.

The world's largest image-based legal research database.

Content: 19th century (1801-1900), 20th century (1901-2003/04), current session (2004/2005 onwards).

A multilingual index to articles and book reviews published worldwide.

Focuses on decisions from a range of international criminal courts and tribunals.

Irish Civil Litigation E-books

Includes Irish legislation and law reports. Indexes Irish law journals. Indexes law reports by subject.

Contains 63 full text Irish newspapers from which it is possible to search, retrieve and view Ireland's past in the exact format it was published.

Includes access to Patents Register, Patent Database, Supplementary Protection Certificate (SPC) database, Trade Marks database, Design Register and Design database.

A fully searchable database. Coverage includes:

A reference to each case reported in: The Irish Reports; Northern Ireland Reports; Irish Law Reports Monthly; Irish Law Times Reports; Irish Jurist Reports;and the Irish Law Journal.

Includes Acts of the Oireachtas and Statutory Instruments, the official versions of which remain the printed versions published by Government Publications. You can track amendments to legislation, access the Constitution and a selection of pre-1922 legislation while links to external legislation resources are also provided.

Latest news including sport, analysis, business, weather and more from the definitive brand of quality news in Ireland.
Full text available on ProQuest: 1995 to present.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Critically evaluate and compare journals in the sciences and social sciences using citation data from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals.

Comprehensive multidisciplinary and discipline-specific collections digital archive.
Access to the following collections: Ireland Collection, Arts and Sciences I to VIII, JSTOR Arts & Sciences XII Collection, Global Plants and the Life Sciences Collection.

Free Access: JURN is a unique search tool, helping you to find free academic articles and books. JURN harnesses all the power of Google, but focusses your search through a hand-crafted and curated index. Established in 2009 to comprehensively cover the arts and humanities, in 2014 JURN expanded in scope. JURN now also covers selected university full-text repositories and many additional ejournals in science, biomedical, business and law. In 2015/6 JURN expanded again, adding over 600 ejournals on aspects of the natural world.

Provides the exact page images of legal journals, allowing users to view the page as it originally appeared in hardcopy.

It’s now known as Gale Academic Onefile.

Research tool For news, companies and markets Insights, multiple legal practice areas,and Business and Science biographies,

Find up-to-date information and expert opinion from established names such as Butterworths, Tolley and Halsbury's. Law coverage includes journal articles and case law (including Irish Digests, approved judgments, reported and unreported cases).

10.6 million pages of legal history relating to American and British Commonwealth law between the years 1800 to 1926.
Full-text collection of rare Anglo-American legal treatises 22,000 works from casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more - all separated into 99 subject areas.

Research publications covering a variety of topics which are of interest to Members, Committees and the general public.

Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue with coverage of the politics, society and events of the time.

Content includes: Legislation: UK, Scottish, Northern Ireland, Welsh ; Command and House Papers and Parliamentary Publications.

Collection dates from the 1920s to the present day. Approximately 2000 documents are archived, mainly electronically, each year.

Consists of 169 online journals from arts, social science, scientific, technical, medical, professional and humanities disciplines.

The Oxford English Dictionary is the accepted authority on the evolution of the English language over the last millennium.

Contains over 240 titles including dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press.

Covers all contentious and advisory cases from the International Court of Justice and Permanent Court of International Justice. Basic orders regarding the setting of time limits for the filing of written and/or oral submissions by the parties are excluded from this content set.

IHRL covers international decisions on human rights from a variety of global and regional courts.

Publicly available awards and decisions arising out of international investment arbitrations, and related enforcement or review decisions from national courts.

Comprises of the International Courts of General Jurisdiction, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Law in Domestic Courts.

Cases from over 60 countries are updated bi-monthly. Cases are selected by local reporters in conjunction with our editorial board and include full texts of judgments in their original language and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.

The official records of the English Parliament from c.1270 to 1503. They are now available via the British History Online (BHO) database.

The Magazine of the International Law Students Association.

Comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses from around the world, spanning from 1743 to the present day.

Political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past 200 years.

Part II is now available: It consists of entirely new full-colour scans of the original volumes in the British Library. Many of these documents are fragile and highly prized by those studying this historical period. Items in this new collection include:
‘Missing’ Burney: items from within the Burney collection which were not included in the original microfilm that the digital collection was created, comprising more than 9,000 pages. With Part II, these lost pages are now available to explore.
‘Additional Burney’: items outside of the original ‘core’ Burney collection, more seventeenth- and eighteenth-century newspaper titles and issues, that were marked by the British Library as “Add.Burney”. It adds more than 100 new titles, including the Public Hue and Cry, and 130 expansions to titles in Part I of Burney.

Brings together every statute passed by every colony and state on slavery, all federal statutes related to slavery, and all reported state and federal cases on slavery. The database also contains hundreds of books and pamphlets written about slavery.

Social Science Database offers indexing and full text for hundreds of academic journals, providing extensive coverage across a wide range of social science disciplines including anthropology, communication, criminology, economics, education, political science, psychology, social work, and sociology.

Provides up-to-date law reports for all of the superior courts in the Republic of Ireland.

The Parliamentary Debates of the devolved government of Northern Ireland from June 7 1921 to the dissolution of Parliament on March 28 1972.

TCD's open access repository.

Multidisciplinary resource. Access to the full text of over 1,300 journals published by Taylor and Francis.

The Times Digital Archive is an online, full-text facsimile of more than 200 years of The Times, one of the most highly regarded resources for eighteenth-, nineteenth-, and twentieth-century news coverage. This historical newspaper archive allows researchers an unparalleled opportunity to search and view the best-known and most cited newspaper in the world online in its original published context. Read by both world leaders and the general public, The Times has offered readers in-depth, award-winning, objective coverage of world events since its creation in 1785 and is the oldest daily newspaper in continuous publication. With over 12 million articles available, the archive supports research across multiple disciplines and areas of interest, including business, humanities, political science, and philosophy, along with coverage of all major international historical events.

UK central government information published by The National Archives.

The official catalogue of UK official publications. It spans 20 years of government information, with thousands of documents archived in full text.

Includes debates in Hansard; the latest select committee reports. Explore research from the parliamentary libraries and find out how to access the archives.

The Supreme Court is the final court of appeal in the UK for civil cases, and for criminal cases from England, Wales and Northern Ireland. It hears cases of the greatest public or constitutional importance affecting the whole population. We are open on weekdays from 0930 to 1630.

Full-text database of case law and legislation as well as a citator.
Providing authoritative coverage of UK and Irish primary case law and specialist case law, UK statute law, and easily- searchable European case law and legislation.
Key features include full-text English Law Reports from 1865 and Irish Reports from 1919, and full-text Acts of Parliament for England, Wales and Scotland dating back to the Magna Carta (1235).

Irish legal materials database; contains Irish reported and unreported case law, consolidated/annotated legislation, legal textbooks and legal journals.
Also offers a current awareness service providing updates on recent developments in Irish law.

A collection of 36 Legal E-Textbooks

Off-campus access now available. Login using your College network login.
Law of the United States, United Kingdom, European Union and other jurisdictions. Includes journal articles, case law and legislation. Includes CELEX database of EU legislation and case law.