Law Refined Database List

Primary and secondary Canadian materials, including cases, legislation, commentary, journals, news, and several unique legal research tools such as The Canadian Abridgement, The Canadian Encyclopedic Digest and the McGill Citation Guide. Also includes US, foreign, and international law materials. Access restricted to law students and faculty.

One of the most extensive legal research products available for Canadian law. Includes court and tribunal cases, legislation, commentary, journals and news.

Access restricted to law students and faculty.

Law360 provides Canadian legal news, analysis and current awareness on a daily basis. Access restricted to law students and faculty. Please contact lawref@uvic.ca for access.

CLE BC database provides access to CLE BC practice manuals such as the BC Family Practice manual and the Conveyancing Deskbook, and course materials. Users can also watch archived CLE BC webinars.

Access restricted to law students and faculty.

TaxFind Online is the Canadian Tax Foundation's database of tax articles written for its conferences and publication as well as the Canadian Tax Journal. Access restricted to law students and faculty. After login (password required) select "Search TaxFind" under "TaxFind" on the menu bar. Contact lawref@uvic.ca for login information.

Current, up to date, authoritative source of Canadian cases, statutes and regulations, from the federal governemnt of Canada , the provinces and territories. Browse by federal, provincial, or territorial.

Provides free access to current and historical BC statutes, regulations, bills (first and third reading), orders-in-council, and BC Gazette. Also includes Tables of Legislative Changes and Regulation Bulletins and Indexes.

Access up-to-date and historical BC and Federal legislation, Bills, Orders-In-Council, etc. The legislative content is fully searchable and printable. Detailed and timely notifications of amendments to legislation you specify are available.

Provides free access to the Official Consolidated and Annual Statutes and Regulations of Canada, the Table of Public Statutes and Responsible Ministers, and the Consolidated Index of Statutory Instruments with side-by-side bilingual PDF versions.

The official newspaper of the Government of Canada since 1841. Online coverage from 1998, with pdf versions "official" since 2002.

Part I - Notices and Proposed Regulations
Part II - Official Regulations
Part III - Acts of Parliament

LEGISinfo is an essential research tool for finding information on legislation before Canadian Parliament. This tool provides electronic access to a wide range of information about each bill. LEGISinfo is a collaborative effort of the Senate, the House of Commons and the Library of Parliament.

Canadian Tax Library is a comprehensive database of documents related to Canadian tax law. Includes commentary, case law, legislation and tax treaties, Interpretation Bulletins, Information Circulars and Technical News.

The Historical Debates of the Parliament of Canada portal provides access to historical debates of the Senate and House of Commons, in both official languages. Includes the journals of the Senate and House of Commons.

Robust and rapidly expanding collection of Canadian case law and legislation. Provides access to over 200,000 case summaries, as well as to leading legal news, commentaries, and blogs.

A comprehensive and free source for UK and Irish case law and legislation, law commission reports, international treaties, and EU case law.

vLex|Justis (formerly JustisOne) contains one of the largest collections of UK case law. JustisOne also includes the Times Law Reports, legislation from England dating back to Magna Carta and selective coverage of case law from Canada and the Caribbean. vLex|Justis includes the Irwin Law ebook collection.

A free and authoritative source statutes and statutory instruments for the UK, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. Database contains all statutes and statutory instruments from 1988 and most statutes from 1267.

Provides access to British Parliamentary history up to the present including all sessional papers issued by the House of Commons. Includes all sessional papers issued by the House of Commons including Bills, Reports of Royal Commissions, Reports of Select Committees, Accounts and Papers, and Command Papers.

On the "International" tab, UK case law, legislation and select secondary sources are available.

Select UK cases, legislation and secondary sources are available, including Halsbury's Laws of England, select the jurisdiction in the search bar.

The Caselaw Access Project is an initiative of Harvard Law Library to make all official, book-published court decisions from the US freely available online. Coverage runs from 1658-2018.

Treaties, federal statutes and regulations, federal case law, tribal codes, constitutions, and jurisprudence related to Indigenous American life and law.

On the "International" tab, US case law, legislation and select secondary sources are available, including American Jurisprudence, 2nd ed.

Select US cases, legislation and secondary sources are available, select the jurisdiction in the search bar.

A free and authoritative source for Australian Commonwealth legislative instruments and compilations of legislative instruments. Site contains full text and details of individual laws as well as other ancillary documents and information.

Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law. GlobaLex provides guides to international, foreign, and comparative law research written by scholars well known in their respective fields.

Index to publications on Islamic subjects throughout the world. The scope includes the Middle East, the Muslim areas of Asia and Africa, plus Muslim minorities elsewhere in the world.

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews that appear in hundreds of legal journals published worldwide

Max Planck Encyclopedia of Comparative Constitutional Law (MPECCoL) is a comprehensive online resource containing analytical comparative articles offering a global overview of constitutional law

Oxford Constitutions of the World' contains fully-translated English-language versions of all the world's constitutions (both national and sub-national), accompanied by individual commentaries, supplementary materials, including foundation documents, historical constitutions, and amendment Acts/laws.

Please note that the platform supports only one concurrent user (1U).

World Constitutions Illustrated includes the current constitution for all countries in the original language with English translations as well as constitutional histories for several countries. Database includes constitutional periodicals, classic books and other works related to constitutional law.

World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free legal research tool containing case law, legislation, law reform reports, and law journals from over 120 jurisdictions. Includes databases from:

- AltLaw (United States)
- Asian Legal Information Institute (AsianLII)
- Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII)
- British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
- Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)
- Commonwealth Legal Information Institute (CommonLII)
- CyLaw (Cyprus)
- Hong Kong Legal Information Institute (HKLII)
- LawPhil - Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence Databank
- Legal Information Institute (LII(Cornell))
- New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII)
- Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute (PacLII)
- South African Legal Information Institute (SAFLII)
- Ugandan Legal Information Institute (ULII)

On the "international" tab, select cases, legislation and secondary sources are available for Australia, Hong Kong, Korea, Austria, Barbados, Cayman Islands, China, France, Germany, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Netherlands, New Zealand, Poland, Rwanda, Singapore, South Africa, Switzerland, Taiwan, and former Yugoslavia.

Select cases, legislation and secondary sources are available for France, Australia, New Zealand and Hongkong. Select the jurisdiction in the search bar.

Full text equivalent of the print series, Annotated Leading Cases of International Tribunals. Distinguished experts in the field of international criminal law provide commentary on these decisions. Includes the most important decisions, including concurring, separate and dissenting opinions, from the Int. Criminal Tribunals for Rwanda (ICTR) and Yugoslavia (ICTY), The Special Court for Sierra Leone (SCSL), and Special Panel for Serious Crimes (SPCL, re. Timor Leste).

EUR-Lex provides free access, in the 24 official EU languages, to: the authentic (as of 1 July 2013) Official Journal of the European Union; EU law (EU treaties, directives, regulations, decisions, consolidated legislation, etc.); preparatory acts (legislative proposals, COM docs, draft legislation (reports, green and white papers,etc.);
EU case-law (judgements, orders, Advocates General opinions etc.); International agreements;
summaries of EU legislation, which put legal acts into a policy context, explained in plain language other public documents.

Published by the Hauser Global Law School Program at NYU School of Law. GlobaLex provides guides to international, foreign, and comparative law research written by scholars well known in their respective fields.

The United Nations Official Document System (ODS) covers all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Older UN documents are added to the system on a daily basis. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards.

Contains full-text of the United Nations Treaty Series, the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, and texts of recently deposited multilateral treaties. 1945 to the present, updated weekly.

The Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law (MPEPIL) is a comprehensive online resource containing peer-reviewed articles on every aspect of public international law. Written and edited by an incomparable team of over 800 scholars and practitioners, published in partnership with the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law, and updated throughout the year, this major reference work is essential for anyone researching or teaching international law.

Access to annotated versions of the six primary WTO agreements, and 64 additional WTO agreements and instruments. Any WTO jurisprudence on specific articles in the agreements is linked.

The University of Victoria subscribes to Tax Notes International, Worldwide Tax Daily, and Worldwide Tax Treaties. For the initial sign-in, you need to be within the university’s IP range, or connected by VPN. Please note the information will be stored on a server outside of Canada.

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The Audiovisual Library consists of three pillars:
(1) the Historic Archives containing documents and audiovisual materials relating to the negotiation and adoption of significant legal instruments under the auspices of the United Nations and related agencies since 1945;
(2) the Lecture Series featuring a permanent collection of lectures on virtually every subject of international law given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different countries and legal systems; and
(3) the Research Library providing an on-line international law library with links to treaties, jurisprudence, publications and documents, scholarly writings and research guides.

TDM focuses on recent developments in the area of arbitration and dispute management. TDM is a combination of newsletter, review-journal, internet service and primary materials database which goes across disciplines - law, psychology-psychoanalysis, international business management, economics, arbitration, WTO, international investment law, and across the various areas of "dispute management."

GAR Online provides news and research on international arbitration.
Content includes:

- Daily news briefings on current international arbitration from around the globe
- Current and archived issues of the Global Arbitration Review journal
- Insight and analysis for arbitration practitioners organized by topic
- Arbitration related surveys
- Regional arbitration reviews

A database tracking international investment arbitrations between foreign investors and their host states, as well as some international commercial arbitrations and public international law disputes. The site investigates and reports on public and non-public claims; and provides case law research tools and datasets.

ITA website provides access to all full text, publicly available investment treaty awards, decisions and orders, information relating to investment treaties and investment treaty arbitration, and links to further resources available on other websites.

Collection of tools for researching international investment treaty law. The scope of ISLG's document collection includes all publicly available decisions and awards.

A fully-searchable database of primary and secondary materials in the field of International Commercial Arbitration with access to full-text downloads of materials, delivered by the most exclusive and authoritative resources.

Provides complete coverage of the most important English-language legal information, including access to scholarly articles, symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation, books, book reviews and more. Also provides international coverage, including periodicals from the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

Provides indexing and considerable full text coverage for US and Canadian titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers, bar association journals and international legal journals.

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) is a multilingual index to articles and book reviews that appear in hundreds of legal journals published worldwide

A retrospective database that indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content is also drawn from 38 printed compendia, which provides access to approximately 540,000 records. Coverage also includes: annual surveys of laws by jurisdiction; annual surveys of federal court cases; yearbooks and annual institutes.

This searchable collection of e-books on the VLex platform includes all "Essentials of Canadian Law" titles.

Includes content from Edward Elgar in various formats: eBooks, journals, reference works such as handbooks, companions and more.
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