Electronic Law Library

COVID-19 - Open and Free Access Materials for Legal Research

IALS Library subscribes to databases covering a range of jurisdictions and many different types of publication:  legislation, cases, journal articles, journal indexes, books and more. For individual e-journals, see the Library Catalogue or the IALS List of Serials.

Onsite access in IALS Library (from our PCs or your laptop using IALS-Lib Wi-Fi) to all the databases is available to all current academic, staff and student members of IALS Library.

Please select a database. For help with choosing a database, click on the more information buttons below, or look at our Databases Guide.

You can use the Filter by licence option to check eligibility for Offsite or Remote access. More information about Offsite or Remote access to databases ....

Please do let us know if you encounter problems with onsite or remote access to our e-resources. Many thanks. Please email us with details at: ials@sas.ac.uk

Beck-online

Offsite licence: IALS staff, fellows and students, SAS staff, fellows and students (other than IALS), UoL law staff and postgraduate students
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Brill Online

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Cambridge Law Reports

Decisions of international courts and arbitrators from the International law reports (ILR) and the ICSID reports
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CaseBase

(part of LexisNexis Australia)
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Doctrinal

Offsite licence: IALS staff, fellows and students, SAS staff, fellows and students (other than IALS)
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Ebook Central

Offsite licence: IALS staff, fellows and students, SAS staff, fellows and students (other than IALS), UoL law staff and postgraduate students, IALS Library academic members

Elgaronline

Offsite licence: IALS staff, fellows and students, SAS staff, fellows and students (other than IALS), UoL law staff and postgraduate students, IALS Library academic members
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Foreign law guide

Current sources of codes and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world / Thomas H. Reynolds, Arturo A. Flores
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Hart ebook collection

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HeinOnline

Offsite licence: IALS staff, fellows and students, SAS staff, fellows and students (other than IALS), UoL law staff and postgraduate students
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IBFD Tax Research Platform

All of the content to which IALS subscribes on IBFD is displayed on the IBFD Tax Research Platform.
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International Criminal Law

(part of Oxford Reports on International Law: ORIL)
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International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law Online

Offers full-text searching across all archival content published in the International Encyclopedia of Comparative Law over the last three decades.
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International Human Rights Law

(part of Oxford Reports on International Law: ORIL)
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International Investment Claims

(part of Oxford Reports on International Law: ORIL)
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International Law in Domestic Courts

(part of Oxford Reports on International Law: ORIL)
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JustisOne

Offsite licence: IALS staff, fellows and students, SAS staff, fellows and students (other than IALS), UoL law staff and postgraduate students, IALS Library academic members, IALS Library non-academic members (access onsite only)
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Law PORT

Online interactive training modules on researching public international law and citing references with OSCOLA. Open Access for All
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Legal Classics

(part of HeinOnline)
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LLMC-Digital

LLMC Digital is a database of full-text legal and law-related publications.
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Oxford Academic Journals Law

Offsite licence: IALS staff, fellows and students, SAS staff, fellows and students (other than IALS), UoL law staff and postgraduate students, IALS Library academic members
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Sabinet Online

South African journals
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SCC Online

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TradeLawGuide

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World Treaty Library

(part of HeinOnline)
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World Trials

(part of HeinOnline)
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