The Library provides access to a large amount of material via online databases and electronic journals available for free self-service use for Victoria staff and students. Many of these resources contain access to the full text of material as well as image and video content.
Collection of scholarly articles covering all areas of law. The collection includes over 120 Australian, New Zealand and Pacific law journals, plus selected articles from law journals from the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Contains citations and summaries of articles, conference papers and book chapters from published and unpublished Australian and oversas material on policing, criminology, law enforcement and related fields Produced by the Australian Federal Police Library, Canberra.
Scholarly articles in the social sciences and humanities, published in Australia; and selected journal articles, conference papers, books and newspaper articles on Australian economic, social, political and cultural affairs.
Produced by the Australian Taxation Office, this covers primarily taxation law but related areas of interest such as child support, accounting and superannuation are also included. The content is largely Australian and consists of journal articles, legislation and cases.
Complete collection of German federal and state law, plus selected court cases and legal journals. All content is in German.
Covering all areas of law, a selection of more than 124,000 court cases from a variety of New Zealand courts and tribunals, plus leading foreign court cases.
Searchable full-text of newspapers and news pamphlets mostly published in London during the 17th and 18th centuries. Some papers from provincial England, Ireland, Scotland, Europe, American colonies and India from the same period are included.
New Zealand database of legal materials including statutes, regulations and NZ bills. Case law database Briefcase, with some full text of some reported cases. Authoritative commentaries on legal topics including criminal law, companies, securities, local government, resource management, employment and family law.
Also includes the New Zealand Legal Writing Index.
Comprehensive guide to principles and procedures of construction and building law in New Zealand, including Statutes, Regulations, court cases and legal commentary.
A searchable multi-disciplinary collection of articles from academic journals published by Cambridge University Press.
New Zealand legal commentaries and case law on topics including business law, company law, employment, insurance, property law and taxation and GST. Some Australian insurance law coverage.
A collection of published and unpublished Australian and New Zealand material on criminology and criminal justice in Australasia.
An index of material published in Latin American journals, on a wide variety of topics. Records are in Spanish, Portuguese, French, and English.
Books and articles from academic publications and the popular press covering topics in criminal justice. Most items include full text, but some are citations only.
A World Bank ranking of countries, using 10 selected indicators, to show the ease of doing business. This is based on a quantitative measure of regulations relevant to the life cycle of a domestic small or medium sized firm.
Relevant to all Commonwealth countries and the United States, a complete collection of over 100,000 early English court cases originally produced by the Nominate Reporters.
A collection of law publications including international yearbooks, articles, international tribunals, judicial decisions, and law digests.
Information covering all aspects of human impact on the environment. Scholarly, governmental, and general-interest titles.
This database contains transcripts of parliamentary proceedings of the Parliament of Australia. The Senate and House of Representatives Hansards are available on the Internet each morning following a sitting day. Hansards of Committee hearings are also available online. These transcripts are published shortly after the committee meets.
Reprinted material from the Harvard Research projects on international law,originally published in American Journal of International Law between 1929 and 1939. Harvard Research in International Law: Contemporary Analysis and Appraisal and links to related journal articles are included.
The Law Journal Library provides access to hundreds of law reviews and journals from around the world, some with complete archives. Also includes specialist legal archive databases of early English court cases from the English Reports, World Trials and American resources.
Collection of documents from the British Parliament including Bills, House Papers, Command Papers and Select Committee Reports, plus statistics from the Treasury and census information.
Provides access to a range of scholarly works in various fields of the humanities and social sciences. Conference papers, scholarly articles, reports and reference material accessed through this resource focus largely on Australasian content, with ample indigenous content.
Worldwide literature on non-Anglo-American law, including journal articles, reports, collections of essays and books. Topics include public and private international law, transnational commercial law, comparative law and legal systems.
International English-language legal literature covering all areas of law. Source publications include journals, law reviews, scholarly articles, symposia, court cases, legislation, books and book reviews.
Historical collection of over 750 international English-language legal periodicals covering all areas of law. Source publications include journals, law reviews and a variety of annual publications.
Comprehensive collection of legislation, court cases, commentary, codes and standards relating to insurance in Australia and New Zealand.
One concurrent user only. Please use considerately.
Archive database produced by the Australian Taxation Office covering 1990 - July 2003. Covers taxation topics, tax planning, tax avoidance and evasion, transfer pricing and consumption taxes. Source documents are drawn from scholarly journals, legislation and cases.
Recent New Zealand unreported judgments freely available from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, and High Court. Note: this free database does not indicate if a judgment has become reported in a law report series - see the Brookers Online - Briefcase database.
Includes 23 international and European legal journals, topics cover arbitration, public law, competition, tax, and trade.
The Knowledge Basket South Pacific Niustext database contains the full text of newspapers, magazines and other resources from the South Pacific
An early database created for NZ legislative materials which has useful resources for researching legislative histories during the 1990's and early 2000's. Searchable Hansard (Parliamentary Debates) from 1987 onwards. Full text searchable NZ Bills. Also includes Shattering Statutes (digitised versions of Acts from 1888-1894). Use official government websites for legislation or Brookers Online for recent parliamentary materials.
Interactive database that includes research papers and articles from academics worldwide, covering all areas of law. Authors share research papers, conference proceedings and personal contact details. The Legal Scholarship Network is part of the Social Science Research Network SSRN.
Collection of over 850 legal publications, including international journals, newspapers and law reviews, plus law-related articles from over 1,000 business and general interest publications.
Legislation, case law and commentary from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and some other countries - limited to english language content. Includes law reviews and journals databases and indexes, and American legal encyclopaedias within the "Secondary Legal" area.
Newspapers, magazines, famous quotations, biographical details, company information, statistics, patents, state and federal legislation, court cases and scholarly articles from the United States, with some international coverage.
New Zealand legislation, New Zealand Law Reports, case law and article index (LINXPlus), legal commentaries, journals and bulletin articles. Access to Laws of New Zealand legal encyclopaedia, and other commentaries on legal subjects. Also includes some Australian legal materials and the Halsbury's encyclopaedias for England, Australia and Canada.
An index to New Zealand legal cases from the Supreme Court, Court of Appeal, High Court, and a selection of District Court and Family Courts. The index also covers the New Zealand and overseas legal journal collections of the Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury branches of the New Zealand Law Society.
Historical collection of over 22,000 books on United States and British law.
Trial documents, legal commentary and books about renowned Anglo-American court cases, plus English-language titles about trials in other countries.
The Maori Land Court Minute Books Index, created by The University of Auckland Library and now online with the Knowledge Basket, is an index of over 1,100 minute books from the Taitokerau, Waikato-Maniapoto, Tairawhiti, Waiariki, Aotea, Takitimu, and Waipounamu Maori Land Court Districts.
Contains summaries of articles, books, research and US and international government reports on criminal and juvenile justice, and drug control. Published by the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice's National Criminal Justice Reference Service.
This resource has access restrictions.
New Zealand Gazette Online comprises PDF (portable document format) copies of issues of the New Zealand Gazette and related publications from 1841 to the present. The website displays all Gazette editions published since 1 January 2000. Gazette notices published between 1993 and 1999 are available on the searchable data base; Gazettes prior to 1993 can be requested via the website.
Requires Internet Explorer; available from on-campus only. Use wired network for preference or select 'secure connection' when logging in on the wireless network. Collection of images of each issue of the New Zealand Law Journal, which includes scholarly articles on all areas of law.
This resource can only be accessed on campus.
Entries include links to legislation and cases cited in each article. Journals indexed include: New Zealand Law Journal, New Zealand Universities Law Review, New Zealand Law Review, New Zealand Business Law Quarterly, New Zealand Journal of Taxation Law and Policy, New Zealand Journal of Environmental Law, New Zealand Family Law Journal, and Law Reviews from Victoria, Auckland, Waikato, Canterbury and Otago universities.
New Zealand parliamentary publications and legislation, including the Parliamentary Debates (Hansard), Bills, Supplementary Order Papers, Statutes and Regulations.
New Zealand Refugee Law contains a range of material on refugee law, including Refugee Status Appeal Authority Decisions, High Court, Court of Appeal and Supreme Court cases on refugee issues. The database is created as a public service by Rodger Haines QC who owns copyright.
The New Zealand Lost Cases project includes a Source database showing where court records can be found, and a Cases database reproducing cases found from 1840 to 1883. These cases are not published, and were located in manuscript collections, archives and judges' notebooks and libraries.
This collection reflects the publishing activity of the islands of the South Pacific. The literature provided here is sourced from newspapers, magazines and other resources from the South Pacific.
Practical guide to New Zealand business law topics including legislation, court cases, and legal commentary. Useful for industry compliance research.
Comprehensive guide to the principles and practice of company and securities law in New Zealand, including legislation, court cases, legal commentary and news.
Comprehensive collection of legislation, court cases, legal commentary and news on property law in New Zealand.
E-Commerce law provides practical commentary about the e-commerce legal and regulatory environment. The commentary also has related legislation, news bulletins and case digests.
Comprehensive collection of legislation, court cases, legal commentary and news on employment law and human resource management in New Zealand.
Comprehensive collection of legislation, court cases, legal commentary, rulings and news about sales tax law in New Zealand.
Comprehensive guide to New Zealand tax law, including legislation, court cases, bulletins, reports, newsletters and Inland Revenue (IRD) publications. Selected Australian, British and Canadian tax court cases are included.
United Nations official documentation including General Assembly and Security Council speeches and resolutions, as well as voting records.
Oxford Reports on International Law brings together decisions on public international law from international law courts, domestic courts, and ad hoc tribunals. The database is searchable, and can also be browsed by date or subject or module. The five modules are: International Courts of General Jurisdiction, International Criminal Law, International Human Rights Law, International Investment Claims, and International Law in Domestic Courts.
Through special arrangement with the International Law Students Association (ILSA) the Jessup collection in HeinOnline provides access to all of the top moot court competitions since 1960. In addition, several publications of ILSA are also available.
A comprehensive collection of U.S. and international criminal justice journals, covering topics including law enforcement, corrections administration, drug enforcement, rehabilitation, family law and industrial security.
Covers a broad range of topics found in scholarly, reference and popular sources, including arts, business, children, education, general interest, health, humanities, international, law, military, multicultural, psychology, sciences, social sciences, and women's interests.
Access to over 80 online encyclopedias (published by Sage) in the humanities, social sciences and business.
This provides information on journal articles and conference papers concerning intellectual property. It is produced by the library at Intellectual Property Australia and also includes information on matters relating to patents, trademarks and designs.
Collection of images of the Acts of Parliament passed between 1888 and 1894, in their original form. A subset of the LegislationNZ collection.
A collection of books, reference works and journals in science and social science research
Includes: the text and status of multilateral treaties; United Nations Treaty Series 1946 - 2006; League of Nations Treaty Series 1920 -1944; and associated handbooks and indexes.
The Universal Human Rights Index provides easy access to country-specific human rights information emanating from international human rights mechanisms in the United Nations system: the Treaty Bodies, the Special Procedures and the Universal Periodic Review (UPR). Click on the Advanced Search button for more sophisticated searching.
Comprehensive coverage of legal resources from United Kingdom, United
States, Canada and Australia. Content from other countries varies.
Excellent legal journals and law reviews databases, includes some full
text NZ law reviews. Also includes business and news databases.
Full text peer-reviewed ejournals from the Wiley group of publishers (now includes Blackwells journals).
Collection of World Intellectual Property Organization free searchable databases of Trademarks, Patents and Designs. Includes WIPO Lex a worldwide collection of national laws and treaties on intellectual property and related commentary.
Collection of original language and English translations of constitutions from around the world. Also includes other related commentary sources and history of the constitution's development.
Historical collection of materials about well-known court cases, including trial transcripts, court documents, related books and biographies.
A collection of WTO (World Trade Organization) and GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade)-related dispute resolution materials. This includes commentaries on WTO dispute settlement decisions, WTO case law index, and information on all WTO disputes.
A collection of articles in political science, international relations, law, and public administration and policy.