George W. Hopper Law Library
Dept. 3035
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2210
Email: lawref@uwyo.edu
The library's databases are presented in alphabetical order below. Click on the title of the database to start researching or select "back" to view the category list.
A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | O | P | R | S | U | W
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AILALink is an immigration law library including statutes, regulations, case law,
agency guidance, publications, and more. This full-text database is accessible from
any College of Law computer and is available off-campus for College of Law students, faculty, and staff.
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As part of the Making of Modern Law series, the American Civil Liberties Union Papers
collection spans most of the twentieth century and focuses on civil rights, civil
liberties, race, gender, and issues relating to the U.S. Supreme Court. This full-text
database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus
with UWYO username and password.
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The Berkeley Electronic Press publishes peer-reviewed journals articles, working papers,
institutional repository materials, and other scholarly documents. These resources
can be accessed for free on the internet.
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The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) is a non-profit consortium
of law schools, law libraries, and related organizations. CALI hosts and facilitates
the creation of a library of over 1,000 interactive legal tutorials written by law
professors and geared towards law students. This resource is available to law students,
faculty, and staff following registration.
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Access Cambridge University Press titles as e-books through the Cambridge Books Online
platform. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer
and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Casetext is a legal search engine where you can find federal and state court opinions,
statutes, regulations, briefs, articles, and other legal documents quickly. Attorney's
at over 4,000 law firms rely on Casetext because it couples modern design with advanced
A.I. search technology to give you the best legal search available. This resource
is available to the public, however law students may register for this full-text database using their UWYO email address to create an individual
account.
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This CCH/Wolters Kluwer platform includes the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Federal
Estate and Gift Tax Reporter, an S Corporations Library, and the Tax Professional
Library. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer
and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Thomson Reuters Checkpoint blends cutting-edge technology, editorial insight, time-saving
productivity tools, online learning and news updates with intelligent linking to related
content and software. Thousands of tax and accounting professionals rely on Checkpoint
every day to understand complex information, make informed decisions and use knowledge
more efficiently. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming
computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Chronicle of Higher Education is the leading academic source for news, information,
and jobs for college and university faculty and administrators. This full-text periodical
is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and off-campus with a UWYO username
and password.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces Climatewire, an online source designed to
bring readers coverage of the debate over climate policy and its effects on business,
the environment and society. This full-text database is accessible from any University
of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Our law school was a founding sponsor of AudioCaseFiles, which later evolved into
CVN Lawschool and then Courtroom Cast. Courtroom Cast contains downloadable audio
files of court opinions, podcasts from law professors and law students, and a series
of videos. Registering an account, with your law school email address, will give you
unlimited, free access to this resource.
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The Customary International Humanitarian Law publication was published in 2005 by
the International Committee of the Red Cross and Cambridge University Press. The ICRC
has made this updated electronic version of the text freely available to the public.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces Energywire, an online source covering how
the energy transition is affecting markets, technology, and regulations for energy
supply, production, demand, and infrastructure. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and
are available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces E&E Daily an online source that illuminates
the energy and environmental policy debate in Congress, the White House, federal agencies,
and on the campaign trail. This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and
are available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Fastcase primary law collection contains cases, statutes, regulations, court rules,
and constitutions. Also included in the resource are newspaper archives, legal forms,
federal filings, people finders, and business intelligence tools. This full-text database
is limited in use to College of Law students, faculty, and staff.
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The Foreign Law Guide provides links to current sources of codes and basic legislation
for more than 170 jurisdictions in the world. The primary goal is to provide English
translations of full text legislation, but the editors have expanded their efforts
to include translations in other languages such as French, German, Spanish, and Italian.
This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and
is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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This database, hosted on Fastcase, provides full text access to materials formerly
published by the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation, now the Foundation for Natural
Resources and Energy Law. Content includes more than 2,000 articles and 176 books
dealing with all aspects of natural resources law.
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Environment & Energy Publishing produces Greenwire, an online source designed to bring
readers coverage of major environmental and energy action. This full-text database
is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus
with UWYO username and password.
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HeinOnline provides access to primary law and secondary sources and is continually
expanding. Primary law databases include the Federal Register, the Code of Federal
Regulations, session laws, AG opinions, English Reports, Supreme Court opinions, and
treaties. HeinOnline's secondary source databases include the Legal Classics library
and the HeinOnline Law Journal Library which provide full coverage of almost all American
law journals from their inception. Other unique modules include the ABA Law Library
Collection, American Law Institute Library, Animal Studies, and the National Conference
of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Enter the database to view a full list of
content modules. This full-text database provides PDF files of content, is accessible
from any University of Wyoming computer, and is available off-campus with UWYO username
and password. (tutorials)
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The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals is the major multilingual index to articles
appearing in over 500 legal journals published worldwide. The index provides in-depth
coverage of public and private international law, comparative and foreign law, and
the law of all jurisdictions other than the United States, the U.K., Canada, and Australia.
This full-text database provides PDF files of content, is accessible from any University
of Wyoming computer, and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Institute for Energy Law maintains substantive conference papers and other items
in its fully searchable digital library. The library includes most of the substantive
papers produced at IEL conferences, with historic and recent papers being continually
added. This database is accessible within the law library for all users and available
off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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JSTOR is a not-for-profit organization that maintains an archive of scholarly journals
from many disciplines. JSTOR offers researchers high-resolution, scanned images of
journal issues and pages as they were originally designed, printed, and illustrated.
This full-text database provides PDF files of content, is accessible from any University
of Wyoming computer, and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password. (tutorials)
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KeyCite is West's citation research service which verifies whether your case, statute,
administrative decision, or regulation is good law. KeyCite is available as part of Westlaw Campus Research.
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Law Street Media is a legal news service brought to you by the legal research pioneers
at Fastcase and Docket Alarm. Delivering industry-focused legal news, Law Street is
designed to help lawyers stay informed and find new business by offering daily newsletters
covering technology and agriculture. This full-text database is accessible freely on the web.
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The LAWS repository is a service of the George W. Hopper Law Library. The repository
provides open source access to all articles in the Wyoming Law Review, the Land & Water Law Review, and the Wyoming Law Journal. The repository also highlights materials published by our College of Law faculty.
This full-text database is accessible freely on the web.
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The Legal Scholarship Network is a part of the Social Science Research Network whose
objective is to provide worldwide distribution of research to authors and their readers.
Authors are invited to upload papers without charge, and any paper an author uploads
is downloadable for free. Select the University of Wyoming as an affiliate when registering
to have the highest level of access to full-text articles.
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LegalTrac indexes nearly 2,000 titles including major law reviews, legal newspapers,
bar association journals and international legal journals. Titles included in LegalTrac
are selected by a special advisory committee of the American Association of Law Libraries
and are therefore highly regarded. LegalTrac offers limited access to the full-text
of articles, so check in our WebHopper library catalog to see if our library subscribes
to the needed journal. This database is accessible statewide via geolocation.
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This LexisNexis e-book collection includes popular study aids series sets "Questions
& Answers," "Mastering," and "Understanding" along with select Carolina Academic Press
titles and other e-books. This full-text database is accessible within the law library
for all users and is available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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The Law Library Microfilm Consortium is a non-profit consortium of libraries devoted
to providing economical access to a wide range of legal and law-related material.
The LLMC-Digital product has made the LLMC microfilm collection available as searchable
or browsable full-text images. Collections are available for U.S. federal, U.S. states,
U.S. territories, Anglo-American titles, foreign jurisdictions, international law
and organizations, and multi-jurisdictional subjects. This full-text database is accessible
from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username
and password.
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Essential for the study of international law and history, The Making of Modern Law:
Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, is an invaluable collection
of legal treatises, historical records and works from the 17th century to the beginning
of the 20th century. Providing broad coverage, the collection enables detailed research
on centuries of major events of legal history, from public policy and taxation to
contract law, sustainable development concerns, and issues of war and peace. This
full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available
off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970 offers libraries superseded codes and provides
an interpretive analysis with books on codes, the “primary sources” of law. This
full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available
off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises series includes American and British titles
published from 1800-1926 providing full text access to more than 21,000 works. This
full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available
off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Designed to complement The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, this archive offers
online access to state and municipal codes, documents relating to constitutional conventions,
and other resources in American legal history. This full-text database is accessible
from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username
and password.
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The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926, describes the courtroom dramas that rocked
society in America, the British Empire and the world. This fully searchable digital
collection includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents,
briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative
proceedings and arbitrations. This full-text database is accessible from any University
of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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This online Encyclopedia, written by over 650 scholars and practitioners from around
the world and edited by a team from the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public
Law and International Law, will be updated quarterly. In addition to extensive search
functionality and click-through cross references to other Encyclopedia entries, users
will have access to the Oxford Law Citator. The Citator offers easy access linking
to related content available in all new Oxford online legal services. Access the Max
Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law from any University of Wyoming computer
or off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The OGEL Journal is an international journal focusing on recent developments in the
area of oil-gas-energy law, regulations, treaties, judicial and arbitral cases, voluntary
guidelines, tax and contracting, and oil-gas-energy geopolitics. Access is limited
to University of Wyoming computers; off-campus access is not available.
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Oxford Scholarship Online offers full-text access to academic monographs, providing
quick and easy access to award-winning Oxford University Press scholarship. Our subscription
allows full-text access to the law titles only. The database is accessible from any
University of Wyoming computer and available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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PowerNotes is a efficient tool to help you organize your research. Register with
your UWYO username and password and then download the browser extension to begin using
PowerNotes to capture and edit online citations and create and review outlines. The
service is available to University of Wyoming College of Law students, faculty, and
staff.
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Procertas is an interactive legal technology training program that guides students
through software required to efficiently draft and edit briefs, contracts, memos,
and PDFs. There are also modules for mastering Bluebook citations, Excel, and PowerPoint.
The database is provided by the law library to all University of Wyoming College of
Law students; contact a law librarian for access.
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Legislative Insight Part A currently offers more than 18,000 professionally researched
legislative histories from 1929-2013. Legislative Insight Part B will make 9,000 additional
histories available. The histories will be loaded on an ongoing basis with all 9,000
histories online by the end of 2014. Part B focuses on laws prior to 1929, but it
will also include additional histories from 1929-1962 that were not included in Part
A. The database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and available
off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Regulatory Insight contains administrative law histories organized by public law,
and provides functionality similar to the functionality found in Legislative Insight,
to facilitate research. The database is accessible from any University of Wyoming
computer and available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Quimbee is a popular study aid platform that includes case briefs, case brief videos,
full-length courses, essay practice exams, flashcards, outlines, thousands of multiple-choice
questions, key terms, and so much more. The database is provided by the law library to all University of Wyoming College of
Law students; contact a law librarian for access.
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The Rocky Mountain Oil Journal (RMOJ) is the oldest oil and gas publication in the
Rocky Mountains. Coverage includes oil and gas news from Arizona, Colorado, Kansas,
Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, Northern New Mexico, Nevada, North and South Dakota, Utah,
and Wyoming. Please contact a law librarian at (307) 766-2210 or lawref@uwyo.edu
for a username and password to access the archives.
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The Studicata LEAP video library includes over 130 lessons on 1L and 2L legal content.
The database is provided by the law library to University of Wyoming College of Law
students; contact a law librarian for access.
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The United Nations Treaty Collection contains the status of multilateral treaties,
the UN Treaty series, recently deposited multilateral treaties, photographs of treaty
signature ceremonies, and titles of multilateral treaties in UN languages. This full-text
database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and is available off-campus
with UWYO username and password.
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The second part of the Making of Modern series, the U.S. Supreme Court Records and
Briefs database secures access to these often hard to find documents from 1832-1978.
This full-text database is accessible from any University of Wyoming computer and
is available off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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The law library subscription to West Academic Study Aids offers convenient online access to hundreds of popular study aids including the Acing
Series, the Concise Hornbook Series, and the Nutshell Series. Streaming audio is
also available for the Sum & Substance audio series and Law School Legends. This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is
available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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Westlaw Campus Research provides users the ability to perform legal research in all
primary law databases and includes the KeyCite legal citator. Secondary source resources
include law reviews, treatises, American Jurisprudence, American Law Reports, and
Black's Law Dictionary. Access Westlaw Campus Research from any University of Wyoming computer or off-campus with UWYO username and password.
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Our subscription to Wolters Kluwers Online Study Aid Library includes Examples & Explanations, Emanuel Law Outlines, Glannon Guides, and more.
This full-text database is accessible within the law library for all users and is
available off-campus for law students, faculty, and staff.
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OCLC's WorldCat is a global resource that allows researchers to search the combined
catalogs of 72,000 libraries. It contains nearly 180 million records for books, videos, articles,
recorded books and music, electronic books, cultural artifacts, digital objects, web
sites and more. Access WorldCat from any University of Wyoming computer or off-campus
with UWYO username and password.
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Search more than 340 titles from historical and archived Wyoming newspapers. The
earliest archive dates back to 1849 but many of these papers survived for only a brief
time and disappeared like the boom-and-bust ghost towns of Wyoming and the west. This full-text database is accessible freely on the web.
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George W. Hopper Law Library
Dept. 3035
1000 E. University Avenue
Laramie, WY 82071
Phone: (307) 766-2210
Email: lawref@uwyo.edu