LibGuides: American Politics: Judicial

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The following databases are databases anyone working in American Politics will want to use:

CQ Magazine This link opens in a new window
Legislative analysis from CQ Magazine. Available issues are from October 1983 through December 2023.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
HeinOnline is the world’s largest fully searchable, image-based government document and legal research database.
Fondren Library has access to:
- HeinOnline Academic
- U.S. State Full Package
- Fastcase Premium

Access to HeinOnline Academic includes the following:
1. Law Journal Library
2. American Enterprise Institute
3. Brennan Center for Justice Publications
4. CaseLaw Powered by FastCase (basic)
5. Civil Rights and Social Justice
6. Code of Federal Regulations
7. Federal Register Library
8. COVID-19: Pandemics Past and Present
9. Criminal Justice & Criminology
10. Executive Privilege
11. Foreign Relations of the United States
12. GAO Reports and Comptroller General Decisions
13. Gun Regulation and Legislation in America
14. History of International Law
15. History of Supreme Court Nominations
16. John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection
17. Legal Classics
18. Military and Government
19. NOMOS: American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy
20. Pentagon Papers
21. Religion and the Law
22. Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions and Other Advisory Bodies: A Bibliographic Listing
23. Slavery in America and the World
24. U.S. Code
25. U.S. Congressional Documents
26. U.S. Congressional Serial Set
27. U.S. Federal Agency Documents, Decisions, and Appeals
28. U.S. Federal Legislative History
29. U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library
30. U.S. Presidential Library
31. U.S. Statutes at Large
32. U.S. Supreme Court Library
33. U.S. Treaties and Agreements Library
34. Women and the Law
35. World Constitutions Illustrated

The U.S. State Full Package includes:
1. State Constitutions Illustrated
2. Session Laws Library
3. State Statutes: A Historical Archive
4. Bar Journals Library
5. State Attorney General Reports & Opinions
6. State Reports: A Historical Archive
7. Prestatehood Legal Materials
State Supreme Court Data Project This link opens in a new window
Database containing information on State Supreme Court decisions in all fifty states. We are in the process of assembling data on the courts of last resort in all fifty states during their 1995 through 1998 sessions.
WestlawNext Campus Research This link opens in a new window
Westlaw includes U.S. and state case law (1944-). The system also includes access to: United States Code Annotated, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register (fulltext 1980+), state administrative codes and statutes.
Please remember to link to Westlaw Campus from the Rice website (after configuring for proxy) - Westlaw's security uses a combination of IP/computer address and a customer-specific URL. Using another library link just won't do!