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Materials not available in Temple Law Library or Temple’s Charles Library may be obtained through interlibrary loan. Students are asked to search and use other Temple libraries before making requests.

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Bloomberg Law
LexisNexis
Thompson Reuters - Westlaw
Hein Online

  • Academic Search Complete
    Academic Search Complete is an upgrade from Academic Search Premier. Academic Search Complete provides full text scholarly publications and full text journals for academic areas of study.
  • Casetext
    Casetext research provides full coverage of statutes, regulations, and cases for all 50 states and the federal government.  It is free to all currently enrolled law students, staff, and faculty.  Sign up using your @temple.edu email address.
  • CCH Internet Research Network/IntelliConnect
    Concurrent user limit: 35
    Note: Users must create a CCH login to use this resource. If you do not already have a login, please create one here.
    CCH Internet Tax Research Network provides news, research publications and research tools for tax related research on IntelliConnect, including: full-text access to primary and secondary materials relating to domestic and global securities, banking, trade regulation, government contracts, telecom, information technology, and safety.
  • Checkpoint
    Concurrent user limit: 35
    The Checkpoint database provides access to a variety of tax and accounting research resources, including Federal Tax Coordinator and Checkpoint Catalyst, a new product focused on practical guidance for the resolution of tax questions. Note: Checkpoint is available to Temple employees, faculty, and staff who require access in the performance of their teaching related duties and currently enrolled students who require access for educational purposes only. Use by staff in business offices is in violation of the license agreement.
  • VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah)
    Vital Law is a legal research database that provides access to primary and secondary resources in a broad range of topics including tax law, corporate law, and legal compliance.
  • ClassAction.org Learn about Class Actions and Mass Torts.
  • Docket Navigator
    • Temple Law Students can request access by emailing contact@docketnavigator.com
      • In your email provide your name, school, Temple email address, and anticipated graduation date.  Additionally, let them know which docket libraries you will need to access.  The options include Patent, Trademark, Copyright, or Antitrust.
  • Google Scholar
    Search scholarly works and link to full-text resources in Temple’s digital collections.
  • Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement
    The Handbook of WTO/GATT Dispute Settlement is an important resource for research in trade law. It contains WTO/GATT reports, including updated summaries of over 300 WTO/GATT Panel, Appellate Body, or arbitrator reports. It cross-references the reports by keyword, article, country, subject, panelist, and member.
  • HeinOnline
    A clearinghouse of page-image, full-text legal journals, classic treatises, world constitutions, ALI Restatements of the Law, session laws, and much more.
  • JSTOR
    Back issues of periodicals across all disciplines in page-image format.
  • Law.com
    Law.com provides legal news and analysis from across ALM’s national and regional publications including the Legal Intelligencer (Philadelphia), The American Lawyer, and the National Law Journal, with the opportunity to view news by practice area.
  • Legal Source
    Legal Source is an upgrade from Legal Collection.
    Legal Source contains full text of scholarly law journals, and detailed indexing for legal journals, law reviews, yearbooks, institutes, statutes, bar association publications and university publications.
  • LLMC Digital
    Digitized legal and government documents from around the world.
  • Oxford Bibliographies Online
    Developed cooperatively with scholars and librarians, Oxford Bibliographies offer authoritative research guides combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, directing researchers to the best available scholarship. Temple subscribes to two subject bibliographies: Criminology and International Law. Find these under the Browse by Subject menu.
  • Oxford Handbooks Online: Law Collection
    Oxford Handbooks Online provides online, updated access to the law collection of the Oxford Handbooks. These handbooks contain review essays by leading scholars that evaluate the current thinking on a field or topic and make an argument about the future direction of the debate. The online law collection includes handbooks on comparative constitutional law, comparative law, corporate law and governance, criminal law, empirical legal research, European Union law, financial regulation, international adjudication, international environmental law, international human rights law, international investment law, international law in armed conflict, international trade law, islamic law, jurisprudence and philosophy of law, legal studies, history of international law, law of the sea, the U.S. Constitution, the use of force in international law, and U.S. health care law.
  • Oxford Scholarship Online
    Digital monographs from Oxford University Press.
  • PLI PLUS
    PLI PLUS is a practice-focused resource which provides access to the Practicing Law Institute’s treatises, course handbooks, answer books, and legal forms in the areas of accounting, antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, communications/telecommunications law, corporate and securities, employment, energy, environmental, estates and trusts, ethics/professional responsibility, family law, health care, insurance, intellectual property, international law, litigation, municipal law, pro bono, professional skills, real estate, and tax.
  • Regulatory Insight
    Regulatory Insight contains federal administrative law histories, including all notices, proposed rules and final rules associated with a Public Law, a part of the Code of Federal Regulations, a U.S. Code citation or an agency. It is a companion to Legislative Insight, which contains already-compiled legislative histories and the accompanying federal congressional materials.
  • Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
    A clearinghouse for law and economics pre-pub articles.

  • ChinaLawInfo (Chinese language)
  • LawInfoChina (English language)
  • Foreign Law Guide
    Brief descriptions of the world’s legal systems, including the major legal publications from each country.
  • Hague Academy
    Course materials from the Hague Academy of International Law.
  • International Law & World Order
    International Law & World Order gathers legal primary sources of the post-WWII global order. The collection provides access to international legal materials affecting the foundations of world public order over the past 70 years; the laws of war; human rights; international trade, investment, and development; and environmental protection.
  • International Maritime Boundaries
    International Maritime Boundaries Online is a reference for international state practice on maritime boundary delimitation, and it is used and referenced by practitioners of international law. The content from the complete six-volume set is organized by region, complete with maps and keyword search functionality.
  • Investment Arbitration Reporter (IAReporter)
    Research in IAReporter’s news, commentary, casefiles, treaties, and arbitrator profiles to learn about investor-state dispute settlements. Consult IAReporter’s editorial analysis and up-to-date data to understand developing litigation and policy in foreign investment.
  • Justis
    UK cases and laws in page-image format back to the 12th Century.
  • LLMC Digital
    Digitized legal and government documents from around the world.
  • Max Planck Encyclopedia of Public International Law
    Covering international, trade and environmental law.
  • Oxford Reports on International Law
    Public international law case reports from 65 jurisdictions around the world.
  • United Nations Treaty Collection
    Research treaty text and status.

  • CCH Internet Research Network/IntelliConnect
    Concurrent user limit: 35
    Note: Users must create a CCH login to use this resource. If you do not already have a login, please create one here.
    CCH Internet Tax Research Network provides news, research publications and research tools for tax related research on IntelliConnect, including: full-text access to primary and secondary materials relating to domestic and global securities, banking, trade regulation, government contracts, telecom, information technology, and safety.
  • Checkpoint
    Concurrent user limit: 35
    The Checkpoint database provides access to a variety of tax and accounting research resources, including Federal Tax Coordinator and Checkpoint Catalyst, a new product focused on practical guidance for the resolution of tax questions. Note: Checkpoint is available to Temple employees, faculty, and staff who require access in the performance of their teaching related duties and currently enrolled students who require access for educational purposes only. Use by staff in business offices is in violation of the license agreement.
  • VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah)
    Vital Law is a legal research database that provides access to primary and secondary resources in a broad range of topics including tax law, corporate law, and legal compliance.
  • Tax Analysts Web Services
    Note: Users must register. Click Sign In from an on-campus Temple computer, and enter your Temple email. Then select Register Here under ‘New Temple University School of Law User?’
    Tax Analysts Web Services provides access to the Tax Analysts’ Federal Research Library and includes access to Tax Notes Today as well as Federal Tax Baedeker.


  • Who may use interlibrary loan? Currently enrolled law students, law faculty and staff may use interlibrary loan.
  • What materials can be obtained? Books, copies of journal articles, government documents and other materials can be borrowed. Requests for rare books, reserve or reference books, bound law reviews, looseleafs or multi-volume sets may be refused. Microform material can be borrowed for copying.
  • Will it cost? There is no cost involved in requesting interlibrary loan articles.
  • How long does it take? It can take 1-6 weeks. The student will be informed by email when the item is received. Journal articles and book chapters generally arrive within 5-7 working days. You will receive a PDF of the article through your Temple email account. Books generally take about the same time but this depends on its availability from our consortial partners.
  • What is the loan period? The lending library determines the loan period, which can be a week to a month. The borrower is responsible to the lending library for overdue fines and must abide by its rules and policies.
  • How do I make an interlibrary loan request? Click here to submit a request.

Non-Temple organizations interested in borrowing directly from the law library may contact (215) 204-1195

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