On February 14, 2006, Pat Court led a large contingent of staff on a tour of the Law School Library. Here are some of the tips I picked up during the tour. Many of these resources are linked from the Law Library's home page: http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/defaultflash.asp.

Laws of other countries: use the Law Library's Foreign and International Law Sources web site http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/guides/foreign2/ for country-by-country access [Note: use the drop down menu labelled BROWSE BY TOPIC to select 1. Foreign Law Sites]. It's part of their larger International Resources site, http://www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/RESOURCES/International_Resources/.

Hein Online's Law Journal Library: over 800 law journals full text online from volume one forward; good quality PDFs, but fuzzy OCR full-text searching. All journal titles have links in the Voyager records. http://heinonline.org/HOL/Welcome?collection=journals or search hein in Find Databases. Note also the other Hein online resources we subscribe to listed on that page.

Primary sources in early U.S. history: see The Making of Modern Law, a Gale full-text database of legal treatises and writings. Search modern law in Find Databases.
"Derived from two essential reference collections for historical legal studies, the Nineteenth Century and Twentieth Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections, The Making of Modern Law features a fully searchable database of more than 21,000 Anglo-American legal works including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more."

Legal Information Institute: Best version of the U.S. Code with hyperlinks.

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978: Full text of briefs and friend of the court submissions to the U.S. Supreme Court. http://encompass.library.cornell.edu/cgi-bin/checkIP.cgi?access=gateway_standard%26url=http://infotrac.galegroup.com/itweb/cornell
"This database contains nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court in the period 1832-1978. The collection is derived from two essential reference sources. For the period 1832 (when printed Court records began) through 1915, the documents are based primarily on the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America’s first law library, located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. For 1915-1978 the source is the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, a nationally recognized research facility and the single largest member supported law library in the United States." After 1978 is readily available elsewhere.

Municipal codes online: Seattle PL has the best web site, http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_municodes. I've had various city code questions at the desk, i.e., find city codes/regulations governing smoking, for instance. Here's the full-text source.

Access to the Law School versions of WestLaw and Lexis. Not available to anyone except law students and faculty who have personal passwords. Remember that we do have access to WestLaw Campus as well as NexisLexis Academic.