Business Librarian
Best bets for law sources
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- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowContent type(s): Federal and state case law, including Shepard's Citation Service.
Dates covered: Current - HeinOnline Academic This link opens in a new windowContent type(s): Comprehensive coverage from inception of both U.S. statutory materials, state and federal case law, and more than 2,300 scholarly journals
Dates covered: 1754-present - JSTOR This link opens in a new windowContent type(s): Full text & images for back issues of scholarly journals in social sciences; e-books.
Dates covered: 1800s to 3-5 years ago - Business Source Complete This link opens in a new window
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Content type(s): Peer-reviewed journals, industry and market research reports, magazines, news, SWOTS
Dates covered: 1922-present
Best bets for news articles
Search these resources for recent news articles to use in class or for online discussion boards.
- Nexis Uni This link opens in a new windowContent type(s): Current news, company information, foreign language news, broadcast transcripts
Dates covered: Current - Factiva This link opens in a new window
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Content type(s): Business news sources, company press releases and reports
Dates covered: Current - Access World News This link opens in a new windowContent type(s): News articles from more than 600 U.S. and 700 international sources.
Dates covered: 1977 - present
Search within specific publications
- Virginia Lawyers Weekly (JMU subscription)Content type(s): Virginia legal news, digests of court cases, full-text opinions, verdicts and settlements
Dates covered: Aug. 10, 2012 to 7 days ago - The Economist (JMU subscription)Content type(s): Business news and analysis
Dates covered: Jan 4, 1992 to present - Bloomberg businessweek (JMU subscription)Content type(s): Business news and analysis
Dates covered: 1997- present
Other useful law resources
These sources are available on the open web (not as JMU subscriptions).
- Uniform Law Commissionprovides states with non-partisan, well-conceived and well-drafted legislation that brings clarity and stability to critical areas of state statutory law.
- The Constitution of the United StatesA highly accessible, easy to use online version full text transcript including the Bill of Rights and the rest of the Amendments with both sequential and subject indexes.
- Legal Information Institution: Constitutions, Statutes, and CodesThis site connected to Cornell Law School aims to allow users from outside the legal profession to more easily access and understand the laws that govern them.
- FindLaw: Virginia LawContains user-friendly summaries of Virginia laws as well as citations or links to relevant sections of Virginia's official online statutes.
- Law Library of CongressWith approximately 2.65 million volumes, the Law Library’s collection of primary and secondary sources constitutes the largest legal collection in the world.
- Entrepreneurship LawProvide links and citations to a multitude of websites and written materials with entrepreneurship law and in many cases “how to” information.
- Documents for Incorporation (Cooley Go)This service generates legal documents.
- The CourtroomProvides easy to understand legal analysis and commentary.
- Corporate Prosecution RegistryThe University of Virginia School of Law maintains this site with more than 2,500 corporate plea agreements
New print & e-books in business law
The Case for the Corporate Death Penalty
A critical examination of the wrongdoing underlying the 2008 financial crisis.
Business and the Roberts Court
In recent years, the Supreme Court appears to have taken a greater interest in "business" issues. Does this reflect a change in the Court's orientation, or is it the natural outcome of the appellate process?
The Rise of Corporate Religious Liberty
Drawing on a broad range perspectives, this book examines the idea of "freedom of the church," the rights of for-profit corporations, and the implications of the Supreme Court's landmark decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby for debates on anti-discrimination law, same-sex marriage, health care, and religious freedom.
Shadow Courts
In this book, investigative journalist Haley Sweetland Edwards offers a detailed look at one little-known but powerful provision in most modern trade agreements that is designed to protect the financial interests of global corporations against the governments of sovereign states.
Working Law
Since the passage of the Civil Rights Act, virtually all companies have antidiscrimination policies in place. How is it that discrimination remains so prevalent in the American workplace despite the widespread adoption of policies designed to prevent it?
Digital Currency: An International Legal and Regulatory Compliance Guide
Digital or 'virtual' currencies pose significant challenges for government, financial and legal institutions because of their non-physical nature and their relative anonymity to physical currency.
Capital Offenses
If "corporations are people too," why isn't anyone in jail? In the race to maximize profits, corporations can behave in ways that are morally outrageous but technically legal. This book invites us to take a fresh look at our legal framework and learn how it can be used to effectively discipline corporations for wrongdoing, without dismantling the corporation.
Search for additional books
You can search for additional new books on law topics. Try searching (corporate AND law).