A-Z Databases

The Almanac of the Federal Judiciary provides biographies of every active federal judge. Entries include each judge's academic and professional background, experience on the bench, publications, noteworthy rulings, media coverage, commentary by lawyers, and financial disclosure statements.

Co-edited and co-authored by Carmen Gonzalez, the the Morris I. Leibman Professor of Law at Loyola University Chicago School of Law, this handbook offers critical perspectives on the multidimensional, intersectional nature of environmental injustice and the cross-cutting forms of oppression that unite and divide these struggles, including gender, race, poverty, and indigeneity. The work sheds new light on the often-neglected social dimension of sustainability and its relationship to human rights and environmental justice.

HeinOnline’s Civil Rights and Social Justice collection brings together a diverse offering of publications covering civil rights in the United States. This collection contains hearings and committee prints, legislative histories for landmark legislation, CRS and GAO reports, briefs from major Supreme Court cases, and publications from the Commission on Civil Rights, allowing users to educate themselves on the ways our civil rights have been strengthened and expanded over time, as well as how these legal protections can go further still. Documents can be viewed as high quality scanned images of the original print pages and can be printed or downloaded and saved as PDF files.

The Corporate Counsel Profiler is a comprehensive database for North America's in-house legal departments. Users can search and browse for information on in-house counsel in large corporations, as well as attorneys that practice in non-profits, universities, credit unions, hospitals, labor unions, museums, religious organizations, trade associations, and more. Search options and filters include company and attorney name, company city and state, practice areas, and bar jurisdictions.

HeinOnline's Labor and Employment: The American Worker collection contains primary and secondary sources on the American workplace, from the labor rights movement in the 19th century to the struggles of today. This collection includes content related to the establishment of a minimum wage and the 40-hour workweek, hazards faced by workers in the workplace and the safeguards in place to protect them, efforts to make the workplace equitable for all, and much more. Documents can be viewed as high quality scanned images of the original print pages and can be printed or downloaded and saved as PDF files.

HeinOnline's Law Library of Congress Reports collection was developed in conjunction with the Law Library of Congress. It contains more than 3,000 reports on foreign, comparative, and international law written by the Law Library of Congress in response to requests from Members of Congress, Congressional staff and committees, the federal courts, executive branch agencies, and others. Documents can be viewed as high quality scanned images of the original print pages and can be printed or downloaded and saved as PDF files.

Developed in conjunction with the William Winthrop Memorial Library of the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General's School, this HeinOnline collection contains publications produced by the JAG on military justice, war crimes, and international law. The collection also contains rare 19th century works on military law and justice, and the complete works of Colonel William Winthrop. Documents can be viewed as high quality scanned images of the original print pages and can be printed or downloaded and saved as PDF files.

The Open Society Justice Initiative, part of the Open Society Foundations, was established in 2003 to provide expert legal support for its broader mission and values through strategic human rights litigation and other legal work. In this HeinOnline collection, you can find their reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice. Documents can be viewed as high quality scanned images of the original print pages and can be printed or downloaded and saved as PDF files.

The Oxford Encyclopedia of EU Law provides original, high-level analysis of European Union law by specialized distinguished contributors. Articles from this encyclopedia address a focused range of subjects that seek to provide the best coverage of the essence, character, development, and history of European Union law.

HeinOnline's Voting Rights & Election Law collection features thousands of titles on the electoral process: how elections are conducted, how votes are counted, how political campaigns are run and funded, and who is allowed to vote. Featuring content on historical and more recent elections, these materials allow users to understand both how our current electoral system came to be as well as the context for proposals for its complete overhaul. Documents can be viewed as high quality scanned images of the original print pages and can be printed or downloaded and saved as PDF files.

HeinOnline's Water Rights & Resources collection focuses on legal issues surrounding access to and the delivery of water. The collection is focused on the various uses for water, from hydropower, to agriculture, to drinking water, and how increasing pressures on water supply from climate change exacerbates historical tensions over who has access to water for what purposes. It also includes documents on the effects of the Clean Water Act within this framework.
Through government documents, reports, and legislative histories, as well as books, scholarly articles, and other sources (all documents can be viewed as high quality scanned images of the original print pages and can be printed or downloaded and saved as PDF files), this collection examines the many legal issues surrounding society's collective, vested interest in access to water.