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Paper Topic Selection: International: Legal News

Sources to identify international law developments.

Legal News Reports & Information Centers

  • Subscription Bloomberg Law:
    • TIP: Bloomberg Law's home screen tab: News & Analysis provides a pull-down menu.  Place your cursor on pull-down menu option: Bloomberg Law News to link to articles on specific legal news topics or to link to Bloomberg Law's News Home page.
    • Topics include: Cannabis; Coronavirus Outbreak; Crypto News; Daily Tax Report: International; Environment and Energy; Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG); International Trade; IP Law; Privacy & Data Security News; Social Justice & Diversity; and Tech & Telecom Law.
  • Court Listener provides more than three million opinions issued by U.S. federal and state courts. 
    • TIP: Register at this site, search by keywords, and create an alert.
  • Jurist: World Legal News tracks international and foreign law developments.  News stories often link to related primary legal sources. 
  • Subscription Law360's legal news stories and expert analysis are accessible on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the proxy server instructions.  These stories often link to related primary legal sources.
    • TIP: On the home page, click: SEE ALL SECTIONS to view all of Law360's legal news categories.  
    • Law360 news categories include Access to Justice, Cannabis, Competition, Cybersecurity & Privacy, Health, Intellectual Property, International Arbitration, International Trade, Technology and White Collar. 
    • At this site, headlines (but not full stories) are available for Law360 UK legal topics.

  • Law360's legal news stories + Law360 Tax Authority: International "deep news & analysis" + Law360 UK news & analysis are available through subscription Lexis+ tab: Legal News Hub.

    • TIP: In Lexis+ Legal News Hub, click the downward arrow to the right of "More" to view stories by topic.

  • Subscription Law.com International aggregates news stories from ALM publications such as The American Lawyer, Legal Week, National Law Journal, New Jersey Law Journal, New York Law Journal and The Recorder. 
    • Law.com news stories are accessible on campus, in BLS housing, and elsewhere off campus if one has implemented the proxy server instructions.  
  • Subscription database Lexis+ also provides recent articles from, and searchable archives of, ALM publications such as National Law Journal and New York Law Journal. 
    • Researchers can enter the name of a specific source, like New York Law Journal, and run a search in the headline and lead sections of available news stories.  Alternatively, researchers can access Legal News (which includes ALM publications), click: Advanced Search, and run a search in the headline and lead sections of available news stories.
  • Mondaq (free, registration required) aggregates law firm newsletters. 
    • TIP: Use the filter Regions to view material by region or country.  Use the filter Topics > click: International Law
  • Westlaw Edge UK: Current Awareness Search
    • See also top level tab Current Awareness pull-down menu links: Most Recently Added + Best of the Last 5 Days