Electronic resources A-Z List

The database contains various archives:

Italian Cases

• Cases: pronounced by the Constitutional Court, the Civil and Criminal Cassation and other 64 authorities of both legitimacy and merit;
• Cases of the Civil Cassation: full text of a large selection starting from 1986 and full collection from 2006 onwards;
• Cases of the Criminal Court: full text of a large selection starting from 1995 and full collection from 2006 onwards (with the exception of those in section VII;
• Administrative Cases: full text of a wide selection of TAR and CdS sentences starting from 1998, of the Court of Auditors since 2001 and by the Councilor Giust. Amm of Sicily since 2005;
• Trials: full text of a vast selection of the most important trials issued in all Italian courts since 2001.

Legislative sources

• Legislative collection of provisions in text in force since 1945 and a wide selection of previous regulations. The texts are also reported in their historical text as originally published in the Official Gazette;
• Collection of Circulars, Notes, Resolutions starting from 1998;
• Regional and European legislation;
• Codes in current text with Preliminaries, implementing provisions and regulations. Enriched by editorial interventions and notes.

Legal doctrine

• Articles on jurisprudential rulings, taken from Giuffré magazines starting from 1995;
• Forms: procedural and extra-judicial formulas
• Bibliography: bibliographic research on doctrine since 1980
• Very latest: a review of the main news regarding jurisprudence, doctrine and legislation.

The work, which contains over 5,000 entries relating to the various legal fields, can be consulted within One Legale database in the "Ricerca per estremi" menu and shows the 4 sections that compose it (Private Law, civil and commercial section, Criminal Law and Public Law).

To login see the guide How to access Wolters Kluwer Italia databases.

The Foreign Law Guide (FLG) is an essential database offering relevant information on sources of foreign and comparative law, including complete bibliographic citations to legislation, the existence of English translations and selected references to secondary sources.

The print publication began in the 1990s and moved to the web in 2000.

Approximately 190 jurisdictions are systemically covered and updated by a global team of experts.

Each jurisdiction has a “main page” where you will find information on the government and legal system, primary sources of law, other print and online sources that are useful, and laws of the jurisdiction arranged by subject. 

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The database contains several archives:

• Il Foro Italiano with materials published in the journal from 1987.
• Biblioteca riviste collects all the articles and case notes published in La Tribuna journals. The publications can be downloaded in pdf starting from 2010 or from the first issue of the publication for the most recent ones.
• Giurisprudenza includes the abstracts of the official cases published in the CED as well as in Il Repertorio del Foro Italiano since 1981.
• Bibliografia includes the bibliographic references published in Il Foro Italiano from 1981.
• Cassazione Civile includes the cases and the relative official abstracts from 1997, in addition to the official abstracts published in Il Massimario del Foro italiano from 1990.
• Cassazione Penale includes the decisions and the relative official abstracts from 2009, in addition to the official abstracts published in Il Massimario del Foro Italiano from the same year. It also contains a selection of decisions relating to previous years.
• Merito e extra contains, since 2006: a collection of measures of merit unpublished in the review "Il Foro Italiano" and the extrapolation of the relevant points relevant to the decision, classified according to the items and sub-items of the Repertory of "Il Foro Italiano".
• Dottrina contains a selection of handbooks published by Giappichelli.
• Legislazione (4 codes and complementary laws) contains the essential legislation for legals.

The journal, published by the Italian Istituto Poligrafico e Zecca dello Stato since 1999 and by Editoriale Scientifica S.r.l. starting from 2019, is a research tool in the field of administrative law.

The database allows to search for all the documents of greatest interest on the subject, issued from the 1990s to today.

In particular, 3 archives are available:

• Giurisprudenza: trials by the T.A.R., by the Italian Council of State, and by other ordinary and special judicial courts;
• Dottrina: articles, essays, reports, conference proceedings and studies by authoritative legals and scholars of public law;
• Legislazione: acts and administrative practice, with official text, commentary notes, doctrinal and jurisprudential references, as well as pending legislation and suspensive orders.

Large collection of documents for legal research divided into several libraries among which the Library subscribes:

• Law Journal Library: full text of over 3,000 e-journals;
• Foreign & International Law Resources Database (FILRD): collection dedicated to International Law, includes the full text of about 4,000 publications including those of the American Society of International Law ;
• Legal Classics: full text of over 20,000 e-books selected from the great classics of legal literature;
• World Constitutions Illustrated: archive containing the complete texts in the original language and English translation of the Constitutions of all the countries of the world, accompanied by comments and resources relating to the constitutional and political history of the Country;

HeinOnline also gives access to the complete archive of the U.S. Treaties and Agreements and other legal material such as the Federal Register, the U.S. Reports, the English Reports online edition, as well as archives dedicated to US presidents and elections Presidential Library and U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library.

Heinonline Academic Core International also includes special collections on specific topics, including:

• Civil Rights and Social Justice: collection that collects e-books, academic articles, legislative documentation and jurisprudence, mostly American, dedicated to civil rights;
• COVID-19 in America: Response, Issues, and Law;
• LGBTQ+ Rights: collection of materials and interactive timeline relating to the gay rights movement in America, from 1950;
• Women and the Law (Peggy): collection that brings together books, biographies, and periodicals dedicated to the role and to the rights of women in society.

Accessibility Policy

Electronic news service tracking cross-border arbitrations between foreign investors and their host governments. Covers lawsuits and policy developments related to nationalizations, privatizations, and other regulatory disputes. Includes a database of cases summaries.

The platform provides the most important publications by the International Bureau of Fiscal Documentation.

The Library can access the following archives:

• E-Journals: Asia-Pacific Tax Bulletin, Bulletin for International Taxation, European Taxation, Finance and Capital Markets (former Derivatives and Financial Instruments), International Tax Studies, International Transfer Pricing Journal, International VAT Monitor , Talking Points, World Tax Journal;
• E-Books: 245 e-books published by the IBFD from 2000 to present Case Law, News, Tables.
• Treaties & Models: international tax agreements and models, both in the official language versions and English translations. Includes protocols and amendments, FATCA, supplementary agreements and exchanges of notes.
• Case Law: access to important decisions of national courts around the globe, with summaries. All the collections include convenient cross-references to relevant case law. Covers domestic direct tax and VAT law, tax treaty case law and European Court of Justice decisions on direct and indirect taxes.

By registering with your Luiss institutional account, you activate the following features:

1. save a document to your favorites
2. create annotations
3. customize the Tax News email service

Also available on the platform are:

1. the Tables that allow you to compare the tax elements of the various countries;
2. a Glossary with over 5,000 entries on taxation and related Organizations, Treaties and Courts;
3. a series of Webinars visible live or on demand, held by IBFD experts.

The database by Il Centro di Documentazione della Corte di Cassazione provides access to several archives:

• the jurisprudence of the civil and criminal Supreme Court, the Council of State, the Court of Auditors, of the TAR;
• the jurisprudence of the ECHR;
• state (with the original PDF of the G.U 1860 to 1946), regional, community legislation;
• the full text of the sentences of the Constitutional Court;
• the doctrine (since 1970).

Italian platform by Giuffrè Francis Lefebvre specialized in legal information for in-depth study and updating of the legal professional. Collects latest articles published by GFL authors commenting main jurisprudence and new legislation, explores with focus and news the following subjects subscribed by the Library:

• Criminal Law
• Civil procedure
• Family Law
• Labor Law
• Bankruptcy and other insolvency proceedings
• Corporate Law
• Tax Law
• Administrative law

This new GFL platform replaces: Il Fallimentarista, Il Familiarista, Il Giuslavorista, Il Penalista, Il Processo Civile, Il Societario, Il Tributario, L’Amministrativista.

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Italian journal of public law directed by Giovanni Virga, also reporting documents published in the Giust.it.

It contains three main archives with doctrine, jurisprudence, and legislation database.

Legal and economic information platform designed for academic research. It provides access to over 35,000 sources, including news, legal information, business, international legislation, newspapers and the FT Financial Times full-text cover-to-cover, as well as company and country profiles, demographic and market research , reports and industrial analyzes.

Regarding legal information, it documents American and European legislation and jurisprudence, most of the full-text English-language legal journals including the major journals of American law schools, ABA publications, as well as all the Case American Law, Administrative Codes, Federal and State, etc.

On Nexis Uni are also available the Restatements of the Law, a set of treatises on specific legal subjects published by the American Law Institute (ALI), that harmonize and consolidate American Common Law.

As regards business and financial information, Nexis Dossier includes information on over 280 million companies and allows to examine the profiles of companies and of the executives who manage them, along with: annual reports; SEC filings; bankruptcy reports; corporate affiliations; mergers and acquisitions operations.

The TotalPatent One section gives access to a database of patent literature aggregated by LexisNexis, consisting of the full-text documentation of the 32 main international Patent Authorities, as well as the bibliographic data and abstracts of a further 68 patent offices. The collection includes: full-text patents, images, citations, legal status, and patent families.

The CSRhub ESG Ratings dedicated to environmental, social and governance performance are also integrated into the Nexis Uni interface. They cover almost 30,000 companies for which scorecards are available with the rating value and breakdown by category. Ratings are determined by analyzing aggregated data from SRI analysis firms, over 600 government agencies, non-governmental agencies, news feeds (source: CSRHub LLC.).

The database was created from the integration of various digital platforms by Wolters Kluwer Italia including CEDAM, UTET Giuridica and IPSOA with a particular focus on the tax law field.

The portal is made up of various archives which lets you consult: legal doctrines, jurisprudence and regional and national legislation, community legislation, practices, forms and accounting and auditing principles. In the menu item "Topics" the main tax issues are described and correlated with the other contents of the database.

The legal doctrines include:

• 70 journals published by Wolters Kluwer with the full text in PDF
• Legal codes with commentaries: VAT, TUIR, Indirect taxes and local taxes, Assessment and Collection
• The platform also provides access to the My Library and Professional Newsstand portals and to IPSOA Quotidiano.

In-depth guides and webinars are available at the page https://helpcenter.onefiscale.wolterskluwer.it/.

To login see the guide How to access Wolters Kluwer Italia databases.

The database was created through the integration of various digital platforms by Wolters Kluwer Italia including CEDAM, UTET Giuridica and IPSOA.

The portal is made up of various archives which lets you consult: legal doctrines, jurisprudence and regional and national legislation, community legislation, practices, forms and accounting and auditing principles.

The legal doctrines include:

• 70 journals published by Wolters Kluwer with the full text in PDF format
• the Digest published by UTET
• Italian legal codes with commentaries

The platform also provides access to the My Library and Professional Newsstand portals and to IPSOA Quotidiano.

In-depth guides and webinars are available on the page https://helpcenter.onelegale.wolterskluwer.it/.

To login see the guide How to access Wolters Kluwer Italia databases.

Large US global legal research portal with over 28,000 databases of jurisprudence, legislation, statutory audits, treaties relating to both the United States and the European Union and other countries around the world.

On Westlaw International are also available the Restatements of the Law, a set of treatises on specific legal subjects published by the American Law Institute (ALI), that harmonize and consolidate American Common Law (to view the Restatements list you have to open first a session on the database by clicking on the link https://tinyurl.com/y6x5lmvw).

It also contains more than 1,000 scientific and newspaper periodicals of both legal and economic content drawn from the businesses of Thomson Reuters, including Sweet & Maxwell, Ellis Publications, Carswell and Westlaw.