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341 International Law
- 341.2422 European Union
- 341.55094 International Adjudication (EU)
342 Constitutional and Administrative Law
- 342.24 Constitutional law (EU)
- 342.2406 Administrative law (EU)
- 342.24085 Personal rights and activities (EU)
343 Military, defense, public property, public finance, tax, trade, industrial law
- 343.2404 Tax Law (EU)
- 343.2407 Regulation of economic activities (EU)
344 Labor, social service, education, cultural law
- 344.2401 Labour Law (EU)
- 344.24046 Environmental law (EU)
345 Criminal Law
- 345.24 Criminal Law (EU)
346 Civil Law
- 346.24 Civil Law (EU)
347 Courts and Procedure
- 347.24 Courts and Procedure (EU)
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10 European Union
MT 1011 European Union law
- EU legal system
NT1 EU competence
NT1 EU control
NT1 EU law - national law - European treaties
NT1 Treaty on European Union
NT1 European Constitution - EU law
NT1 case law (EU)
NT1 application of EU law
NT1 codification of EU law - EU act
NT1 regulation (EU)
NT1 decision (EU)
NT1 EC Directive
NT1 EC Regulation
NT1 legislative act (EU)
NT1 directive (EU)
eBook collections
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Brill Online Books and Journals
Cambridge Core Books
Kluwer Digital Book Platform
- European Union Law (browse by Categories)
Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Law Trove
Oxford Politics Trove
Perlego
SpringerLink eBooks
Taylor & Francis eBooks
Free resources
The ABC of EU law by Prof. Klaus-Dieter Borchardt published by EU Bookshop
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341 International Law
- 341.2422 European Union
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eJournal collections
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Cambridge Core Journals
Heinonline
- Law Journal Library (search by title)
JSTOR: Business and Economics
- Law Journals
- European Food and Feed Law Review
- European Journal of Health Law
- European Journal of Risk Regulation
- European Procurement & Public Private Partnership Law Review
- European State Aid Law Quarterly
- Zeitschrift für Staats- und Europawissenschaften (ZSE) / Journal for Comparative Government and European Policy
Kluwer Law International
SAGE Journals
- Law (browse by subject)
Wiley Online Library
- Law (browse by subject)
Free resources
EU institutions
- European Parliament
- European Council
- Council of the EU
- European Commission
- Court of Justice of the European Union
- ECB - European Central Bank
- ECA - European Court of Auditors
EU official sources
- CURIA - The Court of Justice of the European Union
- Directories of EU Law
- EU legislation
- EUR-Lex, access to European Union law
- Browse by Eurovoc: browse EU law and related documents (legislation, preparatory documents, international agreements, communications on case law, parliamentary questions, etc.) by domain and sub-domain.
- European Union Portal: official website of the European Union
EU case-law
National law and case-law
Free eResources
- Europa’s list of databases: list of databases of EU-funded research and innovation projects
- European Parliament’s Legislative Observatory OEIL
- European Sources Online (ESO)
- Eurostat
- HUDOC, the search engine of the jurisprudence of the European Court of Human Rights
- Publications Office of the European Union (Bookshop)
- UE-Open data Portal