Law Resources

Consult the Guide to Legal Research and Legal Aids for information about legal research. An overview of the Australian Legal System from the Attorney-General's Department may be helpful.

Items marked with * indicates subscription resources available only to Murdoch staff and students.

Primary Legal Materials

Secondary Legal Materials - Reference

Abbreviations	Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations	Abbreviations of Law Reports held at Murdoch Medium Neutral Citation
Citation Guides	Australian Guide to Legal Citation, (2nd ed, 2002)	Legal Citation (Brief notes) Authorised Reports
Dictionaries	Australian * LexisNexis AU -- Australian Legal Words and Phrases -- Butterworths Encyclopaedic Australian Legal Dictionary See also shelf number: R 340.013 UK - and other Commonwealth countries * A Dictionary of Law part of Oxford Reference Online	USA * Oran's Dictionary of the Law * Native Americans and the Law: a dictionary Other Jurisdictions Duhaime's Law Dictionary Legal-Explanations.com Law.com dictionary OneLook Dictionary Service
Government & Parliament	Western Australia Parliament of Western Australia Government of Western Australia Department of the Premier and Cabinet. Department of Attorney General Department of Corrective Services Other states: Australian Parliaments Australian Governments WorldLII- Parliaments of theWorld United Nations & UN Documents ILO International Labour Organisation	Commonwealth of Australia Parliament of Australia The Commonwealth Government On-Line Directory Attorney General's Department Parliamentary Library publications Australia.gov.au (search engine)
Law Schools	Murdoch University School of Law Edith Cowan University Notre Dame University Australia University of Western Australia	Council of Australian Law Deans Legal Education on WorldLII
Legal Research Guides	Murdoch University Legal Research Guides LLX - Comparative and Foreign Law Guides
Professional Associations	The Law Society of Western Australia Professional Conduct Rules (WA) Women Lawyers WA Website Law Council of Australia with links to Law Council Constituent Bodies National Womens Justice Coalition	Murdoch Student Law Society Australian Law Students' Association Australian Law Librarians Group The World Law Guide - Law Firms
Search Engines	Google Answers.com
Subject Directories	WebLaw - Australian Legal Resources WorldLII - International Legal Resources Findlaw - US

Secondary Legal Materials - Commentary

Encyclopaedias, Digests, & Restatements	Australia Laws of Australia (R 348.94046 AUS) also on *Lawbook Online FirstPoint which replaces The Australian Digest (R 348.94046 AUS) on * Lawbook Online Halsbury's Laws of Australia on * LexisNexis AU USA * LexisNexis - browse Secondary Legal * American Jurisprudence 2d * Restatements of the Law (USA) * Westlaw - browse International Directory - US - Treatises, CLEs, Practice Guides * Corpus Juris Secundum * Restatements of the Law (USA) * The Oxford Companion to American Law * The Oxford Guide to United States Supreme Court Decisions	Other jurisdictions * LexisNexis - browse via Legal (excluding US) - examples below *The Laws of New Zealand (LONZ) * Halsbury's Laws of Hong Kong Halsbury's Laws of England in print * Halsbury's Laws of England Monthly Review * Westlaw - browse International Directory- International materials to country level. * Canadian Abridgment * Canadian Encyclopaedic Digest Multi-jurisdictional * Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences * Human Rights : A Reference Handbook
Forms & Precedents	Australia Australian Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents on * LexisNexis AU Court forms - see relevant Acts and Regulations, and Court web pages. UK Encyclopaedia of Forms & Precedents (SW 3 R 347.0550941 ENC 3) Atkins Court Forms (SW 3 R 347.0550941 ENC) * Westlaw - Table of Contents. In particular note UK Civil Procedure, The "White Book" etc. * LexisNexis	Other jurisdictions * LexisNexis * Westlaw
Journals See the Database page for extensive list of subscription databases	E Law Murdoch University Electronic Law Journal AustLII Law Reviews Project High Court Bulletin See also - electronic journals linked by title on the catalogue. - list of legal journals databases in the Legal Research Guide - legal alerts to set up email notification of Table of Contents for new issues	Australian Journals Online PANDORA Australian Digital Archive of Law and Criminology See also print journals at J 340 arranged alphabetically by title.
Journal Indexes	Australia Informit Databases AGIS- Plus text (Attorney Generals Information Service - index plus some full text articles) APA-FT (Public Affairs index and some full text) CaseBase on * LexisNexis AU AMPLA index PANDORA Australian Digital Archive of Law and Criminology - index run by Google * Westlaw Index to Canadian Legal Literature Legal Journals Index (UK)	International * LexisNexis Index to Legal Periodicals UK Law Journal Index International Legal Materials Contents Pages from Law Reviews from the Tarlton Law Library
Legal Publishers	Australian Legal Publishers CCH Online Federation Press LAWLEX LexisNexis (Butterworths) Presidan Thomsons Legal & Regulatory (Lawbook) Timebase	Legal Publishers - International list from ALLA. Office of Public Sector Information (formally HMSO) (UK)
Looseleaf Publications	* CCH Online * Lawbook Online * LexisNexis AU * LexisNexis	* Westlaw - Table of Contents See also cabinets in Reserve for other looseleaf titles.