This page is a list of other important HeinOnline special research collections that are not part of the Social Justice Suite, but should be highlighted.
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Executive Privilege Archive | History of International Law |
History of Supreme Court Nominations | John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection |
Law Academy Project | Legal Classics Library |
Military and Government Collection | National Survey of State Laws |
NOMOS: A Political and Legal Philosophy Series | Pentagon Papers |
Religion and the Law | Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions and Other Advisory Bodies |
U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library | Voting Rights & Election Law |
Women and the Law | World Constitutions Illustrated |
An historical overview of the two ever-changing disciplines of criminal justice and criminology, complete with congressional hearings, government reports, U.S. Attorney General publications, and an extensive collection of related books and periodicals. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of Criminal Justice & Criminology collection.
Providing primary and secondary source material such as government documents from the executive, legislative, and judicial branches, this database explores executive privilege from the country's founding to the present day. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the Executive Privilege Archive.
HeinOnline's Gun Regulation and Legislation in America contains essential periodicals, compiled legislative histories, Congressional hearings, United States Supreme Court briefs, monographs, and other related materials on the difficult and controversial topic of regulating firearms in the United States. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of Gun Regulation and Legislation in America collection.
This database includes information dating back to 1690 on the history of international law subjects such as War & Peace, the Nuremberg Trials, Law of the Sea, International Arbitration, Hague Conferences and Conventions and much more.
This database features the complete print series Supreme Court of the U.S. Hearings and Reports on Successful and Unsuccessful Nominations of Supreme Court Justices by the Senate Judiciary Committee. The Browse by Justice option allows the user to link directly to relevant content, articles, and bibliography as applicable to each justice! HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the History of Supreme Court Nominations collection.
This database contains the National Archives and Records Administration's complete collection of records on President John F. Kennedy's assassination. Also included are books, hearings, other related works, and scholarly articles on this topic. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection.
Discover the history of legal education in America through the works of the Law Academy, one of the earliest educational institutions in the United States for law-related education, established in 1821 in Philadelphia, PA. This database gathers the Academys pamphlets and pairs them with biographical highlights of the author and a summary of its contents.
The Legal Classics collection offers more than 18,000 works from some of the greatest English and American legal minds, including Joseph Story, Jeremy Bentham, William Blackstone, William Holdsworth, Henry Maine, Frederick William Maitland, Frederick Pollock, Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Edwardo Coke, George Wythe, Bernard Schwartz, and many more. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the Legal Classics Library.
HeinOnline's Military and Government Collection brings together thousands of diverse publications to research the functions of the federal government in administering the nation's armed forces, as well as the issues confronting service personnel both on and off the battlefield from women's changing role in the military to the development of new weaponry, to navigating benefits offered by the Department of Veterans Affairs after service. With funding to the Department of Defense making up the largest portion of the U.S. federal budget, users can also find publications devoted to debating and accounting for appropriations and other funds spent. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the Military and Government Collection.
HeinOnline's National Survey of State Laws (NSSL) is an online service that provides an overall view of some of the most-discussed and controversial legal topics in the United States. NSSL allows users to make basic state-by-state comparisons of current state laws in a broad array of legal practice areas. The database is updated regularly as new laws are passed or as legislation changes. The current 9th edition of NSSL (2022) includes the 8th, 7th, 6th, and 5th editions so users can compare the same laws as they existed in 2005, 2008, 2015, 2018, and 2022. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the NSSL collection.
NOMOS is the annual yearbook of the American Society for Political and Legal Philosophy. The ASPLP was begun in 1955 by Carl Friedrich to bring together a group of political scientists, philosophers and law scholars interested in exploring legal and political philosophy outside of their home disciplines. The main activity of the society is its annual meeting held on a topic chosen in advance by the ASPLP membership, at which three papers, one from each of the participating disciplines, are presented. The society publishes these papers, along with formal commentary and invited additional essays, in the NOMOS volumes.
The Open Society Justice Initiative is part of the Open Society Foundations. The Justice Initiative publishes reports, handbooks, briefing papers, legal and policy submissions, and fact sheets exploring and advocating on issues of human rights and justice. Their advocacy work targets national and regional policymakers and governments to advance human rights and the rule of law, and they support local, national, and international efforts to expand access to justice. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the Open Society Justice Initiative collection.
Officially titled United States - Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense. These "Pentagon Papers" are a United States Department of Defense history of the United States' political-military involvement in Vietnam from 1945 to 1967.
Contains thousands of unique titles and more than a million pages, including books, periodicals, and bibliographies. This collection provides a research platform for the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions. The collection also includes the Christian Legal Society publications, an assortment of Canon Law, and rare historical bibles. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of Religion and the Law collection.
This unique resource contains the most current and extensive listing of publications created by presidential advisory bodies (also called committees, commissions, boards, blue ribbon panels, or task forces) to advise them on particular problems or issues such as Pearl Harbor, civil rights, the status of women, the assassination of JFK, the 1967 riots, Iran/Contra, HIV/AIDS, the Challenger Space Shuttle accident, and 9/11. There are citations to more than 6,000 reports and other documents from the administrations of Andrew Jackson to Barack Obama. Links to more than 1,200 full text reports are provided. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the Reports of U.S. Presidential Commissions collection.
The U.S. Presidential Impeachment Library is organized around the four affected presidents, this collection brings together a variety of documents both contemporaneous and asynchronous to each presidents impeachment, presenting both a snapshot of the political climate as each played out and the long view history has taken of past proceedings. Congressional research service reports round out a general discussion of presidential impeachment, and a curated list of scholarly articles, external links, and a bibliography provide avenues for further research on this topic.
HeinOnline's Voting Rights & Election Law collection provides in-depth assistance for researchers to understand the nuances of electoral systems around the world, especially in the United States. Subsections group materials by these subjects: absentee voting, ballots, campaign finance, election administration, election integrity, election outcomes, election reform, electoral college, federal election commission, gerrymandering, legislative redistricting, political campaigns, suffrage, voter identification, voter registration, voting rights.
This library enables legal scholars to research the constitutional and political development of every country in the world. It includes the current constitution for every country in its original language format and an English translation, as well as substantial constitutional histories for all countries. It also includes constitutional periodicals, thousands of classic books, other related works such as the CIA World Factbook, links to scholarly articles and online resources, and bibliographic references. HeinOnline's library guide has a detailed description of the World Constitutions Illustrated collection.