Get to Know HeinOnline

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HeinOnline Mobile AppHeinOnline is a legal research platform with more than 70 million pages of legal history available in an online, fully-searchable, image-based format. HeinOnline bridges the gap in legal history by providing comprehensive coverage from inception of more than 1,500 law journals and law-related periodicals.

HeinOnline provides exact page images of the documents in PDF format just as they appear in the original print. This means that all charts, graphs, tables, pictures, hand written notes, photographs, and footnotes appear where they belong.

In addition to its vast collection of law journals (with coverage back to the inception of the journal – meaning further back than what you’d find on Lexis or Westlaw), HeinOnline also contains:

  • Congressional Record bound volumes in entirety,
  • Complete coverage of the United States Reports since 1754
  • United Nations & League of Nations Treaty Series,
  • Federal Register from its inception in 1936,
  • Code of Federal Regulations from inception in 1938, and much more.
  • Famous world trials dating back to the early 1700′s, and
  • Legal classics from the 16th to the 20th centuries.
  • The Pentagon Papers(Officially titled United States – Vietnam Relations, 1945-1967: A Study Prepared by the Department of Defense)
  • State Statutes: A Historical Archive includes superseded state statutes for all fifty states. Coverage goes back until 1717.
  • Early American Case Law — Contains the entire Federal Cases 30 book series (1894-1897) which contains more than 20,000 cases. Also included is the Trinity Series, which includes American Decisions, American Reports, and American State Reports.
  • Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law Publications — This collection includes more than 50 publications from the prestigious Parker School of Foreign & Comparative Law at Columbia Law School.
  • Intellectual Property Law Collection- With millions of pages of legislative histories, treatises, documents, classics, and more relating to copyrights, patents, and trademarks, this collection allows researchers to search across all intellectual property law materials in one database.
  • Women and Law Collection- Women and the Law brings together books, biographies and periodicals dedicated to women’s roles in society and the law. This unique collection provides a platform to research the progression of women’s roles and rights in society over the past 200 years.
  • World Constitutions

Among Many Others!!

HeinOnline also offers a help page, and an app. Of course, if you need any assistance with HeinOnline contact your friendly CM Law librarians and staff!

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