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The following databases are newly acquired or being evaluated for a future subscription.
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This comprehensive collection of American nominative reports in digital form includes reports spanning from 1789 to 1907. This database also includes the entire set of Federal Cases, a compilation of decisions from the United States circuit and district courts ranging from the nation’s first court case to the publication of the Federal Reporter in 1880. These decisions, prepared by various reporters and compiled into a single set, are arranged alphabetically by case title and numbered consecutively from books one through 30. The Federal Cases, in addition to the Federal Reporter, create an inclusive collection of all lower-level U.S. federal court decisions.
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Alternate Name(s) CRI
The library is troubleshooting access to this database. If the journals below prompt for a password, please append the proxy to the beginning of the URL: http://proxy.library.nyu.edu/login?url=

The library subscribes to two journal titles from CRI:
Review of Securities & Commodities Regulation
Review of Banking & Financial Services
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This collection aims to be the most comprehensive collection of English nominative reports in digital form, bringing together every edition published for each nominative. The nominative reports cover the years 1535-1865, a substantial portion of English legal history.

Jurisdiction: England
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Gale welcomes you to the most extensive free forms site available to library patrons. Thousands of legal forms available with more forms being added daily. Official, State Specific, Federal, Business, Personal, Real Estate and General forms covering hundreds of legal subjects and issues.
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Alternate Name(s) Hotshot Legal

Hotshot offers closed-caption videos, quizzes and outlines to help you get up to speed on a range of topics. Hotshot is helpful for preparing for job interviews, ex/internships, post-graduation employment, and exams.

You must create an account to use this resource. To register, please visit https://www.hotshotlegal.com/join/nyu-law and signup with your nyu.edu address. 
 

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HeinOnline's collection of Irish Nominative Reports consists of nominatives covering cases prior to 1894, as well as law reports, which are compilations of notes on cases; and a subcollection of books, digests, and other related works such as notes, periodicals, and treatises. Key titles within this collection include Irish Chancery Reports, Irish Common Law Reports, Irish Law Reports, and Irish Equity Reports.

Jurisdiction: Ireland
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Alternate Name(s) Practising Law Institute, PLI Plus, Law School Hub
Practising Law Institute (PLI) currently makes their programs available for free to law school students and faculty through their scholarship program. The (very brief) application form can be found here: https://learning.pli.edu/scholarship
n.b. if you or a faculty member you are working with is looking to use the program in a course, then please note that in the application. If you are faculty, please select 'Law Professor' under the Employment Status drop down on the application form.
Any PLI program content (except the Patent Office Exam Course) is admissible for the scholarship program.
Alternate Name(s) HeinOnline
Initially conceived as a collection specifically for law librarians, Spinelli’s Law Library Reference Shelf now has increased its scope to reach the entire legal research community. Dick Spinelli brings his more than 45 years of experience in working with librarians and law libraries to the creation and editing of this collection.

For librarians, this unique collection brings together checklists, newsletters, and cataloging tools. For legal researchers, it contains research guides, bibliographies, dictionaries, and biographies. For faculty and administrators, it houses a section on Legal Education and much more.
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Alternate Name(s) Trends & Policy
Trends and Policy merges content from a variety of sources and presents them in a unique interface designed to connect various policies of the United States to their trending results. This is a series of topical collections, with one new collection added each year.
Trends and Policy has the following collections:

U.S. Civil Rights
U.S. Criminal Justice
U.S. Environment
U.S. Healthcare
U.S. Immigration
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This databases is an online collection of the full text of the commitments that Hein obtained. The contents are searchable by keyword, title, state and foreign parties, subject, and date. The topics range from archaeology to human rights and transportation. There is considerable variation, moreover, in commitment design, as measured by the extent to which the instruments bind the parties, restrict termination or amendment, establish mechanisms to facilitate implementation, provide for judicial enforcement or other means of dispute resolution, address international law, and align with federal law and policy. Some of the commitments operate indefinitely, while others are term-limited. Some exhibit sophistication and formality, while others seem quite casual. Publishing them together significantly improves the transparency of modern practice. A curated collection of roughly one-quarter of them is available in hard copy under the same title.
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This archive of casebooks published by West Academic covers all out-of-print and superseded casebooks in the American Casebook Series, University Casebook Series, Hornbook Series, and Nutshell Series, except for the two most recent editions of any title.
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Alternate Name(s) PLI Plus
Good writing is one of the critical skills necessary to success in the practice of law. This program will teach you the secrets of successful legal writing, whether you are writing for judges, partners, or clients.
This program is free to law school students and faculty through their scholarship program. To access this program, fill out the brief application here:
https://learning.pli.edu/scholarship
n.b. If you are faculty and plan to use the programming in a course, please note that in the application.
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