Research Guides
These guides are designed to help you find the best research resources for your area of law. They include subscription and open access resources. They are developed by the Melbourne Law School law librarians. The guides are continuously updated with new content.
The University Library website has guides on a range of subject areas, plus 'how to' guides which provide tips on finding material such as news and theses.
If you need more information or assistance, please email us at law-library@unimelb.edu.au or phone the Law Library Information Desk on (03) 8344 8913.
Australian Law
- Australian Cases, Legislation and Law Reform
- Australian & Comparative Constitutional Law
- Australian Law: free online resources
- Australian Law in Japanese
- Australian Legal Text Finder
- Australian Taxation Law
- Australian International Taxation Law (sub-page of the Public International Law Guide)
- Competition and Consumer Law
- Constitutional Law
- Dispute Resolution
- Human Rights Law
- Indigenous Legal Research
General
- Accessing Law eBooks
- Authorised Law Reports
- Keeping Up To Date in Law
- Researcher Profiles and Academic Social Networking for Law
- Legal History Research
- Secondary Sources for Legal Research
- Perma.cc Research Guide
- Law Rare Books Collection
- Research Support for Law PhD Students
- Selecting and Developing a Legal Research Topic
- Getting Started in Research for a Thesis
- Careers and Jobs: Law
Foreign, Global & Comparative Law
- Approaching Foreign and Comparative Legal Research
- African Legal Research - being renovated - back soon!
- Canadian Legal Research
- China and Hong Kong Legal Research
- Construction Law
- European Union Legal Research
- Global Competition and Consumer Law
- Global & Comparative Constitutional Law (sub-page of Australian & Comparative Constitutional Law)
- Global & Comparative Labour Law (sub-page of Public International Law)
- Global & Comparative Tax Law
- Human Rights Law (sub-pages of International Human Rights Law)
- Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, UK, USA
- Comparative Human Rights Law
- Indian Legal Research
- Indigenous Legal Research - Australia, Canada, New Zealand, USA
- New Zealand Legal Research
- Papua New Guinea Legal Research
- Southeast Asian Legal Research - Brunei Darussalam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Lao PDR, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam
- United Kingdom Legal Research
- United States of America Legal Research
International Law
- Human Rights Law - International & Regional (sub-page of Human Rights Law)
- Refugee & Asylum Seeker Law Research Guide
- International Investment Law
- International Commercial Arbitration
- International Trade Law
- Public International Law - includes the following pages / topics: