Legal Research Subject Guides
These guides are designed to help you find the best research resources for your area of law and include subscription and open access resources. They are developed by law librarians and are continuously updated with new content.
General Guides
Browse the law general guides on tools, resources and skills to assist you during your time at the Melbourne Law School. The Unimelb Library Guides page has guides on a range of subject areas and 'how to' guides on finding resources such as news and theses.
- Authorised Law Reports
- Careers and Jobs: Law
- Keeping Up To Date in Law
- Law Rare Books Collection
- Legal History Research of Australia and the United Kingdom
- Perma.cc
- Research Impact for Law
- Research Support for Law Graduate Researchers
- Secondary Sources for Law
- Selecting and Developing a Legal Research Topic
- Zotero for Law
Australian Law Guides
Find the best resources, databases and books for currnet, comparative and historical Australian legal research.
- Australian Case Law
- Australian & Comparative Constitutional Law
- Australian International Taxation Law (sub-page of Public International Law Guide)
- Australian Law: free online resources
- Australian Law Textbook Finder
- Australian Legislation
- Australian Taxation Law
- Competition and Consumer Law
- Construction Law
- Human Rights Law
- Australian Indigenous Law
Foreign Law Guides
Research guides on laws of other countries and regions
- Canadian Law
- Chinese (PRC) and Hong Kong Law
- Construction Law
- European Union Law
- Foreign and Comparative Law
- Human Rights Law (sub-pages of International Human Rights Law)
- Indian Law
- Indigenous Law - Canada, New Zealand, United States
- New Zealand Law
- Papua New Guinea Law
- South African Law
- Southeast Asian Countries' Law
- United Kingdom Law
- United States of America Law
Global and Comparative Law Guides
Search across diverse jurisdictions. These guides can provide valuable insights and comparative legal studies
International Law Guides
Laws of international institutions
- Australian International Tax Law (subpge of International Tax Law Guide)
- Case Law (subpage of Public International Law Guide)
- Human Rights Law - International & Regional (sub-page of Human Rights Law)
- International Criminal Law
- International Environmental Law
- International Humanitarian Law
- International Labour Law
- International Investment Law
- International Tax Law
- International Trade Law
- Law of the Sea
- Public International Law
- Refugee & Asylum Seeker Law
- Sources of international law (subpage of Public International Law Guide)
- Treaties (subpage of Public International Law Guide)
- United Nations (subpage of Public International Law Guide)