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Legal Research Essentials
Legal Research Essentials guides you through everything you should know about legal research with the University of Queensland Library. Read chapters on:
- the legal research process
- using the UQ Law Library
- finding secondary resources
- case law
- legislation
- referencing using AGLC4.
Encyclopaedias
Legal encyclopaedias for Australian law:
- Halsbury's Laws of AustraliaAvailable through Lexis+
See the Comparative and Foreign Law or International Law guides for more options.
Dictionaries
Legal dictionaries for Australian law:
See the Comparative and Foreign Law or International Law guides for more options.
Native title collections
- Native Title InfobaseThis Federal Court Library database contains Australian material and covers all aspects of native title and claims including journal articles, books, book chapters, conference papers, reports and press clippings. Some material in the collection dates back to 1839. It also includes selected material from other jurisdictions including New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Africa and Asia.
- Australian Indigenous Law LibraryAILL has special features, case law, legislation, law journals, law reform publications and treaties and international agreements.
- AIATSIS Native Title Law DatabaseA comprehensive collection on publicly available native title decisions and legislation summaries. From a range of jurisdicions.