Encyclopedias
Resources that are freely available (websites members of the public can use) are marked with an asterisk (*).
Legal encyclopedias contain narrative descriptions of various subject areas of the law accompanied by footnotes to authoritative cases and/or legislation. They contain summaries of the law, but no analysis or policy discussion, and provide a black-letter statement of the law in a particular area. They will give you a broad overview of the topic before you consider narrower issues.
- Canadian Encyclopedic Digest (focuses on federal law and Ontario and the Western Provinces)
- Available electronicaly via Westlaw Edge (law students only)
- Available in print
- Halsbury's Laws of Canada (focuses on federal law and all provincial jurisdictions)
- Available electronically via Lexis+ (law students only) and the campus-wide version of Quicklaw (non-law UNB/STU students and faculty)
- Available in print
- JurisClasseur Québec (covers Quebec law; in French)
- Available electronically via Lexis+ (law students only) and the campus-wide version of Quicklaw (non-law UNB/STU students and faculty)
- American Jurisprudence (2d) (AmJur) (American)
- Available electronically via Westlaw Edge (click International tab > Secondary Sources) (law students only)
- Available in print
- Corpus Juris Secundum (American)
- Available electronically via Westlaw Edge (click International tab > Secondary Sources) (law students only)
- Halsbury’s Laws of England (British)
- Available electronically via Lexis+ (law students only) and the campus-wide version of Quicklaw (non-law UNB/STU students and faculty)
- Available in print
- Max Planck Encyclopedias of Public International Law
- Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
- Wex* (via LII/Cornell Law School) (American)