Research & Learn

The Legal Information Archive is a collaborative digital archive established to preserve and ensure permanent access to vital legal information published online. It is a program of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance. The materials feature government, policy, and legal information archived from the Web.

An unsurpassed guide for researchers in any discipline to the meaning, history, and usage of over 500,000 words and phrases across the English-speaking world.

The Thurgood Marshall State Law Library has embarked on a program to digitize those printed Maryland materials that are both fairly unique to the Library and frequently used by legal researchers. Current collections include Judicial Conference Proceedings, Judiciary Administrative Orders, Legislative Bill Files, Legislative Council Materials, Rules Committee Materials, Task Force Reports, and Transactions of the Maryland State Bar Association.

Database of full-image, full-text legal journal articles from the Law Journal Library, Restatements, Uniform Laws and State Session Laws, Attorney General Opinions and Statutes and Reporters.

LLMC Digital preserves global legal and government content at risk due to time and other elements by migrating print and microform into contemporary media.LLMC Digital includes scanned full-text access to many old reporters including Maryland reporters from 1658-1922 and MD AG Opinions 1917-1971.

Comprehensive full-text, full-image database of over 22,000 historical American and British legal treatises, published from 1800 to 1926.

Database of full-image, full-text legal journal articles from the Law Journal Library, Restatements, Uniform Laws and State Session Laws, Attorney General Opinions and Statutes and Reporters.

Comprehensive coverage of U.S. legal periodicals from 1908 to present. Many articles available in full text.

The Law Review Commons contains over 75,000 articles from open-access law reviews with issues dating from 1904.

Search for all journals, both online and print owned by the library. Includes direct links to journals available online through HeinOnline and Index to Legal Periodicals.

This commercial database contains a wide variety of sample Maryland state-specific legal forms.

Forms and pleadings in the area of debtor rights, warranties, consumer litigation, and credit & banking.

Database of full-image, full-text legal journal articles from the Law Journal Library, Restatements, Uniform Laws and State Session Laws, Attorney General Opinions and Statutes and Reporters.

Selected treatises available from Library's public computers and WiFi.

The Legal Information Archive is a collaborative digital archive established to preserve and ensure permanent access to vital legal information published online. It is a program of the Legal Information Preservation Alliance. The materials feature government, policy, and legal information archived from the Web.

eBook access to legal treatises published by LexisNexis. Treatises cover a range of topices including Elder Law,  Employment Law, Estate Planning, Family Law, Landlord-Tenant Law, as well as numerous other topics. 

Explore the National Consumer Law Center (NCLC) Digital Library, a resource offering access to publications, case law analyses, and practice tools for consumer law and protection.

Consumer friendly do-it-yourself legal books written in plain English.

The Thurgood Marshall State Law Library has embarked on a program to digitize those printed Maryland materials that are both fairly unique to the Library and frequently used by legal researchers. Current collections include Judicial Conference Proceedings, Judiciary Administrative Orders, Legislative Bill Files, Legislative Council Materials, Rules Committee Materials, Task Force Reports, and Transactions of the Maryland State Bar Association.

VitalLaw is a comprehensive digital platform offering access to a wide range of legal and regulatory content, including expert analysis, primary sources, and legal practice tools. Practice areas include antitrust law, elder & estates law, family law, pension & employee benefits, product liability law, property & construction law, and corporate governance.

The West Academic Reference Collection provides electronic access to the entire collection of legal reference titles from West Academic’s Hornbook®, Concise Hornbook™, and Nutshell® Series.

Search for primary legal materials. Includes U.S. case law, codes and regulations.

Archived webpages of the Maryland Judiciary and other sites relating to the government of Maryland.

Ancestry Library Edition offers instant access to a wide range of unique resources for genealogical and historical research.

Search America's historic newspaper pages from 1756-1963 or use the U.S. Newspaper Directory to find information about American newspapers published between 1690-present.

The MSA Digital Newspapers page is the best way of finding and viewing all of the newspapers that the Maryland State Archives makes available online.

NewsBank provides a comprehensive collection of reliable news sources covering a wide array of topics and issues.

Collection of Maryland newspapers, from 1752-present. The database provides full-image content and is fully searchable by keyword and date. Includes the Annapolis Capital from 1887-present and the Baltimore Daily Record from 1888-1923.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1893 - 1988.

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1837 - 1998

This historical newspaper provides genealogists, researchers and scholars with online, easily-searchable first-hand accounts and unparalleled coverage of the politics, society and events of the time. Coverage: 1877 - 2008.

ProQuest African American Heritage helps individuals by not only bringing together records critical to African American family research, but also by connecting them to a community of research experts, whose mentoring and assistance can frequently be the difference between research success and futility.

ProQuest provides access to comprehensive coverage of the Washington Post back to 1987.