European Union Law Research Guide: Home

“The European Union (EU) is a unique economic and political union between 27 European countries.” https://op.europa.eu/webpub/com/eu-what-it-is/en/

This guide lists useful resources and databases to get you started with EU legal research.

• Europa: The official site includes history, institutions, leadership, budget, priorities, actions, news, events. Europa also offers the following publications:

The ABC of EU Law

How the European Union Works

• EUR-Lex: A part of Europa that includes EU Law, EU case law, and national law and case law. Also find the European Journal which contains “EU legal acts, other acts and official information from EU institutions, bodies, offices and agencies.”
• Lexis Advance EU materials include cases and legislation. Treatises include: Competition Law of the European Union and EU Competition Law: Tools for Assessing Business Agreements,  Lexology Panoramic: State Aid, and Lexology Panoramic: Public Procurement.
• Lexis UK ( link will be available soon) EU materials are more extensive than Lexis Advance, including Lexis+UK covers more unique EU sources compared to Lexis Advance: institutional arrangements (rules of procedure; internal agreements), International agreements, complementary legislation, preparatory documents, parliamentary questions, Official Journal C series, European Free Trade Association documents, journals, books.

• Westlaw EU materials include cases, legislation, treaties, preparatory acts, information/notices, selected treatises and journals.

  Westlaw UK Includes cases, legislation, information/notices, preparatory acts, and treatises. On the Welcome page, select EU from the tabs at the top of the Welcome Page.