Library Guides: Competition and Consumer Law: Introduction

Overview

This guide includes a selection of legislation and case law sources from commercial databases and free websites. In addition, relevant journal databases, journal titles and ebooks are listed.

For country specific information, select the country above.

Please note, this research guide does not cover all available resources but will provide you with a place to start your research. It will be regularly updated and over time will include resources for additional jurisdictions.

Keywords

Many terms may be used, for example, in:	Also, many unfair commercial practices may be considered unfair competition:
EU competition China monopoly the United States antitrust	unconscionable contracts fraud misrepresentation

Getting started: Databases

Lexology
Lexology covers over 80 practice areas spanning competition & regulatory, dispute resolution & litigation, tax, white collar crime, IP, corporate, commercial, banking & finance, infrastructure & transport, energy & natural resources, insurance and compliance.

Foreign research

View our Foreign Research Guides for detailed information on foreign research methods, legislation and case law research:

Getting started: Print and ebooks

This section lists recent books on Competition Law in a global, regional or comparative context.

ASEAN Consumer Law by Luke Nottage, Justin Malbon, Jeannie Marie Paterson & Caron Beaton-Wells
Call Number: E-book

Publication Date: CUP, 2019
The guide to merger remedies by editors Ronan P Harty and Nathan Kiratzis.
Call Number: KN 266.12 GUID

Publication Date: Global Competition Review, 2018.
The Regionalisation of Competition Law and Policy Within the ASEAN Economic Community by Burton Ong
Call Number: E-book

Publication Date: CUP, 2018
Elgar Encyclopedia of Comparative Law by Jan M. Smits (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012

Discusses comparative law and different areas of law, including Competition Law in EU and the U.S. and the legal system of various countries.
Research Handbook on International Competition Law by Ariel Ezrachi (Editor)
Publication Date: 2012

Covers competition in developed and developing countries, enforcement trends, competition agency networks and comparative analysis of intellectual property and competition law and merger control worldwide.
Comparative Competition Law by John Dun; Brendan Sweeney; Arlen Duke (Editors)
Publication Date: 2016

Focuses on global issues facing competition law and policy. This volume is specially commissioned chapters by major writers from the United States, Europe, Asia, South America, and Australia provide a synthesis of how these current topics are addressed by drawing on the approaches from varioius jurisdictions around the world.

Getting started: Journal databases

This section includes main law journal databases as well as business journal databases relevant to your research. For more information on searching for journal articles see the:

Secondary Resources for Legal Research Library Guide

Main law journal databases

AGIS (Informit)
A predominately Australian law journal database including some law journals from New Zealand and the Asia Pacific region. Some articles are in full text and date from 1970 onwards.
HeinOnline - Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
A multilingual index to articles in legal journals published worldwide. Covers public and private law for comparative and international legal research.
HeinOnline - Law Journal Library
A full text legal journal database that includes core U.S. law journals. Covers some journals from other jurisdictions, such as Australia, the UK, Europe, Canada. There are delays in availability of recent issues for some titles.
Index to Legal Periodicals
An index to important legal scholarly articles from the U.S., Canada, U.K., Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Content includes over 1,000 titles of which more than 400 are in full text.
LegalTrac
Indexes major law reviews, international legal journals from the U.S, Canada, U.K and Australia.
Lexis US Research
A full text database including U.S. legal journals and law reviews. Includes some Canadian journals. Select 'Secondary Legal' and then US & Canadian Law Reviews, Combined.
Westlaw (previously Westlaw International)
Contains 700+ full text journals, law reviews and bar journals. Focus is on U.S., Canadian and U.K. materials.

Business journal databases

Business Source Complete
A large international scholarly business database including both bibliographic and full text content.
EconLit
An economics specific database that includes journal articles, working papers and theses.
ABI/INFORM Complete
A large international business database which includes competition law.
Social Science Research Network (SSRN)
A law, business and economics database that includes journal articles, working papers and forthcoming papers.
Informit
Large Australasian journal database. To search broader than legal content, select 'by Subject' and tick 'Business & Law'.