Library Guides: Southeast Asian Region Countries Law: Books & Journals

Finding Journal Articles on South East Asian Law

Articles on South East Asian law may appear in many journals, not just Asian law journals, and not just law journals. To find articles on your legal topic or SE Asian jurisdiction, irrespective of the journal in which they appear, we recommend the following law and inter-disciplinary journal databases.

Law Journal Database

Gale OneFile: LegalTrac
(UniMelb access) Indexing for approx 875 journals, some full text. Multijurisdictional. Coverage:1980+
HeinOnline
Law Journal Library (UniMelb access) - multijurisdictional. Includes over 2,300 law journals and reviews - all from the first volume. The best source for older articles.
Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals
(UniMelb access) Multilingual index to 470 legal journals from all jurisdictions other than the United States, the UK, Canada and Australia. Also indexes yearbooks and published collections of legal essays. Coverage: 1985+
Index to Legal Periodicals & Books Full
(UniMelb access) - multijurisdictional. Contains over 1,200 full-text journals, and indexes and abstracts for hundreds of law journals, law reviews, yearbooks, bar association publications and university publications.
Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective : 1908-1981
(UniMelb access) - indexes over 750 legal periodicals published in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.
Westlaw UK
(UniMelb access) - includes Legal Journals Index and full-text Law Journals. Index of more than 430 UK and European legal journals. Coverage: 1986+
Westlaw
World Journals (UniMelb access) - from the Westlaw home page, select International Materials, then World Journals from the right-hand menu.
AGIS Plus Text (Informit)
(UniMelb access) - indexing and full-text database of over 140 Australasian and Asia-Pacific scholarly law journals. Includes many articles written about Asian jurisdictions. An Coverage: Index from 1975+. Full text journals from 1995+.

Asian Law Online (Melbourne Law School)
(Open access) - regularly updated English language materials on Asian law, including books, chapters in books, journal articles and theses.
SSRN
(Open access) - multijurisdictional. The best source of very recent scholarship. Includes research papers, and forthcoming journal articles and book chapters.

Inter-disciplinary Databases

BERITA - Malaysia/Singapore/Brunei/ASEAN Database (Informit)
(UniMelb access) - extensive coverage of articles on Southeast Asian countries, including education, business, law, science, and politics. Coverage from 1990 to current.
Bibliography of Asian Studies
(UniMelb access) includes articles on all subjects (especially in the humanities and the social sciences) about East, Southeast, and South Asia published worldwide, since 1971.

East & South Asia Database
(UniMelb access) includes 160 full-text academic journals. Topic coverage includes business, science, technology, engineering, social sciences, education, and humanities.

Academic Search Complete (EBSCO)
(UniMelb access) - a multidisciplinary full-text database, providing access to more than 8,600 full-text periodicals, including more than 7,500 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to full text it offers indexing and abstracts for more than 12,500 journals and a total of more than 13,200 publications including monographs, reports, conference proceedings, etc.

Individual South East Asian Interdisciplinary Journals

You will find articles from all the journals below by using the interdisciplinary journal article databases listed above.

Asian Journal of Social Science
e-journal. Vol 1 (1973) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Austrian Journal of South - East Asian Studies
Vol 1 (2008) to current (open access)
Contemporary Southeast Asia: A Journal of International and Strategic Affairs
e-journal. Vol 1 1979 to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Critical Asian Studies
e-journal. Vol 33 (2001) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Crossroads: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
e-journal. Vol 1-19 (1983 - 2008) (UniMelb staff & student access)
Journal of Asian and African Studies
e-journal vol 1 (1965) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Journal of Asian Studies
e-journal. vol 1 (1941) to current (UniMelb staff & student access). Formerly entitled Far Eastern Quarterly (1941-1956)
Journal of Contemporary Asia
e-journal. Vol 1 (1970) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Journal of Current Southeast Asian Affairs
e-journal. Vol 28 (2009) to current (open access)
Journal of Southeast Asian Studies
e-journal. Vol 1 (1970) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Modern Asian Studies
e-journal. Vol 1 (1967) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Sojourn: Social Issues in Southeast Asia
e-journal. Vol 1 (1986) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
South East Asia Research
e-journal. Vol 1 (1993) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Southeast Asian Affairs
e-journal. 1974 to current (UniMelb staff & student access)
Southeast Asian Studies
e-journal. Vol 1 (2012) to current (open access)
Southeast Review of Asian Studies
e-journal. Vol 27 (2005) to current (UniMelb staff & student access)

Individual Asian Law Journals

Asia Pacific Journal of Environmental Law
Publication Date: vol 1 (1996) to current
Asia-Pacific Journal on Human Rights and the Law
vol 1 (2000) to current
Asia Pacific Law Review
Vols 1 (1992) to current

Asian American Law Journal
Vol 1 (1994) to current. From 1994 to 2005 this journal was known as the Asian Law Journal.
Asian American Pacific Islands Law Journal
Vol 1 (1993) to current
Asian Journal of Comparative Law
Vol 1 (2006) to current
Asian Journal of International Law
Call Number: E-Journal
Vol 1 (2011) to current
Asian Journal of Law and Society
Call Number: E-Journal
Vol 1 (2014) to current
Asian Journal of WTO and International Health Law & Policy
Vol 1 (2006) to current
Asian Pacific American Law Journal
Vol 1 (1994) to current
Asian Pacific Law & Policy Journal
vol 1 (2000) to current

Asian Yearbook of International Law

vols 1-20 (1991-2014) on HEIN (UniMelb staff & student access)
vols 16-18 (2010-2012) on open access on the DILA website
vol 21 (2015) on open access on the BRILL platform

Australian Journal of Asian Law
Call Number: E-Journal
vols 1 (2006) to current
Columbia Journal of Asian Law
vol 1 (1987) to current
vols 1 (1987) - 9 (1995) called Journal of Chinese law