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Summary
Database Name: Human Rights

Database Identifier: HUMRT

Coverage
Selected coverage begins with 1987 (vol. 14)

Content Highlights:
Full text of articles from Human Rights, a quarterly publication of the American Bar Association Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities. Selected coverage begins with 1987 (vol. 14).

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Contents
The HUMRT database contains selected documents that have appeared in Human Rights. A document is an article, a note, a symposium contribution, or other materials published in this periodical. Documents that have been selected present pragmatic discourses on legal issues of national interest.

Derivation
Documents from this periodical (see below) are made available after the ABA has acquired a license for inclusion in WESTLAW from the author(s). More recent materials may be delayed as this process is completed by the ABA.

SELECT COVERAGE BEGINS:

Human Rights14 Hum. Rts. (1987)


PUBLISHER: Section of Individual Rights and Responsibilities of the American Bar Association

Citation Format
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19-WTR Hum. Rts. 16
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Searching and Fields
In this database you may choose the Terms and Connectors search method or the Natural Language search method.

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Tip: Use a date restriction in your query to retrieve documents issued on a specific date or during a specific range of dates, e.g., da(aft mm/dd/yyyy & bef mm/dd/yyyy).

The abbreviations for the fields in this database are:

CICITATIONUnique references for citing to specific documents.

PRPRELIMType of document, if available.

TITITLETitle of the article.

SOSOURCEPublisher's name and copyright notice.

AUAUTHORName(s) of the author(s) of the document.

TETEXTText of the document.


Related Research
Related databases: JLR contains documents reflecting substantive legal analyses from all available law reviews, Continuing Legal Education (CLE) course handbook collections, and bar journals, including documents from this database. LAWPRAC contains documents from practice-oriented periodicals. TP-ALL contains the entire JLR and LAWPRAC databases and also selected texts. Canadian periodicals are available in the TP-CANADA database. A number of index databases are also available, including: ILP, the Index to Legal Periodicals; LRI, the Legal Resource Index; and CILP, the Current Index to Legal Periodicals.

Legal Notices
This database is provided through an agreement between West, a Thomson business and the American Bar Association.

Copyright (c) 1987-2010 by the American Bar Association.

See each document for notice of the copyright interest in that document.

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