University Library: Law Topics: Canon law

Key Resources

Atla CPLI (Catholic Periodical and Literature Index)
Indexes periodicals, essays, church documents, papal documents and electronic resources about the practice and intellectual tradition of Roman Catholicism.
SEE: Atla Religion Database with AtlaSerials PLUS
ATLA Religion Database with ATLA Serials PLUS This link opens in a new window
Combines full-text religion and theology journals with indexed articles, essays and reviews from the American Theological Library Association. Includes Catholic Periodical literature index (CPLI)
HeinOnline: Religion and the Law This link opens in a new window
Books, periodicals, and bibliographies covering the development, history, organization, and fundamental principles of various world religions.
HeinOnline: Selden Society Publications & the History of Early English Law This link opens in a new window
Selden Society Series (1887) reproduced and consolidates legal materials from 1066. It includes more than 220 English Legal History Classics including abridgments, digests and dictionaries.
ProQuest Religion This link opens in a new window
Provides a wide range of periodicals on all aspects of religion, covering formal theological studies of major religions, recent trends and scholarly thought.
Religion & Philosophy Collection This link opens in a new window This collection provides extensive coverage of such topics as world religions, major denominations, biblical studies, religious history, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, moral philosophy and the history of philosophy.
Westlaw AU This link opens in a new window
Australian case law, KeyCite citator, legal journals, encyclopaedia and commentaries.

Dictionaries & Encyclopaedias

Cambridge Dictionary of Christian Theology
Encyclopedia of Law and Religion
Foundational resource covering the relation between law and religion, including the role of religion in society, freedom of religion and more.
New Catholic Encyclopedia
Sacramentum Mundi Online
Online edition of the six volume English reference work in Catholic Theology, edited by Karl Rahner, one of the main Catholic theologians of the 20th century.

Legislation

Code of Canon Law 1983
Apostolic Constitution Sacrae Disciplinae Leges (January 25, 1983)
For the promulgation of the new Code of Canon Law
Apostolic Constitution Sacrae Disciplinae Leges (January 25, 1983)
For the promulgation of the new Code of Canon Law
Apostolic Constitution Sacri Canones John Paul II 1990
Apostolic Letter "Motu Proprio data" Omnium in mentem, modifying some canons of the Code of Canon Law (October 26, 2009)
On several amendments to the Code of Canon Law
Apostolic Letter issued Motu Proprio Mitis Iudex Dominus Iesus
The reform of canonical procedure for the annulment of marriage in the Code of Canon Law (15 August 2015)

Sources of Past Canon Law

Ancient and medieval canon law sources
Sources of past canon law from the Pontificia Universita Gregoriana
Canon Law Organisations
Codes of Canon Law from the Vatican
Medieval Canon Law Virtual Library

Case Law

Law & Religion Scholars Network: Case Database

Guides & Directories

Bishops Commission for Canon Law
Canon Law - Legal History (Bodleian Law Library)
Canon Law Research Guide (GlobaLex)
The information and articles published by GlobaLex represent both research and teaching resources used by legal academics, practitioners and other specialists around the world who are active either in foreign, international, and comparative law research or those focusing on their own domestic law.
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The guides and articles published are written by scholars well known in their respective fields and are recommended as a legal resource by universities, library schools, and legal training courses.
Canon Law Society of Australia and New Zealand