Primary sources, without the per-seat licence

Legal research runs on access. Case law across more than one jurisdiction, legislation as it stood at a given date, and the ability to follow a line of authority from one judgment to the next. The commercial databases that do this are priced per seat, which is why students learn on whatever the library could afford and researchers work around the gaps.

Teaching has the same problem in a shorter cycle. A seminar built on a line of cases needs the cases, this week, for everyone in the room.

You set the areas and jurisdictions your department works in.

Behind them: judgments from the Court of Justice and the General Court, the Portuguese superior and appellate courts, and the German federal courts, with the text of the decision where the court publishes it and a summary either way. EU legislation with its in-force status, so you can see what applied and when. Citations between judgments, so a line of authority can be followed rather than reconstructed. Academic papers and commentary. And open EU research funding calls.

Students work from primary sources rather than from whatever was free.

Seminar preparation stops with the judgment itself instead of with a paywall.

Researchers can follow a citation line across jurisdictions in one place.

And research offices see funding calls in the same feed as everything else, rather than in a newsletter nobody reads.