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Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law Publications

Access to more than 60 publications from the prestigious Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law at Columbia Law School.

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  • Once inside the Parker School of Foreign and Comparative Law Publications database, the search bar will search only within this database, unless the Search All Databases box is ticked
  • Need something more robust? Click Advanced Search to perform a search using custom drop-downs
  • Need a refresher on how to construct a perfect search? Click Search Help for a quick reference guide to commonly used search syntax

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For example, enter the query divorce AND "royal decree" into the one-search bar.

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  • Use the facets on the left side of the page to narrow your results by Date, Section Type, and Title
  • Terms matching the search query appear in bold text within the matching text page snippets
  • Sort search results by relevance, volume date, or title
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  • Use the icons next to the sort-by bar to modify your current search, to search within results, to toggle all matching text pages, or to turn OFF infinite scroll

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Using Advanced Search

  • Click Advanced Search to be taken to a page with custom facets to help maximize your research within this collection
  • Use the drop-downs to choose a variety of ways to search: Text, Title Creator/Author, Court, and/or Description 
    • Add another search field if three isn't enough
  • Select a Document Title to search within
  • Restrict results within a date range and change how results are sorted

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About Venn Diagram Search

 

  • Venn Diagram Search offers a visual representation of how search terms interact with each other
  • Helps users both refine their current search terms and become better researchers going forward
  • Find the link to Venn Diagram Search on the Advanced Search page
  • Searches are constructed by stringing together multiple terms separated by the Boolean operator "AND," with phrases grouped together in quotation marks

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  • Results on the right side of the page pertain to the search as we originally constructed it (represented by the red slice in the center of the intersecting circles)
  • Select Clear for the ability to hover over the different segments of the diagram and see all possible search term combinations from our original query
  • In our example, we can see results for:
    • trade AND "commercial law"
    • trade AND transactions
    • transactions AND "commercial law"
    • the terms "commercial law," trade and transactions individually
  • Sort the results, save or export, turn to the specific page of a result, or start at the beginning of a given title