BerkeleyLaw Library

Detailed analyses of laws and rules that govern the practice of law, including state-by-state rulings.

Guidance on emerging, evolving, and complex issues relating to accounting rules and principles, financial statements and disclosures, management control and analysis, auditing principles and standards, and accounting practice and responsibility.less

A clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government.

Federal, state, and international coverage of competition and deceptive trade practices law.

Provides regular, in-depth coverage of developments in state and federal bankruptcy law.

Wide collection of publications and alert services that includes both primary legal sources, analytical materials, business and government information and analysis. Specialty areas include corporate law & business; employee benefits; employment & labor law; environment, health & safety; health care; human resources; intellectual property; litigation; and tax & accounting.less

Via IntelliConnect. Provides access to U.S. Federal, state, and international tax information including laws, regulations, cases, treatises, and current awareness and practice tools. Click on "Practice Areas" at the top, right hand side of the screen.  Unclick all boxes except "Tax and Accounting" and then click "OK."  Click on browse function on the left hand side of the page.  Browsing will be limited to titles related to tax and accounting.less

The CQ Researcher is the perfect answer for people who need a place to begin research on current topics. This weekly publication covers the most current and controversial issues of the day with complete summaries, insight into all sides of the issues, bibliographies and more. Users may browse through articles in the current issue or search for past articles using words, dates or other criteria. Coverage includes 1991-present.less

Combines historical analysis with updates and commentary of US Supreme Court decisions, biographies of Supreme Court justices, Supreme Court institutional history and the US Constitution. Also includes background and commentary on constitutions from over 100 countries.less

Reports on developments, trends, and emerging patterns in criminal law.

Content previously contained in Communications Regulation from Pike & Fischer has been incorporated in this revised database along with additional analysis, news, case law, pleadings, statutes and regulations.less

Comprehensive coverage of judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in the area of equal employment opportunity, the Report spans all areas of EEO policy and practice.less

Coverage of legislative, regulatory, legal, and policy news concerning the environment. Includes proposed, new, and amended federal and state laws, rules, standards, and other significant documents.less

Provides analysis and reporting on every aspect of environmental law. Includes current news, articles, cases, administrative documents, environmental statutes, international treaties and federal and state regulations. If the page does not load within 20 seconds, click the reload button (on Firefox) or select View > Refresh (on Internet Explorer); on the second try, the ELR page should load immediately.less

Weekly newsletter covering important new federal and state cases, legislation, and trends on a variety of topics related to Family Law.

FDsys is a service of the Government Printing Office and provides free, online access to “America's Authentic Government Information”.  Updated daily, it provides electronic access to thousands of official federal government publications produced by all three branches of the U.S. government including the Federal Register, the Congressional Record and the United States Code.  FDsys is the successor to GPO Access which it replaced as of November 5, 2011.less

The research and education agency of the federal judicial system. Basic history of the federal courts and judges on the federal bench since 1789. Includes Federal Judges Biographical Database, Courts of the Federal Judiciary, Landmark Judicial Legislation and Topics in Federal Judicial History.less

Latest legal developments that influence the health care industry, including new cases, federal and state legislation, rules from federal regulators, and enforcement trends.less

Via IntelliConnect.  Detailed, current coverage of federal and state laws, regulations, cases, and compliance issues. Topics covered include management of human resources; payroll; benefits; pensions; labor and employment law; safety/OSHA; environmental compliance; health care reimbursement; health care compliance; and food, drugs and devices. Includes historical archives of laws and cases.  Click on "Practice Areas" at the top, right hand side of the screen.  Unclick "Financial Services," "Legal Professionals," and "Tax and Accounting" and then click "OK."  Click on browse function on the left hand side of the page.  Browsing will be limited to titles related to human resources. less

Via HeinOnline. E-books, legislative histories, legislation, regulations, federal agency decisions, manuals and scholarly articles related to intellectual property law. Continuously updated, the database contains both modern and historical resources, including digital versions of treatises published as early as 1774. Also includes selected foreign and comparative resources.less

Pike & Fischer's Internet Law & Regulation has been incorporated into BNA's Internet Law Resource Center which contains an archive of full-text case law, pleadings, statutes, regulations, news and analysis.less

A comprehensive resource for cases, guidance, and news in all major areas of labor and employment: fair employment practices, individual employment rights, Americans with disabilities, wages and hours, labor-management relations, collective bargaining, and labor arbitration.less

Online version of various Yellow Book Leadership Directories. The Leadership Library is a personnel contact database for government, business, media, and nonprofit organizations. It lists names, titles, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and biographical data.less

Via HeinOnline. More than 1200 works on US and English legal thought, both classics and rare titles, focusing on constitutional law, political science, legal philosophy and jurisprudence, biography, and more.less

Includes access to LexisNexis Academic for news, business and legal information. LexisNexis formerly also offered LN Congressional and LN Legislative Insight, LN Statistical Insight and LN Statistical Datasets, and LN Government Periodicals Index; these services were bought by ProQuest and are listed in this index under P.less

A U.S. law database with cases, statutes, administrative regulations, court rules, e-books and bar journals, including selected Aspen publications.less

A fully searchable collection of briefs and other documents related to cases brought before the U.S. Supreme Court. It contains over 150,000 cases and 350,000 documents. Search results are linked to the actual full-text PDF documents.less

Reference sources from Oxford University Press, including legal dictionaries (Dictionary of Law, Dictionary of Law Enforcement, Encyclopaedic Dictionary of International Law) and several encyclopedias, guides and companions to legal topics in American, international and foreign law. Search sources collectively or search within an individual titleless

The Oyez Project includes many hours of oral arguments (in real audio) as well as transcripts. Other resources includes biographical information about Supreme Court Justices. less

An electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy court. This service does require users to register and there are fees involved.less

Covers new laws and rules in this emerging new practice area, with the latest privacy and security legal developments - from online marketing to employee screening to patient privacy.less

A federal legislative history service comprised of fully searchable full-text PDFs of publications generated in the course of congressional lawmaking. These include the full text of public laws, all versions of related bills, law-specific Congressional Record excerpts, committee hearings, reports, and prints. Also included are Presidential signing statements, CRS reports, and miscellaneous congressional publications that provide background material to aid in the understanding of issues related to the making of the law.less

Via Westlaw (personal password required). A collection of over 1,700 out-of-print treatises and other legal materials published between 1840 and 1970. Comprehensive searching is available in Rise of American Law (ROAL-All) which combines the following six databases: International (ROAL-INT); Jurisprudence and Encyclopedias (ROAL-JUR); Practice Guides (ROAL-PRACGD); Treatises, Casebooks and Instructional Materials (ROAL-TREA); Legal History, including Commentaries and Speeches (ROAL-LEGHIST); and Dictionaries and Words and Phrases (ROAL-DICT).
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Track legislative and regulatory proposals and actions affecting securities laws, futures regulation, accounting issues, and related matters. Comprehensive, up-to-date information on SEC and CFTC regulations and FASB actions.less

Documents from the United States and Europe, newspaper collections and books published in the antebellum era. Database is comprised of over 1.5 million cross-searchable pages, 7,247 books, 80 serials, more than fifteen manuscript collections and court records. Also includes reference materials from Macmillan, Scribners, and Gale encyclopedias and material published through partnerships with the Amistad Research Center, Oberlin College, Oxford University, and other institutions.less

This archive contains all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990. In addition, there is a collection of 610 of the most important historical decisions of the Court. less

Resources for pursuing a study of Supreme Court history and its operations, including information about individual Justices and major decisions during the tenure of each Chief Justice.less

This Law Library of Congress website provides "Nomination Documents" for both "Confirmed" and "Not Confirmed" Supreme Court nominees. A chart includes the date of nomination, date of confirmation or other result, the available nomination "documents", who they were nominated by and who they replaced. Documentation for all justices is not yet available. Some of the nomination documents available are "Floor Debates", "Floor Vote", "Hearings", "Senate Floor Statements", and "Executive Report", The "Selected Resources" section lists recent Supreme Court nominees, some confirmed, and some not. Resources include "Articles/books by", "Congressional Documents", and even "Video" of some of the nominees are featured here.less

The Tax and Accounting Center offers a comprehensive array of analysis, news, primary sources, and practice tools covering federal, international, and state tax issues and financial accounting.less

A comprehensive array of analysis, news, primary sources, and practice tools covering federal, international, and state tax issues and financial accounting.less

Information on legislative, regulatory, judicial, and policy developments from the Treasury Department, Internal Revenue Service, the courts, and in Congress. The Report also provides articles on new and emerging areas of taxation.less

Reports on the most significant cases, regulations and legislative developments across the United States.

The full text of all decisions reported in U.S. Patents Quarterly from 1946 to the present, combined with finding aids to facilitate the search process.less

Covers legal developments affecting the prosecution and defense of fraud and other white collar crimes.

A continuously updated, complimentary, multi-media Web resource with news and information from around the world on climate change issues. legislative and regulatory developments, court and administrative decisions, compliance news, state and federal government policies, international developments, emissions trading, and market information.less

Online version of various Yellowbook Leadership Directories. The Leadership Library is a personnel contact database for government, business, media, and nonprofit organizations. It lists names, titles, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, email addresses and biographical data.less