BerkeleyLaw Library

19th Century Masterfile is comprised of over 60 subject indexes to periodicals, newspapers, books, U.S. Congressional Record, U.S. patents and U.S. and U.K. government documents published before 1930. Includes Poole's Index to Periodical Literature and Jones & Chipman's Index to Legal Periodical Literature.less

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

Searchable text of documents and data tabulations relating to the American presidency, including some resources going back to 1789-.

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

Soon to be archive-only, this is the former GPO site for CFR. The new version is delivered by GPO's new FDsys portal.

Via FDsys, the portal of the United States Government Printing Office's Federal Digital System. Search from 1996 forward.

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

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

Database with over 500,000 pages of previously classified government documents covering major international events from the Cold War to the Vietnam War. Allows for single source access to key information underpinning studies in international relations, American studies, United States foreign and domestic policy studies, and journalism.less

Natural disasters and other catastrophic events lay bare the weaknesses in the legal system's ability to respond to events of this scale. Our society must put into practice innovative policies to recover effectively and equitably from past disasters and to prepare for future catastrophes. This Disasters & the Law database maintained by the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law Library has been designed to assist this effort, by facilitating an exchange of information and ideas from fields as diverse as urban planning, bankruptcy law, and wetlands banking. The database contains links to information gathered from a variety of sources. Most are freely available on the web, although a small number require subscription access.less

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

The Guide describes the major statutes and regulations administered by the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) that affect businesses and workers and is designed mainly for those needing "hands-on" information to develop wage, benefit, safety and health, and nondiscrimination policies for businesses.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

The Environmental Protection Agency's Rulemaking Gateway "complements Regulations.gov, the federal government’s main portal for tracking rules from all federal agencies, by providing brief overviews of specific EPA rules and additional ways to search rules based on the phases they are in (e.g., pre-proposal, proposal), the topics they relate to (e.g., air, water), and the impacts they might have (e.g., impacts on small businesses or environmental justice)."—EPA News Release, February 18, 2010.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

List of sources of federal agency decisions, actions, and FOIA reading rooms. Organized by topic. Compiled by the University of Virginia Library.less

Via HeinOnline. Search or browse issues from volume 1 (1936) to present. View or download PDFs. Federal Register indexes, accessible from the same HOL library, can be separately searched.less

Via FDsys, the portal for the United States Government Printing Office's Federal Digital System. Search issues from 1994 forward.

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 HeinOnline. Database with legislative histories, treaties, documents, books and scholarly journal articles related to bankruptcy in the United States. In addition to full-text searching, can browse legislation by Public Law number or popular name.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

An exclusive online newsletter updated throughout the week regarding news involving the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). It is one of several online newletters accessible through the InsideEPA.com website.

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InsideEPA.com provides news, updated at least daily, about regulatory and policy developments involving the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. It is comprised of the following online newsletters accessible through this InsideEPA.com website: InsideEPA (weekly and daily news reports), Inside Cal/EPA, Clean Air Report, Defense Environment Report, Environmental Policy Alert, Risk Policy Report, Superfund Report, Water Policy Report. 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

This service organizes federal statutory, regulatory, enforcement, and disclosure information and makes it useful through emphasis on search, guidance, current awareness, and analytics. It focuses specifically on heavily regulated industries including securities, finance, communications, technology, and energy as well as all industries affected by trade, environmental, and labor regulation. The service includes a Dodd-Frank Tracker.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

Fully searchable digital archive containing constitutional conventions and compilations (reports, journals, proceedings, debates, manuals, rules of order, and information for the use of delegates); city charters (the texts of enacted and proposed charters and ordinances in American jurisdictions); law dictionaries; and early U.S. state codes. Primary Sources will also include colonial records from the Primary Source Microfilm collection Published Records of the American Coloniesless

This encyclopedia of law provides both historical and contemporary comparisons of the world legal systems and covers legal history from ancient to modern times.  Major categories of law include: private law (contract, tort, civil procedure), public law (statutory, criminal, etc.), and higher or constitutional law.  This set is also available in print at the Reference Desk.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

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

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

Via HeinOnline. Official and unofficial collections of treaties and other international legal instruments to which the US is a party, including Indian treaties. Supporting materials include historical books and periodicals relating to US treaty-making.less

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

The official publication of presidential statements, messages, remarks, and other materials released by the White House Press Secretary. Companion publication, Public Papers of the President of the United States, includes many items originally published in WCPD and is also available via GPO Access (1991- ), but publishes less frequently and is therefore usually four or more years behind current date. Both publications are also available from Hein Online (q.v.), in the US Presidential Library.less

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

Official White House website.

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

Via HeinOnline. Historical collection of books, trial transcripts, and other court documents from famous and important trials. Predominantly Anglo-American.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