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.

Provides business news and information from more than 9,000 sources in 22 languages, including influential local, national and international newspapers, leading business magazines, trade publications, and news wires. Includes the exclusive combination of The Wall Street Journal (1979-present), the Financial Times, Dow Jones and Reuters newswires and the Associated Press, as well as Reuters Fundamentals, and Bureau van Dijk company profiles.

This historical collection of famous and important trials includes such works as John Lawson’s American State Trials, Howell’s State Trials, Law Reports of Trials of War Criminals, Reports of State Trials and Sixty Famous Cases. The database contains monographs, trial transcripts, and other court documents.

Index to Legal Periodicals and Books (1981 – present) and Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective (1918-1981) The Index to Legal Periodicals and Books indexes around 1000 leading legal journals, yearbooks, institutes, bar association journals, university publications and law reviews, and government publications from the United States, Puerto Rico, Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand. The database also indexes some 1,400 monographs per year. In addition there is the Index to Legal Periodicals Retrospective that indexes over 500 legal periodicals back to 1918.

Starting in 1981, LegalTrac indexes all major law reviews, legal newspapers, specialty law publications, bar association journals and thousands of law-related articles from general interest publications. LegalTrac also includes selective full text.

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.

OnLAW provides online access to over 100 CEB titles. With OnLAW, you can search the full-text of CEB practice guides and action guides to find California legal commentary and analysis.

Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse (TRAC) is a data gathering, data research, and data distribution organization associated with Syracuse University. Transactional refers to data about individual activities. The Data is collected from the federal government, mostly under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), concerning enforcement, staffing, spending, and other matters.

The main library's extensive listing of databases, indexes, directories, dictionaries and other reference materials.

A complete list of article databases available throughout the UCB library system.

A list of electronic journal titles available at UCB. This A-Z list includes law titles.

This digital collection contains books and pamphlets, official and unofficial trial documents and materials, legal transcripts, administrative proceedings, and arbitrations. The collection covers trials from all countries and languages, although the great majority are English-language and published in the U.S. or Great Britain.

Indexes and abstracts articles in more than 10,900 journals and other publications in English, Spanish, German, French, Italian and Portuguese; full-text is available for over 5300 journals.

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

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.

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.

Beck-Online provide access to German law, including statutes, cases, journal articles, and commentaries. Available in German only.

Access at dedicated terminals in the law library computer labs or via the web at Bloomberg Anywhere. Users must have a Bloomberg account activated. Contains a wide variety of legal and financial information, including court dockets and transactional news.

A listing of the BNA databases that the Law Library subscribes to.

Provides full text for more than 7,400 scholarly business journals and other sources, including full text for nearly 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more. Business Source Complete provides expanded indexing and abstract backfiles for the top scholarly business journals, dating back to 1965 or the first issue published (whichever is more recent). In some cases, indexing, abstracting, and PDF coverage actually goes back further than 1965. The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies.

Provides access to U.S. Federal, state, and international tax law and information. Click on the Federal Tax tab to use the Standard Federal Tax Reporter, Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, Revenue Rulings, and court cases.

Profiles of state legislators (Senate and Assembly), constitutional officers, state Supreme Court and appellate court justices, and representatives to the U.S. Congress. Overviews and essays on major players and events influencing the state's branches of government, including lobbyists and the media. Also includes: information on the state budget; maps of assembly, Board of Equalization, and Congressional and Senate districts; tables of state data, including gubernatorial elections, economics, and the history office holders.

Provides an historical analysis of members of Congress, their legislative voting behavior, interest group ratings, public policy legislation, current committees, background information and definitions, and chronology related to US Congress.

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.

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.

Offers documents and data, authoritative analyses, background information and definitions, chronology, and historical material related to specific elections (Congressional, presidential, and gubernatorial) and the electoral process in America. A data set of voting/election statistics is available for exporting/downloading

Source for expert coverage of the U.S. Congress: status of bills, votes and amendments, floor and committee activity, and backroom maneuvering.

This database is the electronic equivalent of the print set of the same name. It contains relevant commentary, case law, legislation and other source materials. Includes business regulations, taxation and customs information, local business regulations for Special Economic Zones, Open Cities, provinces, and other locations. Text is available in English and Chinese. After you have accessed the database, select the "International Business" tab.

Part of the World Trade Online database, this service provides access to current news, documents, statements from the Chinese government, U.S. policy, and more related to China and the World Trade Organization (WTO) as well as trade issues generally. This is the electronic version of Inside US-China Trade.

Access to English language translations of laws, regulations, and cases from the People's Republic of China. Other legal news and information from China is available. The site is also available in Chinese.

Contains the full text of constitutions from over 190 countries, including English translations and introductory and comparative notes that review recent amendments and provide historical and political information. This database is the electronic version of the print source Constitutions of the Countries of the World.

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

EISIL is a database created by the American Society of International Law. It provides access to primary documents, web sites, and research guides on many international topics. EISIL provides value added information, such as legal citations, summaries of documents, and more.

The EUR-Lex web site provides comprehensive and authoritative information on EU law. It offers multilingual full-text coverage of a wide range of legal materials and provides access to the founding treaties, as well as to legislation and case law of the European Court of Justice.

Indexes over 125,000 volumes of early works printed in England or in English. These works constitute a significant portion of items included in the English Short Title Catalogue. It contains most of the works indexed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection.

Contains over 150,000 items published in Great Britain and its colonies, including those in North America, during the 18th Century. This database complements the materials found in Early English Books Online (EEBO), which covers 1475-1700. The resource is thus a rich source of information about the American and French Revolution, scientific and medical advances, literature, law, religion, industry, and all aspects oflife in the 18th century.

Comprehensive yet selective coverage of the major legal issues surrounding digital communications content, transactions, and infrastructure, on federal, state, and international levels

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.

The English Reports collection is an electronic version of the complete set of the English Reports published from 1220 to 1873. Search over 100,000 cases and view the results in PDF. To access the database, you must register first. To do do, click on "Register me as a personal user." Register using your email address as your "user id", you do not need a password. Once you are in the database, you can use the quick search or browse the collection.

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.

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. ,

A guide to important new federal and state cases, legislation, trends, and issues.

Several databases are available through the OCLC FirstSearch system. The databases are: WorldCat (over 27 million monograph and serials titles), ArticleFirst and ContentsFirst (article and table of contents records from over 11,000 journals in all fields).

Provides brief introductory information on the legal systems of 160 nations or jurisdictions, combined with a list of all codes and basic laws, where they can be found in their most current format in the offical language and any English translations, if available.

GLIN is a database of laws, regulations, and other complementary legal sources from selected countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia, and Europe. The database contains the full texts of the documents in the official language of the country of origin as well as summaries or abstracts in English. The summaries or abstracts are sometimes linked to the full-text documents. The database can be searched for free, but access to the full-text documents is with a password. See the Reference Desk for the password.

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

Provides the full-text to the early issues of many legal journals and is continually enhancing the database to include more recent volumes and more journals.

This new collection contains the full-text of many international law yearbooks and journals. It also contains U.S. international law practice digests, publications from international courts and tribunals, and other materials related to international and foreign law. The collection may be browsed or searched.

The Index to Foreign Legal Periodicals (IFLP) database indexes articles as well as book reviews from more than 490 legal journals published worldwide, including journals, essay collections, festschrifts, and congress reports.

Index to legal articles from over 900 legal and general periodicals, from 1786 to 1922. You must select "Index to Legal Periodical Literature" from the drop-down menu of periodical indexes.

Provides legal information pertaining to trade, investment, and related issues throughout the Americas. Includes primary sources (statutes, regulations, technical standards, official gazettes, constitutions, case law and treaties) and some secondary sources (commentaries, law review articles and analysis). English language translations are available for selected Mexican laws and regulations. Electronic version of the Inter-American Trade Report is also available.

Environment and safety news on laws, regulations, and policies in all major industrialized and developing nations, and in international governmental and nongovernmental organizations.

The International Justice Tribune is an e-journal that covers international criminal justice and publishes investigative articles and interviews about world-wide efforts to try war criminals, from the International Criminal Court to domestic courts. An archive of past articles is also available.

ILDC is a regularly updated repository of domestic cases in international law from over 60 jurisdictions. The cases are selected by local reporters and feature expert commentary, full texts of judgments in their original language, and translations of key passages of non-English judgments into English.

Latest news and trends in U.S. trade policy, including regulatory, legislative, and judicial developments. Covers major activities of the International Trade Commission, Departments of State, Treasury, and Commerce, World Trade Organization, and European Union. Significant court and administrative rulings involving U.S. trade law, including opinions of the U.S. Court of International Trade, International Trade Administration, and International Trade Commission. Tracks international treaty negotiations and agreements.

Comprehensive resources for Internet law research. Includes federal, state and international cases, statutes and regulations; policy statements and guidelines; and various pleadings, motions and briefs.

Reliable archive of important scholarly journal literature from a variety of disciplines including a good number of law journals.

KluwerArbitration is a fully searchable database covering the topic of international commercial arbitration. It includes: conventions, national legislation and case law, model laws rules of international and regional institutions, commentary, and information on bilateral investment treaties. The researcher can search or browse the database. Most information is full-text, but in some cases summaries or citations are only available. After you have accessed the database, select the "International Business" tab.

LLMC - Digital provides full-text access to a vast collection of law and law-related literature courtesy of the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC), a non-profit library cooperative that has filmed more than 7,500 titles and over 90,000 volumes during its past 27 years of operation. The first group of titles mounted on the LLMC - Digital web site are U.S. Federal documents; however, it is anticipated that constitutional, legal, and law-related materials from Commonwealth and Civil Law countries will begin to appear 2004. The collection includes statutes, treatises, case law, administrative decisions, and reports of government agencies, boards and departments and its current emphasis is mainly on historical documents (1790 - 2000).

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.

LSN, a division of Social Science Research Network (SSRN), hosts and distributes scholarly information and papers related to law to legal, economics, and business scholars and practitioners.

Lexis subscribers only.

Includes access to Lexis-Nexis Academic for news, business and legal information; LexisNexis Congressional; Statistical Information, Government Periodicals Index, and Current Issues.

Provides index and abstracts of congressional publications back to 1789, including full text of congressional hearings from 1824-2003, full text Committee Prints from 1830-2003, full text Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports from 1916-2003, and legislative histories from 1970-present. Please note that LexisNexis is currently digitizing its hearings from 1824-1979 so some hearings may not be available full text.

A fully searchable collection of 19th and 20th century legal treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other historical legal works, covering a wide range of topics of US and British law. Includes approximately 10 million pages of over 21,000 works.

A digital collection of more than 61,000 books from the period 1460-1850, and 466 pre-1906 serials. Focuses on economics but includes political science, history, sociology, and special collections on banking, finance, transportation and manufacturing. Combines the Goldsmiths' Library of Economic Literature at the University of London Library, and the Kress Library of Business and Economics at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration along with supplementary materials from the Seligman Collection in the Butler Library at Columbia University and from the libraries of Yale.

Comprehensive database for the law of India. Includes case law, bare acts (federal and selected states), tribunal and commission orders, bills, ordinances, notifications and circulars, forms, some secondary sources, and other sources. To access, select "I.P. Access."

Contains summaries of more than 180,000 criminal justice publications

This database provides access to all types of official United Nations documentation, beginning in 1993. Since older UN documents are added to the system on a daily basis, be sure to search the collection. ODS also provides access to the resolutions of the General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council and the Trusteeship Council from 1946 onwards. The system does not contain press releases, UN sales publications, the United Nations Treaty Series or information brochures issued by the Department of Public Information. For more information, consult our UN Resources & Research Tools guide.

An index to millions of articles published in thousands of periodicals in the arts, humanities and social sciences since 1665. Includes a broad but not comprehensive coverage of major legal periodicals. PCI also provides link to full text articles in the JSTOR database.

An online periodical archive that provides access to some 450 digitized journals in the humanities and social sciences. A sister database, Periodicals Index Online, provides additional indexing for articles in over 4,500 periodicals.

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.

250 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. Topics include cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies, economics and many others.

Abstracts and indexing to more than 1,100 periodical titles. Coverage includes 3 choices: Current (1998 - Present), Backfile (1986 - 1997), Deep Backfile (Prior to 1986). ProQuest includes some full text.

RIA Checkpoint tax database provides comprehensive coverage of U.S. federal and state tax matters. The database includes a section of primary material and sources, with the complete federal tax code, regulations, committee reports, rulings, and more. The collection also includes RIA Worldwide Tax Law provides English translations of tax and commercial laws from jurisdictions around the world.

Rand California, sponsored by the think-tank, RAND, is a subscription-based service on California and U.S. public policy with an emphasis on statistics.

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.

This weekly report provides state-by-state analysis of state code and regulations, state administrative and judicial court decisions, and state administrative pronouncements. It covers income and franchise taxes, sales and use taxes, property taxes, miscellaneous taxes (including gross receipts taxes, excise taxes, and others), and other developments.

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

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

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.

Online access, fully searchable full text of over 200 years (1785 to 1985) of The London Times, the "world's newspaper of record." [Note: "Sunday Times" is a distinct newspaper with no editorial connection to The Times London, and is not included in this database.]

TDM is a global transnational dispute management portal and it aims to provide updates on new developments, insights and comments, as well as national legislation and case law. The primary focus is international commercial arbitration. In particular, see the current newsletter (and complete archive) and the "Knowledgebank" which provides access to primary materials,

TLDB contains a comprehensive digest of principles and rules of transnational commercial law. The digest provides access to precedent-authorities needed to ascertain the disputed meaning of key legal terms in transnational disputes and provides thousands of full text references (arbitral awards, court decisions, law review articles, domestic laws, conventions, model laws, international restatements etc.). The database also contains a large bibliography on transnational commercial law. Searching is available and all information is free of charge.

Consists of several databases, the most important are: i. Status of Multilateral Treaties Deposited with the Secretary-General. This database lists signatories and parties to more than 517 multilateral treaties, provides links to their full text and includes declarations and reservations. It is updated daily. The annual print version is available at the Reference Desk and in the UN Room (KZ4992.7 M85) ii. United Nations Treaty Series Contains the full text of more than 40,000 bilateral and multilateral agreements (print version is available at KJ179. U58 TS.) Search by title phrase or title keywords, dates of conclusion/adoption, names of participating states and selected broad subject terms. There is no full-text searching available. Note: publication requires entry into force, registration, and translations into several languages. These requirements often contribute to a a considerable delay in publication.

The U.S. Congressional Serial Set is a collection of primary source materials covering the period 1817-1980 (the 15th through 96th Congresses). This electronic version is presently complete through the 76th Congress, 3rd session (1941). It’s made up of congressional reports and documents, arranged in sequentially numbered volumes. Many important executive agency documents were printed in congressional editions during the 19th century, making the U.S. Congressional Serial Set an incredibly rich resource covering nearly every aspect of society. The set includes the American State Papers, a retrospective collection of materials originating from 1789 through 1838 but published in the second quarter of the 19th century.

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.

Choose "Select A Product - Treaties & Intl Agrmts". This database is updated monthly, and includes full-text English translations of over 11,500 treaties and international agreements. This is one of the most up-to-date source for many types of the included agreements. The collection includes non-U.S. taxation agreements too. Please don't forget to log off at the right end of the top bar. Boalt has a limited number of accounts which may be active simultaneously.

A project of the California Digital Library that stores and distribute academic research results and working papers authored or sponsored by faculty from the University of California. It includes working papers from many law and legal-related centers and departments in the UC system.

This collection is a searchable database of English translations of over 3,000 Vietnamese laws, covering a wide range of subject areas. Access is by id and password only, so check with the Reference Desk for access information.

This is the electronic version of the print set called Law and Practice of the World Trade Organization, a multi-volume looseleaf service. It provides access to the final texts of all relevant documents involved in the creation of the WTO (Marrakesh Declaration, the Marrakesh Agreement establishing the World Trade Organization, GATT 1994, the Uruguay Round Agreements, and the Plurilateral Trade Agreements and related Ministerial Decisions, Declarations and Understandings), full-text decisions of the Dispute Settlement panels and reports, and commentary from trade law experts on a variety of issues. Search by keyword, title of document, product, agreement, country and subject.

Tracks the progress of multilateral trade negotiations, negotiating positions of parties, policy decisions, dispute settlement activities, accession of new members, and reactions of countries to major developments. Coverss evolving rules for trade administered by the WTO. Monitors the progress of all major cases taken to the WTO.

Westlaw subscribers only.

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

Includes more than 1,200 full-text World Bank publications. Topics covered include: economics and finance, law, public policy, education, international development, technology, poverty, gender, the environment, and more.

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.

Monthly news and analysis of developments in the regulation and enforcement of intellectual property rights worldwide.

The online equivalent to the print newsletter called Inside U.S. Trade, a weekly report on governmental and industry trade issues. Access the current newsletter, plus an archive of past issues. There is also the latest news on a variety of international trade and related issues, special reports on various hot topics, and a large collection of documents (reports, letters, dispute settlement documents, and more).

Dispute Settlement Commentaries (DSCs) provide detailed summaries of the legal findings and conclusions as well as commentaries on WTO Panel reports, WTO Appellate Body reports, WTO Arbitrations, and NAFTA Chapter 20 Panel reports. Each DSC contains information about the case, including a time line, references to other reports and materials, and expert analysis on many of the key issues in the report. Other useful tools include search mechanisms, a WTO Case Law Index, and statistical information.

A collection of working papers, many law-related, published using bepress.

This database provides access to primary materials (laws and cases) as well as secondary materials (articles and forms) for 95 countries, including the U.S. and the European Union (EU). The amount of information varies for each country with Spain and France having the best coverage. Search or browse by individual country. Materials are in the language of the country.