Yale Law School Blogs

The Law Library is testing Westlaw China, a new database with primary and secondary sources on China laws: http://www.westlawchina.com/login.php The trial user ID and password can be found in YLS Inside Research Sites under Library Database Passwords.   

Legal periodicals are often a good starting point when you are researching a broad legal topic.  The Law Library has access to three online legal journal databases in Chinese: Chinese Academic Journals (CAJ), Wan Fang's Chinese Online Journals (COJ) and ChinaLawInfo's journal collection.  For those who are interested in ...

The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the statistical arm of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA), has launched a new web-based data service UNdata.  Instead of clicking through data sets scattered in the websites of different UN agencies, users can now search and download a variety of statistical resources of ...

London's Old Bailey Criminal Court cases 1674-1913 are now searchable online.  The Proceedings of the Old Bailey,1674-1913 include transcripts of 197,745 criminal trials held at London's Central Criminal Court between the years 1674-1913.  Other than chronicling a string of sensational trials in London in the period, ...

Congressional Research Service, funded by taxpayers' dollars, provides members of Congress with reports on current political, legal and socio-economic issues.  Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to make all CRS Reports available in the open source. Recent ...

For those interested in the recent legal developments in China, here's a list of new Chinese library acquisitions. They include commentaries on the new Property Law and Labor Contract Law.  Two titles may be of interest to those doing empirical research: Zhu Jingwen's work with statistical data on ...

The PRC National People's Congress in March approved a government reorganization plan that consolidated several ministries and appointed new officials to top leadership posts. See the latest analysis from the US-China Business Council.  For an interesting commentary on the developments of the Chinese party leadership, ...

Two new congressional publications of interest to to those researching in treaties and international agreements: 1. Senate print (S. prt. 106-71) "Treaties and other international agreements: the role of the U.S.Senate" . 2. CRS Report (RL 33865/2008) "Arms Control and Nonproliferation: a Catalog of Treaties and ...