International Team Project: Brazil Research Checklist

Introduction

This is a selective list of resources prepared for students participating in the International Team Project: Brazil course at Northwestern University School of Law in the spring 2008 semester, by Irene Berkey, Foreign and International Law Librarian.

This list provides detailed information on resources for the law and legal system. For other areas of country research, links are provided to the relevant section of the law library's web site. Most materials cited are in English. Note that the English language versions of foreign language websites do not always have the same content as the vernacular version.

Note: the law library does not collect materials on Latin american countries in vernacular languages.

Key to call number locations:

I,REF = international reference area, 3rd floor
I,PER = international, foreign, and comparative law journals, 3rd floor
PER = general law journals, shelving area to south of grand staircase, 2nd floor
R,REF = reference room, 2nd floor
REF = shelving area under grand staircase, 2nd floor
Sp.Br = the old call number for Brazil. Closed stacks, request materials.
N,SBR = the new location symbol of Brazil, 3rd floor.

Country Information

General Resources by Country or Region The resources listed in this section, both print and online, together provide a great deal of information on the history, geography, government, economy, etc., of the countries of the world. See "Resources for more than one country or region." Also, under the heading "Resources by Country or Region," see the sub-topic "Asia."

Selected Web Sites for Brazil

Official Web site of the República Federativa do Brasil (Federative Republic of Brazil; in Portuguese and English).
Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations site (Portugese, Spanish and English).
InfoBrazil.com English language analysis and opinion. Note: "Before you copy & paste, print, link or distribute…All InfoBrazil articles are the property and sole responsibility of their authors, and may not be reproduced or distributed in any way without prior authorization. If you wish to copy, link to or distribute an InfoBrazil article by any means and for any purpose, you must notify the Editors in advance, detailing you intended use."
Toronto-based Brazilianist magazine

Latin American Studies

Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC). University of Texas at Austin.
Dialnet. Documents, articles, dissertations, etc., including many full-text, from academic research centers as well as contemporary scholarly journals published in Spain and Latin America.

Law and Legal System of Brazil

Doing Legal Research in Brazil, by Edilenice Passos (GlobaLex, 2005). An excellent guide to the legal system and laws of Brazil. The author is a librarian at the Research Service of the Brazilian Senate. Earlier edition available in print:
N,SBR KHD 150 .P37 2001.
Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World , by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores ("Reynolds and Flores"). The single most important bibliographic resource for foreign law research. Includes introductory materials (in-depth discussion of the legal history and legal publication), major publications, and citations to official sources for laws on specific subjects. It also cites to unofficial sources for detailed discussion and/or English language translations.
Brazilian legislation (in unofficial English translation) available at Infolegis. Site maintained by Edilenice Passos.
Brazilian legislation (in Portuguese) available from the website of the Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil. Click on "Legislação."
Brazilian legislation (in Portuguese, with English language summaries) available from GLIN (Global Legal Information Network) Law Library of Congress.
Constitution of Brazil (unofficial English translation). "Brazil Constitution: translated, updated, and commented," from v-brazil.com, via Infolegis.
The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, 1988 (as amended to 2005) (in unofficial English translation, with annotations) is available in Constitutions of the Countries of the World This resource also includes earlier versions of the Constitution, as well as the text of amendments, and editorial material. Also available in print.
I,MON K 3157 .A2B58 1971-
Constitution of Brazil (in Portuguese) available from the website of the Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil. Click on "Legislação."
Guide to Law Online: Brazil Law Library of Congress. Includes links to both legal and non-legal resources.
WorldLII - Brazil. World Legal Information Institute.
Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest. The "digest" for each country (usually prepared by a leading law firm in the country) consists of detailed summaries of the law on selected substantive and procedural topics, arranged alphabetically. May cite to primary law. Especially useful for company, corporate, and tax law. Does not include criminal law. Note: Library print copy is 2005; LexisNexis version (INTDIG) is the latest.
- LexisNexis :
  - Legal
  - Area of Law - By Topic
  - International Law
  - Find Statutes, Regulations, & Administrative Materials
  - Martindale-Hubbell(R) International Law Digest
da Silva, Ricardo Barretto Ferreira, ed. Doing Business in Brazil. Chicago, Ill. : ABA, Section of International Law and Practice, 2002.
N,SBR KHD 333 .B86D65 2002

Finding Books

Finding Books at Northwestern University

NUcat Searching Tips: using NUcat to search for books on a topic.
The preceding section explains how clicking on the "Library of Congress Subject Headings" in a catalog record can help to focus a search. Subject headings can also be searched directly. From the NUcat "Search" tab, search in "Subject Heading" or "Browse Subject Heading" Some Library of Congress Subject Headings are listed below. (The dashes and parentheses can be omitted.)
Brazil -- Politics and government -- 2003-
Brazil -- Social conditions -- 1985-
Brazil -- Economic policy

Finding Books at Other Libraries

WorldCat . WorldCat is a catalog with records from thousands of libraries. It can be used to identify materials not held by Northwestern University. Northwestern University students can place interlibrary loan requests either directly through WorldCat or via the interlibrary loan request form found on the library's home page.

Finding Articles

Journal articles are published in a wide range of subject areas relating to country research, such as history, politics, economics, sociology, gender studies, and religion. In order to identify relevant articles it is best to search the various specialized indexes to which Northwestern University subscribes. The following pages of the library's web site list many such indexes. Once a relevant article is identified, it may be possible to access an electronic version of the text by clicking on the "Find It At NU" buttion," or by doing a journal title search in NUcat for the name of the journal (not the title of the article). When searching an index, an "advanced" search is often easier to use than the basic search. When you find a relevant article, clicking on the "descriptors" or "subject headings" for that record may lead you to other relevant citations.

Find Legal Articles (mostly from U.S. and Anglo-American journals, including foreign and international law topics)
Finding Articles and Papers on Foreign and Comparative Law (for articles on law of countries other than the U.S. and comparative law methodology, from journals published both in the U.S. and abroad)
Finding Articles and Papers on International Law (for public and private international law)
Find Non-Law Articles (for subjects in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences)

Finding Dissertations

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Full Text Entries for doctoral dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available for immediate free download. Can search by school, e.g., Northwestern.

Finding Statistics

Worldwide Statistical Resources

News: General, Legal, and Business

Note that both Lexis and Westlaw allow you to create and save a search, to be run on a periodic basis, such as daily or weekly. For links to tutorials, see the Research Alerts page of the library's web site. Always check scope notes (click on information icon) for dates of coverage. Not all publications are current.

Many organizations make it possible to monitor news by means of an RSS/XML ("Really Simple Syndication") feed. For information of setting up RSS feeds, see the Research Alerts: RSS Feeds section of the library's web site.

Lexis .
- News: Brazil
Westlaw
- Business and News: Brazil
- Business and News: Latin America
Bloomberg Latin America business news (in English)

International Business Resources

See our web site's International Trade, Business, and Economic Law page.
ABI/INFORM Business and management index. Citations and abstracts of articles from more than 1,300 journals, including over 350 English-language international sources. Full-text articles from over 600 selected sources.Westlaw : ABI-INFORM (ABI/Inform (R) (DIALOG)) and ABI-INFORM Current (ABI/Inform (R) - Current (DIALOG)
Business Source Premier "[P]rovides nearly 3,300 full-text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more."
GlobalEDGE (TM) Resource Desk. Michigan State University.

International Organizations

Note: Brazil is not necessarily a member of all the organizations listed below. However, these web sites are good sources of information about Brazil.

Pan-American Organizations
- Organization of American States (OAS)
- Summit of the Americas
- Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA)
- Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
- Mercosul/Mercosur economic cooperative among Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. (This site is in Portuguese and Spanish.)
- Comisión Económica para America Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAS)
- Sistema Económico Latinoamericano (SELA)Latin American Economic System (LAES)
- Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (ALADI)
Worldwide Organizations

Additional Resources for Special Topics

AIDS/HIV/Health
- CDC Global AIDS Program. Countries. Brazil
- Electronic resources on "Health" from Northwestern University Library
- USAID Global Health: HIV/AIDS in Brazil United States Agency for International Development
- Brazil. Pan American Health Organization.
- World Health Organization (WHO) - Brazil

Art and Culture
- Web of Science Select "Arts and Humanities Citation Index"
- Humanities Abstracts "Bibliographic citations from more than 450 periodicals in topics such as archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Records added since 1994 have abstracts, and many citations have links to the full-text of the article."

Criminal Justice
- United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime

Economic Development
- United Nations Development Programme in Brazil
- United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Brazil
- EconLit Citations and selected abstracts to articles from more than 400 economics journals.

Human Rights
- Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2006. Brazil. U.S. Dept. of State.
  In print: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, vol. 2, at 2621-2656.
  D,USG Y4.F76/1-15: 2001
- Brazil - Annual report 2007 - Amnesty International.
- Human Rights Watch: Brazil
- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS)
- UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency: Brazil.
- Human Rights portion of Pritzker Legal Research Center web site

Intellectual Property
- World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Web page
- World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO)

Environment, Land Use/Natural Resources
- ECOLEX. World Conservation Union (IUCN). A database of imformation on environmental law.
- FAOLEX. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A legislative database on food, agriculture, and renewable natural resources.

Recent History/Politics
- International Political Science Abstracts . Citations and abstracts to English and non-English language periodicals throughout the world. Covers political science, public law, international law, and international relations.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts . Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope.
- OxResearch Oxford Analytica, Ltd. Succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance.

Religion
- ATLAS Full-Text Plus Religion Database
- Web of Science Select "Arts and Humanities Citation Index."
Sports Law
- Bibliography on Sports Law. Peace Palace Library. Do search for "Brazil."
- Asser International Sports Law Centre. T.M.C. Asser Institute.

Women's and Children's Issues
- Contemporary Women's Issues Women's studies, including works from sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights.
- Women's Human Rights Resources Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto.

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	U.S. Primary Law U.S. Government Resources (federal, state and local) Illinois and Chicago International Foreign and Comparative Getting Started Finding Articles and Papers Law by Country or Region Law by Subject General Resources by Country or Region Statistical Resources Selected Topics Find Books, Articles, etc. Writing a Paper or Article Research Alerts	International Team Project: Brazil Research Checklist Introduction This is a selective list of resources prepared for students participating in the International Team Project: Brazil course at Northwestern University School of Law in the spring 2008 semester, by Irene Berkey, Foreign and International Law Librarian. This list provides detailed information on resources for the law and legal system. For other areas of country research, links are provided to the relevant section of the law library's web site. Most materials cited are in English. Note that the English language versions of foreign language websites do not always have the same content as the vernacular version. Note: the law library does not collect materials on Latin american countries in vernacular languages. Key to call number locations: I,REF = international reference area, 3rd floor I,PER = international, foreign, and comparative law journals, 3rd floor PER = general law journals, shelving area to south of grand staircase, 2nd floor R,REF = reference room, 2nd floor REF = shelving area under grand staircase, 2nd floor Sp.Br = the old call number for Brazil. Closed stacks, request materials. N,SBR = the new location symbol of Brazil, 3rd floor. Country Information General Resources by Country or Region The resources listed in this section, both print and online, together provide a great deal of information on the history, geography, government, economy, etc., of the countries of the world. See "Resources for more than one country or region." Also, under the heading "Resources by Country or Region," see the sub-topic "Asia." Selected Web Sites for Brazil Official Web site of the República Federativa do Brasil (Federative Republic of Brazil; in Portuguese and English). Brazilian Ministry of Foreign Relations site (Portugese, Spanish and English). InfoBrazil.com English language analysis and opinion. Note: "Before you copy & paste, print, link or distribute…All InfoBrazil articles are the property and sole responsibility of their authors, and may not be reproduced or distributed in any way without prior authorization. If you wish to copy, link to or distribute an InfoBrazil article by any means and for any purpose, you must notify the Editors in advance, detailing you intended use." Toronto-based Brazilianist magazine Latin American Studies Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC). University of Texas at Austin. Dialnet. Documents, articles, dissertations, etc., including many full-text, from academic research centers as well as contemporary scholarly journals published in Spain and Latin America. Law and Legal System of Brazil Doing Legal Research in Brazil, by Edilenice Passos (GlobaLex, 2005). An excellent guide to the legal system and laws of Brazil. The author is a librarian at the Research Service of the Brazilian Senate. Earlier edition available in print: N,SBR KHD 150 .P37 2001. Foreign Law Guide: Current Sources of Codes and Basic Legislation in Jurisdictions of the World , by Thomas H. Reynolds and Arturo A. Flores ("Reynolds and Flores"). The single most important bibliographic resource for foreign law research. Includes introductory materials (in-depth discussion of the legal history and legal publication), major publications, and citations to official sources for laws on specific subjects. It also cites to unofficial sources for detailed discussion and/or English language translations. Brazilian legislation (in unofficial English translation) available at Infolegis. Site maintained by Edilenice Passos. Brazilian legislation (in Portuguese) available from the website of the Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil. Click on "Legislação." Brazilian legislation (in Portuguese, with English language summaries) available from GLIN (Global Legal Information Network) Law Library of Congress. Constitution of Brazil (unofficial English translation). "Brazil Constitution: translated, updated, and commented," from v-brazil.com, via Infolegis. The Constitution of the Federative Republic of Brazil, 1988 (as amended to 2005) (in unofficial English translation, with annotations) is available in Constitutions of the Countries of the World This resource also includes earlier versions of the Constitution, as well as the text of amendments, and editorial material. Also available in print. I,MON K 3157 .A2B58 1971- Constitution of Brazil (in Portuguese) available from the website of the Presidência da República Federativa do Brasil. Click on "Legislação." Guide to Law Online: Brazil Law Library of Congress. Includes links to both legal and non-legal resources. WorldLII - Brazil. World Legal Information Institute. Martindale-Hubbell International Law Digest. The "digest" for each country (usually prepared by a leading law firm in the country) consists of detailed summaries of the law on selected substantive and procedural topics, arranged alphabetically. May cite to primary law. Especially useful for company, corporate, and tax law. Does not include criminal law. Note: Library print copy is 2005; LexisNexis version (INTDIG) is the latest. LexisNexis : Legal Area of Law - By Topic International Law Find Statutes, Regulations, & Administrative Materials Martindale-Hubbell(R) International Law Digest da Silva, Ricardo Barretto Ferreira, ed. Doing Business in Brazil. Chicago, Ill. : ABA, Section of International Law and Practice, 2002. N,SBR KHD 333 .B86D65 2002 Finding Books Finding Books at Northwestern University NUcat Searching Tips: using NUcat to search for books on a topic. The preceding section explains how clicking on the "Library of Congress Subject Headings" in a catalog record can help to focus a search. Subject headings can also be searched directly. From the NUcat "Search" tab, search in "Subject Heading" or "Browse Subject Heading" Some Library of Congress Subject Headings are listed below. (The dashes and parentheses can be omitted.) Brazil -- Politics and government -- 2003- Brazil -- Social conditions -- 1985- Brazil -- Economic policy Finding Books at Other Libraries WorldCat . WorldCat is a catalog with records from thousands of libraries. It can be used to identify materials not held by Northwestern University. Northwestern University students can place interlibrary loan requests either directly through WorldCat or via the interlibrary loan request form found on the library's home page. Finding Articles Journal articles are published in a wide range of subject areas relating to country research, such as history, politics, economics, sociology, gender studies, and religion. In order to identify relevant articles it is best to search the various specialized indexes to which Northwestern University subscribes. The following pages of the library's web site list many such indexes. Once a relevant article is identified, it may be possible to access an electronic version of the text by clicking on the "Find It At NU" buttion," or by doing a journal title search in NUcat for the name of the journal (not the title of the article). When searching an index, an "advanced" search is often easier to use than the basic search. When you find a relevant article, clicking on the "descriptors" or "subject headings" for that record may lead you to other relevant citations. Find Legal Articles (mostly from U.S. and Anglo-American journals, including foreign and international law topics) Finding Articles and Papers on Foreign and Comparative Law (for articles on law of countries other than the U.S. and comparative law methodology, from journals published both in the U.S. and abroad) Finding Articles and Papers on International Law (for public and private international law) Find Non-Law Articles (for subjects in the social sciences, humanities, and sciences) Finding Dissertations ProQuest Dissertations and Theses: Full Text Entries for doctoral dissertations and master's theses, many of which are available for immediate free download. Can search by school, e.g., Northwestern. Finding Statistics Worldwide Statistical Resources News: General, Legal, and Business Note that both Lexis and Westlaw allow you to create and save a search, to be run on a periodic basis, such as daily or weekly. For links to tutorials, see the Research Alerts page of the library's web site. Always check scope notes (click on information icon) for dates of coverage. Not all publications are current. Many organizations make it possible to monitor news by means of an RSS/XML ("Really Simple Syndication") feed. For information of setting up RSS feeds, see the Research Alerts: RSS Feeds section of the library's web site. Lexis . News: Brazil News & Business Country and Region (excluding US) Brazil News Westlaw Business and News: Brazil International/worldwide materials South America Individual Country Materials Brazil Business and News Business and News: Latin America Business and News tab Global News Latin America Bloomberg Latin America business news (in English) International Business Resources See our web site's International Trade, Business, and Economic Law page. ABI/INFORM Business and management index. Citations and abstracts of articles from more than 1,300 journals, including over 350 English-language international sources. Full-text articles from over 600 selected sources.Westlaw : ABI-INFORM (ABI/Inform (R) (DIALOG)) and ABI-INFORM Current (ABI/Inform (R) - Current (DIALOG) Business Source Premier "[P]rovides nearly 3,300 full-text scholarly publications, including more than 1,000 peer-reviewed journals. In addition to the full text, this database provides indexing and abstracts for more than 4,100 journals. This database offers information in nearly every area of business including management, economics, finance, accounting, international business, and more." GlobalEDGE (TM) Resource Desk. Michigan State University. International Organizations Note: Brazil is not necessarily a member of all the organizations listed below. However, these web sites are good sources of information about Brazil. Pan-American Organizations Organization of American States (OAS) Summit of the Americas Free Trade Area of the Americas (FTAA) Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Mercosul/Mercosur economic cooperative among Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay. (This site is in Portuguese and Spanish.) Comisión Económica para America Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL)Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAS) Sistema Económico Latinoamericano (SELA)Latin American Economic System (LAES) Asociación Latinoamericana de Integración (ALADI) Worldwide Organizations Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) International Labour Organization (ILO) United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) United Nations Economic, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Health Organization (WHO) Additional Resources for Special Topics AIDS/HIV/Health CDC Global AIDS Program. Countries. Brazil Electronic resources on "Health" from Northwestern University Library USAID Global Health: HIV/AIDS in Brazil United States Agency for International Development Brazil. Pan American Health Organization. World Health Organization (WHO) - Brazil Art and Culture Web of Science Select "Arts and Humanities Citation Index" Humanities Abstracts "Bibliographic citations from more than 450 periodicals in topics such as archaeology, art, classics, film, folklore, journalism, linguistics, music, the performing arts, philosophy, religion, world history, and world literature. Records added since 1994 have abstracts, and many citations have links to the full-text of the article." Criminal Justice United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Economic Development United Nations Development Programme in Brazil United States Agency for International Development (USAID) - Brazil EconLit Citations and selected abstracts to articles from more than 400 economics journals. Human Rights Country Report on Human Rights Practices - 2006. Brazil. U.S. Dept. of State. In print: Country Reports on Human Rights Practices, vol. 2, at 2621-2656. D,USG Y4.F76/1-15: 2001 Brazil - Annual report 2007 - Amnesty International. Human Rights Watch: Brazil Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (OAS) UNHCR: The UN Refugee Agency: Brazil. Human Rights portion of Pritzker Legal Research Center web site Intellectual Property World Trade Organization Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Web page World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Environment, Land Use/Natural Resources ECOLEX. World Conservation Union (IUCN). A database of imformation on environmental law. FAOLEX. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. A legislative database on food, agriculture, and renewable natural resources. Recent History/Politics International Political Science Abstracts . Citations and abstracts to English and non-English language periodicals throughout the world. Covers political science, public law, international law, and international relations. Worldwide Political Science Abstracts . Citations with abstracts from more than 1100 journals in political science and related disciplines. Coverage is international in scope. OxResearch Oxford Analytica, Ltd. Succinct analytical articles covering world and regional economic and political developments of major significance. Religion ATLAS Full-Text Plus Religion Database Web of Science Select "Arts and Humanities Citation Index." Sports Law Bibliography on Sports Law. Peace Palace Library. Do search for "Brazil." Asser International Sports Law Centre. T.M.C. Asser Institute. Women's and Children's Issues Contemporary Women's Issues Women's studies, including works from sociology, psychology, health, education, and human rights. Women's Human Rights Resources Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto.