SEC Historical: Virtual Museum and Archive

SEC Historical: The Virtual Museum and Archive of the History of Financial Regulation is maintained by the SEC Historical Society, an independent nonprofit organization. This is a goldmine of documents and media related to the history of financial regulation in the United States. An ever-growing virtual repository, it provides access to original materials not available elsewhere online, including hard-to-find papers and speeches, oral histories, famous case and legislative history documents, and radio and TV interviews. The "galleries," topical collections of documents drawn from the entire museum, focus on subjects such as insider trading and the SEC and the courts.  A financial regulation timeline highlights significant developments in financial regulation from the 1930s through 2013.

SEC Historical is a great resource for background and primary source material for legal research papers. It's also just fun to search and explore.  

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Keeping Track of Financial Reform

Both BNA and CCH have excellent free websites to help you keep track of financial reform.

The CCH Financial Reform News Center

and the BNA Financial Reform Center

Of course, there is also content on this topic in the BNA and CCH subscription databases (provided to the Hofstra Law community by this library).

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Pew Financial Reform Project

For a wealth of material on the recent financial crisis, explore the free web site of the Pew Economic Policy Group's Financial Reform Project. The Financial Reform Project (FRP), "formed in response to the ongoing financial crisis, brings a nonpartisan, fact-based approach to reforming and modernizing the financial sector." Tabs at the top of the site quickly access links to Project reports, public opinion surveys, Congressional hearings, related news articles, and conferences, papers and reports from outside sources. For banking and financial services, financial reform, and consumer law research, check out this valuable resource.
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Dodd-Frank Legislative History Webpage

Two years ago we mentioned that the Legislative Sourcebook on the website of the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. is a great source of compiled legislative histories (where someone has already compiled the legislative history documents, or at least a list of them, so that you don't have to). As part of the Sourcebook, the recently added an easy-to-use webpage for the legislative history of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Financial Protection Act, with links to all of the relevant documents.


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