The Legal Information System offers updated and interlinked legal resources with commentary from experts in the field.
The Automated Legal Information System (ASPI) is available in the Reference Centre and the Periodicals Study Room. The database offers a bibliography of books and articles on law, tax, accounting, and employment law and an index including annotations of publishers and journals. It also contains literature with interpretations, commentaries, explanatory reports on legal regulations, opinions, and interpretations of central authorities. Data is updated once a week.
The database can also be searched for:
- Regulations: regulations of the Czech and Slovak Collection of Laws, the Collection of International Treaties, the Collection of Laws and Regulations of the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic, in full text from 1918 onwards; regulations issued by self-governing units - regions, regulations of ministries and central authorities, rulings of the Constitutional Court published in the Collection of Laws; regulations issued before 1918 (including laws of the former Austro-Hungarian Empire).
- Case Law: decisions of national courts, a selection of decisions of the European Court of Justice and the European Court of Human Rights, decisions of other authorities, official collections of decisions of the Czech Constitutional Court, the Czech Supreme Court and the Czech Supreme Administrative Court, historical case law from the collections of Vážný and Bohuslav.
- Also included are EU legislation and ECJ case law, Czech municipal regulations, registers, and the ASPI calculator for easy calculation of interest, fees, charges, rates, and costs.