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Legal Resources
- A Century
of Lawmaking for a New Nation - Library of Congress
- Abridged
History of the United States - A legal history of the United States, written by San
Francisco lawyer William Brinton.
- All Law - comprehensive legal
directory and search engine.
- American Academy of Matrimonial
Lawyers
- American Bar Association
- American Civil Liberties Union
Freedom Network
- American Law Sources On
Line - full-text legal documents from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. U.S. contents
include: Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District and Circuit Courts, State
Court of Appeals, State Constitutions, Codes, and Legislation and more.
- American Patent &
Trademark Law Center - information about patents and trademarks, a warning about
inventor scams, a fee trademark online search, and a "ask a patent attorney a
question" form that allows visitors to ask a patent or trademark question and get a
free answer from a patent attorney.
- Anatomy of a Murder: A
Trip Through Our Nation's Legal Justice System - site includes summaries of about
thirty landmark Supreme Court cases dealing with subjects such as: search and seizure;
right to an attorney; self-incrimination; and the death penalty. A glossary of legal terms
and a section on controversial issues are also presented.
- Appellate Counsellor
Home Page
- Attorney Finder
- The Bankruptcy Lawfinder
- Basic
Legal Citations - Guide to the general rules of citation, with examples of how to cite
cases, statutes, and regulations.
- Bazelon Center for Mental Health
Law - Web site of nonprofit organization devoted to advocacy for the legal rights of
those with mental disabilities.
- BigEar:
Current Legal Resources on the Net - search the content of many legal web pages.
- Bitlaw: a Resource on Technology
Law - site contains over 1,800 pages on patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet
legal issues. The major topics covered include Patent Law, Software Patents, Trademark
Law, Internet Law, Legal Links, Copyright Law, Primary Sources, and Forms and Contracts.
- Bonfire of
Liberties
- Books on
Law
- Browse the Federal
Tax Code
- Bureau of Justice
Statistics - Statistics on crime, drugs, law enforcement, corrections, courts and
more. Includes the 1995 National Crime VictimizationSurvey.
- Business & The Law
- Cal Law
- CataLaw - metaindex of law
and government.
- Center for Law and Social
Policy (CLASP) - education, policy research and advocacy organization seeking to
improve the economic conditions of low income families and secure access for the poor to
our civil justice system.
- classactionlitigation.info
- understanding class action litigation. It is also intended to provide a useful source of
information on law and class actions. The user should find links to numerous sources of
information helpful in locating information related to many legal issues and facts.
- Class
Action Lawsuits - legal facts, current actions, and "how to" opinions.
- Class
Action Lawsuits - Yahoo!
- The Code
of Federal Regulations
- CommonLaw.com - for all
who enjoy legal history and theory.
- Constitutional
Law Materials - Outline of the main provisions of the U.S. Constitution,
with links to relevant sections, posted by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell
University Law School. Includes background material such as the Articles of Confederation
and The Federalist papers as well as a comprehensive database of Supreme Court decision,
with case summaries and texts of majority and dissenting opinions.
- Constitution of
the United States
- Constitution of
the United States
- Consumer Law Center -
FactLaw - site includes information on filing complaints, a link to the Consumer's
Resource Handbook, and tips on hiring a lawyer. You can also find federal, state, and
international resources through the site. Practical tips include how to write a letter
explaining your complaint and how to notify the appropriate government agencies of your
unresolved complaints.
- Copyright Clearance Center
- Copyright Website, The -
"This site endeavors to provide real world, practical and relevant copyright
information of interest to infonauts, netsurfers, webspinners, content providers,
musicians, appropriationists, activists, infringers, outlaws, and law abiding
citizens."
- Cornell
Law Review
- Courts.net - The purpose of
Courts.net is to provide a single site from which to find any trial-level courts Web site
and to help trial courts set up Web sites.
- Court TV Law Center
- Crash Course in
Copyright - online tutorial on copyright.
- Crash Course in Wills &
Trusts - the information you need to plan an estate of any size.
- Criminal
Justice Sites
- Criminal Law Links
- Cyber Law Centre -
This site is dedicated to Intellectual Property issues in and around the Internet.
- Database
on Law and Population - This database contains summaries and excerpts of legislation,
constitutions, court decisions, and other official government documents from every country
in the world relating to population policies, reproductive health, women's rights, and
related topics. It is produced jointly by Harvard Law School and the United Nations
Population Fund.
- DIANA - An
International Human Rights Database
- Divorce Online
- Divorce Support Page, The
- Duhaime's Law
Dictionary
- Earthlaw - uses the law to
defend the West's forests, air, water, and biodiversity.
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, The
- Employment
Discrimination: An Overview - site has a comprehensive overview of employment
discrimination laws, as well as links to federal and state statutes, federal agency
regulations, federal and state judicial decisions, and other employment law topics. Part
of the Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
- Family
Law in the Fifty States - tables providing a quick view of various aspects of family
law for the fifty states in the areas of alimony/spousal support factors, custody
criteria, child support guidelines, grounds for divorce and residency requirements,
property division, and third-party visitation.
- Famous American Trials
- This site details twelve famous American trials: Leopold & Loeb (1924),
Scopes "Monkey" Trial (1925), Rosenbergs (1951), Amistad Trials (1839-1840),
Bill Haywood Trial (1907), Salem Witchcraft Trials (1692), My Lai Courts Martial (1970),
Scottsboro Trials (1931-1937), Dakota Conflict Trials (1862), Mississippi Burning Trial
(1967), Chicago Seven Conspiracy Trial (1969-70), and Johnson Impeachment Trial (1868).
- Federal Bureau of
Investigation - Profiles and photographs of the bureau's most wanted
criminals, overview of principal programs, including the Violent Criminal Apprehension
Program and the National Computer Crime Squad, summaries of major ongoing investigations,
and employment listings.
- Federal
Communications Law Journal
- Federal
Rules of Evidence
- FedLaw
- Federal
Register
- FedWorld/FLITE
Supreme Court Decisions Hompage - full text of 7,407 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from
1937 to 1975
- FindForms - database of
thousands of free legal forms.
- FindLaw
- First Amendment Cyber-Tribune
(FACT)
- FreeAdvice.com - Provides
the most useful, easy-to-understand, comprehensive and balanced legal information to
consumers and small businesses, and to help people and businesses find answers to their
legal questions and solutions to their legal problems.
- Fugitive Watch
- Full-text
Statutes and Legislation on the Internet - complete text of any particular U.S.
state's statutes, legislation, constitution or session laws
- Global Legal
Studies Journal
- Gordon & Glickson P.C.
- Guide to Law
Online - annotated guide to online sources of information worldwide on government and
law
- Hieros Gamos - A Comprehensive Site
to the Legal Profession
- Historical
Documents - The Avalon Project at Yale Law School
- ICLU: Your
Rights in Cyberspace
- Inmigration
Law on the Web - annotated webliography on immigration law
- Incoming One-L FAQ -
First year law students
- Index
of Law-Related E-Journals and Periodicals - USC Law Center
- Indiana University
School of Law
- Institute
for First Amendment Studies - Nonprofit educational and research organization that
monitors the activities of the religious right in the U.S. and advocates for First
Amendment freedoms
- Internet Law
Library - site containing 8900 Internet Law resources organized by subject and
jurisdiction, in addition to the basic documents of U.S. law. The site also currently
provides full text searchable copies of the U.S. Code and the Code of Federal Regulations.
- Internet Law
Library - Pritchard Law Webs
- Internet Law Symposium 96
- Internet Legal Resource Guide
- Internet Library of Law
and Court Decisions - is one of the web's foremost case digests, providing in-depth
analysis of over 480 court decisions affecting those who do business on the Internet.
Court decisions are organized by subject matter. The user is provided with a brief
synopsis of the court's decision. If the decision is of interest, a link takes the user to
a more thorough analysis. Pdfs of, or links to, most of the court decisions analyzed are
provided as well. A free electronic newsletter, Internet Law Update, is available to
provide users with the latest cases added to the Library. A full text search engine is
also available to assist in utilizing the Library's resources.
- Internet Tools for Attorneys
- contains sections on legal research, web site design, downloading, Net discussion
groups for attorneys reviews of law-related Internet products and more.
- Interpol - International
Criminal Police Organization
- Ipso Facto
- links to legal history and legal aids, information on each branch of the government and
more.
- Jurist: The Law Professors'
Network
- Justice on Campus Project.
- JusticeNet Prison Issues
Desk - source for progressive and radical information and resources on prisons and the
criminal prosecution system.
- Kappler's
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties - full text of over 300 U.S. Government treaties
with Native Americans from 1778-1883.
- Katsuey Legal Links
- LLI: American Legal
Ethics Library - Legal Information Institute Cornell University
- LLRX - Law Library Resource
Xchange newsletter focuses on research, management and technology topics for legal
professionals. Includes feature articles and directory of law related resources.
- LSAT - the official LSAT Web
Site
- Law - WWW Virtual
Library
- Law.com - "The Internet's
portal to the law. Site features extensive legal information for the public, for lawyers,
and for students."
- Laws.com - A compendium of legal
resources available on the Web
- LawChannel- dedicated to
broadcasting information for lawyers and other interested persons
- Law Crawler - LawCrawler
caters specifically to legal searches by using the Alta Vista search engine to sort
law-related web pages. It allows searches by Federal, State, foreign jurisdiction or by
federal agency. It contains the U.S. Code, the Code of Federal Regulations, Supreme Court
decisions, Circuit Court cases and listings of legal groups and associations.
- Law Guru - Law Guru provides
links to access over 200 legal search engines. The site begins with a comprehensive table
of pages and provides law-related links to all three branches of the U.S. government,
federal and state court cases and opinions, federal and state codes and laws/legal
associations and state bars.
- LawInfo
- LawLinks
- Law Engine, The
- Law Fun!
- Law and Politics
Internet Guide
- Law In
Popular Culture Collection
- LawInfo.com
- Law Practice Technology
Center, The - A group of law and technology experts have come together on a
collaborative project to create a site on law and technology in general and legal
Intranets and Extranets in particular.
- Law Resources
- Digital Librarian
- LawRights - free legal
information for England and Wales.
- LawRunner
- Law Self Help - Legal
Information Institute Cornell Law School.
- Law Street - guide to the
law, with legal info, news for consumers, a guide to the laws of U.S. states, humor, and
more.
- Lawstuff - a whole bunch
of stuff about legal rights, helpful legal contacts and toons; for Australian people under
18.
- LawTalk
- From Indiana University - LawTalk is a service provided by Indiana University. Each
segment deals with some aspect of Law or Legal Studies and is authored by a faculty member
from either the IU School of Law in Bloomington or the IU School of Law in Indianapolis.
- LawWorld
- Lawyers.com - "Accurate
and reliable profiles of 420,000 attorneys and firms worldwide. Listings are continuously
updated and scrupulously reviewed by the entrant before release."
- 'Lectric Law Library,
The - reference room with law encyclopedia and law dictionary
- Legal
Encyclopedia - Plain-English articles on a variety of legal topics from Nolo.com.
- Legal Engine - This
metasite is a useful starting-point for any search for online legal information, pulling
together a wide array of international, federal, state, and organizational resources.
- Legal Links - online
legal research page
- Legal
Material by Subject -Topics - Cornell Law School
- Legaldocs - legal documents,
contracts and law documents. Interactive preparation on the Internet.
- Legalethics.com - The
most comprehensive set of links and resources relating to the ethical issues facing the
legal profession by Internet use.
- LegalMinds - FindLaw
- Legal.Net
- Legal Pad Junior - legal
advice for kids.
- Legal Research - : LRC
has three levels of service. First, is this Demonstration page of 20,000 legal resources,
which is a free public service. Second, is a free test trial account for legal
professionals with some 30,000 legal resources links. Third, is our commercial version
20.0 which contains over 200,000 legal resource links worldwide. We know of no other Law
site on the Internet, which is even half as comprehensive!
- Legal Study
Program - University of Alberta - Legal Information and Resources for Canadians
- Lemon Law America -
Site is resource for consumers with defective vehicles or products. A visit to this site
familiarizes you with the lemon statutes in your state and offers tips on how to proceed
if you think you've got a "lemon".
- Lexis-Nexis
Communication Center
- LexisONE -
Designed by Lexis for solo and small-office legal practitioners , this site has lots of
free information of use to anyone who registers.
- Lockerbie Trial
Briefing - site provides a background and a timeline and coverage of the trial being
held in the Netherlands of two Libyans accused of the 1988 crash of Pan Am's flight 103.
It provides information about the legal charges and includes the petition and much more.
- Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator
- Meta-Index for Legal
Research
- MyCounsel.com - free legal
information for consumers and small businesses.
- National Criminal Justice
Commission - Independent and critical assessment of the American criminal justice
system
- The National
Consumer Law Center - a nonprofit corporation founded over 25 years ago at Boston
College School of Law. Includes info on such things as credit reports, telemarketing scams
and avoiding second-mortgage frauds
- National Federation of
Paralegals Associations
- National Law Journal, The
- National Network of Estate
Planning Attorneys
- Native American Legal
Resources - links to various American Indian cultural, historical, and legal
resources, especially Tribal and Nation Web sites and the Native American Constitution and
Law Digitization Project.
- Net Law News
- Nolo Press' Self-Help Law Center
- online legal assistance for the little guy.
- Oran's
Dictionary of the Law - From the West Group, Oran's Legal Dictionary defines and
illustrates more than 6,000 technical terms and hundreds of Latin, Old French and Old
English words used in legal and business documents.
- Oyez Oyez Oyez - provides
information about major constitutional cases heard and decided by the Supreme Court;
includes digital recordings of the Court's proceedings.
- PACER U.S. Party/Case
Index - National or regional searches of court records by name and Social Security
Number in the bankruptcy index, party name and nature of suit in the civil index, and
party name in the criminal index.
- Personal Injury
Litigation Forum, The - "Plain language explanatory articles written for lay
people on all fields and topics in personal injury litigation, including asbestosis,
medical malpractice, birth injuries, cerebral palsy, fen-phen, breast implants, whistle
blowers, workers' compensation, Social Security Disability, Automobile Accidents,
Defective Products and Toxic Torts."
- Personal Law
Forum - comprehensive listings of Legal Links
- Police Officer's Internet
Directory, The - Comprehensive directory of law enforcement Web sites throughout the
world. Covers U.S. federal, military, and state law enforcement agencies, as well as those
in other countries worldwide.
- Prison Legal News
- Public
International Law
- Public Utility Home
Page
- Richmond Journal of Law
& Technology
- Rules of Order - A
primer on parliamentary procedure
- The Securities Law Home Page
- Self Help Law Center -
free online child support calculator. legal references for self help in many areas of law.
- Shark Talk:
Everybody's Law Dictionary
- SeniorLaw -
information about Elder Law (Elderlaw), Medicare, Medicaid, estate planning, trusts and
the rights of the elderly and disabled.
- SmartDivorce
- Stanford Journal of
International Law
- Stupid Laws- huge
collection of the most senseless laws in the entire United States.
- Supreme Court Of the
United States Home Page
- Supreme Court
Guide - emphasis on the current Supreme Court, the important cases of the current
term, and links to past New York Times articles with biographical information on the
current justices. Also provided is the docket for the current term, landmark cases, and a
discussion forum.
- Supreme Court
Rulings
- Tarlton Law Library
- Teen Court TV
- Texas Legal
Research Index
- Trademark
Law Materials
- Trusts and Estates
- United Nations Crime and Justice
Information Network
- United States Code -
Entire Text
- United States Federal
Courts Finder
- United States Founding
Documents - U.S, Constitution, Declaration. of Indep.
- United States Sentencing Commission
- United States
Supreme Court Decisions
- United
States Supreme "Court Decisions - FindLaw
- University of
Denver Westminster Law Library
- USC Law School and Law
Library
- USALAW - " USALAW has
been providing legal information to the Internet community for almost three years."
- USLaw.com - "Everything Legal
Made Easy."
- Virtual Chase, The - a
research site for legal professionals or anyone interested in doing research using the
Internet
- WWLIA Legal Dictionary
- WWW Virtual Library -
Law, The
- WashLaw Web
- Webgator - investigative
resource on the Web
- West's Legal Directory
- Why Have a
Will?
- WORLDLawDirect.com -
"We solve legal issues...you'll find the latest tips, solutions to over 6000 common
problems, free ask-an-attorney options, customized services, and much more."
- World Legal
History - Timetable provides summary of important events in legal history. From
Urukagina's Code, to the GATT Agreements.
- World Wide Legal Information
Association - legal information by country. Includes the Law Museum, a history of the
law, and the Law Hall of Horrors. From Hammurabi to O.J.
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