American Civil Liberties Union
http://www.aclu.org/
Home page for the ACLU takes you to the latest happenings from Congress and what's
happening in the nation's courts. (Menu of issues on the right is helpful.)
You can also join the ACLU, browse its cyberstore, and read about current
events. Other links take you to highlights of cases in which the ACLU is
involved. |
American Law Sources Online
http://www.lawsource.com/also/
Welcome to LawSource.com . . . the home of American Law Sources On-line (ALSO!),
providing a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely
accessible on-line sources of law for the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers). |
Bankruptcy - Resource Center
http://www.nolo.com/resource.cfm/catID/462A9501-9B21-4E09-A08C5A7B8AF51A79/213/161/
Provides an overview of U.S. bankruptcy laws and procedures and explains the differences between Chapter 7 (liquidation) and Chapter 11, 12, and 13 (reorganization) bankruptcy filings. Features a FAQ, glossary, comparison charts, and related resources. Also includes updates on bankruptcy legislation. From Nolo, a California publisher of legal self-help books. |
Center for Jury Studies
http://www.ncsconline.org/Juries/home.htm
"Helping Courts Anticipate Change and Better Serve the Public" --Most Americans are likely to experience the American jury justice system as a juror than as any other type of participant in the legal system. The Center for Jury Studies is dedicated to facilitating the ability of these citizens to fulfill their role within the justice system and enhancing their confidence and satisfaction with jury service by helping judges and court staff improve jury management. |
Cornell University Law School - Customized Google Search
http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/
Find legal research guides with this customized Google search engine from Cornell Law School. |
Curiae Project - US Supreme Court Records and Briefs
http://curiae.law.yale.edu/
"The Curiae Project provides Supreme Court records and briefs and other relevant materials free of charge on the Internet. Cases are selected for addition to the site based on a ranking developed from citation data in historical and constitutional texts." Searchable, or browsable by most commonly cited cases or most frequently viewed cases. Includes cases through the late 1990s. From the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School. |
Finding Sources -- Law
http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/p03_c06_s09.html
From Bedford/St. Martin's Press and Diana Hacker (editor of A Writer's Reference) comes this web guide to finding sources in the social sciences. Starting with Databases and Indexes, it also offers Web Resources and Reference Books. A guide to documenting sources is included. Overall a balanced approach to finding all types of sources in academic subject areas. |
FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/
FindLaw is an excellent specialized directory and its law crawler lets you search
and maneuver around this top legal site's database. It offers law-oriented
web pages, a terrific free database of full-text U.S. Supreme Court cases,
a directory of online law reviews, a collection of state codes, and continuing
discussions about education as well as law. The law crawler is owned by Thomson,
owners of Dialog and several other excellent business tools. It offers advanced
search functions [and a separate audience focus for the public and for professionals].
The longer this site is around, the better it gets. Definitely the place to start
for U.S. legal information. --Schlein |
FOIAdvocates - Freedom of Information: Requests-Appeals-Litigation
http://www.foiadvocates.com/
FOIAdvocates is a project of attorneys David Bahr & Daniel Stotter designed to assist the public in gaining access to records from federal, state and local governments using the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) as well as state and local public records laws. FOIAdvocates can assist you in making requests to obtain government records and provide legal assistance in pursuing administrative appeals and related litigation. The attorneys at FOIAdvocates have considerable experience in successfully prosecuting FOIA and state public record lawsuits in trial and appellate courts -- experience dedicated to fostering citizen oversight of governmental activities and operations. |
Foreign Governments - Constitutions, Laws and Treaties
http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/forcons.html
Part of the University of Michigan Documents Center, this directory focuses on the laws, treaties, and constitutions of foreign countries; also good starting place for international law questions. |
GigaLaw Daily News
http://www.gigalaw.com/
Founded in January 2000, GigaLaw.com provides legal information for Internet and technology professionals, Internet entrepreneurs and the lawyers who serve them. GigaLaw.com was founded by Doug Isenberg, an attorney, who serves as the website's editor and publisher. A former news reporter and magazine editor, he practices intellectual property and Internet law at Needle & Rosenberg, P.C., in Atlanta, and is an adjunct professor at Georgia State University College of Law. |
Global Legal Information Network
http://www.glin.gov/
The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations. These GLIN members contribute the official full texts of published documents to the database in their original language. Each document is accompanied by a summary in English and subject terms selected from the multilingual index to GLIN. (Sponsored by Law Library of Congress) |
Hieros Gamos - Law and Legal Research Center
http://www.hg.org/index.html
Comprehensive resource for legal professionals, law students, and persons seeking law-related information. Links include bar associations, legal associations, law schools, publishers, law firms, law sites, government sites, vendors, and online services. Site available in English, Spanish, German, French, and Italian. More resources than can be listed. |
Indiana Legal Services and Indiana Justice Center
http://www.indianajustice.org/Home/PublicWeb
"Indiana
Justice Center (IJC), was established in 1999 to develop a state justice
community in Indiana. In a state justice community, institutions and individuals
involved in the judicial system and client community work together to ensure
that all low-income people have access to justice." Two major parts of the site are: Legal Information, and Find Legal Help. |
Indiana Supreme Court: Self-Service Legal Center
http://www.in.gov/judiciary/selfservice/
"To ensure access to the judicial system by providing basic resources to self-represented individuals by establishing the usage of self-help court forms and encouraging local courts to develop their own pro se assistance programs." Site offers information links, court forms, legal assistance, ADR/Mediation, Court information, and FAQ |
(The) Justice System TV: Celebrity Trials, Criminal
Justice News
http://www.thejusticesystem.net/
This site provides links to news and current video clips about celebrity trials (such as those involving Michael Jackson, Robert Blake, and Martha Stewart). Also includes a blog and links to information about legal research. From a law school graduate and broadcast journalist. |
Juvenile Justice Committee
http://www.abanet.org/dch/committee.cfm?com=CR200000
This American Bar Association (ABA) committee "is an active voice in promoting changes in the juvenile justice system." The site includes information on the application of the death penalty to juveniles, as well as links to related news and organizations. |
Landmark Supreme Court Cases
http://www.landmarkcases.org/
There is always a great demand for educational materials regarding the most important US Supreme Court Cases and this website is an outgrowth of that sustained interest. Developed by Street Law and the Supreme Court Historical Society, this website was developed in order to provide teachers with a full range of resources and activities regarding such cases. The general teaching strategies offered here include political cartoon analysis, moot court, continuum exercises, and website evaluation. Some of the cases covered here include Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, and Miranda v. Arizona. The site also offers some detailed explanations of important related concepts, such as federalism, national supremacy, and judicial review. Additional, the site provides background summaries of each case and pertinent discussion questions for a variety of reading levels and abilities. |
Lawguru.com
http://www.lawguru.com/
Search the world's largest free database of legal questions and answers. Find answers to over 100,000 previously asked legal questions or ask your own free questions from our network of over 3,500 law firms in more than 35 countries. Attorneys can join the attorney network for free. Impressive array of tools, forms and forums, legal research library and legal dictionary. Question and Answer index on the left allows browsing by law type (Family law, Criminal law, etc.). Attorneys can join for free; site offers for-a-fee-access to over 535 legal search engines, and a multiple search tool. |
Law Library of Congress
http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html
Internet home of the world's largest law library, with a collection of more than two million volumes spanning the ages and covering virtually every jurisdiction in the world. Site offers Resarch Services, Digital Resources & Links, and various features. |
Lawyers.com - Find a Lawyer, Attorney, or Law Firm
http://www.lawyers.com/
Sponsored by LexisNexis, this is an excellent site for tracking down lawyers
near you who specialize in various aspects of the law, such as disability,
divorce, bankruptcy, and so on. Lawyers.com also provides information on
how to select and work effectively with a lawyer who's right for you, and
how
to better understand whatever law issue you are currently facing (basic information
on an assortment of legal topics). |
Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu/
From the Cornell University Law School -- The LII is known internationally as a leading "law-not-com" provider of public legal information. We offer all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. We also publish important secondary sources: libraries in two important areas (legal ethics and social security) and a series of "topical" pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law. |
LLRX: Court Rules, Forms & Dockets
http://www.llrx.com/courtrules/
This site includes links to over 1,400 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword. |
LLRX: Law and Technology Resources for Legal Professionals
http://www.llrx.com/index.htm
Legal and Technology Articles and Resources for Librarians, Lawyers and Law Firms from LLRX -- LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal, library, IT/IS, marketing and administrative professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools, since 1996. |
LLRX: Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
http://www.llrx.com/features/supremectwebguide.htm
The Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research is intended to facilitate the convenience and speed that we expect when turning to the Internet for our research needs. Often, we are unimpressed by the performance of search engines primarily because of problems with the quantity or relevancy of the results. This Web Guide attempts to overcome the shortcomings of general web searching by providing a selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research. The sites mentioned here focus predominantly on information that is freely, or inexpensively, available on the Internet. --by Gail Partin |
Media Law Resource Center
http://www.medialaw.org/
The MLRC - (formerly the Libel Defense Resource Center) is a non-profit information clearinghouse originally organized by a number of media organizations to monitor developments and promote First Amendment rights in the libel, privacy and related legal fields. |
National Crime Prevention Council
http://www.ncpc.org/
Most famous for its McGruff, the crime dog, campaign to prevent crime, the NCPC provides information about its programs and upcoming public service announcements. It has a section for kids, as well as training tools and program ideas to help keep you and your family safe. |
Nolo Press
http://www.nolo.com/
Publishing legal information in plain English for more than 30 years, Nolo Press has empowered average citizens to understand and fight for their rights. Here, you'll find Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia, a law FAQ, financial calculators, resources for various types of cases and legal issues, and a wide selection of Nolo Press books, which you can purchase online. Because this site provides legal information for average people in an easily accessible format, it is a hands-down winner as the best legal site on the Web. --Kraynak, Best of the Internet |
Online NewsHour -- The Blackmun Papers
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/law/supreme_court/blackmun/
The late Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun's papers are now available to the public in the Library of Congress, including a videotaped oral history of his reflections on the court, major rulings and colleagues. The interviews and papers offer a rare glimpse into the inner workings of the nation's top court. -- Feature on the Online NewsHour with Jim Lehrer (PBS) |
Research Starting Point
http://www.nesserconsulting.com/research.html
Nesser Consulting Groups original goal: "One of the most useful things that the internet provides is nearly immediate access to almost unlimited information and literally millions of statistics. As financial and litigation consultants, we often find ourselves researching various companies, industries, government statistics, financial trends, stock market information, etc." "On February 29, 2000 we unveiled the newest itteration of the Research Starting Point ... we have rethought and reclassified many of the sites within the Research Starting Point into what we believe is a more "user-friendly" and intuitive structure. Navigation bars were added to the top of each page to help you move throughout the Research Starting Point more easily. And, we have added "Diamond" () Sites to distinguish those sites which we feel offer the greatest utility. With that said, please enjoy your stay. We hope you find our Research Starting Point to be a useful tool in your navigation and use of the internet. Hopefully, this site will provide a structured means of accessing the information you are seeking." |
Social Law Library Research Portal - State Resources
http://www.socialaw.com/otherlaw/statelnks.html
Social Law Library Research Portal features State Law -- links to state government web sites (organized by state). Index to Practice Areas on right. |
Social Sciences: Law -- from Intute
http://www.intute.ac.uk/socialsciences/law/
Intute: Law (UK-based) provides guidance and access to global legal information resources on the Internet. The service aims to identify and evaluate legal resource sites offering primary and secondary materials and other items of legal interest. Descriptive records and links are created for legal service sites and specific documents. |
University Law Review Project
http://www.lawreview.org/
Offers information on law journals, some in full text, and lots of legal-related documents. It is a nice companion site for FindLaw. | |