Law and Legal Resources
Links to laws and legal information including Federal law, court opinions, treaties, legal dictionaries and journals, and copyright information.- Comprehensive Legal Research
- Copyright Law
- Federal Court Opinions
- Federal Law
- Legal Dictionaries & Encyclopedias; Basic Citation
- Law Reviews & Journals
- Treaties
- Regulations
- Also see: Congress Links to Information about Congress
Comprehensive Legal Research
- Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
(University of Oklahoma Law Center) - Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Stephen Young, reference librarian at the Catholic University of America's Law Library prepared this fine guide to the Congressional Research services, its products, and information on how to access these important research reports. - Court Rules, Forms, and Dockets
This useful metapage links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms, and dockets. Researchers may search by court type, type of resource, jurisdiction, state, or keyword. - Documents for American History
(Professor Robert Palmer, University of Houston)
This collection of primary documents includes texts of major 19th century Supreme Court cases, various state constitutions, and the debates on the ratification of the U.S. Constitution. - Fedlaw
(General Services Administration, GSA) - FindLaw
"One of the most comprehensive law resources on the Internet" (Scout Report) - Foreign and International Law Resources on the Internet
Created by Charlotte Bynum of the Cornell University Law Library, this site contains annotated pointers in four major topical areas: foreign law, international law, U.S. government sources, and topical resources. - Guide to Law Online
(Library of Congress Law Library, Global Legal Information Network) - H-Law
Primarily designed for teachers and scholars with interests in constitutional and legal history, this site links to the H-Law discussion list as well as appropriate links to other legal history sites. - Jurist: The Law Professors' Network
(Directed by Professor Bernard Hibbits)
With links to the home pages of and sites maintained by over fifty law professors, this site is essentially an annotated tour through the law resources of the Internet conducted by professors of law. - LawGuru.com
Links to legal research and resources, and answers to legal questions. - Law-Related Resources on Nazi Gold and other Holocaust Assets
(University of Chicago Law School) - Law Resources
(Digital Librarian) - LLRX: Law Library Resource Xchange
(Legal research resources) - Legal Engine
This Scout Report-selected site 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 History Quotes
This site provides quotations from various legal historians and translations of legal documents. - Legal Information Institute
(Cornell Law School) - Legal Research on International Issues Using the Internet
(By Lyonette Louis-Jacques, University of Chicago Law School) - Legal Search Engines
(Search forms) - Legal Technology Resources
(Collection of Internet Resources) - Legislative Source Book
Important sources for legislative research are included in this compilation by members of the Law Librarian's Society of Washington D.C.
- Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
(Georgia State University College of Law) - Native American Legal Resources
(University of Oklahoma College of Law)
Highlights of these resources include the American Indian Law Review and the Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project. - Slaves and the Courts 1740-1860
This Library of Congress site contains over 100 pamphlets and books concerning legal issues relating to African-American slaves.
- Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
(State University of New York at Albany and U.S. Bureau of Justice Statistics) - The Virtual Chase: Annotated Guide to Resources for Legal Professionals
- Virtual Law Library
(Sponsored by University of Indiana and the WWW Virtual Library) - World Legal History
(Sponsored by the World Wide Legal Information Association)
- Bitlaw
A comprehensive resource on technology law, with over 1800 pages dealing with patent, copyright, trademark, and Internet legal issues. - CONFU: The Conference on Fair Use
(Convened by the Working Group on Intellectual Property Rights in connection with the National Information Infrastructure Initiative)
Links back to the Copyright Management Center, Office of General Counsel, University of Texas System. - Copyright & Fair Use
(Created by Stanford University Libraries) - Copyright Information Page
(The University of Michigan)
Includes very useful chart: When Works Pass into the Public Domain by Laura N. Gasaway. - Copyright Law in the United States
(BitLaw: A Resource on Technology Law)
Includes information on database protection under Copyright Law. - Copyright Law in the Electronic Environment
(By Georgia Harper, Ofiice of General Counsel, University of Texas System) - Copyright on the Internet
(By Thomas G. Field, Jr., Franklin Pierce Law Center) - Copyright Resources Online
(Maintained by Yale University) - The Great Internet Panic: How Digitization is Deforming Copyright Law
(By Anne K. Fujita.)
Published in Fall 1996 Journal of Technology Law & Policy, University of Florida College of Law. - The Intellectual Property Law Server
Provides information about intellectual property law including patent, trademark, and copyright. Resources include comprehensive links, general information, space for professionals to publish articles, and forums for discussing related issues. - United States Copyright Office
(Library of Congress)
General information, application forms, legislative activity, a copy of copyright law, and U.S. Copyright Office records dating from 1978 to present are available at this site.
- Federal Court Records on the Web
Mary Lynn Wagner is the author of this LLRX website which is a collection of information on web based court documents and dockets. - The Federal Judiciary Homepage
(Administrative Offices of the U.S. Courts)
The purpose of this site is to function as a clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch of the U.S. Government. - FLITE: Federal Legal Information Through Electronics
(Fedworld)
Over 7000 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from Volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports. - Georgetown University Law Library
Link to Federal Circuit Court Decisions (covers federal circuit courts at various websites) and the District of Columbia Court of Appeals Opinions from 1995 to the present. - Legal Information Institute
(Cornell Law School)
Oral Arguments of the Supreme Court, 1937-1975, Supreme Court Decisions issued since May 1990 updated daily, searchable by topic, keyword, or name. Also includes more than 580 other historically important Supreme Court decisions. - October 2000 Supreme Court Term: What's New on the Internet
Compiled by Roger Skalbeck, Technology Services Librarian at George Mason University School of Law in Virginia. Includes Internet resources for information on the highest court in the land. - Oyez Oyez Oyez
(Northwestern University)
Audio sound files of selected oral arguments before the Supreme Court, biographical information about current Supreme Court Justices, and a virtual tour of the Supreme Court. - U.S. Constitution: Analysis & Interpretation of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court
(Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress) - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Provides access to the decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the Daily Log, and the directory of the Court Opinion. - U.S. Judiciary: Federal Court System & Decisions
Library of Congress' Guide to Law Online's gateway to Supreme Court decisions since 1893, as well as Federal Appeals court decisions dating back to the early 1900s. - U.S. Supreme Court
The home page of the U.S. Supreme Court, this page gives general information about the workings of the Court, the calendar, and other legal information. - U.S. Supreme Court Collection
(Cornell University's Legal Information Institute)
This site includes nearly all of the opinions of the Supreme Court issued since May 1990. - U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Direct access to FindLaw's full-text database on U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893. - U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society
Provides a list of Supreme Court arguments, audio selections from lectures on the Court, and announcements of upcoming C-SPAN broadcasts. - U.S. Supreme Court (Washington Post site)
Provides information on Supreme Court calendar, docket and decisions since 1996, including links to Washington Post stories analyzing the decisions, and links to full-text of court decisions.
- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
(Law Library of Congress)
This site brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress through the 42nd Congress. - Finding and Establishing Direct Links to Thomas and GPO Access Documents
(Law Librarian's Society of Washington D.C.)
This site clarifies how to establish direct links to Thomas and GPO Access documents and bypass these sites temporary URL's often offered by their search engines. - Internet Law Library
(Formerly House of Representative's Internet Law Library) - Laws, Policies, and Performance Measures Relating to Federal Agency Web Sites
(Law Librarian's Society of Washington D.C.) - Legislation: Bills & Amendments
Library of Congress gateway to information and links about bills and amendments in Congress, including bill summaries and status. - Office of the Federal Register (NARA)
- Federal Register Daily Tables of Contents and Index, 1994 to date.
- List of Executive Orders, 1962 to date.
- Public Laws through GPO Access
- Code of Federal Regulations
- Privacy Act Issuances
- Thomas Legislative Information
(Library of Congress)
Congressional bills beginning with the 103rd Congress (1995), searchable by keyword and bill number. Congressional Record and Index. - U.S. Code
Access via Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute. - U.S. Code & Public Laws
Library of Congress' Guide to Law Online's database, maintained at the House of Representatives, providing searchable access to the U.S. Code and public laws enacted since January 1995. - U.S. Constitution and Constitutional Law
Access to the Constitution, Declaration of Independence, and other historic documents with some annotations. Prepared by the Law Library of Congress for the Guide to Law Online Web. - U.S. House of Representatives: The Legislative Process
Official House site providing access to current information on pending legislation, including bill text, amendment status, committee reports, roll call votes, and links to the Congressional Record.
- Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
A citation primer by Peter W. Martin of Cornell Law School. - Lawcopedia
(Maintained by the 'Lectronic Law Library) - Nolo's Law Dictionary
Plain-English definitions for puzzling legal terms from the common to the bizarre. - WWLIA Legal Dictionary
(World Wide Legal Information Association)
- Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals Published in the United States
(University of Texas, Tarlton Library)
Great place to browse through the tables of contents of legal publications. - Legal Journals on the Web
(University of Southern California Law School and Library)
Annotated list of full-text journals. - Stanford Law & Policy
(Stanford Law School)
Academic journal concentrating on issues of law and public policy published twice yearly by law students at Stanford. - University Law Review Project
(set up by FindLaw and the Coalition of Online Journals)
Full-text search of law journals on the Internet. - U.S. Law Reviews Online
(Library of Congress, Law Library)
This file includes links to full-text and free-of-charge electronic law reviews and other publications that offer substantial amounts of legal analysis.
- Multilaterals Project
(Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University)
Full-text keyword search of multilateral treaty texts. Dates mostly from the second half of the twentieth century, but also includes historical texts. - Treaties and International Agreements
(University of California, Berkeley)
This guide to treaty research introduces the basic sources for locating treaties. - Treaties in Force: A List of Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States in Force as of January 1, 1999
(State Department)
- Code of Federal Regulations
GPO's searchable database for federal regulations. - Code of Federal Regulations
Access via Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute. - GPO Access on the Web
Purdue University's gateway to accessing Government Printing Office publications including the Code of Federal Regulations.
