Law and Legal Resources
Links to laws and legal information including Federal law, court opinions, treaties, legal dictionaries and journals, and copyright information.Contents:
- 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
- American Legal History Online Sources
Created by D’Angelo Law Library, this site provides links to information about Charters and Constitutions, Legislative Resources, and publications.
- Audiovisual Library of International Law
The United Nations Codification Division of Office of Legal Affairs created this web site to "to provide high quality international law training and research materials to an unlimited number of recipients on a global level." Divided into three areas - the Historic Archives, the Lecture Series, and the research library - this is a multimedia resource offering video, audio, documents, and links to scholarly writings and research guides.
- Chronology of U.S. Historical Documents
(University of Oklahoma Law Center)
Links to documents of historical importance to the United States, beginning with the Magna Carta. - Congressional Research Service (CRS)
Stephen Young, reference librarian at the Catholic University of America’s Law Library prepared this 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. - Fedlaw
Collection of references of use to people doing Federal legal research. - Foreign and International Law Guide
Created by the Cornell University Law Library, this site contains pointers in four major areas: foreign law, legal topics, transnational organizations, and U.S. Government sources on foreign and international law. - Guide to Law Online
(Library of Congress Law Library)
This site is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. - 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
Jurist is a Web-based legal news and real-time legal research service powered by a mostly-volunteer team of over 30 part-time law student reporters, editors and Web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School 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)
This site provides links to articles and news stories; agreements, laws, and court cases; and government agencies and organizations. There is also a bibliography of books, journal articles, and government documents. - Law Resources
(Digital Librarian)
Links to sites dealing with a variety of legal subjects. - 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 History Pathfinder
(Rutgers University)
This site provides links to information about general history of law, ancient law, and common law, including British Legal History and American Legal History. - Legal Information Institute
The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School. - Legal Research on International Issues Using the Internet
Links to information on a variety of legal topics, including Major Web Sites, International Organizations, and Publishers and Vendors. - Legal Technology Resource Center
Produced by the American Bar Association, this site provides a comprehensive collection of technology resources and information to the legal profession. - 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. - LLRX: Law Library Resource Xchange
This web site provides columns, feature articles, topical research guides, and legal-tech and library related news resources compiled from law librarians, attorneys, information technology specialists and legal technology consultants. - Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
Georgia State University College of Law has produced a site that illustrates the use of searchable legal indexes on the World Wide Web. - 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
This resource brings together data from more than 200 sources about many aspects of criminal justice in the United States. It is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Statistics, and the project is located at the University at Albany, School of Criminal Justice, Hindelang Criminal Justice Research Center in Albany, New York. - U.S. Supreme Court Opinions
FindLaw’s searchable and browsable database of Supreme Court decisions since 1893. - The Virtual Chase: Annotated Guide to Resources for Legal Professionals
Links to sites dealing with topics related to case law.
- 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)
Deals with fair use issues arising from the creation of materials in the electronic environment. - Copyright & Fair Use
(Created by Stanford University Libraries)
Copyright FAQs, resources, charts and tools, and a blog are available on this web site.
- Copyright Advisory Office
(Columbia University)
Among the resources available on this web site are the Fair Use Checklist and Identifying the Copyright Owner. - Copyright Information Page
(The University of Michigan)
Sections for creators, instructors, students, and the general public are presented on this site. - Copyright on the Internet
(By Thomas G. Field, Jr., Franklin Pierce Law Center)
This site deals with U.S. copyright issues of concern to those who post to or own email lists, or host web pages. - 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. - Mass Digitization: Changing Copyright Law, Policy and Practice
(By Georgia Harper.)
This publication appears on the web site of the Texas Digital Library, and discusses the impact of mass digitization projects on copyright law. - United States Copyright Office
(Library of Congress)
General information, application forms, legislative activity, text of copyright law, and U.S. Copyright Office records dating from 1978 to present are available at this site.
- 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)
This site presents over 7000 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from Volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports. - Georgetown University Law Library
Resources available here include research guides, tutorials, databases, decisions and opinions. - Legal Information Institute Supreme Court Collection
(Cornell Law School)
Supreme Court Decisions issued since May 1990 are updated daily, and are searchable by topic, keyword, or name. Also includes more than 600 other historically important Supreme Court decisions. - Oyez
"The Oyez Project is a multimedia archive devoted to the Supreme Court of the United States and its work. It aims to be a complete and authoritative source for all audio recorded in the Court since the installation of a recording system in October 1955." Cases are browsable by issue and by term. Biographical information about justices is browsable by court and by seat. - PACER Service Center
"Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER) is an electronic public access service that allows users to obtain case and docket information from Federal Appellate, District and Bankruptcy courts, and the U.S. Party/Case Index via the Internet." Users are charged a fee for each page accessed. - U.S. Constitution: Analysis & Interpretation of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court
(Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress)
This publication is available on the GPOAccess website in PDF format. - U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
This site provides access to the opinions and orders of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, along with the argument calendar, dispositions, and audio of oral arguments. - U.S. Judiciary: Federal Court System & Decisions
Library of Congress’ Guide to Law Online’s gateway to information about the Federal Courts, including Special Jurisdictions and Federal Court Procedure. - 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 docket, and other legal information. - U.S. Supreme Court Decisions
Direct access to FindLaw’s full-text database on U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893 is available here. - U.S. Supreme Court Historical Society
This web site provides a history of the Court, audio selections from Oyez, and digitized publications.
- 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)
Free public access to the basic documents of U.S. law is available here. - Laws, Policies, and Performance Measures Relating to Federal Agency Web Sites
(Law Librarian’s Society of Washington D.C.)
This site has links to information in the Statutes at Large and the U.S. Code that affect Federal agency web sites. Also included are guidance memos, circulars, and executive orders. - Office of the Federal Register
(NARA)
Published every Federal working day, the Federal Register provides legal notice of administrative rules and notices and presidential documents. It contains Federal Agency Regulations, Proposed Rules and Public Notices, Executive Orders and Proclamations as well as other presidential documents.
- Thomas
Thomas is the Library of Congress gateway to information and links about bills and amendments in Congress, including bill summaries and status. Also available are presidential nominations, the Congressional Record, treaties, and committee reports. - Tying It All Together: The Legislative Process
This is an official House site that describes the process of creating legislation. Provides links to bill text and status, committee reports, and summary of proceedings. - U.S. Code
Access is provided via Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute. The site includes a Table of Popular Names which contains the popular names of many laws.
- Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
This is a citation primer by Peter W. Martin of Cornell Law School. - Lawcopedia
(Maintained by the ’Lectronic Law Library)
Information on this site is organized into Legal Topic Areas. - Nolo’s Legal Glossary
Users can find plain-English definitions for puzzling legal terms from the common to the bizarre. - WWLIA Legal Dictionary
(World Wide Legal Information Association)
This site offers a comprehensive dictionary of legal terms.
- Contents Pages from Law Reviews and Scholarly Journals Published in the United States
(University of Texas, Tarlton Library)
This web site is a good place to browse through the tables of contents of legal publications. - Legal Journals on the Web
(University of Southern California Law School and Library)
Links to full-text legal journals are available here. - Stanford Law & Policy (SLPR)
(Stanford Law School)
SLPR is an 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)
Available here is a full-text search of law journals on the Internet. The site is also browsable, with journals organized by topic. - U.S. Law Reviews Online
(Library of Congress, Law Library)
This site 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 International Affairs, Tufts University)
Full-text keyword search of multilateral treaty texts is provided here. Information 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 2007
(State Department)
This is a searchable database of treaties and other international agreements of the United States in force as of January 1, 2007.
- Code of Federal Regulations
Here is the Government Printing Office’s searchable and browsable database for federal regulations. - Code of Federal Regulations
Access to the CFR is provided via Cornell Law School’s Legal Information Institute.
