Tue Jun 18 2013
Legal Research Sites
- American Law Sources On-Line
(ALSO) This website provides a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation
of links to all on-line sources of U.S., Canadian, and Mexican law that
are available without charge; it 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).
- Cornell Legal Information Institute
(LII) Provides easy-to-understand topical overviews of specific
areas of the law and organized collections of links to sites offering
court decisions, statutes, regulations and other legal materials.
- Wex Sponsored and
hosted by LII, this site is a a collaboratively built, freely available
legal dictionary and encyclopedia.
- Cornell
Law Library - Basics of Legal Research Contains legal research
guides and links to various topical areas of the law; some of the materials
are restricted to Cornell students and faculty.
- FindLaw A leading web portal focused
on law and government, providing access to a comprehensive and fast-growing
online library of legal resources for use by legal professionals, consumers,
and small businesses.
- Guide to Law Online
(GLIN) An annotated guide to sources of information worldwide on government
and law available online maintained by the Law Library of Congress; has
explanation of the US legal system in English, French, and Spanish and links
to other national, international, and multi-national legal websites.
- Justia A new web portal providing
free case law, codes, regulations, legal articles and
legal blog databases, as well as community resources.
- lexisONE® Free website
containing simple searchable database of U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1790,
selected federal and state cases from January 1, 1996; legal forms, Martindale-Hubbell
law digests, internet legal links, etc.; requires registration and password;
can pay by credit card for Shepard's and other services.
- US Court Forms A commercial
site providing free forms for all fifty states and the federal courts in
PDF format. Must register with the site and agree to use the forms for your
personal use only.
- Washlaw Web Contains links to lots
of legal websites; maintained by Washburn University School of Law.
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Other Legal Related Sites
- ABA
Approved Law Schools This page links to lists of law schools in alphabetical
order, organized by state, location, type of law school, and order of approval.
- American Law Institute (ALI) The ALI
publishes the Restatements; this website contains links to information about
the institute, how to order publications, its newsletter, etc.
- CALI Lessons On-line Computer Aided Legal Instruction Courses that are available on-line to
students and faculty in a web-based format.
- FedLaw - Professional
Associations and Organizations Contains links to various organizations
more or less related to law. Some links are out of date.
- Introduction to Basic
Legal Citation (2006 ed.), by Peter W. Martin, Cornell Law School,
based on the 18th edition of the “Bluebook” and the second
edition of "ALWD."
- Jurist Maintained at
the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, this site is a "university-based
academic gateway to authoritative legal instruction, information and scholarship
online." It's full of news and information for lawyers, students, other
legal professionals and interested citizens.
- Law.com This website aims to be a single,
comprehensive destination for legal information, e-law services and legal
products on the Web.
- Law Library Research Exchange (LLRX) A web journal featuring articles, departments, columns and extras with up-to-date
information authored by expert law librarians, attorneys, information technology
specialists and legal technology consultants.
- Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator Searchable database of lawyers; can search by location/area
of practice as well as by name, firm name, etc.
Other Research Sites
- American Memory Collection
(Library of Congress) Contains links to multimedia collections of digitized
documents, photographs, recorded sound, moving pictures, and text from the
Library of Congress' Americana collections.
- yourDictionary.com This website
indexes on-line dictionaries, thesauruses, and such like containing words
and phrases; includes links to many different language dictionaries, including
Native American languages and ancient languages.
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