I. Legal Indexes and MegaDatabases

1. Findlaw.com and Findlaw Court Forms
Extensive site providing a Consumer Lew Center, Small Business Center, and Supreme Court Cases since 1893, plus much more. Specific topics include Consultants and Experts, Directories, Foreign and International, Law Firms and Lawyers, Law Schools, Laws: Cases and Codes, Legal Organizations, Legal Practice Materials, Legal News and reference, Legal Subject Index, Professional Development, US State Resources, US Federal Resources, and others.

2. Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases

3. Legal Information Institute (LII)
The Legal Information Institute is a research activity of the Cornell Law School. The site holds the LII's Internet publications. The site offers recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and commentary on them. The site also contains the e-mail address directory of faculty and staff at U.S. law schools and contact information on other people and organizations in the field of law.

4. Lexis-Nexis Academic University (SHU Campus only)
Government & Political News; Legal news from legal newspapers, magazines and newsletters; Law Reviews (200+); Federal Case Law; U.S. Code, Constitution, & Court Rules; and State Legal Research.

5. National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts Database
Site contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports, books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research.

6. WestLaw

II. Federal Legal Research and Policy Information

1. FedWorld.gov
Provided through the U.S. Department of Commerce, this site provides access to thousands of government publications.

2. GPO Access: U.S. Government Publications

3. Law Library of Congress
Including the Global Legal Monitor, which will track new legal developments from around the world, and the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), a public database of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.

4. Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet ... Congress at Work

5. University of Michigan Documents Center  Megasite for government publications

III. Specialized Research Tools

1. Avalon Project at Yale Law School
This award-winning site contains digital copies of documents from per-18th Century to today from subject areas of Diplomacy, Economics, History, Law, and other areas.

2. Intellectual Property Network (1971- )
This site allows the user to search and view over 1.5 million U.S. and European patent documents and patent applications published by the World Intellectual Property Office (WIPO). Contains images.

3. World Constitutions and International Treaties
Listing of Sites, Arms Control & Rules of Warfare, Human Rights, Historical Treaties, Cultural Protection & Intellectual Property, Trade & Commercial Relations, Environmental & Widelife Protection and Biological Diversity.

IV. Internet Legal Research Tutorials

1. Legal Internet Resources
Five lessons include Federal Case Law, Federal Statutory Research, Federal Legislative Research, Federal Regulatory Research, and Federal Agency Practice.

2. Kathrine R. Everett Law Library Online Bibliographic Instruction Project
Designed to help students who are not familiar with legal research. The site includes an online tutorial, quiz, glossary, and a collection of subject links, among other items.

 


Updated: 06/04/07