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and unpublished research.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.
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