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Meta-sites with search engines for law resources
Finding information about lawmaking
Finding primary law resources
Finding court cases
Finding secondary resources
Special course and research guides
Guide to citing law resources
Meta-sites with search engines for law resources
Emory University School of Law MacMillan Law Library Reference Desk Another well organized Law School web site. Check out the Federal Courts Finder - it's a map.
Findlaw A very handy, thorough site for searching online law journals and legal materials. Provides links to "Legal Minds Index", "Laws, Cases & Codes", "Legal News", and "Law Crawler".
Findlaw California Special site set up exactly like the general "Findlaw" for searching California Law.
Cornell Law School Legal Information Institute (LLI) This site provides links to law resources arranged by type of law, i.e. statutory, regulatory, and case law.
Meta Index for U.S. Legal Research (Georgia State University) This site also arranges information by type of law, i.e. (branch of government, and has search engines for each section.
Substantive Law on the Web Nicely indexed, easy to use with categories by geographical jurisdiction as well as selected subject areas.
Finding information about lawmaking
How Our Laws Are Made (Library of Congress - Thomas) Detailed information about how laws are made and each step of the legislative process. Describes publications issued by Congress that document various steps of the legislative process. Two WWW sites exist that provide excellent access to the publications of the Congress. Thomas (Library of Congress), and GPO Access (U.S. Government Printing Office)
Finding primary law resources
Finding Federal Laws
LexisNexis Academic (Guided Search)
There are legal resource files, which contain primary sources such
as cases, statutes, and regulations as well as secondary materials such
as law review articles etc.
LexisNexis Congressional
Congressional Information Service Index (CIS) Congressional Compass (Congressional
Information Service) (1970-current). Guide, index and abstracts to hearings,
committee prints, reports and documents issued by Congress. (Also available
on CD-ROM from 1989 - current) With Congressional Compass, researchers
can track legislative and public policy issues as well as the activities
of committees and members of Congress. Actually provides links to certain
files in Lexis/Nexis - full text from 1996 and going back. gradually.
GPO
Access - United States Government Printing Office: Keeping America Informed
Describes the mission of the U.S. Government Printing Office. Provides
links to GPO Access: sites for the Federal Register, Congressional Records,
bills, and GAO reports. Indexes federal government publications since January
1994 and will ultimately provide links to federal depository libraries
receiving those publications. Indexes Dept. of Energy and GPO sales publications.
Thomas
(House of Representatives through Library of Congress). Includes:
Bill Text, Congressional Record Text, Bill Summary Status, Hot Bills,
now called "Congress This Week" and "Major Legislation"), the Congressional
Record Index, and the Constitution (now found, along with other historical
Congressional documents, under the "Historical Documents" category on the
THOMAS home page). Enhancements in the types of legislative data available,
as well as in search and display capabilities, have been continuously added.
U.S. Code, CFR, Federal Register, via GPO Access
Search these and many other databases via GPO Access, the free online database
archive available through the U.S. Government Printing Office. Available
to all users.
Finding State and Local Laws
Findlaw (State Law Sites)
This site allows searching by state for legal resources about or within that state.
Municipal Codes Online
In an effort to make municipal codes throughout the nation more accessible to the public, Seattle Public
Library staff have prepared this list of links to city and county codes
available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web.
State and Local Government on the Net
This web site is designed to provide
easy access to state and local government information beginning with the
state and proceeding to the county and city level.
Finding International Law
Constitutions, Courts, Laws, & Treaties
Links to pages on international sources; governments, online law sources, and selected court sites worldwide.
International Law Resources by Jurisdiction
Links to pages for individual countries laws, codes, regulations and cases. Links to full-text selected major international treaties.
Finding Court Cases
LexisNexis Academic
There are legal resource files, which contain primary sources such as cases, statutes, and regulations
as well as secondary materials such as law review articles etc.
Supreme Court of the United States
This site is newly created bu the Supreme Court itself, and has links to the calendar and schedules, court rules, docket,
orders and opinions.
Supreme Court decisions
Cornell Law School has mounted this impressive web site that lists Supreme Court cases since 1990, as well as a listing
of state statutes on the net with a topical index, and a new court statistics service.
Supreme Court Oral Arguments (audio)
Northwestern University Library has mounted audio
copies of the Supreme Court arguments for cases back to 1961. You must
have the correct hardware and software (not available in the Government
Publications Dept.) to listen to these files.
U.S. Federal Courts Finder
Emory Law Schools' federal courts locator allows you to click on a map by geographic jurisdiction.
Shepard's SEE LexisNexis Academic
Shepards has been cancelled. Full Shepardizing is now available in LexisNexis Academic/Legal.
Westlaw Campus
Westlaw Campus Provides full-text access to law cases,
federal and state, legal subject guides, law reviews, statutes and administrative
materials, legislative materials and legal encyclopedias. Cases go back
to 1945, and the Federal Register back to 1980. Key search allows searching
by Westlaw's keynote system of indexing.
Finding secondary resources
LexisNexis Academic Legal Research (Law Reviews)
There are legal resource files, which contain primary sources such as cases, statutes, and regulations
as well as secondary materials such as law review articles etc.
America and
the Courts
Real audio archive of information related to court cases.
Court TV
America Lawyer Media, L.P. presents this web site. Use the search engine
to find information on the case or issue you are researching.
FindLaw:
Law Schools: Academic Law Journals and Law Reviews
Full Text Search of Law Journals on the Internet created by University
Law Review Project and the E-Journals Coalition
Omnifile
(Social Sciences Abstracts)
Provides access to citations for articles and book reviews published in over 415 major international English
language scholarly journals in the social sciences, 1984-present; (1974-present in print)
Washlaw full text index for law journals
Straightforward approach, a site with a search engine up front, that allows you to search all journals listed.
Westlaw
Campus
Westlaw Campus Provides full-text access to law cases,
federal and state, legal subject guides, law reviews, statutes and administrative
materials, legislative materials and legal encyclopedias. Cases go back
to 1945, and the Federal Register back to 1980. Key search allows searching
by Westlaw's keynote system of indexing. This resource is available outside
the Libraries only to students, faculty and staff of The Claremont Colleges.
Guide to Citing Law Resources
The following citation guides are specifically useful in citing government and legal publications.
Brief
Guide to Citing Government Information
A site which provides guides to citing government information, both in traditional
and electronic format.
Introduction
to Basic Legal Citation
(2001-2002 ed.) by Peter W. Martin -
A site which provides guides to citing legal sources, both in traditional
and electronic format.