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Bar Associations

American Bar Association

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Broward Bar Association

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Florida Voluntary Bar Associations

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Hispanic National Bar Association

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National Bar Association

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The Federal Bar Association

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The Florida Bar

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City Codes

American Legal Publishing: Online Library

  • includes a collection of Florida city codes for: Boynton Beach, Hollywood, Keystone Heights, Kissimmee, Lake Mary, Manalapan, Melbourne Beach, Palm Bay, Pembroke Pines, Pompano Beach, and Weston
  • Access: Open to everyone

Codes.gov

  • Public.resource.org's comprehensive repository of current and archived municipal and state safety and administrative codes.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Municipal Codes

  • City code links from around the U.S. from the Municipal Code Corporation; many from the state of Florida; click on "Online Library" to search for free
  • Access: Open to everyone

Municipal Codes Online

  • Collection of municipal code resources on the web from the Seattle Public Library
  • Access: Open to everyone

Municipal Codes Web Library

  • Collection from Lexis, including many city codes from California
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Federal Government Document Blogs

Docuticker

  • Links and brief descriptions of new reports from the federal government, non-governmental organizations, and many other agencies and organizations.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Free Government Information

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Secrecy News

  • from the Federation of American Scientists Project on Government Secrecy
  • Access: Open to everyone

The Gov Docs Guy

  • from the Chicago-Kent College of Law Library
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Federal Government Information Resources

Administrative Decisions

  • Quick access to federal administrative agency decisions on the web; Compilation by the University of Virginia Library
  • Access: Open to everyone

Bureau of Labor Statistics

  • Economic data for international, national, regional, state and city levels
  • Access: Open to everyone

Catalog of Government Publications: New Electronic Titles

  • This dynamic resource allows you to locate new electronic resources in the Catalog of Government Publications. You can also search for new print publications, and view archived lists of publications going back to April 2005.
  • Access: Open to everyone

CyberCemetary

  • Site providing permanent public access to web sites and publications of defunct federal agencies
  • Access: Open to everyone

Federal Courts Finder

  • Links to the federal courts provided by the Emory School of Law
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Federal Depository Library

  • The Law Library and Technology Center became a selective US Federal depository in 1982. We collect approximately 15% of publications available through the depository program, and offer access to online resources as well.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Federal Judicial Center

  • Search for biographies of the federal judiciary from 1789 to present; link to publications of the Center, including the Manual for Complex Litigation and the Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
  • Access: Open to everyone

FRASER

  • A service of the Research Division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, FRASER provides links to scanned images of historical economic statistical publications, releases, and documents.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Government Catalogs, Indexes and Databases

  • Another great resource from the librarians at the University of North Texas Government Documents Department.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Government Information Online: Ask A Librarian

  • GIO offers both live chat and email information services for government information from local, state, national and international agencies.
  • Access: Open to everyone

GPO Access

  • U.S. Goverment Printing Office access to official text of U.S. Code, CFR, and other primary law sources
  • Access: Open to everyone

Guide to the House and Senate Members of the 110th Congress

  • A single guide incorporating information and pictures from several sources on members of the 110th Congress.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Index of Presidential Signing Statements 2001-2007

  • This resource is available through the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy website. According to this website, "[t]he index, compiled by Neil Kinkopf, associate professor of law at Georgia State University College of Law and former special assistant in the Office of Legal Counsel at the Department of Justice, provides a comprehensive list of every provision of a law objected to by the White House in a signing statement, the reason for the objection, and a link to the relevant signing statement."
  • Access: Open to everyone

Internal Revenue Service - Form 4868

  • Application for Extension of Time for U.S. Individual Income Tax Return
  • Access: Open to everyone

Internal Revenue Service -1040 central

  • Access: Open to everyone

Law Library of Congress

  • Find national and international legal resources at the Law Library of Congress
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List of Federal Agency Internet Sites

  • Created and maintained by the Troy H. Middleton Library of Louisiana State University, in partnership with the U. S. Government Publications Office. Based on the U.S. Government Manual, the List directs users to the Web sites of active Federal agencies. Users can view a hierarchical or an alphabetical list of all agencies. The agencies are also listed by broad category, such as boards/commissions, legislative, and quasi-official. The entire list is searchable by agency keyword as well.
  • Access: Open to everyone

LLSDC's Legislative Sourcebook

  • Learn how to research federal legislative history from expert law librarians in D.C.
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LOUIS

  • The Library of Unified Information Sources (LOUIS)is a project of the Sunlight Foundation. It allows the user to search all of these U.S. Government sources at once: Congressional Reports, the Congressional Record, Congressional Hearings, the Federal Register, Presidential Documents, GAO Reports, and Congressional Bills & Resolutions.
  • Access: Open to everyone

National Criminal Justice Reference Service

  • Clearinghouse of information on criminal justice
  • Access: Open to everyone

Office of the Federal Register

  • Online access to current Federal regulations through the Federal Register Public Inspection Desk. Regulations are updated daily.
  • Access: Open to everyone

OMB Earmarks Database

  • search for appropriation earmarks by agency or state
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Open CRS Network

  • Congressional Research Reports for the People
  • Access: Open to everyone

Registry of U.S. Government Publication Digitization Projects

  • "The Registry contains records for projects that include digitized copies of publications originating from the U.S. Government. It serves as a locator tool for publicly accessible collections of digitized U.S. Government publications; increases awareness of U.S. Government publication digitization projects that are planned, in progress, or completed; fosters collaboration for digitization projects; and provides models for future digitization projects."
  • Access: Open to everyone

Regulations.gov

  • Find both proposed and final U.S. government agencies' decisions, along with other documents such as Federal agency notices, supporting materials, public comments, and Federal agency guidance and adjudications.
  • Access: Open to everyone

The Federal Judiciary

  • The official site for the Administrative Office for the U.S. Courts; links to all federal courts, court rules, rule amendments, and proceedings of the Judicial Conference; Statistical Reports
  • Access: Open to everyone

The Whitehouse

  • Locate current presidential documents, press releases, executive orders
  • Access: Open to everyone

Thomas

  • Locate federal legislative documents: bill text, committee reports, public laws, link to the Congressional Record
  • Access: Open to everyone

U.S. Code

  • PDF version of the U.S.C. from the U.S. government
  • Access: Open to everyone

U.S. House of Representatives

  • Find your Representative, track current House activity; locate House committees, calendars and schedules
  • Access: Open to everyone

U.S. Senate

  • Track current legislative activity, roll call votes, treaty status; find historical information on the U.S. Senate and links to all Senate committees
  • Access: Open to everyone

University of North Texas Digital Collections: Government Documents

  • In addition to making available the Cyber Cemetery of defunct federal agency websites (see link above), the University of North Texas is digitizing its collection of government documents. Check frequently for updates!
  • Access: Open to everyone

USA.gov

  • The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Find an Attorney

Martindale-Hubbell Legal Directory

  • Search for attorneys in the U.S. and abroad
  • Access: Open to everyone

West Legal Directory via Findlaw

  • Search for attorneys nationwide
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Florida Legal Research

Broward County

  • Web resource for Broward County government information
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Administrative Code Online

  • Find the full text of Florida's administrative regulations Note: "... it should not be regarded as the official copy. For an official version, refer to the publication Florida Administrative Code Annotated ... "
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Administrative Weekly

  • Weekly issues back to 1999
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Department of State

  • Find corporate and elections information; important legal resources; includes Florida Government Information Locator Service
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Division of Administrative Hearings

  • Search for the status of administrative cases
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Legislative History Research Guide

  • From the University of Florida's Levin College of Law Library, this site provides guidelines for research on Florida legislative history, plus sources for further research.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Rules of Procedure

  • Court rules as posted by The Florida Bar
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Session Laws

  • Find Florida's general, special and local laws as enacted by year; archives back to 1999; also includes cross-reference tables and popular name tables
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida State Courts

  • Link to web sites for Florida's state courts; The Florida Supreme Court has a new web page as of Nov. 19, 2004
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida Supreme Court Briefs and Opinions

  • "Florida Supreme Court cases decided since April 1992 and the briefs filed in those cases."
  • Access: Open to everyone

Gavel to Gavel

  • Live Florida Supreme Court Oral Arguments Schedule
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My Florida

  • Official resource for state government links; maintained by the Executive Office of the Florida Governor
  • Access: Open to everyone

Online Sunshine

  • Locate Florida legislative information
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International

Audiovisual Library of International Law

  • This United Nations resource consists of historic archives, a lecture series, and a research library of international law sources.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

  • Search for British and other international legal abbreviations to identify the publication
  • Access: Open to everyone

Caribbean Court of Justice

  • Official site of this relatively new court. "In its original jurisdiction it ensures uniform interpretation and application of the Revised Treaty of Chaguaramas, thereby underpinning and advancing the CARICOM Single Market and Economy. As the final court of appeal for member states of the Caribbean Community it fosters the development of an indigenous Caribbean jurisprudence."
  • Access: Open to everyone

Countries of the World

  • The University of Colorado at Boulder has collected a wealth of information on each of the countries of the world, all in one convenient location.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Electronic Information System for International Law (EISIL)

  • International law research links from the American Society of International Law
  • Access: Open to everyone

European Union in the U.S.

  • The web resource of the European Commission Delegation in Washington, D.C. for the European Union
  • Access: Open to everyone

FLARE Index to Treaties

  • This site indexes more than 1500 multilateral treaties, beginning from 1856. It is the work of the Foreign Law Research Group, based in Britain. It allows searching for treaties by keywords, title, and the year and the place the treaty was concluded. The search results link to the web version and EISIL and note where the treaty can be found in print.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Global Courts

  • Link to Supreme Court decisions from around the world
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Global Legal Information Network

  • International resources via the Library of Congress
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GlobaLex

  • Articles on how to research international, foreign and comparative law topics from NYU's Hauser Global Law School Program
  • Access: Open to everyone

Hague Conventions

  • Text of the Hague conventions, signatories, bibliographies, etc.
  • Access: Open to everyone

International Court of Justice

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Kiss, Bow or Shake Hands: Expanded Edition

  • Online guide to doing business globally, with a worldwide edition and three regional editions covering Asia, Europe and Latin America.
  • Access: Restricted to NSU

Privy Council (UK) Judicial Committee

  • Text of judgments
  • Access: Open to everyone

Proceedings of the Old Bailey, 1674-1913

  • "A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court."
  • Access: Open to everyone

United Nations

  • Locate U.N. resolutions and other documentation
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Law Reviews

Contents Pages from Law Reviews

  • A free service from the University of Texas School of Law Tarlton Law Library
  • Access: Open to everyone

Current Issues of Top Law Journals

  • This evolving resource contains links to freely-available current issues of prominent law reviews. Created and maintained by the Mendik Library at New York Law School, this site will soon provide links to all law journals that provide free access to their current issues.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Directory of Law Reviews

  • Compiled by Prof. Michael Hoffheimer, University of Mississippi; formerly produced by Anderson Publishing Co.; now located on Lexis-Nexis web site
  • Access: Open to everyone

Most-Cited Legal Periodicals

  • Hosted by the Washington & Lee Law School; with author submission feature
  • Access: Open to everyone

USC Law Journals Listing

  • Links to law reviews and legal journals on the web
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Law Schools

American Bar Association's List of Approved Law Schools

  • Locate schools alphabetically, by location, or year approved
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Barry University School of Law

  • Search the Barry University online catalog
  • Access: Open to everyone

Florida A&M University College of Law

  • Search the Florida A&M Library catalog
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Florida Coastal School of Law

  • Search the Florida Coastal School of Law Library catalog
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Florida International University College of Law

  • Search the FIU Library catalog
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Florida State University College of Law

  • Search the Florida State University Library Catalog
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St. Thomas University School of Law

  • Search the St. Thomas Law Library online catalog Tomcat
  • Access: Open to everyone

Stetson University College of Law

  • Search the Stetson Law Library online catalog Roman
  • Access: Open to everyone

University of Florida Levin College of Law

  • Search the University of Florida Libraries catalog
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University of Miami School of Law

  • Search the University of Miami Law Library Catalog Baron
  • Access: Open to everyone

World Directory of Law Schools

  • on the AALS web site
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Legal Dictionaries

Law Dictionary

  • Findlaw's free legal dictionary; from Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law (1996)
  • Access: Open to everyone

Law Dictionary

  • Law.com's free legal dictionary; based on The People's Law Dictionary by Gerald and Kathleen Hill
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Legal News

CEO Express

  • News portal for busy executives
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Courthouse News Service

  • may require a subscription for some pages
  • Access: Open to everyone

Findlaw Legal News

  • Top legal news headlines and commentary
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Law.com

  • News from American Lawyer Media publications: National Law Journal, American Lawyer, Legal Times, New York Law Journal, etc.; archived articles require a subscription for full text
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Legal Research

Berring's Legal Research Podcasts

  • Designed to supplement the CDs entitled "Berring on Legal Research" (LAW LIB Media 2nd Floor KF240. B4683 2006), these podcasts can be downloaded to your computer or MP3 player.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Free and Low Cost Resources for Legal Research

  • A list of essential sources available at no or low cost. Created by librarians at Pace Law Library.
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Legal Research Portals

Courtport.com

  • Offers access to "court case information, rules and forms, property, recordings, liens, criminal business, licensing/disciplinary, and people records." Unlimited free access is available to anyone with an email address ending in '.edu'.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Findlaw

  • One of the original legal web sites
  • Access: Open to everyone

Free & Low Cost Legal Information

  • This website, created and maintained by the Georgetown University Law Library, lists a host of different free and almost free legal resources. The list covers case law, constitutions, statutes and codes, administrative law and a host of other types of U.S. federal and state law. The list is annotated with useful information about each source.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Hieros Gamos

  • A portal for U.S. and International legal resources
  • Access: Open to everyone

Law Guru

  • A collection of legal resources on the web
  • Access: Open to everyone

Legal Engine

  • Collection of links to legal sources
  • Access: Open to everyone

Legal Information Institute

  • Cornell Law School's legal information portal; known for its legal subject collections, access to U.S. Supreme Court decisions and the U.S. Code
  • Access: Open to everyone

Legal Scholarly Repositories

  • "The site, which lists only stand-alone repositories of legal materials, is intended for use by researchers studying legal information systems and by librarians building digital libraries of legal materials."
  • Access: Open to everyone

LLRX.com

  • Law Library Resource Xchange; collection of legal research guides, tips, product reviews, technology updates
  • Access: Open to everyone

OpenJurist.org

  • This freely available website allows searching of more than 600,000 United States Supreme Court and United States Courts of Appeals opinions. United States Reports opinions through 2004 are available, and Federal Reporter 3rd opinions are current as of early 2008. Search by case name, citation or full-text searches.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Public Library of Law

  • Free access to cases from the U.S. Supreme Court, Courts of Appeals, all 50 states (from 1997-present), plus Federal statutory law, codes from all 50 states, constitutions, court rules, and regulations.
  • Access: Open to everyone

The Virtual Chase

  • Legal research tips
  • Access: Open to everyone

Washlaw

  • The legal research portal developed by the Washburn University School of Law
  • Access: Open to everyone

Zimmerman's Research Guide

  • An online encyclopedia for legal researchers
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Litigation Resources

BitLaw

  • BitLaw: a resource on technology law
  • Access: Open to everyone

Class Action Litigation Information

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Litigation Law Blogs

  • A list of links to litigation law blogs from Justia
  • Access: Open to everyone

litilaw

  • litilaw: published articles for litigators
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Military Law U.S.

Military Legal Resources

  • Published by the U.S. Library of Congress, provides digital access to the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School Library’s holdings.
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

News Sources

Keysnews.com

  • News about the Florida Keys from the Key West Citizen daily newspaper
  • Access: Open to everyone

Miami Herald

  • Miami's leading newspaper
  • Access: Open to everyone

Palm Beach Post

  • News covering the Palm Beach area and South Florida
  • Access: Open to everyone

Peterson's College and University Feed Directory

  • From How to Use This Directory: "This directory features a collection of RSS and Atom feeds from around the Higher Education community. RSS ("Really Simple Syndication") and Atom feeds offer an easy way to stay current on updates from your favorite websites."
  • Access: Open to everyone

Sun-Sentinel

  • Ft. Lauderdale's newspaper online
  • Access: Open to everyone

U.S. Newspaper List

  • Links to newspapers around the U.S.
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Other

American Bankruptcy Institute

  • Access: Open to everyone

American Journal of Mediation

  • A publication created and sponsored by the Fellows of The American College of Civil Trial Mediators.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Free Patents Online

  • Access: Open to everyone

International Institute for Animal Law

  • Access: Open to everyone

Rutgers University School of Law Animal Rights Law Project

  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Patents

Free Patents Online

  • Search for patents
  • Access: Open to everyone

Google Patents

  • Search for patents
  • Access: Open to everyone

Patent Full-Text and Full-Page Image Databases

  • Search for patents from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO)
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Reference Sources

Dictionary.com

  • Search the American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th ed. (2000) and Roget's New Millennium Thesaurus
  • Access: Open to everyone

Findlaw's Legal Dictionary

  • Search the Merriam-Webster Dictionary of Law (1996) at Findlaw
  • Access: Open to everyone

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation

  • Online Blue Book hosted by Cornell's Legal Information Institute
  • Access: Open to everyone

Merriam-Webster Online

  • Search the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary or Thesaurus; dictionary has audio pronunciation feature
  • Access: Open to everyone

Zip Codes

  • Find a zip code through the U.S. Postal Service web site
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Scholarly Resources

Anglo-American Legal Tradition

  • A site that makes available 3,000,000 digitized images of documents from the U.K. National archives between the years 1218 and 1650. The documents include a wide range of series from both common law and equity courts and from the exchequer. The documents are relevant primarily to those engaged in legal, governmental, economic, religious, social, and local history.
  • Access: Open to everyone

ELS Bibliography

  • Compiled and maintained by Cornell and UCLA law librarians, this bibliography of recent empirical legal research articles can be searched by author, title and subject.
  • Access: Open to everyone

English Medieval Legal Documents

  • "[A] collaborative database on the published sources of English medieval documents, and ... links to the growing number of online sources currently being developed." Compiled by Hazel Lord of USC's Asa V. Call Law Library.
  • Access: Open to everyone

English Reports, 1220 to 1873

  • Free access to the English Reports from 1220-1873 is now available from the Australasian Legal Information Institute (AustLII). The English Reports database contains 124,882 cases. Full text searching is available.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Jurist: The Law Professor’s Network

  • Access: Open to everyone

NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository

  • Access: Open to everyone

Social Science Research Network

  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Search Engines

A9.com

  • Search engine from Amazon.com; search the web, books, movies, people, blogs, images, etc.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Ask.com

  • Improved search without the butler
  • Access: Open to everyone

Gigablast

  • New search engine that can compete with Google
  • Access: Open to everyone

Google

  • A search engine without the clutter; try the advanced search page for more powerful searching
  • Access: Open to everyone

IceRocket

  • Search the web, blogs, news and images
  • Access: Open to everyone

Search Engine Showdown: The Users' Guide to Web Searching

  • Details on web searching by search engine guru Greg Notess
  • Access: Open to everyone

Search Engine Watch

  • News and in-depth information about search engines
  • Access: Open to everyone

Speechbot

  • Search engine for audio and video content
  • Access: Open to everyone

Teoma

  • Search engine with additional features including words to refine search and suggested web resources
  • Access: Open to everyone

Vivisimo

  • Organizes search results from other search engines
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

State Legal Research

National Juvenile Court Data Archive

  • This database contains electronic records of cases handled by state courts with juvenile jurisdiction. Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
  • Access: Open to everyone

New York Codes, Rules & Regulations

  • The NYCRR primarily contains state agency rules and regulations adopted under the State Administrative Procedure Act (SAPA). The 22 Titles include one for each state department, one for miscellaneous agencies and one for the Judiciary.
  • Access: Open to everyone

public.resource.org

  • This public interest site publishes state and municipal public safety codes from every state. The full California Code of Regulations and the full administrative code of Sonoma County, California can also be found here.
  • Access: Open to everyone

State Agency Databases

  • This resource contains links to useful state agency databases for the 50 states plus the District of Columbia. Compiled by volunteers from the Government Documents Round Table (GODORT) of the American Library Association.
  • Access: Open to everyone

State Blue Books

  • Find out which states have online "blue books" (compilations of state government information), which have print only, and how to get the information you need.
  • Access: Open to everyone

State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web

  • Compiled by Jennifer Bryan Moore of the Indiana University School of Law Library - Bloomington, this guide provides links to legislative history research guides for all 50 states.
  • Access: Open to everyone

U. S. Courts Reference and Directory

  • Contains useful information about every state and county court in the United States.
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

Statistics

American Fact Finder

  • Easy access to Census data
  • Access: Open to everyone

FedStats

  • Convenient collection of federal statistical resources from over 100 Federal agencies
  • Access: Open to everyone

Statistical Abstracts

  • Collection of Statistical Abstracts from the U.S. Census Bureau; covers years 1878 to present

    2006 Statistical Abstracts in excel and .pdf
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

United Nations

Audiovisual Library of International Law

  • This United Nations resource consists of historic archives, a lecture series, and a research library of international law sources.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Audiovisual Library of International Law

  • This United Nations resource consists of historic archives, a lecture series, and a research library of international law sources.
  • Access: Open to everyone

DagDok - A Guide to United Nations Documentation

  • This useful resource was created by the Dag Hammarskjöld Library at Uppsala University Library, Sweden. It provides an overview of the history and structure of the UN, and includes many links to official UN websites as well as to other databases.
  • Access: Open to everyone

UN Resources & Legal Research

  • Descriptions of, and links to, the most important finding tools for United Nations documents. Compiled by Wiltrud Harms, Reference Specialist for United Nations and Human Rights Law at Boalt Hall, UC Berkeley.
  • Access: Open to everyone

United Nations Depository Library

  • The Law Library and Technology Center has been a UN depository of English language materials since 1997. We offer access to both print and electronic resources.
  • Access: Open to everyone

United Nations Diplomatic Conference

  • "This website provides access to the official records of a series of diplomatic conferences, convoked by the United Nations in order to negotiate and adopt several treaties based on drafts worked out by the International Law Commission and considered by the Sixth (Legal) Committee of the General Assembly." Coverage currently ranges from the 1958 Conference on the Law of the Sea to the Conference on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, 1998.
  • Access: Open to everyone

United Nations Information Center, Washington, D.C.

  • The United Nations Information Center in Washington, D.C. "serves as the focal point for UN news and information to advance understanding of the UN and its work, and ... serve[s] as a resource for United States government officials, NGOs, civil-society organizations and the American people."
  • Access: Open to everyone

United Nations Legal Publications Global Search

  • Allows for full-text searching of any or all of the following: ILC documents, Proceedings of diplomatic conferences, Summaries of ICJ judgments, Reports of international arbitral awards, Repertory of practice of UN organs, and/or UN juridical yearbook.
  • Access: Open to everyone

United Nations Television on YouTube

  • "The United Nations Channel features videos on a wide range of global topics including climate change, development, human rights and peace and security. United Nations Television also provides daily coverage of events, briefings and meetings at the United Nations headquarters in New York."
  • Access: Open to everyone

 

 

 

United States Supreme Court

AltLaw

  • Provides free, full-text access to the most recent 10-15 years of U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Circuit Courts of Appeal decisions. The site is a work in progress, so content is being added regularly. AltLaw is a joint project of Columbia Law School’s Program on Law and Technology, and the Silicon Flatirons Program at the University of Colorado Law School.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Findlaw's Supreme Court Center

  • Search for U.S. Supreme Court opinions back to 1893; find U.S. Supreme Court briefs beginning with the 1999-2000 term
  • Access: Open to everyone

On the Docket

  • Track the docket of the U.S. Supreme Court; hosted by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University
  • Access: Open to everyone

Oyez

  • Listen to oral arguments from the U.S Supreme Court
  • Access: Open to everyone

Researching the Supreme Court of the U.S.

  • Research guide issued by the Supreme Court Historical Society
  • Access: Open to everyone

ScotusWiki

  • The companion site to SCOTUSblog, this new resource for Supreme Court decisions features a case index, statistics, and a "petitions to watch" list.
  • Access: Open to everyone

Supreme Court Appointment Process: roles of the President, Judiciary Committee, and Senate

  • CRS Report from Congress, updated July 6, 2005
  • Access: Open to everyone

Supreme Court Collection

  • Find the current decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court; hosted by Cornell's Legal Information Institute
  • Access: Open to everyone

Supreme Court Historical Society

  • Information about the history and heritage of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Access: Open to everyone

Supreme Court Nominations

  • U.S. Senate chart, including vote; nominations officially submitted to the U.S. Senate
  • Access: Open to everyone

Supreme Court Nominations - Confirmed

  • Library of Congress Law Library Reading Room
  • Access: Open to everyone

Supreme Court Nominations - Not Confirmed or Withdrawn

  • Library of Congress Law Library Reading Room
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