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GPO Access
Official Federal Government Information at Your Fingertips
Superintendent of Documents Home Page

  • United States Code
    "The United States Code is prepared and published by the
    Office of the Law Revision Counsel, U.S. House of
    Representatives. This database contains the general and
    permanent laws of the United States."
  • Congressional Committee Prints
     "Congressional committee prints are publications issued by congressional committees on topics related to their legislative or research activities. The subjects of the committee prints vary greatly, due to the different concerns and actions of each individual committee. Some basic varieties of committee prints include: draft reports and bills, directories, statistical materials, investigative reports, historical reports, situational studies, confidential staff reports, hearings, and legislative analyses."
  • General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports
  • National Archives and Records Administration - Office of the Federal Register
    • Office of Federal Register
      Includes: Code of Federal Regulations ; Federal Register ; List of CFR Sections Affected ; Privacy Act Issuances ; Public and Private Laws ; Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States ; U.S. Government Manual ; United States Statutes at Large ; Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents.
  • U.S. Supreme Court Opinions Archive
    Federal Bulletin Board

USA.gov
The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal.
January 2007 switched name from FirstGov to USA.gov.

A Century of Law making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
"Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the words of those who built our government...In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholars, and interested citizens, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

THOMAS
"Legislative information from the Library of Congress"
Sections include: Bills, Resolutions ; Activity in Congress ; Congressional Record ; Schedules, Calendars ; Committee Information ; Presidential Nominations ; Treaties ; Government Resources ; For Teachers.

Law Library of Congress

  • Trial of Saddam Hussein
    "This website is intended to provide the viewer with essential information related to the relevant trials. It will also set out a selection of reference materials that will further explain important aspects of the trials."
  • Supreme Court Nominations
    Sections include: Selected Resources ; Nomination Documents ; Web Resources.

U.S. Department of Justice

  • Enron Trial Exhibits and Releases
    U.S. v. Jeffrey K. Skilling and Kenneth L. Lay
    "Due to public interest in this case, the Department of Justice is releasing the government exhibits in the format admitted in the court."
  • Publications & Documents
  • Office of Legal Counsel
    • Memoranda and Opinions
      "The Attorney General has directed the Office of Legal Counsel to publish selected opinions for the convenience of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the government, and of the professional bar and the general public...The opinions on this web site include some that have previously been released to the public, opinions as to which the addressee has agreed to publication, and opinions to Department of Justice officials that the Department has determined may be released."

Books On-Line - K Law
Library of Congress Call Numbers Starting With K.
Edited by John Mark Ockerbloom, University of Pennsylvania Library

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AACTE Education Policy Clearinghouse
"This clearinghouse is designed to help people access information on education policy at the national, regional, or state level, and includes links to every state government, department of education and judicial system. In addition, there are links to hundreds of newspapers, policy centers, and associations. News items are added regularly, and individuals at AACTE member institutions can access the legislative tracking and posting aspects of the site. A limited number of policy pieces are also included as well as a user run bulletin board."
American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education

The Alger Hiss Story
"This Web site recreates one of the most important legal cases in this country's history, often cited as a turning point in 20th century American thinking ... to be an authoritative portal for access to primary information about Alger Hiss, the Hiss case and the early Cold War years - including new scholarship, newly released official documents from various governments and government agencies, and the archival material, such as trial testimony, court and government records and commentary, collected in many libraries and online repositories ... to act as the digitized and online counterpart to the Alger Hiss Papers at the Harvard Law School Library. Acting in tandem with the Harvard collection, this Web site will post a complete summary of the charges against Alger Hiss and a comprehensive look at the case for the defense..."
Jeff Kisseloff, Managing Editor ["who worked with Alger Hiss to help prepare his coram nobis petition..."]

American Library Association

American Society of International Law - (dead link)

Arms Control Association

  • Treaties
    Includes: Full Text Documents ; Additional Documents.

Asian Development Bank (ADB)
"is a multilateral development finance institution dedicated to reducing poverty in Asia and the Pacific."
Sections include: News & Events ; Opportunities ; Regions & Countries ; Projects ; Economics & Statistics ; Financial Resources ; Publications.

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
A great resource for historic legal documents

Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators
"...the Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators Project at Temple University employs a team of professional historians to research and write individual biographies of Pennsylvania legislators from colonial times to the present day. The project's work offers an invaluable window into Pennsylvania's unique history, and, more generally, our national heritage...Our summaries of Volume One and Volume Two include links to some of the published biographies and introductory chapters as well as to complete name and subject indexes."

British and Irish Legal Information Institute
"...provides access to the most comprehensive free and up-to-date collection of British and Irish primary legal materials on the internet. As at 14 May 2000, BAILII includes 17 databases covering 5 jurisdictions. The system contains around one gigabyte of legal materials and well over 100,000 searchable documents with about 2.5 million hypertext links."

Brookings Institution

Brown v. Board of Education - see our separate Brown v. Board of Education page.

Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Cases & Materials on American Federalism - (dead link)
"...used in American Government Courses at Purdue University Calumet. The site contains historical documents [American, British, and English], a timeline, a glossary, edited court cases, review questions, other materials, and links to other free resources."
Online textbook by Douglas G. Amber, Dept. of History & Political Science, Purdue University

Censored: Wielding the Red Pen
"This exhibition hopes not so much to judge censors and censorship but instead to provoke questions."
Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library

Center for Democracy & Technology
"...works to promote democratic values and constitutional liberties in the digital age. With expertise in law, technology, and policy, CDT seeks practical solutions to enhance free expression and privacy in global communications technologies. CDT is dedicated to building consensus among all parties interested in the future of the Internet and other new communications media."

Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS)
Monterey Institute of International Studies

  • CNS Reports
    • WMD Terrorism and Usama Bin Laden
      By Kimberly Resch and Matthew Osborne, March 2001
      "Following the links below to the testimony transcripts and to the U.S. indictment of Bin Laden et al. is a brief description of Al-Fadl and his testimony regarding the attempted acquisition of uranium, given on February 6, 7, and 13, 2001 during the trial at the United States District Court of the Southern District of New York. Also included are a chronology of key incidents related to Usama Bin Ladenís connection to and interest in nuclear weapons as well as a list of significant events allegedly related to Bin Laden and/or Al-Qaíida."

Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism - (dead link)
California State University, San Bernardino
"...is a nonpartisan domestic research and policy center that serves the region and nation by examining the ways that bigotry, advocacy of extreme methods, or the use of terrorism deny civil or human rights to people on the basis of race, ethnicity, religion, gender, sexual orientation, disability or other relevant status characteristic. The center seeks to aid scholars, community activists, government officials, law enforcement, the media and others with objective information to aid them in their examination and implementation of law and policy.
Includes case law, state and federal anti-hate laws, legislative proposals, and other countries laws.

Center for the Study of Democracy - (dead link)
University of California, Irvine

  • "Constitutional Interpretation as Constitutional Creation" - (dead link)
    By Walter Murphy, Princeton University
    1999-2000 Harry Eckstein Lecture

A Century of Law making for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873
"Beginning with the Continental Congress in 1774, America's national legislative bodies have kept records of their proceedings. The records of the Continental Congress, the Constitutional Convention, and the United States Congress make up a rich documentary history of the construction of the nation and the development of the federal government and its role in the national life. These documents record American history in the words of those who built our government...In order to make these records more easily accessible to students, scholars, and interested citizens, A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation brings together online the records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873-75."
- American Memory, Library of Congress

  • The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States
    United States Serial Set Numbers 2484 to 2589
    U.S. Congressional Documents
    "The six-volume set entitled The Revolutionary Diplomatic Correspondence of the United States, from House Miscellaneous Document No. 603 of the U.S. Serial Set, was compiled by Dr. Francis Wharton and promulgated on August 13, 1888, by both houses of Congress."

ChemAlliance
Regulatory Information for the Chemical Process Industries

  • Laws & Regulations - (dead link) Includes: Standing Laws ; Final Regulations ; Current Regulatory and Statutory Activity ; New Policy/Reg Changes.

Chicago Anarchists on Trial : Evidence from the Haymarket Affair, 1874-1887
"This collection showcases more than 3,800 images of original manuscripts, broadsides, photographs, prints and artifacts relating to the Haymarket Affair. The violent confrontation between Chicago police and labor protesters in 1874 proved to be a pivotal setback in the struggle for American workers' rights...Of special interest and significance are the two dozen images of three-dimensional artifacts, including contemporary Chicago Police Department paraphernalia, labor banners, and an unexploded bomb casing given to juror J. H. Brayton by State's Attorney Julius Grinnell. The cornerstone is the presentation, as images and searchable text, of the transcript of the 3,200 pages of proceedings from the murder trial of State of Illinois v. August Spies, et al."
American Memory, Library of Congress

The Cigarette Papers Online
 "...the electronic version of The Cigarette Papers, available through GALEN II, is based on the Brown & Williamson documents."

CNN.com - LawCenter
Sections include: News ; Supreme Court ; Analysis ; Court TV ; Trials and Cases

  • Law Library - (dead link)
    Includes: For the Record [archive of full-text documents] ; Featured Documents ; Research and Reference Tools.

Code of Civil Procedure in Japan
"Revised Code of Civil Procedure was promulgated on June 26, 1996, and will come into effect within two years. Here is the [English] translation of the amended Code of Civil Procedure."
From japanlaw.co.jp - Yoshida & Partners, Tokyo

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

The Code of Hammurabi
 Hammurabi was king of Babylonia from 1792-1750 B.C.E.
"...the Hammurabi records is his code of laws, the earliest-known example of a ruler proclaiming publicly to his people an entire body of laws, arranged in orderly groups, so that all men might read and know what was required of them."
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

Congressional Research Service - (dead link)
WWW Accessible Reports
Compiled and organized by Gary Price, George Washington University

Constitution Finder
"This index offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world are listed alphabetically, and each is linked to its constitutional text posted somewhere on the Internet."
Maintained by Christine Nguyen, The T.C. Williams School of Law, University of Richmond

Constitution of the United States of America : Analysis and Interpretation
Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
Supplements to the Constitution are cumulative.
Prepared by the Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress

Council on Ocean Law - (dead link)

  • Oceans Conventions and their Status - (dead link)

Court Rules, Forms and Dockets
"This site includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword."
From LLRX.com

Cornell University - Computer Policy & Law Program

Current Law Journal Content (CLJC)
Scanned journal contents pages.
"The database contains no articles in full-text, though it might contain links to full-text. CLJC is an indexing database (without any subject analysis) that can reconstitute the text arrangement of an issue's table of contents."
- Washington & Lee Law School

"Cyberspace's Constitution" (presentation) [.pdf]
"In this talk, I describe how the architecture or code of cyberspace operates as law, and how that law is changing."
By Lawrence Lessig, Harvard Law School
Keynote Speaker, 9th International World Wide Web Conference - (dead link) (Amsterdam, 2000)

Diplomacy Monitor
"Tracking Internet-based Global Diplomacy"
"The St. Thomas University School of Law (Miami, Florida, USA) has deployed specially developed proprietary software to monitor the global output of communiquÈs, official statements, press briefings, position papers, interview transcripts and news releases from hundreds of diplomacy-related websites in near real-time and channel it into a synthesized information stream for scholars, diplomats, journalists, researchers, students and others interested in the interaction among nations
- St. Thomas University School of Law

Divorce Dictionary
From the Divorce Source

Documents from the Continental Congress and the Constitutional Convention, 1774-1789 - (dead link)
"The Continental Congress Broadside Collection (253 titles) and the Constitutional Convention Broadside Collection (21 titles) contain 274 documents relating to the work of Congress and the drafting and ratification of the Constitution. Items include extracts of the journals of Congress, resolutions, proclamations, committee reports, treaties, and early printed versions of the United States Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. Most are one page in length, others range from 1 to 28 pages."
American Memory, Library of Congress

Duhaime's Law Dictionary
Especially relevant to Canadian law.

Electronic Law Journals Environment (ELJ)
"...established to promote the development of an electronic legal culture in journal reading, writing and publishing. The new and exciting electronic law journals environment will include original law journals, comprehensive journal listings and a lively electronic law forum. Additional features of this environment will include a common interface, search and navigation tools, debate facilitates, as well as the ability to download IT demos and applications."
CTI Law Technology Centre, University of Warwick and Centre for Law, Computers and Technology, University of Strathclyde.

English Laws for Women in the Nineteenth Century
Originally published in 1854 by Caroline Norton (1808-1877)
From the Victorian Women Writers Project Library

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics
Edited by Boudewijn Bouckaert and Gerrit De Geest ; Foreword by Richard A. Posner. Published by Edward Elgar and the University of Ghent, 2000.

Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) - (dead link) "...a fast, convenient, comprehensive online search service for finding information about environmental treaties and national resource indicators."
Center for International Earth Science Information Network at Columbia University

European Research Papers Archive (ERPA)
"ERPA is a common access point for...online working paper series in the field of European integration research ... At present [08/02/01], the ERPA database contains 454 papers."

Federal Judiciary

Federation of American Scientists

FedForms.gov
"FedForms.gov provides 'one-stop-shopping' for the Federal forms most used by the public."

Final Report of the Independent Counsel In Re: Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan Association Regarding Monica Lewinsky and Others
United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, Division for the Purpose of Appointing Independent Counsels, Division No. 94-1.
Robert W. Ray, Independent Counsel, Released March 6, 2002

FLITE - Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975
Federal Legal Information Through Electronics (FLITE)
Historic File of Supreme Court Decisions
"...the U.S. Air Force has agreed to release a historic file of Supreme Court decisions from its FLITE ("Federal Legal Information Through Electronics") system. The file consists of over 7,000 Supreme Court opinions dating from 1937 through 1975, from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports."

The Founders' Constitution
 "In this unique anthology, Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner draw on the writings of a wide array of people engaged in the problem of making popular government safe, steady, and accountable. The documents included range from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s, from the reflections of philosophers to popular pamphlets, from public debates in ratifying conventions to the private correspondence of the leading political actors of the day."
Web edition, University of Chicago Press and Liberty Fund

Gammel's The Laws of Texas (Volumes 1-10) 1822-1897
"...has long been one of the most important primary resources for the study of Texas' complex history during the Nineteenth Century. His monumental compilation charts Texas from the time of colonization through to statehood and reveals Texas' legal history during crucial times in its development. The Laws consist of documents not only covering each congressional and legislative session but comprise other documents of significance, including the constitutions, select journals from the constitutional conventions, and early colonization laws."
Government Documents Dept., University of North Texas Libraries

General Accounting Office (GAO) Comptroller General Decisions - (dead link) "...contains decisions made by the Comptroller General in the areas of Federal law such as: appropriations; bid protests; civilian or military personnel pay and allowances; household goods and freight loss damage; transportation rates etc."

General Accounting Office (GAO) Legal Reports

General Accounting Office (GAO) Reports - (dead link)
"...contains all publicly released GAO reports from FY 1995 to the present, as well as approximately 85% of the publicly released reports for FY 1994 and 3% for FY 1993."

Glossary of Antitrust Terms
By Charles E. Mueller
Antitrust Law & Economic Review, Vol. 26, No. 4

George Washington University - National Security Archive

  • Trading Democracy? (February 2002)
    Documents from NAFTA's Secret Tribunals
    Compiled by Public Affairs Television and Washington Media Associates for "Bill Moyers Reports" produced by Sherry Jones and broadcast 5 February 2002 on PBS
    "...internal documents from the NAFTA secret tribunals that were obtained by the Moyers team, led by producer Sherry Jones. The documents consist of legal briefs, witness statements, and actual rulings from two of the three cases that are explored in tonightís broadcast."
    National Security Archive Electronic Briefing Book No. 65
    Edited by Thomas Blanton and Michael L. Evans
  • The Pentagon Papers: Secrets, Lies and Audiotapes
    (The Nixon Tapes and the Supreme Court Tape)
    Briefing Book Number 48, June 5, 2001
    Edited by Thomas S. Blanton.

Guide to Researching the Council of Europe
"This guide is designed to assist the researcher seeking information and documentation about and from the Council of Europe (CoE). We begin with a brief history of the CoE and a table listing its major institutions in comparison with those of the European Union. The bulk of this guide discusses the major institutions of the CoE and their main forms of documentation. The final section lists CoE entities and conventions by broad subject categories."
By Anne Burnett, Reference/Foreign & International Law Librarian at the University of Georgia School of Law Library

[Update to] A Guide to the U.S. Federal Legal System: Web-Based Publicly Accessible Sources
By Gretchen Feltes, Reference Librarian, New York University School of Law Library
LLRX.com Feature, November 1, 2001

Hague Conference on Private International Law Publications - (dead link)

Hammurabi's Code of Laws
Translated by L. W. King
From Exploring Ancient World Cultures: Readings from the Ancient Near East

Harvard Law School

Harvard Law School - The Berkman Center for Internet & Society

  • The Filter
    "Your regular dose of public interest Internet news and commentary from the Berkman Center for Internet & Society."

Harvard Law School Forum
"Research resources included records, posters, correspondence, transcripts, and recordings from the Harvard Law School Forum archive, the Harvard Libraries, the Harvard Media Production Center, the Harvard Law School Record, and various other libraries and internet resources across the United States. The results of this research are presented here as a comprehensive web site containing some 400 html pages, over 100 photos, and over 100 hours of streaming audio recordings. In addition to its function as a historical resource, this website serves as a bulletin board for upcoming and recent Forum events."

Harvard Law School Library - Digital Projects - (dead link)
Conversion Projects & Online Exhibits include: Nuremberg Trials Project ; Bracton Online ; Scarlet Trials ; History in Deed ; Charles Hamilton Houston ; "Sundry Good and Needful Ordinances."

Hind's Precedents of the of the House of Representatives of the United States:
Including References to Provisions of the Constitution and Laws, and Decisions of the United States Senate
By Asher C. Hinds, 1907

Holocaust Denial on Trial
David Irving v. Penguin Books and Deborah Lipstadt
"This site is built around the defense's groundbreaking research, the riveting trial-room testimony, and the judge's historic opinion which found Irving to be a 'right-wing pro-Nazi polemicist' who 'deliberately misrepresented and manipulated historical evidence.'"
Includes trial transcripts and extensive secondary documentation.
By Witness to the Holocaust Program and Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University

[Illinois] Gov. George Ryan of Illinois Clears Death Row (January 2003)
Illinois Commission on Capital Punishment - (dead link)
Commission created by then Governor George Ryan
Includes: Executive Order ; Commission Members ; Commission Report

  • Ryan's Speeches
    • Northwest University Law School - (dead link) (January 11, 2003)
      - From CNN
    • Depaul University College of Law (January 10, 2003)
      Includes photos and text of the speech

INCORE
Initiative on Conflict Resolution and Ethnicity
"...a central resource on the internet for those in the area of conflict resolution and ethnic conflict. It is intended to serve not only academic researchers but also policy-makers and practitioners."
A joint initiative of the University of Ulster and the United Nations University

Indian Affairs: Law and Treaties, Volume II (Treaties)
Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler, 1904
"...an historically significant, seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins...Volumes I, III and IV will be digitized and available later this year [2000]."
Digital edition by Oklahoma State University

InstaCase.com
"...brings you summaries of the latest decisions as they are released for publication on the internet, which is typically one to two weeks before you read about the case in your local legal newspaper. It is our goal to include in our database the electronic texts from the highest and intermediate appellate courts from each of the 50 states, as well as each of the United States Circuit courts. The advantages of this service are obvious and are provided absolutely free."

International Child Abduction Database (INCADAT) - (dead link) (English or French)
Based on the Hague Convention No. 28.

International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS)
"...is an international non-governmental organization of professionals, dedicated to the conservation of the world's historic monuments and sites."

International Court of Justice

  • International Court of Justice Unpublished Pleadings - (dead link) "The written and oral pleadings of the cases listed below are currently being prepared for printed publication. To make them available to the general public they are nowpublished on the ICJ website as electronic documents in a early, not corrected version. Most documents are PDF files..."
  • Lagrand Case (Germany v. United States of America) - (dead link) (June 28, 2001)

International Environmental Law and Policy (etext)
A Comprehensive Reference Source
"This site has been designed for use in conjunction with our textbook, but it should prove useful as a stand-alone research site, as well... contains links to the book's 21 chapters and annexes. Each chapter contains relevant links to sites containing treaties, treaty offices, documents, NGOs, government agencies, and cool sites we found while surfing."
By David Hunter, Jim Salzman and Durwood Zaelke, 2nd Ed., 2002.
(University Casebook Series)

  • International Environment Law Bibliography - Pre-1992
    "...contains references to numerous late 19th century-1992 materials on international environmental law, arranged by subject matter in pdf files. ELR thanks Don Anton, Director, Australian Centre for Environmental Law-ANU and Convenor, Environmental Law Programs, Australian National University Faculty of Law, for these materials."
    - Environmental Law Reporter

International Constitutional Law Project
"...provides English translations of and other textual material related to constitutional documents. It cross-references those documents for quick comparison of constitutional provisions."

International Labour Organization

International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg
The Nizkor Project

International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC)

  • International Humanitarian Law
    "...is the body of rules which, in wartime, protects people who are not or are no longer participating in the hostilities. Its central purpose is to limit and prevent human suffering in times of armed conflict."
    • Geneva Conventions - (dead link)
      Of 12 August 1949 and Additional Protocols of 8 June 1977
    • Treaty Database - (dead link)

International Victimology Website (IVW)
 "a resource for all those interested in improving justice for victims of crime and abuse of power. Through IVW, the UN Center for International Crime Prevention, the Research and Documentation Center of the Netherlands Ministry of Justice and the World Society of Victimology aim to promote the UN Declaration of Basic Principles of Justice for Victims of Crime and Abuse of Power."

  • Victimology Research Database - (dead link)
  • Victim Services and Victimization Prevention Database - (dead link)

Ireland Department of the Taoisearch
and Government Information Service

  • Bunreacht na h…ireann - Constitution of Ireland - (dead link)
  • Northern Ireland Peace Agreement, 10 April 1998 - (dead link)

Irish Penal Laws
Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery
"The purpose of this site is not to discuss the historical context of the Penal Laws or their enforcement, or their effect, but simply to make the raw material accessible to historians, legal scholars, students, and other interested people...On this site you will find the text of those Penal Laws which were passed in Ireland during the reigns of William and Mary, William III, Anne, and George I and II, that is to say, from 1691 to 1760. In addition, the site contains certain English statutes relating to the status of Irish Catholics."
By M. Patricia Schaffer, JD Columbia University Law School

IRS - Forms and Publications - (dead link)

Jewish National and University Library, Hebrew University

  • Ketubbot Database
     "The whole collection of the Jewish National and University Library 1200 Ketubbot with full bibliographic details."
    "The Collection of Ketubbot (marriage contracts) in the Jewish National and University Library numbers 1212 items (as of October 2000). It includes original ketubbot from Jewish communities around the world, handwritten as well as printed (among them blank forms)...the Collection includes ketubbot from many Jewish communities. Sometimes a ketubbah provides the only sure evidence for the existence of a Jewish community. And, inasmuch as the ketubbah is a legal document in every regard, financial agreements included, it also offers historical evidence of the Jewsí socio-economic status in various times and places.

Jurist: The Law Professors' Network

Jury Verdict Summaries
From the National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers
"The Premier Source for Researching Civil Jury Verdicts and Settlements"
"These Publishers collect detailed Civil Litigation information directly from the attorneys who tried the cases, then write concise summaries, which are used by attorneys and insurers for case evaluation."

  • National Expert Witness Directory
    "...an alphabetical listing of experts who have testified in civil jury trials across the United States...This site contains the names of nearly 40,000 experts who have testified in trials reported by NASJVP Members.

Justiz und NS-Verbrechen (German or English)
Die deutschen Strafverfahren wegen nationalsozialistischer Tˆtungsverbrechen, 1945-1999.
[Nazi Crimes on Trial : German Trials Concerning Nationalist Socialist Homicidal Crimes, 1945-1999]
English version in progress.
Compiled at the Institute of Criminal Law, University of Amsterdam

Law Dictionary
"Law.com's online Real Life Dictionary of the Law."

Law Library of Congress

  • Trial of Saddam Hussein
    "This website is intended to provide the viewer with essential information related to the relevant trials. It will also set out a selection of reference materials that will further explain important aspects of the trials."
  • Supreme Court Nominations
    Sections include: Selected Resources ; Nomination Documents ; Web Resources.

Law Library Resource Xchange (LLRX)
Many useful features and extras for librarians and researchers

Law-Lib Electronic Discussion List

Lawline.com
"...an internet broadcast site, using streaming audio and video to deliver our content. We have a produced programs in a wide range of topics including CLE courses."

LawTalk - From Indiana University
Each segment deals with some aspect of Law or Legal Studies and is authored by a faculty member from Indiana University

Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
"...is a digital library of internal tobacco industry documents from the files of top tobacco companies."
University of California, San Francisco Library

Legal Information Institute (LII)
Cornel University Law School

Legal Research Encyclopedia - (dead link)
"The law librarians at the Cornell Law Library are creating this compilation of United States and International legal resources to enhance access to and awareness of these materials in their varied formats...The Legal Research Encyclopedia is a topical and jurisdictional arrangement of all available formats, including print, microform, CD-ROM, WESTLAW, LEXIS and the Internet. Citation to research tools and direct links are provided."

Library of Congress - Guide to Law Online - (dead link)
"...prepared by the U.S. Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), is an annotated hypertext guide to sources of information worldwide on government and law available online without charge. It includes links only to the most useful and reliable sites for legal information available for each of the world's nations, although none of these sites have yet qualified for full GLIN recognition for the completeness, accuracy and officially certified authenticity of the legal texts they provide."

Library of Congress - The Harry A. Blackmun Papers
"Harry A. Blackmun (1908-1999) was appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1970 by President Richard Nixon, and he served until his retirement in 1994 at the age of 85...Blackmun is perhaps best known, however, for his landmark opinion in the abortion-rights cases of Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton (1973)."
Online sections include: Oral History Videos and Transcripts ; Case Material Highlights ; Finding Aids ; Selected Bibliography.

LLRX Court Rules, Forms & Dockets
"This site includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. You can browse to find the resource you need, or search by keyword.

LLSDC: Legislative Sourcebook Home Page
"The LLSDC Legislative Source Book is compiled by members of the Legislative Special Interest Section. Much of this material has been published in print for several years, and is now also available here on the LLSDC web site."
- Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.

Locating the Law: - (dead link)
A Handbook For Non-Librarians [.pdf]
4th ed., 2001.
Published by Southern California Association of Law Libraries (SCALL)

Lost Art Internet Database
"...a project of both, the Federal Government of Germany and its Federal States ("L‰nder"). It registers cultural goods which were transported or stolen because of persecution, especially of Jewish citizens, as a result of World War II or as a result of National Socialism...The project is realized in co-operation of the Coordination Office and the Institute for Technical and Business Information Systems of the Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg."

[McCarthy] - Closed-Door McCarthy Transcripts Released (May 5, 2003)

  • Senate Government Affairs Committee Prints, 107th Congress
    S. Prt. 107-84 -- Executive Sessions of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations of the Committee on Government Operations (McCarthy Hearings 1953-54)
  • National Public Radio (NPR) - All Things Considered [audio or text] (May 5, 2003)
    Documents Shed Light on "Executive Sessions"
    "...talks with Donald Ritchie, Asssoicate [sic] Senate Historian, about the release of some 9,000 pages of previously sealed transcripts of McCarthy's closed-door interrogations from 1953 to 1954. It is the largest disclosure of documents related to the McCarthy investigation, and offers a new look at what went on behind closed doors of some 160 executive sessions."
    Includes testimony by Langston Hughes and Aaron Copland.

Michigan Refugee Case Law Site - (dead link)
"The site currently collects, indexes, and publishes selected recent court decisions that interpret the legal definition of a "refugee." It presently contains cases from the highest national courts of Australia, Austria, Canada, Germany, New Zealand, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States."
University of Michigan Law School

Michigan State University Libraries - Digital Collections
Major collections include: Africana ; American Radicalism ; Applied and Life Sciences ; History & Social Sciences ; Interviews with Michigan Supreme Court Justices ; Orchids ; Osteopathy ; Sunday School Books ; Veterinary Medicine.

[Mill, John Stuart] John Stuart Mill Links
Sections include: Writings by JSM ; Writings about JSM ; Reviews ; General Sites.
Maintained by Pablo Stafforini

Milosevic on Trial - Video Archive
"This Internet video archive of the proceedings of the trial of Slobodan Milosevic at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague is a joint effort of the Human Rights Project at Bard College and the International Center for Transitional Justice."

Multimedia and Entertainment Law Online News (MELON)

A Multitude of Amendments, Alterations and Additions (etext)
The Writing and Publicizing of the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States.
By Ann Marie Dube, 1996.

Municipal Codes Online
"Seattle Public Library staff have prepared this [selected] list of links to city and county codes available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web."

National Academy Press (free downloads)

National Association of Attorneys General

  • Microsoft Documents - (dead link)

NLRB Style Manual
A Guide for Legal Writing in Plain English
- National Labor Relations Board

Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI)
"...is working to reduce the global threats from nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and is co-chaired by Ted Turner and Sam Nunn."

  • Source Documents
    Includes: Agreements ; Research Papers and Journal Articles ; Congressional Testimony ; Conference Proceedings and White Papers.

The Nuremberg War Crimes Trials
The International Military Tribunal for Germany
Trial of the Major War Criminals before the International Military Tribunal, Nuremberg, 14 November 1945-1 October 1946.
"The proceedings are published in English, French, Russian, and German ... The documents admitted in evidence are printed only in their original language..."
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School

[O.J. Verdict] PBS - Frontline - The O.J. Verdict
Web companion to the October 2005 TV broadcast. Watch entire program online.
Sections include: Introduction ; Interviews ; Observations & Analysis ; "Whites and Blacks Live in Two Different Worlds..." ; Readings & Links ; Teacher's Guide.

Official [U.S.] Bankruptcy Forms

Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance

  • Declarations of Religious Freedom
     "There have been many federal constitutions, religious statements and international declarations that have guaranteed (at least in principle) religious freedoms throughout the world. The following excerpts are taken from a variety of such documents."

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development - (dead link)

  • Competition Law and Policy - (dead link)Sections include: Council Recommendations ; Committee Reports ; Best Practice Roundtables ; OECD Publications ; Speeches ; Annual Reports by Country ; Events.
  • International Regulations Database - (dead link)"The OECD International Regulation Database is a comprehensive and internationally-comparable set of information about the state of regulation and market structures in OECD countries. For each Member country, it contains over 1100 observations, both quantitative and qualitative."

Organized Crime and Corruption Bibliographic Database
 -Osgoode Hall Law School at York University

Perkins Coie: Internet Case Digest
"...is a compilation of cases designed to bookmark, collate and monitor important developments in Internet law, including cases that have significant implications for Internet legal issues even if they are not directly related to the Internet. The Digest includes both filed and decided cases to capture the most recent developments as well as new judicial precedents. As a research tool, the Digest is useful as a starting point and points to additional resources that are kept current by those content providers."

Picturing Justice
"We believe the interaction between law and justice should be a topic for lively discussions between all citizens. Unfortunately, conversations centered on traditional sources of law (cases, statutes, etc.) exclude most of us. Our hope is that a webpage focused on images of law in movies and on television will foster a deeper discussion."
"Webitors:" John Denvir, Paul Joseph, Rob Waring

Public Records Online
"...is an information portal to official state websites, and those Tax Assessors' and Recorders' offices that have developed websites for the retrieval of available public records over the internet. Public records information that you may find includes copies of deeds, parcel maps, GIS maps, tax data, ownership information and indexes, and will vary to the extent that the particular office has developed their site

QuickLinks
"Links to news items about legal and regulatory aspects of Internet and the information society, particularly those relating to information content, and market and technology."

RESNA - Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America
"...is an interdisciplinary association of people with a common interest in technology and disability."

  • Technical Assistance Project Library - (dead link)
    Includes: Law ; Federal Reports ; Federal Budget ; Congressional Hearings ; Statistics ; International Reports ; TAP Bulletins ; Training Materials ; Accomplishment Series ; Resources ; Web-Based Educational Commission.

Salem Witch Trials
Documentary Archive and Transcription Project
"...consists of an electronic collection of primary source materials relating to the Salem witch trials of 1692 and a new transcription of the court records."
Sections include: Archives ; Books & Letters ; Documents ; Maps ; People.
Project Director: Benjamin C. Ray, Dept. of Religious Studies, University of Virginia

The Scottish Courts Web Site
"This site provides an access point to information relating to all civil and criminal courts within Scotland, including the Court of Session, the High Court of Justiciary, the Sheriff Courts and a number of other courts, commissions and tribunals as well the District Courts

  • Lockerbie Verdict - (dead link)

Search Full-Text U.S. Internet Government Periodicals - (dead link)
From WashLaw Web
Searchable by Subject, Sudoc Number or Title
By Paul A. Arrigo and Dee Barker, Government Documents Librarians, Washburn University Law Library

Search Systems
Free Public Records Database Collection (over 1500 databases)
By Pacific Information Resources

Selected Historic Decisions of the US Supreme Court
"From the LII's CD-ROM Collection of 624 Historic Decisions (2000 ed.)" and "Additional Focused Collections"
From Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute Supreme Court Collection.

Slaves and the Courts, 1740-1740
"...contains just over a hundred pamphlets and books (published between 1772 and 1889) concerning the difficult and troubling experiences of African and African-American slaves in the American colonies and the United States. The documents, most from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, comprise an assortment of trials