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Cornell University Legal Information Institute - Comprehensive collection of U.S., state and international legal information and links to other sites. Organized by topic (type of law, etc.) and by source
(legislation, judicial opinions, international, federal, state, etc.). Includes searchable U.S. Code and links to sites with state legal materials.Criminal Justice Related Links (Cal State. Univ, Stanislaus) - links
FedLaw - Comprehensive links to federal and state law sites, maintained by the General Services Administration as a legal research site for federal government lawyers and employees.
Findlaw - Truly comprehensive hierarchical legal research directory, including case law and codes, state resources, international law, news, organizations, consultants and experts, law by subject, electronic journals, business law, family law, and legal education. The site's LawCrawler search engine powered by AltaVista.
GUIDE TO LAW ONLINE: U.S. States and Associated Jurisdictions (Law Library of Congress) - legal links and general resources on every state and territory belonging to the US, including the constitution and historical documents of each state; the Governor, Attorney General, and Election Commission of each state; judiciary opinions of each state's Supreme Court and Court of Appeals; and the code of laws, acts, and bills of each state. Links to each state's official Web site, state libraries, local governments, and public schools.
Hieros Gamos - The Comprehensive Legal Portal - Links to thousands of law-related Internet sites, including international and state government sites, legal organizations and law firms, journals, legal research tools, etc.
Katsuey's Legal Gateway - a legal research site for legal professionals and consumers. Along with the many usual topics covered, there are ethics links, legal forms, arbitration, international resources, bankruptcy ...
Lawguru.com - Legal Research Page. Has the usual, a multiple resource search tool, plus a weird laws section.
LegalEthics.com (formerly Practicing Attorney's Home Page) - Comprehensive directory of legal information on the Internet, including courts and caselaw; legal ethics; law reviews and other legal publications; legal reference sources; state, federal and local laws and legislation; international sources; etc.
LexNotes - (T. R. Halvorson) - legal research directory.
Perkins Coie: Internet Case Digest - Case law collection Tapping Officials' Secrets - Compendium of information on every state's open records and open meetings laws. 4th edition. 2001.
WashLaw WEB (Washburn University School of Law) - Comprehensive links to legal resources, with links to searchable federal and state caselaw, statutes, and codes; court rules; uniform laws; city codes; etc.
WWW Virtual Law Library (Indiana Univ)
CourtTV Law Center - Court TV program guides, transcripts of high profile cases, court documents,discussion groups.
Eye on the Courts (Cornell) - appellate decisions that are in the news.
Finding Court Opinions On The Web - (The National Law Journa) - Adapted from the book, The Best (and Worst) Legal Sites on the Web, by Robert J. Ambrogi, published by ALM Publishing. Links to various sites for each specific court listed
History of the Federal Judiciary - Courts, Federal Judges Biographical Database, landmark decisions, photo exhibit
LLRX Court Rules, Forms & Dockets - links to state and federal court rules, forms and dockets. Browse or search by keyword. Access to records sourced on Pacer requires user name and password.
Oyez Oyez Oyez: Current Justices - (Jerry Goldman) - biographical info on the U.S. Supreme Court justices (current and prior) with details on appointments, family, education, work, legal experience, literature, online resources, case participation with links, and predecessors. Includes biographical sketches and portraits. Browse by order of appointment or last name, or search by name. From the Oyez Project at Northwestern University.
PACER - U.S. Federal court info. - electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records. Requires an account. ($$)
U.S. Courts of Appeals - Each has a map of the U.S., with links to searchable opinions from each circuit (most going back to 1995 or 1994) and other information on each circuit. Each court can be searched as a unit.
U.S. Federal Courts - Maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (202-633-6097). Clearinghouse for information from and about the Judicial Branch. Annual statistical information in the Newsroom section under Judicial Business of the United States Courts The PACER Service Center (above) is the Federal Judiciary's centralized registration, billing, and technical support center for electronic access to U.S. District, Bankruptcy, and Appellate court records.
U.S. Supreme Court of the United States - official site; opinions, docket, oral arguments, history ...
U.S. Supreme Court Opinions:
Historic Supreme Court Decisions - by Justice - With biographies of (U.S. Supreme Court)justices
Commission on Online Child Protection (COPA) - final report presented to Congress.
COPNet & Police Resource List - Links to U.S., Canadian and some international law enforcement agencies, organizations, and information sites, by geographical location and by subject. Pages include police dogs resources, and several in the works.
CopSeek - A directory and specialized search engine for police-related sites.
The Coroner's Report - "Information and Resources on Gang Intervention and Prevention". Searchable.
Corporate Crime Reporter - Legal newsletter covering corporate crime prosecutions in the United States, also has interviews with prominent attorneys, related documents, and reports on top white-collar crime defense lawyers and corporate criminals.
The Corrections Connection - links to state inmate locator searches
Criminal Justice Links - (Cecil Greek, Florida State Univ. School of Criminology and Criminal Justice) includes links to national and international criminal justice sites, listed by subject and searchable; juvenile justice, forensics, censorship, drugs. corrections ...
Death Penalty Abolition News and Updates from Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty
Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI publications (including Uniform Crime Reports, hate crime and officer death stats); information about the agency, major investigations, and most wanted criminals and other fugitives; parental kidnapping and more.
GANG LAND (Jerry Capeci) - "the world's most comprehensive web site on organized crime!'
Inmate Locator - (Federal Bureau of Prisons) - information on the current prison population and on inmates released from 1982 - present. Search the database using the inmate's Register number, DCDC number, FBI number, INS number, or by using the inmate's first and last name. For information on inmates released prior to 1982, write to the Office of Communications and Archives.
Internet Crime Archives (Antonio Mendoza) - mass murderers, serial killers and other mayhem; Use the index for easier access. This site is rather intense, be forewarned.
Internet Resources on Genocide and Mass Killing (compiled by Dr S D Stein, Univ. of London)
Justice Information Center (National Criminal Justice Reference Service) - Statistics and information on corrections, courts, crime prevention, drugs, juvenile justice, victims, and more.
The Justice Technology Information Network (JUSTNET) (National Institute of Justice, Office of Science and Technology) - News, information and data about "law enforcement products and technologies," i.e., weapons, communications, computers, security equipment, etc.
Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice (2001) - (Nat'l Academy Press) data and analysis on America's youth crime problem
Law Enforcement Sites on the Web (Ira Wilsker) - All sorts of law enforcement news and links, but not very well organized. Table of Contents is halfway down the first page; links have been imported to a searchable database by NetStorm Technologies Inc.
National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (datasets - searchable) - Searchable archive of research reports and studies; abstracts, datasets and file documentation available (you must fill out a survey before viewing data).
Official Directory of State Patrol and State Police - (Terrance D. Martin) directory of state trooper and sheriff-related Web sites for each of the fifty United States. In addition to each state's official state police and state government Web sites, there are links to its police academies and associations, history, news, memorials, recruiting, and other related areas. There are also links to Web sites that have articles, poems, specific divisions of law enforcement, and other information.
Police Officer's Internet Directory - Comprehensive links to law enforcement agencies and organizations, criminal justice resources, mailing lists, employment directories, police memorial directories, etc.
PoliceScanner.Com - Live police and fire scanners from Los Angeles and Dallas (with more cities to come?), requires RealAudio software. Also has live transmissions from air traffic controllers.
Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics
Special Report: Corporate Corruption (Money CNN) - Fraud Inc. A great place to track developments related to corporate crime. In addition to news, articles, and breaking headlines, browse lists of recent investigations, read profiles of major corporate auditors and CEOs under investigation, see who went to court, and find out who went to jail.
Special Report: Debt To Society (Motherjones.com) - A package of articles on the prison population in the U.S. and its cost to the public The "Incarceration Atlas" portion of the resource is full of statistics and rankings from all States.
Terrorist Research Center - terrorist profiles (Data taken from "Patterns of Global Terrorism" - US State Department); additional list of counterterrorist organization profiles; document and links
UNICOR (Federal Prison Industries, Inc.) - products made by inmates
United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
Wanted Posters - U.S. Postal Service violators.
The World's Most Wanted - Lists U.S. and international most-wanted criminals, fugitives and unsolved crimes.
Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) - Drugs of Concern, backgrounders on traffickers, fugitives, statistics, Major Information Systems (includes FOIA information)
Drug Policy Alliance (formerly the Lindesmith Center-Drug Policy Foundation) - Broadening the Debate on Drugs and Drug Policy; promotes new drug policies based on common sense, science, public health and human rights.
Drug Reform Coordination Network - links to drug information, policy, ethics, reform, research
Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade (White House Office of National Drug Control Policy)
HIGH TIMES (drug culture magazine)
the Lycaeum - Entheogenic Database & Community - "unbiased information about all aspects of psychoactive drugs and drug use."
National Institute on Drug Abuse
Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade - and links
White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP)
Bar Associations (findlaw.com) - local, state, national and international
Bar Associations (martindale.com) - local, state, national and international
FindLaw - Find a Lawyer Name Search (West Legal Directory) - search for person or firm, by name or practice type. Search requires state.
LLRX.com - Reference From Coast to Coast - Finding Lawyers
Martindale-Hubell Lawyer Locator - Searchable profiles of more than 900,000 lawyers and law firms worldwide. Updated monthly. NOT included in the Internet version (but in the print and Nexis versions): Law digests, Iowa listings (because of state regulation governing lawyer advertising), and lawyer and firm ratings.
The Code of Federal Regulations - the general and permanent rules published in the Federal Register by the Executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
The
Constitution of the United States of America (GPO) - Searchable, with analysis
and interpretation, annotations of cases decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992.
Federal
Depository Library Gateways (GPO) - has Description of Resources & Searching Help; a multi-database search, a general topic browser and links to U.S. government publications and resources including:
American Bar Association- Law School Admission Council Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools.
The Abortion Law - background and state of abortion law in America, and access related legal material
LexisONE (sm)- Legal Research, small law firms Resources from Lexis-Nexis includes links to State Resources; state and county government sites; courts; boards, etc.
Line item vetoes information - Bills Vetoed by the President, background on the law and Supreme Court ruling of its unconstitutionality
Municipal Code Corporation - Searchable codes of ordinances for cities and counties in several states.
Presidential vetoes:
The Regulation Briefing Room (The Heritage Foundation) - Billed as "a comprehensive source of regulatory studies, statistics and information," includes a lot of useful information about regulations and regulatory issues, but has a definite anti-regulation bias. Experts on Regulation & the Regulatory Process. Produced by the Heritage Foundation
Senate, U.S. - official website
State Statutes (full-text) and Legislation on the Internet - Links to state laws, legislation, session laws (bills that have become laws), constitutions.
Uniform Commercial Code - Articles 1-9 (Cornell) - This HTML version of the U.C.C. does not include the revised Article 8 approved by National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws and the American Law Institute in 1994 nor the revised Article 5 approved in 1995. Links to state statutes that correspond to Articles, Uniform Probate Code Locator and several other uniform laws.
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AMERICAN CIVIL LIBERTIES UNION (ACLU) - ACLU Freedom Network web site includes news, legislative and court issues, information about the ACLU, information about civil liberties issues arranged by subject, voting scorecard for Congress members, House and Senate votes on key issues.
BigEar: Current Legal Resources on the Net - weekly listings of new net sources of legal info taken from law-related mailing lists and newsgroups. An experimental service of the Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School.
Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice) - Includes BJS publications, press releases, data, links to other data sites, statistics.
Center for Study of Responsive Law - The CSRL is a nonprofit Ralph Nader organization that supports and conducts a wide variety of research and educational projects to encourage the political, economic and social institutions of this country to be more aware of the needs of the citizen-consumer..
Class Actions (CENTRAL NOTICE) - Search class actions or browse alphabetically by party name. Not the easiest search to use. Includes information on class actions generally, information on attorneys handling class actions, and links to original document as available.
Class Action Reports - Bimonthly publication, reports class action decisions (but not all class action filings, not until they're decided). Concise summaries, plus editorial commentary; Statistics; Index
CompLaw--The Computer Law Resource - information concerning intellectual property, copyright, trademark, computer and Internet law resources and links, including news updates and recent case law and legislation.
Death Penalty Curricula for High School - (Mich. State Univ) Viewpoints, stages of a capital case, history, and how each method of execution is carried out. Interactive U.S. maps in State by State Data show executions and death row inmates by ethnicity, gender, or juveniles; legislation about the mentally retarded, juveniles, and life without parole; and methods of execution used. Included are State Summaries with facts and history, and a table of comparisons.
Death Penalty Information Center - full-text reports, briefs, and statistics examining all aspects of capital punishment. Topic sections analyze death penalty information in relation to public opinion, race, sex, age, mental competency, deterrence, innocence, and cost. A state by state listing clearly outlines and compares the legislation and the statistics for capital punishment nationally. A comprehensive list of links to other sources of information is also provided
Duhaime's Law Dictionary - Researched, written in plain language and provided free of charge by lawyer Lloyd Duhaime.
Electronic Journals, Alphabetical Listing of (Univ. of Toronto Bora Laskin Law Library) - alphabetical list of full-text law journals available on LEXIS, WESTLAW, QUICKLAW, and the Internet. Lexis-Nexis, Westlaw and QUICKLAW are pay-per-use services ($$)
European Legal Databases, Guide To (Mirela Roznovschi, New York Univ. School of Law Library) (LLRX)
Family Law in the Fifty States, Tables Summarizing - Family Law Quarterly, American Bar Association
Federal Rules of Evidence (Cornell)
Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal Periodicals, Directory of (Michael H. Hoffheimer, Univ. of Mississippi)
lexisONE(sm) - offers state Supreme Court (from January 1, 1996) and U.S. Supreme Court case law (from 1790), legal forms, and legal links. Free with registration, site also links to the commercial subscription and credit card access databases.
LLRX.com Research Guide (Andrew Zimmerman) - An Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers.
National Fraud Information Center
WestDoc search for citations - document retrieval service of Westlaw®. Requires account or payment by credit card. ($$)
APBnews.com: Crime, Justice, Safety - crime news; crime prevention and safety; solving crimes; celebrities and crime; criminal justice professionals; criminal justice resources and statistics; glossaries; links to crime statistics; safety; live police scanners for various cities
Children and the Media (Center for Media Education)
Child Lures - preventing child abuse by pedophiles
Commission on Online Child Protection (COPA) - final report presented to Congress.
Divorce Support Page (family law)
Domestic Violence, Misdemeanor Crime of - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms Q&A about the amendment to the Gun Control Act of 1968
FACTNet - Fight Against Coercive Tactics Network
The Kevorkian File - Names and situations of the assisted suicides, public speeches & debates, opposing views.
Legal Bytes - Newsletter on Emerging Issues in Computer Law
LegalSurvival.com - news of legal activities, by legal practice areas. 
Legacy Tobacco Documents Library - (Univ. of Calif, San Francisco) "offers searching, viewing, and downloading of over 20 million documents, which relate to scientific research, manufacturing, marketing, advertising and sales of cigarettes, among other topics, generally dating from the 1950's to recent years. These documents represent the contents of tobacco industry websites as of July 1999; newer material will be added to this library over time."
LLRX.com - Law Library Research Xchange - "Web journal dedicated to providing legal professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet legal research and technology-related issues."
National Children's Advocacy Center
National Crime Prevention Council Topics in Crime Prevention
Native American Legal Resources (Univ of Oklahoma College of Law)
The Officer Down Memorial Page
http://www.aph.gov.au/Senate/committee/acc_ctte/ncapedo/report/ - Australian government report - November 1995
Partners Against Violence (PAVnet)"virtual library" of - information about violence and youth-at-risk, representing data from seven different Federal agencies.
PoliceScanner.Com (streaming audio) - Requires Real Audio software
Presidential Pardons (Bernard J. Hibbitts, Univ. of Pittsburgh) - JURIST: the Legal Education Network - "the law of Presidential pardons" - pardon news updates, experts
American Firearms Industry - Statistics, news, products and dealers.
Arson & Explosives National Repository - statistical data
Firearms Litigation Clearinghouse
Guns & Firearms (rec.guns on the Web) - Includes firearm images and sounds, gun safety information, links to other firearm sites, directory of firearm-related businesses, FAQ, and more. Has a definite pro-gun bias.
Firearms and Crime Statistics (US Dept. of Justice Bureau of Justice Statistics)
The Gun Page - links to a few information sites; Specific Firearms Material section has pictures.
Handgun Control - Center to Prevent Handgun Violence (organization chaired by Sarah Brady, wife of Jim Brady) - guns in the news, gun industry suits, congressional voting, state gun laws...
Join Together Online - Gun Violence - a project of the Boston University School of Public Health, is a national resource for communities working to reduce substance abuse and gun violence.
National Rifle Association - Information about the NRA, NRA publications, etc.
Created by Barbara Gellis Shapiro (barbara@gate.net)