Subject Guide: Law

L E G A L

Compiled by
Prof. Jerry Bornstein
Note: *(asterisk) indicates highly recommended site.

LAWS / STATUTES / CASE LAW
  • *FindLaw
    Award winning site, originally developed by law librarians, and maintained by FindLaw Inc, provides access to case law, law reviews, legal news, statutes and codes.

  • LawCrawler
    Legal search engine powered by AltaVista, maintained by FindLaw.

  • Guide to Law Online
    Prepared by US Law Library of Congress, for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), provides annotated hypertext guide to legal and government information available free of charge on the Web.

  • Legal Information Institute
    Provides recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals. Produced by Cornell Law School.

  • *Legislation: Bills & Amendments
    Library of Congress gateway to information and links about bills and amendments in Congress, including bill summaires, and status.

  • New York State Court of Appeals
    Searchable database of New York's highest court's decisions since 1990. Maintained by Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.

  • Supreme Court (Washington Post/AP site)
    Provides information on Supreme Court calendar, docket and decisions since 1996, including links to Washington Post stories analyzing the decisions, and links to full-text of court decisions.

  • Supreme Court Database (Oyez Project at Northwestern University)
    A multimedia database providing abstracts of key constitutional cases, biographical portraits of all 108 Supreme Court justices, subject index to Supreme Court cases (using 20 keywords), digital audio (RealAudio) of the Oral Arguments in many important cases, as well as several recordings of the announcement of the Court's opinion, and links to written opinions of the court in all cases since 1893, provided by the FindLaw project. Maintained at Northwestern University.

  • Supreme Court Decisions
    Direct access to FindLaws full-text database on U.S. Supreme Court decisions since 1893.

  • *Thomas
    Legislative Information on the Web. Provides full-text of legislation from the 103rd Congress to the present; bill summaries and status, and public laws from 1973 to the present, as well as information on Congress, congressional committees, the legislative process and historic documents.

  • U.S. Constitution & Constitutional Law
    Access to the Constitution, Declaration of Independence and other historic documents with some annotations. Prepared by the Law Library of Congress for the Guide to Law Online Web (WWW).

  • United States Federal Court System & Decisions
    Guide to Law Online's gateway to Supreme Court decisions since 1893, as well as federal appeals court decisions dating back to the early 1990s.

  • U.S. House of Representatives: The Legislative Process
    Official House site providing access to current information on pending legislation, including bill text, bill status, amendment status, committee reports, roll call votes, and links to the Congressional Record.

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