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National Conference of the Administrative Law Judiciary links to state administrative hearing agencies. Federal Contracting, Bidding and Administrative Decisions links to decisions organized by agency. Administrative Procedure Database of the American Bar Association provides state and federal materials, including updates on recent developments, journals, papers, reports; links to federal administrative statutes and regulations; links to state administrative procedures acts and other administrative resources; links to, information on model acts, reforms; discussion groups; surveys; international administrative resources. Washburn School of Law's resource page includes links to federal agencies, with a table of administrative resources available on their Web sites, including opinions, actions, forms, publications, resources, guides. Also links to overviews of the regulatory process and to regulatory resources. MegaLaw.com provides links to federal, state, international, think tank and university resources and papers on administrative law and the Freedom of Information Act.


AllLaw.com
www.alllaw.com


Provides links to sources for federal, state and international laws; links to legal organizations; legal practice resources; topical legal index; reference resources; educational links; legal forms; journals and periodicals.


American Law Sources On-line
www.lawsource.com/also/


Compilation of free-of-charge online sources of American law, such as court decisions, legislation, rules and regulations, administrative law, and local laws. The site contains links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge or at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers.


Ask Bill! – The Best Internet Law Library
www.lb7.uscourts.gov/reflinks.htm


Legal information portal includes extensive links to topical resources, including commercial, copyright, patent, employment, international, labor, securities and tax law; legal search engines, directories and news; general reference sources; federal and state judicial, legislative and executive branches; court rules; judicial codes of conduct; jury instructions.


Catalaw
www.catalaw.com


Catalog of online catalogs of law. Legal and government indexes arranged by topic of law, regional law or law-related subjects. Lists links to all sub-pages within indexes pertinent to a single legal subject and includes links to additional sites that provide focused links to subject-specific information.


Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/encyclopedia/


Contains links to legal resources organized by subject.


European Legal Database Guide
www.llrx.com/features/europenew.htm


Full text of article from LLRX.com about the online availability of European legal databases and other resources, with links; includes country-specific updates for major jurisdictions.


FindLaw
www.findlaw.com


FindLaw is a general hub of legal information on the Internet, geared to lawyers, law students, businesses and the general public. Visitors can use the site to run keyword searches for legal Web sites or browse through the hundreds of links (featuring both free and fee-based resources). The site organizes information by legal subject; law schools; professional development; legal organizations; directories; laws (cases and codes); federal, state and international resources; contracts and other forms; news; and general reference materials. The site also provides guidance on specific legal issues and research requests, and archives the full-text of many court opinions, statutes and other government documents.


Georgetown University Law Library
www.ll.georgetown.edu


Online collection of legal resources. Contains links to electronic collections and databases; journal indexes and legal journal guide; federal, state, territorial, foreign and international law links; academic and scholarly legal resources.


International Trade Law Sources on the Internet
www.llrx.com/features/trade3.htm


Full text of article from LLRX.com, with links and references to treaties, agreements, research resources, collections, bibliographies, international organizations, government resources, statistics.


Internet Legal Resource Guide
www.ilrg.com


Contains archive of more than 2,000 legal forms organized by category and searchable by keyword; index of other sources of legal forms available for free or for a fee; resources for legal professionals. Includes links to international resources organized by country; academia; law reviews and journals; continuing legal education materials.


Internet Library of Law and Court Decisions
www.internetlibrary.com


Contains extensive summaries of more than 500 court decisions, along with facts, analysis and pertinent quotes from cases of interest to those who do business on the Internet and in New Media. The decisions address copyright and trademark infringement, dilution, other intellectual property issues, jurisdiction, linking, framing, keying, metatags, pop-up ads, consumer complaint or gripe sites, tax, clip-art, online defamation, domain name disputes, e-mail, privacy, subpoenas, MP3s, encryption, gambling, click-wrap agreements, shrink wrap licenses, spam.


Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
www.law.cornell.edu/citation/prior/


Cornell University Law School provides this overview of legal citation, based on the 17th edition of the Bluebook of Legal Citation.


Jurist Legal News and Research
jurist.law.pitt.edu


Online and real-time legal research and news service provided by team of law student reporters, editors, Web developers and led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. JURIST is produced as a public service providing important legal news, materials and presenting them objectively and intelligibly in an ad-free format. Can access stories, documents, video and commentary by U.S. or international legal issue or name.


Law.com
www.law.com


Portal provides national and regional legal news updates and feeds; coverage of research issues and cases; online continuing legal education; resources by practice area; job openings; free and fee-based directories; surveys and rankings; links to national and local publications.


LawSitus.com
www.lawsitus.com


Contains links to federal and state cases, statutes, rules and legislation; legal resources by practice area; journals, reference materials; directories.


Lawyers.com
www.lawyers.com


Contains resources organized by legal topic, including articles, message boards, tips; archive; schedule of live chats; searchable legal glossary.


Legal Engine.com
www.legalengine.com


Visitors to this legal hub site can use its extensive list of links to find the full text of local, state, federal and international laws and cases, plus government information, educational resources and reference materials. The site's graphical interface and overlapping categories make it simple to locate specific links of interest.


Legal Information Institute – Cornell Law School
www.law.cornell.edu


The Legal Information Institute provides this well-organized and comprehensive Web site, featuring information on different areas of law, full-text of court opinions, codes and regulations, and other legal materials arranged by state, federal or international sources. The site provides useful overviews of specific legal topics, such as commercial transactions, tax, employment and intellectual property, with corresponding links for further information.


Legal Research Encyclopedia – Cornell University
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/encyclopedia/


Contains extensive legal resources organized by subject, country; lists primary sources of law in the United States by state; provides international law resources.


LexisOne
www.lexisone.com


Visitors can search free database of federal and state case law by jurisdiction, search terms or dates; access free legal forms by topic.


LLRX
www.llrx.com


Online journal with a focus on research and technology-related issues for legal professionals. Features, articles, departments and columns cover current congressional activities relating to technology, research and libraries; new and specialized Web sites for legal researchers; technology training resources; reviews of software and online legal database services; resources for intranets; books on technology topics; and seminar materials and presentations from legal and library-related technology conferences. Includes links to more than 1,400 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets that can be searched by keyword or browsed by court type, type of resource, jurisdiction or state.


National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws
www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ulc_final.htm


Provides the final texts of Uniform and Model Acts and Laws, organized alphabetically by title. Also includes drafts.


Northern California Association of Law Libraries
www.nocall.org/calif.htm


California Resources includes links to executive, legislative, judicial and legal resources; documents; information; news sources and libraries.


Table of State-Specific Citations Norms and Practices
www.law.cornell.edu/citation/7-500.htm


Provides citation forms for cases, statutes and regulations for all 50 states and the District of Columbia. For each state, includes sample of citation practice and use explanations.


UNILEX
www.unilex.info


Database of international case law on the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and on the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts. Provides abstracts of the most important cases; full text of each decision in its original language; complete texts of the CISG and the UNIDROIT Principles; ratification status report; decisions and arbitral awards by date, country, article number or issue. Provides bibliography.


University of Michigan Library Documents Center – State Legal Sources on the Web
www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/statelaw.html


Provides links to legal resources for all 50 states and the District of Columbia, including laws, constitutions, regulations, bills, courts, attorney general opinions, election data, newspapers.


vLex
www.vlex.com


Provides links to international case law and legal resources; case law and legislation for European Union and world countries; United States Constitution, case law, regulations, U.S. Code, law journals.


WashLaw WEB
www.washlaw.edu


Washburn University School of Law provides this excellent collection of legal links. The site organizes information by more than 100 individual topics, ranging from useful reference information and broad legal resources to individual state and country sites. Visitors can run queries on the full site or conduct individual searches of the full-text laws.


WWW Virtual Library – Law
www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/


Collection of law-related Web sites maintained by the Indiana University School of Law. Visitors can browse the Virtual Law Library database by organization type and by legal topic or use topical search engine.


Zimmerman’s Research Guide
www.lexisnexis.com/infopro/zimmerman/


Online encyclopedia for legal research. Entries are organized in alphabetical order and provide definitions, references, links.

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