Law and Legal Issues Subject Guide

Selected and updated by reference librarians using the criteria of quality, content, reliability and currency.

Legal Topics

General Legal Research
Federal Government
State Government
Courts
Municipal Ordinances and Codes
Law Journals and Law Reviews
Law Directories
Legal Newspapers and General Law Information
Legal Associations
Reference
International Law

General Legal Research

• American Bar Association's LawLink
• All Law
• FindLaw
• Guide to Law Online
• Guide to Law Online - Library of Congress
• Hieros Gamos: Worldwide Legal Directories
• Jeff Flax's Law Related Resources
• LLRX - Has LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets
• Law Guru
• Lawyers.com - Lexis-Nexis
• Legal Information Institute - Cornell
• Legal Forms
• Legal resources
• Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research - College of Law, Georgia State University
• National Federation of Paralegal Associations Legal Resources on the Web
• Public Library of Law "One of the world's largest free law libraries."

Federal Government

• Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) - GPO Access
• Code of Federal Regulations - Cornell's Legal Information Institute
• Electronic Code of Federal Regulations (e-CFR)
• Kappler's Indian Affairs Laws & Treaties
• List of CFR Sections Affected (LSA) - "Proposed, new, and amended Federal regulations that have been published in the Federal Register since the most recent revision date of a CFR title."
• US Code - Cornell's Legal Information Institute
• US Code - FindLaw
• Thomas - US Congress - Legislation
• United States Code - Office of the Law Revision Counsel of the U.S. House of Representatives

State Government

• Laws of New York
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - You can find Acts and Legislation by state or by act title.
• New York Legal Materials - Constitution, statutes, legislative information
• New York State Government Information Locator Service
• State Laws and Published Ordinances — Firearms - Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, 2009/2010, 30th Edition.
• Statutes - For all states.

Courts

• Cornell Legal Information Institute - Provides Historic Supreme Court Decisions - by Party Name and a Supreme Court Collection.
• Federal Judiciary
• FedWorld Supreme Court Decisions - 7,407 full-text decisions from volumes 300 through 422 of U.S. Reports issued between 1937 and 1975.
• FindLaw: Supreme Court Decisions
• Historic Supreme Court Decisions
• Landmark Cases of the Supreme Court
• National Center for State Courts - Has links to State Court Web Sites
• New York State Court of Appeals
• New York State Court of Claims
New York State Unified Court System
Grand Juror's Handbook
Trial Juror's Handbook
Public Access Law Libraries
• Oyez: U.S. Supreme Court Media
• PACER Service - "Provides on-line access to U.S. Appellate, District, and Bankruptcy court records and documents nationwide." See also RECAP, "a free extension for Firefox that improves the experience of using PACER...and shows you when free documents are available."
• Supreme Court Decisions (1937-1975) - GPO Access
• Supreme Court of the United States - Official page
• U.S. Courts

Municipal Ordinances and Codes

• Municipal Codes Online - Seattle Public Libary
• The General Code Advantage: Municipal Codes on the Internet
• Municode.com
State and Local Government on the Net

Law Journals and Law Reviews

• Legal Journals
• Law Review Tables of Contents
• LexisNexis Directory of Law Reviews
• Library of Congress Law Reviews Online
• Findlaw: Academic Law Reviews and Journals
• Duke University School of Law Journals
• University Law Review Project

Law Directories

• Findlaw Lawyer Directory
• American Bar Association Lawyer Locator
• Directory of Law Schools

Legal Newspapers and General Law Information

• Lawyers USA
• National Law Journal
• Law.com
• Court TV - Current legal events

Legal Associations

• American Association for Paralegal Education (AAfPE)
• American Association of Law Libraries
• American Bar Association
• National Federation of Paralegal Association (NFPA)
• National Association of Legal Assistants (NALA)
• National Bar Association

Reference

• Basic Legal Citations - Peter W. Martin
• Guide to Patents - Useful resources from the MIT Library
• Law Dictionary
• United States Patent and Trademark Office - Authoritative, comprehensive and up-to-date, but a bit difficult to use. Other patent sites include European Patent Office, Free Patents Online, and Google Patents.

International Law

• American Society of International Law
• Electronic Information System for International Law

Last update: Tuesday, January 10, 2012