Law
General Guides
Emory University Law Library Electronic Reference Desk
http://www.law.emory.edu/erd/index.html
Links to laws by jurisdiction, reference materials and research guides.
FindLaw
http://www.findlaw.com/
Contains
"legal resources on the Internet for legal professionals, businesses,
students and individuals. These resources include Web search utilities,
cases and codes, legal news, an online career center," and more. (LII)
Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/public/law.html
An annotated guide to online sources of worldwide government and law
information. It includes links to the most useful and reliable sites
for legal information available for each of the covered nations and
also has multinational references.(LII)
LII: Legal Information Institute
http://www.law.cornell.edu
Extensive
materials on the law: brief summaries of law topics, with links to key
primary sources; state and federal constitutions and codes; federal and
state judicial opinions; federal, state, and international law by
source or jurisdiction; current awareness resources, including "Eye on
the Courts" (news on important court decisions); and directories of
organizations, journals (law reviews), judges, lawyers, and law schools.(LII)
Supreme Court of the United States
http://www.supremecourtus.gov/
The Supreme Court's official site provides general information, opinions, term orders, argument calendar, schedules, court
rules, bar admission forms and instructions, case-handling guides,
special notices, biographies of current and past justices,
architectural details, and press releases. Includes a search engine for
finding documents. (LII)
Laws and Statutes
FindLaw - State Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/
Links to state legal resources on the World Wide Web.
Thomas: U. S. Congress Home Page
http://thomas.loc.gov/
Bills, reports, committee information, etc. compiled by the Library of Congress.
U.S. Code
http://uscode.house.gov
"The Office of the Law Revision Counsel prepares and publishes the United States
Code, which is a consolidation and codification by subject matter of the general
and permanent laws of the United States".
Regulations
Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html
The CFR is divided into 50 titles which represent broad areas subject to Federal regulation, and each title is divided into chapters which usually bear the name of the issuing agency. Searchable. (LII)
Federal Register
http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
"The
Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed
rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as
executive orders and other presidential documents".
Pennsylvania Law
FindLaw - State Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/11stategov/
"Includes
links to Pennsylvania constitution, code, bills, federal court
opinions, state court opinions, and administrative code".
Pennsylvania Legal Research Web Sites
http://www.pennsylvanialegalresearch.com/
Links to Pennsylvania government agencies related to laws, legislative bodies, and courts.
Pennsylvania Legislature
http://www.legis.state.pa.us
Links to information about the state legislature, law, state government and Pennsylvania history.
Pennsylvania Session Laws
http://palrb.us/default.asp
A
digital version of the laws passed by the Pennsylania legislative
bodies - a project in progress by the Legislative Reference Bureau.
International Law
FindLaw - Foreign and International Law
http://www.findlaw.com/12international/index.html
Links to international laws organized by country and region.
Guide to Law Online
http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/nations.html
A collection of links to legal resources
for countries and territories of the world. Includes links to constitutions,
general legal guides, specific country information, and executive, judicial,
and legal branches. From the Law Library of Congress. (LII)
Dictionary
Legal Lexicon
http://www.lectlaw.com/def.htm
"the Net's best law dictionary with thousands of definitions & explanations of legal terms, phrases & concepts".