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Judy O'Dell, Reference Librarian /
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Associations and Organizations | Law Schools and Rankings | Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesauri | Directories | Legal Citation | Historical Documents | Constitutions | International Courts | U. S. Federal Courts | U. S. Executive Branch | U. S. Congress | Library of Congress | Michigan Courts | Michigan Executive Branch | Michigan Legislature | Michigan Department of Attorney General | Municipal Codes | Rules/Forms | Legal Research | Find an Article | Portals | Special Topics

See also: Administrative Law | Case Law | Statutes and Municipal Codes

Last Updated: 6/24/09

Associations and Organizations

• American Bar Association
  Provides law school accreditation, continuing education, programs, and information about the law.
• State Bar of Michigan
  Promotes improvements in the administration of justice, advancements in jurisprudence, improving relations between the public and the legal profession, and promotes the interests of the legal profession in the State.
• Institute of Continuing Legal Educaton
  Mission is to provide Michigan lawyers with accessible, high-quality, continuing legal education and resource materials that enable them to practice law more effectively.
• WashLaw WEB
  List of U. S. bar and other legal associations.
• Worldwide Bar Associations
  List of bar associations by region and country.

Law Schools and Rankings

• FindLaw : Law Schools : Law School Information
  Links to law schools worldwide.
• FindLaw : Law Schools : Pre-Law Resources : Law School Rankings
  Links to various rankings of law schools.
• Law School Information Index
  Links to law schools, rankings and other law school directories.

Dictionaries, Encyclopedias and Thesauri

• American Jurisprudence 2d
  Court cases arranged by topic. CMU access only.
• Duhaime's Law Dictionary
  Intended for the world wide legal information community.
• Everybody's Legal Dictionary
  Plain-English definitions for over a thousand legal terms, from the common to the bizarre.
• Gale Encyclopedia of Everyday Law.
  Brief descriptions of each issue's historical background, covering important statutes and cases; profiles of various U.S. laws and regulations; and details of how laws and regulations vary from state to state. CMU access only.
  
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law
  LAW KF 154 W47 2005
• Zimmerman's Research Guide
  An Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers providing suggested sources for researching a variety of legal topics.

Directories

• Law IDEA Open Directory
  Legal Links Directory of legal related resources.
• Lawyer Locator
  Users can search over lawyers and law firms in 160 countries by a variety of criteria.

Legal Citation

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation
  Guide to the rules of legal citation based on the "bluebook." There are links to sample citations.
• Michigan Uniform System of Citation
  Reported decisions of the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeals follow the revised Michigan Uniform System of Citation.
• Most-Cited Legal Periodicals
  Ranks U.S. and selected non-U.S. periodicals.

Historical Documents

• A Chronology of US Historical Documents
  List of important documents arranged by date.

Constitutions

• Constitutions of the World
  Law KF 3165 M33 2001
• FindLaw : Legal Subjects Index : Constitutional Law : Constitutions of the World
  Linked alphabetically by country.
• Findlaw : Cases and Codes : U.S. Constitution
  Divided into sections with links between sections and to cited supreme court cases.
• FindLaw : State Resources : State Constitutions
  Linked alphabetically by state.

International Courts

• European Court of Human Rights
  Purpose is to ajudicate cases under the Convention for the Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms
• International Court of Justice
  Site includes information about the court, judges, decisions, publications and related documents.
• International Criminal Court
  Site includes information about the court, judges, decisions, publications and related documents.

U. S. Federal Courts

• Federal Judicial Center
  Education and research agency for the federal courts.
• Georgetown Law Library: Supreme Court Nominations Research Guide
  Explains the nomination process and suggests resources for further research.
  
• Judges of the United States Courts
  Contains the service record and biographical information for all judges who have served on major U.S. Courts since 1789.
• Libray of Congress-Law Library-Find Legal Resources- Supreme Court Nominations
  Lists of selected resources related to the nomination process.
  
• Supreme Court of the United States
  General information about the court, biographies of current members, list of past justices, calender, rules, and recent opinions.
• Supreme Court Antitrust Debates
  Teaching tool containing excerpts of antitrust cases between 1895 and 1993.
• The OYEZ Project
  The Project provides abstracts and other materials for leading cases in constitutional law decided by the Supreme Court of the United States.
• Federal Judiciary Homepage
  Links to news, publications and web sites for the various federal courts throughout the U S.
• U.S. Federal Courts Finder
  Organized by federal circuit, it provides links to fairly recent cases from federal appellate courts.

U. S. Executive Branch

• American Presidency Project
  Current and historical document, and data related to individual presidents.
• Official US Executive Branch Web Sites
  Links to web sites of executive agencies and offices.
• Welcome to the White House
  Search for recent executive orders, White House documents, information about the President and Vice President, and other executive branch activity.

U. S. Congress

• Open Congress
  Brings together official government information with news and blog coverage to give you the story behind what's happening in Congress. A free, open-source, non-profit, and non-partisan resource.
• U.S. House of Representatives
  Overview of house members, committees, and other House organizations etc.
• U.S. Senate
  Overview of senate members, committees, and other Senate activities.
• Thomas
  Recent legislation, committee reports, issues of the Congressional Record and other related information.

Library of Congress

• Law Library of Congress
  Legal division of the Library of Congress.

Michigan Courts

• Michigan Courts: One Court of Justice
  Provides links to court web sites and related information.

Michigan Executive Branch

• Office of the Governor
  Provides executive orders and links to other information related to the Govenor's office.

Michigan Legislature

• Michigan House of Representatives
  Lists representatives, addresses, committees, and other information about the House.
• Michigan State Senate
  Lists senators, addresses, committees, and other information about the Senate.
• Michigan Legislative Information Web Server
  Find laws, bills, calendars, Michigan Manual, and links to other government sites.
• State Law Library - Library of Michigan
  Open to the public, the Library of Michigan provides in-person reference assistance and computer access to all who visit.

Michigan Department of Attorney General

• Office of the Attorney General
  Provides opinions and links to other information related to the AG office.

Municipal Codes

• City of Mount Pleasant, Michigan Code of Ordinances American Legal Publishing Corp.
  Law KFX1909 A35 1997t
• Municipal Code Corporation
  Listed alphabetically by state and local area.
• Municipal Codes Online
  Links to city and county codes.
• Municipal Codes Web Library by Lexis-Nexis
  Ordlink SLinks to Municipal Codes published through LexisNexis Municipal Codes Publishing and ervice

Rules/Forms

• Catalaw: Legal Topics: Forms and Precedents
  Bibliography of sites listing or containing legal forms.
• FedForms.gov
  Provides "one-stop-shopping" for the Federal forms most used by the public.
• FindLaw: Forms
  Links to sites containing forms arranged by subject and jurisdiction.
• Findlaw for the Public
  A legal guide to forms of interest to the consumer, arranged by topic.
• Legaldocs
  Customize legal documents online. Some require a fee.
• ILRG Legal Forms Archive
  Links to sites containing forms arranged by subject.
• LLRX Court Rules, Forms & Dockets
  Provides links to a large number of sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets.
• Local Bankruptcy Rules
  Links to bankruptcy rules for each state.
• WashLaw WEB
  Bibliography of sites listing or containing legal forms.

Legal Research

• Lawyer's Guide to Fact Finding on the Internet
  Books KF 242 A1 L48 2004

Find an Article

• DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals-Law
  Covers free, full text, quality controlled scientific and scholarly journals.
• Law Reviews
  Find articles from law reviews and other scholarly journals. CMU access only.
• Legal News
  Find articles from legal magazines, newspapers and newsletters. CMU access only.
• Social Science Abstracts
  Indexes international, English-language periodicals in sociology, anthropology, geography, economics, political science, and law. Covers 1983 to present and in updated monthly. CMU access only.

Portals

• American Law Sources On-line
  Provides a uniform, and useful compilation of links to all free on-line sources of American law. Also has additional links to sources of free commentary and practice aids (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers).
• CataLaw
  A catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet. It arranges all indexes of law and government into a uniform metaindex.
• EISIL: the Electronic Information System for International Law
  Contains links to primary documents, recommended websites, and research guides.
• FindLaw
  Extensive list of links to legal resources on the Internet.
• Guide to the Law Online
  Produced by the Law Library of Congress and the Global Legal Information Network. It gathers the most useful and reliable online sites.
• Hieros Gamos
  Comprehensive starting point for all law and law related information.
• Internet Legal Resource Guide
  International index of web sites and files arranged by topic. Designed for everyone.
• Jurist: The Legal Education Network
  A mega site of news, research and educational resources for professors, students, journalists, legal professional and the public.
• LawGuru.com
  Links to an extensive number of legal research sites and is the new host for the Internet Law Library. Also provides news, and question & answer pages.
• LawMoose! World Legal Resource Center
  A specialty search engine indexing a selection of valuable legal research sites.
• Law and Policy Institutions Guide
  Directed at the legal profession, academia and the public, the Law and Politics Internet Guide is designed to be a one-stop source for legal research. It includes informative and current law related resources.
• Legal Information Institute
  Provides links and references to sources of International, Federal, and New York State law. Of particular value is the overview of each topic or publication.
• SOSIG: Law Gateway
  A U. K. based site provides acces to global legal information.
• Virtual Chase
  Provides links to articles, research guides, and teaching tools.
• WashLaw WEB
  Extensive listing of Internet legal resources by type or jurisdiction.
• Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research
  Provides a selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites for U.S. Supreme Court research on th web.
• World Legal Information Institute
  Free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility developed collaboratively.
• WWW Virtual Library--Law
  Search by word or phrase, topic, or type of information.

Special Topics

• Death Penalty Project
  Information on state death penalty statutes and other relevant state information sources.
• Famous Trials
  Links to commentary, background and reports of famous trials.
  
• Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
  Provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation.
• State & National Freedom of Information Resources
  A guide to obtaining information guaranteed under state and federal open meetings and open records laws.
• WomensLaw.org
  A nationwide online resource for women and girls living with or escaping domestic violence.