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Subject Index to Legal Resources on the Internet
Links on this page verified 3/30/05
If you find broken links email us at garce003@umn.edu and we'll fix it as soon as possible.
Below is a list links to law-related resources arranged in over 70 topics. This list is far from comprehensive and therefore links to other indexes & finding aids to legal resources are provided at the bottom of this page.

Resources


Abortion
Public Agenda -Abortion Issue Guide
Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization. The abortion issue guide contains links to sources and resources including organizations representing different perspectives on the abortion issue.
Abortion Law Homepage
Privately posted web sites, "...constructed to help people, regardless of their political bent, understand the background and state of abortion law in America, and access related legal materials..."

Acronyms, Abbreviations & Glossaries see also: Legal Writing
Abbreviations and Acronyms (University Libraries)
List of links to general, government and science acronym and abbreviations web sites.
Abbreviations and Acronyms of the U.S. Government (Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis University Library)
A browsable list of federal government acronyms and links to corresponding web sites when available.
Journal Abbreviation Sources (Iowa State University Library)
A registry of Web resources that list or provide access to the full title of journal abbreviations. Resources are grouped by discipline, e.g. agriculture, law, medicine. Compilied and maintained by Gerry McKiernan, IA State Univ. Library.
Military Acronyms & Glossaries (Indiana Univ. - Purdue Univ. at Indianapolis University Library)
A list of links to military-related acronyms and glossaries.
U.S. Senate Glossary
Provides a brief definitions of terms related to Congress and the legislative process.

Administrative Law
Federal and Minnesota Regulations
A basic guide to researching Minnesota and Federal regulations using print sources located in the Univ. of Minnesota Law Library.
Minnesota Rules (Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes)
Minnesota State Register (Office of the State Registrar)
Code of Federal Regulations (GPO Access)
Federal Register (GPO Access / National Archive & Records Administration)
Administrative Procedure, Title 5 U.S.C., Chapter 5 (Cornell Legal Information Institute)
Administrative Agency Index & Decisions (Federal) ( Doc-Law Web, Washlaw - Washburn Univ. School of Law)
Administrative Codes & Registers
Access administrative codes, registers and related documents for federal, state & U.S. territorial goverments. (National Association of Secretaries of State)
Federal Administrative Decisions & other Actions (Univ. of Virginia School of Law Library)
ABA Administrative Procedure Database
(ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice & Florida State Univ. College of Law)
ABA Section of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
Office of Administrative Law Judges (U.S. Dept. of Labor)

Adoption
National Adoption Information Clearinghouse (Administration for Children & Families, U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
Adoption Resources (Adoption Web Ring)
Adoption Law - Wex Legal Encyclopedia (Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School)
Includes links to major statutes, cases and secondary sources.
Adoption LawSite (National Center for Adoption Law & Policy, Capital University Law School)
A resources for, "prospective adoptive parents, biological parents, adoption and child welfare lawyers, juvenile and family court judges and child advocates." The site includes, "statutes, regulations, key cases, and leading explanatory law review and practice journal articles concerning child welfare and adoption laws for each U.S. State. Also included are plain English summaries of most of the legal material hosted here."
Adoption Policy Resource Center (Adoption Advocates)
Adoption.org
Search engine focused on adoption.

Agriculture Law
USDA (U.S. Dept. of Agriculture)
Guide to Agriculture Law (HIEROS GAMOS - THE COMPREHENSIVE LEGAL SITE)
Agriculture Law - Wex Legal Encyclopedia (Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School)
Includes links to major statutes, cases and secondary sources.
National Agricultural Law Center (Univ. of Arkansas School of Law)

AIDS/HIV - Acquired Immune Deficiency -Human Immunodeficiency Virus
Legal Issues and HIV in the U.S. (The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource)
Lambda Legal - HIV Project (Lambda Legal Defense and Education Fund)
Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network Includes a good collection of links to other related web sites.

Alternative Dispute Resolution (ADR)
American Arbitration Association
FindLaw's Arbitration and Mediation (ADR) page
Links to attorneys and firms, articles, FAQ and more.
Nolo Press' Mediation Page (Nolo Press)
Articles, FAQ and links to self-help publications from Nolo Press.
Mediate.com
Alternative Dispute Resolution (Minnesota Judicial Branch)
Information on ADR in MN courts system and ADR neutrals information.

Animal Rights
Animal Legal & Historical Center (Michigan State Univ. College of Law)
Contains over 500 full text cases (US, Historical and UK) and 774 U.S. statutes. Topical coverage of "over 30 topics that give the viewer directions and comprehensive explanations on some of the more interesting issues of the animal area." A number of legal articles addressing a wide variety of animal topics are also provided. Also includes an expanding international collection.
Legal Treatment of Animals (Internet Law Library - LawMoose)
AnimalConcerns.org (EnviroLink Network)
Humane Society of the United States
Information and links to laws and legislation, cases and HSUS ligitation projects and other HSUS publications.

Antitrust Law
Antitrust & Monopoly Law (Internet Law Library - Law Moose)
Antitrust Law (WEX - Legal Information Institute)
Includes a brief overview article and links to Federal and state (New York) statutes and decisions and links to internet resources.
Guide to Antitrust Resources on the Web (American Antitrust Institute)
Provides an fairly extensive and indexed listing of links to antitrust and unfair competition web sites.
Antitrust Case Summary Browser
(Anthony D. Becker, Ph.D. Assoc. Prof. - Dept. of Economics Saint Olaf College)
ABA Antitrust Law Section
Links to Antitrust Sites (ABA Antitrust Law Section)
Antitrust Law Section, Minnesota State Bar Association
Antitrust Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Bureau of Competition, U.S. Federal Trade Commission.
The antitrust arm of the FTC. The Bureau, "seeks to prevent business practices that restrain competition -- including monopolistic practices, attempts to monopolize, conspiracies in restraint of trade, and anticompetitive mergers and acquisitions."
Antitrust Law & Economics Review

Attorneys


Banking & Financial Institutions Law
Banking - Wex Legal Encyclopedia (Legal Information Institute - Cornell)
Includes links to major statutes, cases and secondary sources.
Banking Law Committee - ABA Section on Business Law
Financial Services - Minnesota Dept. of Commerce
Financial Services reviews the financial books and operations records for state chartered financial institutions. It also licenses residential mortgage originators and residential mortgage servicers. It does not oversee federally chartered banks. The web site includes tips, advice and tools for consumers of financial services and products and links to warnings and other information for investors.
Federal Reserve Board
Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis
U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
U.S. Office of Thrift Supervision
U.S Federal Trade Commission
Conference of State Bank Supervisors
Banking Law (Internet Law Library - LawMoose)

Bankruptcy Law
8th Circuit Bankruptcy Appellate Panel
The Bankruptcy LawTrove (Law Offices of Swiggart & Agin)
ABI World (American Bankruptcy Institute)
NACBA (National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, Inc.)
CataLaw: Bankruptcy and Credit Law
Bankruptcy & Debt Collection Law (Internet Law Library - LawMoose)


Bioethics
Researching Health Law & Bioethics
A guide to selected resources (primarily print but also some electronic) available at the Law Library and other libraries at the Univ. of Minnesota.
Consortium on Law and Values in Health, Environment & the Life Sciences (Univ. of Minnesota)
Consortium of the sixteen leading centers and programs at the University of Minnesota to address the legal, ethical, and policy implications of the life sciences.
Center for Bioethics (Univ. of Minnesota, Academic Health Center)
MedWeb (Emory Univ. Health Science Center Library)
Search or browse by keyword "bioethics".
Center for Bioethics (Center for Bioethics, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
bioethics.net - American Journal of Bioethics (Center for Bioethics, Univ. of Pennsylvania)
Health Care Ethics (Centre for Applied Ethics, Univ. of British Columbia)
National Reference Center for Bioethics Literature
Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Civil Procedure
Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (LII - Cornell Law School)
Minnesota Rules of Civil Procedure (MN Supreme Court Commissioner's Office)

Civil Rights see also: Human Rights, Women & the Law
Civil Rights - Wex Legal Encyclopedia (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
Includes a brief overview article and links to Federal and state (mostly New York) primary and secondary sources including links to internet resources.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Historical Publications of the U.S. Commission of Civil Rights (Thurgood Marshall Law Library, Univ. of Maryland School of Law)
Harvard Civil Rights Project
civilrights.org
Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under the Law
Civil Rights Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice
Civil Liberties, Civil Rights: General (Internet Law Library - LawMoose)
Civil Rights (FindLaw)

Commercial Law
Sales/Uniform Commercial Code Article 2: A Selective Bibliography A bibliography of materials held by the Univ. of Minnesota Law Library. Some electronic sources e.g. Lexis, Westlaw and CD-ROM are also included.
Uniform Commercial Code Articles 1 - 9 (Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School)
Minnesota Uniform Commercial Code (MN Stats. Chapter 336)

Communications Law
Federal Communications Commission
National Telecommunications & Information Administration
Communications Law (Internet Law Library - LawMoose)

Computers & the Law
Computers & the Law (Internet Law Library - LawMoose)
Cyberspace Law (FindLaw)
Berkman Center for Internet and Society (Harvard Law School)
Internet Studies Center (Univ. of Minnesota)
The Center addresses compelling questions surrounding the social, ethical, legal, and rhetorical aspects of the Internet.
CompLaw - Computer Law Resource (Samuel Lewis, Atty. & Prof. of Law)
Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section (CCIPS) (Criminal Division of the U.S. Dept. of Justice)
Cybercrimes (Univ. of Dayton Law School)
Cyberlaw Encyclopedia (Atty. Alan Gahtan of the law firm Bennett Jones, Toronto, Canada)
UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy (Archive)
A collection of resources collected and posted over the past ten years is provided. The Institute is not currently addressing developments in the area.
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (Federal Bureau of Investigations & the National White Collar Crime Center)
Includes an online complaint form, annual reports about widespread abuses and information on how to avoid being scammed.
ABA Legal Technology Resource Center

Conciliation Court
Hennepin County Conciliation Court

Constitutional Law
Constitution Finder
This index maintained at the Univ. of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law, offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world and states are listed alphabetically.
Constitutions of the World FindLaw's links to constitutions of countries world-wide and links related resources.
U.S. State Constitutions FindLaw's links to the constitutions of all 50 states.
Constitutional Law (FindLaw)
USConstitution.net
The American Constitution A Documentary Record (Yale Law School - Avalon Project)
Documents related to the U.S. Constitution from pre-colonial, e.g., Magna Carta (1215 to constitutional ratification documents.
The Charters of Freedom: The Declaration of Independence, The Constitution, The Bill of Rights (National Archives and Records Administration)
An online exhibit of "some of the most highly detailed photographs... of these documents." Includes the text of the 11th through 27th amendments and biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention.
First Amendment Online (last updated 5/2004)
This web site, edited by Prof. Adam Samaha, (formerly Univ. of Minnesota Law School), is "... dedicated to publicly accessible information, ideas, and images concerning the First Amendment to the United States Constitution." It covers current developments in 1st Amendment law from the federal courts and the Minnesota Supreme Court. Links are provided to U.S. Supreme Court decisions from the past 10 years as well as earlier "classic" decisions. It also includes historic documents and images from 1st Amendment cases, links to news coverage of 1st Amendment issues, public opinion polls and links to related web sites.
First Amendment Center (Vanderbilt Institute for Public Policy Studies)
Research materials, e.g. articles, news stories concerning 1st Amendment freedoms (speech, press, religion, assembly and petition) and written by the Center's staff and guest analysts. Includes a First Amendment Library containing, "A vast array of judicial, legislative, historical, analytical, journalistic, editorial and other material... including, for the first time, all the First Amendment opionions of the Supreme Court."
Center for Constitutional Rights
"...a non-profit legal and educational organization dedicated to protecting and advancing the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
The Founders' Constitution
Web edition of the five volume set, edited by Profs. Kurland and Lerner of the Univ. of Chicago. An anthology of documents from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s arranged under "Major Themes" of the U.S. Constitution and then arranged by article, section and clause of the Constitution from preamble through the twelfth amendment.

Consumer Law
Consumer Connection (MN Atty General's Office - Consumer Protection Office)
Minnesota Department of Commerce
The Minnesota Department of Commerce regulates a number of businesses and industries. Their web site contains consumer information and services, including information for filing complaints against the businesses they regulate and oversee.
Consumer Information (MN State Bar Association)
Minnesota & North Dakota Better Business Bureau
Federal Trade Commission
Includes the Bureau of Consumer Protection, online consumer complaint and identity theft complaint forms as well as consumer information publications in english and spanish.
National Consumer Law Center
Advocacy organization for low-income consumer justice issues and leading publisher of practical, practice oriented consumer law publications.
Internet Fraud Complaint Center (Federal Bureau of Investigations & the National White Collar Crime Center)
Includes an online complaint form, annual reports about widespread abuses and information on how to avoid being scammed.
FindLaw for the Public - Consumer Issues Page (Findlaw)

Copyright
Copyright Information & Education University Libraries, Univ. of Minnesota
Compleat World Copyright Website
A compilation of deep links to web pages concerning copyright i.e. in the English-speaking or Common Law tradition of creator's rights. U.S. Copyright Office
Copyright & Fair Use (Stanford University Libraries)
"Crash Course in Copyright" (Office of the General Counsel at University of Texas)
Liblicense (Yale Univ. Library)
Copyright Clearance Center
Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers)
International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO)
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)
American Association of Law Libraries Copyright Committee

Corporations & Partnerships Law
Minnesota Secretary of State Business Services Forms
Various business forms (mostly .pdf format) for corporations and other business entities.
Delaware Corporate Law Clearinghouse (Widener and Stanford University Law Schools & Delaware Court of Chancery)
Corporations, Partnerships & Business Associations (Internet Law Library - LawMoose)
Closely Held Corporations
A basic guide for locating materials on closed corporations held by the Univ. of Minnesota Law Library. Mostly hard copy sources but also CD-ROM, Lexis & Westlaw.
FindLaw: State Corporation & Business Forms Links arranged alphabetically by state.

Court Rules, Forms & Dockets see also Minnesota Judicial Branch Links, Federal court opinions and information, Courts & Judges and Legal Forms.
Court Rules, Forms & Dockets (LLRX.com)
Includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets.
Court Forms (Findlaw.com)
Court forms for federal, state and bankruptcy courts.

Court Trials (information on trial court level cases) see also Minnesota Judicial Branch and Federal Judicial Branch.
Famous Trials
Information on famous and historical trials in the U.S. and worldwide compiled by Prof. Douglas O. Linder, Univ. of Missouri Kansas City Law School.
Court TV
News coverage of high-profile civil and criminal cases.
CNN.com Law Center
News coverage of high-profile civil and criminal cases.
The Trial of Saddam Hussein (Law Library of Congress)
News and analysis of legal developments from the relevant trials. Includes a bibliography of reference materials with links to items available on the web.
Nuremberg Trials Project - a digital document collection (Harvard Law School Library)
Trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files and other papers from the library's extensive collection of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany.

Courts & Judges (includes: court administration and judicial education) see also Minnesota court opinions & information, Federal court opinions and information and Court Trials.
Supreme Court of the United States
Code of Conduct for United States Judges and Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees
(U.S. Judicial Conference, Committee on Codes of Conduct)
ABA Judicial Divison
American Judges Association
American Judicature Society
American Political Science Association, Law & Courts Section
Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals
Note: this commission closed operation in March 1999. The web site is preserved at the joint U.S. GPO and University of North Texas Libraries', Cyber Cemetery.
Conference of Chief Justices
Conference of State Court Administrators
Federal Court Clerks Association
Federal Judicial Center
Federal Judiciary Home Page (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts)
Judicial Education Reference, Information and Technical Transfer Project (JERITT)
National Association for Court Management
National Association of State Judical Educators
National Association of Women Judges
National Center for State Courts
National College of Probate Judges
National Conference of Appellate Court Clerks
National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges
National Judical College

Criminal Law / Criminal Justice


Dictionaries, see also: Reference, Translation Services, Quotations, Acronyms,Abbreviations & Glossaries
Webster Dictionary
yourDictionary.com
Indexes on-line dictionaries,thesauri, and such like containing words and phrases. Linked to over 800 dictionaries in 160 languages.
Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus
Touts itself as "the premier online American English dictionary with an integrated thesaurus." It offers multiple search strategies allowing users to perform narrow or broad-based searches for definitions and synonyms.
Legal Dictionaries
FindLaw - Legal Dictionary
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, copyright 1996. Published by FindLaw under license with Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Harvard Law School 1L Dictionary
A basic dictionary of commonly used terms and abbreviations encountered by 1L law students e.g. blackletter law, hornbook, parallel citation, F.3d, Et seq. For other legal terminology consult a standard legal dictionary e.g. Black's Law Dictionary and/or an appropriate hornbook.
Jurist Legal Dictionary
Covers basic legal terminology with a focus on procedure. Links to several other general and subject specific legal dictionaries.

Disability Law
Job Accomodation Network (Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Dept. of Labor)
Provides information and resources designed to increase the employability of persons with disabilities. Includes portals for private employers, government employers, individuals with disabilities, educational settings and ADA information.
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997 (U.S. Dept. of Education)
Contains archived information (last updated 8/26/04). Text of the act, legislative history, regulations and other documents and information.
U.S. Dept. of Justice - ADA Home Page
Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
EDLAW
The EDLAW Center is an advocacy group that provides assistance to families and attorneys that represent children with disabilities. The web site includes: the EDLAW Electronic Library (contains copies in .pdf format of statutes, administrative regulations and inteprtetations and case law), SpeciaLaw which provides links to additional sources of statutes, regulations/interpretations and case law related to special education issues, information on the EDLAW Center's publications and information on EDLAW Center projects, including the Council of Parent Attorneys and Advocates (COPAA).

Elder Law
National Elder Law Network
"...one of the nation's leading sources of free information on legal issues of interest to elder law attorneys, seniors, their families, and the elder and disability advocacy community." Resources provided include guides and indexes to the Web's best elder law sites, directories of advocacy organizations, and articles and annotated bibliographies on a wide-range of elder law topics.
ElderWeb
A comprehensive research site designed for use by professionals and family members. Includes articles and information on eldercare and long term care, including legal, financial, medical, and housing issues, as well as policy, research, and statistics.
National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys, Inc.
Minnesota Dept. of Human Services - Aging
Information and services for Minnesota senior citizens.
Minnesota State Bar Association - Elder Law Section

Election Law

Election Law @ Moritz (Moritz College of Law, Ohio State Univ.)
News, information and analysis on federal, state and local election laws
U.S. Electoral College
Federal Election Commission
U.S. Election Assistance Commission
Minnesota Secretary of State - Elections & Voting Page

Environmental Law
Minnesota Office of Environment Assistance
Minnesota Department of Natural Resources
Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Environment and Natural Resources Division, U.S. Dept. of Justice
U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
U.S. Forest Service
U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service
International Environmental Law (ASIL, American Society of International Law)
Part of the ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law series.
United Nations Environment Programme
European Environmental Law
Primary sources, e.g. full text cases, legislation related to European environmental law, as well as, dossiers, articles offering in depth views on specific issues.
Center for International Environmental Law
Environmental Law Alliance Worldwide
FindLaw - Environmental Law Page
Natural Resources WebLinks (Natural Resources and Environmental Law Program, Univ. of Denver College of Law)
A well organized and comprehensive collection of links to natural resources and environmental law web sites.

Ethics See also: Attorneys-Professional Responsibility, Bioethics
American Legal Ethics Library (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
"This digital library contains both the codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a state by state basis."
U.S. Office of Government Ethics
The OGE is an executive branch agency responsible that deals with conflicts of interest issues on the part of Government employees within the executive branch.
Departmental Ethics Office, Justice Management Division, U.S. Department of Justice
Senate Select Committee on Ethics
House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct
Code of Conduct for United States Judges and Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees (U.S. Judicial Conference, Committee on Codes of Conduct)
Codes of Ethics Online Project (Center for the Study of Ethics in the Profession, Illinois Institute of Technology)
Includes over 850 codes of ethics of professional societies, corporations, government, and academic institutions.
EthicsWeb.ca (Dr. Chris MacDonald, Philosophy Dept., St. Mary's Univ. Halifax, Canada)
A collection of ethics-related web sites, many with a canadian perspective.


Evidence
Federal Rules of Evidence (Legal Information Institute - Cornell Law School )
Uniform Rules of Evidence Act (1999) (National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws)
The Recovered Memory Project
An Internet-based research project, directed by Prof. Ross E. Cheit of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, Brown University

Family Law
See Also: Adoption, Abortion, Juveniles & the Law.
Family Court - Hennepin County
Hennepin County Human Services Department
Health, housing and shelter, social services, income services (including child support).
Minnesota State Bar Association - Family Law Section
See the "Practice Related-Links" section.
Minnesota State Bar Association Pamphlets:
Marriage and Divorce in Minnesota and Child Abuse & Neglect in Minnesota
DivorceNet.com - Minnesota
Commercial web site with articles and information on divorce and other family law topics in Minnesota.
FindLaw - Legal Subjects - Family Law
FindLaw - Family Law - State Forms & amp Information
Links to forms & information arranged by state.
Support Guidelines.com
"Comprehensive Resource for the Interpretation & Application of Child Support Guidelines in the U.S."
DivorceNet.com
Commercial web site with articles and information on divorce and other family law topics for all 50 states.
ABA Section of Family Law
Articles, section news, general public resources (publications, handbooks etc...).
ABA Section of Family Law, Military Committee
"...committed to studying issues that impact military personnel and their families, including child custory & visitation, alimony/support and divorce law.
Marriage Project (Lambda Legal Defense Fund)
Civil Unions (Lambda Legal Defense Fund)
Family Law (Lambda Legal Defense Fund)

Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Law
See Also: AIDS, Civil Rights
Legal Issues of Sexual Orientation (Univ. of Minnesota Law Library)
A research guide to secondary legal literature (treatises, articles and other works) and primarly legal materials (laws, cases) in print and electronic formats. Includes a selective bibliography of publications and webliography of GLBT legal organizations and associations.
Lambda Legal Defense & Education Fund
National civil rights organization for GLBT and AIDS issues.
International Gay & Lesbian Human Rights Commission
A U.S. based International human rights organization for GLBT and AIDS issues.
Gay/Lesbian Politics and Law: WWW and Internet Resources
A selective, annotated guide to the best and most authoritative resources on politics, law, and policy. Designed for students, scholars, teachers, journalists, activists, and citizens, and maintained by Steve Sanders at Indiana University.

Health Law, see also: Abortion, AIDS, Bioethics, Tobacco & the Law
Researching Health Law & Bioethics
A guide to selected resources (primarily print but also some electronic) available at the Law Library and other libraries at the University of Minnesota.
Health Law: Selected Internet Resources
Identifies Westlaw and Lexis databases as well as web sites for researching health law related issues.
FindLaw: Health Law Page
Health Hippo
A collection of policy and regulatory materials related to health care.
Health Law Links (St. Louis University School of Law, Center for Health Law Studies)
ABA Health Law Section
Health Policy Watch (Century Foundation)
A project of the Century Foundation, Health Policy Watch seeks to promote ideas and research aimed at bringing about reform in various areas of health policy such as Medicare. The website provides access to various publications, (some in full-text) and information on books published by the Century Foundation and others. It also contains links to related research from other organizations and links to related web sites.
National Health Law Program

Housing
Knowledgeplex
A "comprehensive interactive resource for the affordable housing and community development field. Requires registration.
Center for Housing and Urban Development
Department of Housing and Urban Development
Housing Statistics, U.S. Census
National Low Income Housing Coalition
National Housing Institute
Housing Court - Hennepin County

Human Rights see also: Civil Rights.
Univ. of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Immigration
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Executive Office for Immigration Review
American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
embassy.org
Includes directory with links to foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. and virtual tour of "Embassy Row."
Immigration Superhighway

Intellectual Property see also: Copyright, Patents, Trademarks
Intellectual Property Research (Univ. of Minnesota Law Library Research Guide)
Guide to resources available on the web and from the library's collection.
Willamette Law Online Case Summaries & Law Updates - Intellectual Property (Willamette Univ. College of Law)
A free weekly online publication that, "...publishes a brief holding from all federal and state cases involving Copyright, Patent, Trademark and Trade Secret law." An archive of cases from 2002 to current is provided. Users can also subscribe (for free) to receive each weekly issue via email.
FPLC Intellectual Property Mall (Franklin Pierce Law Center)
Minnesota Intellectual Property Law Association
ABA Section of Intellectual Property Law
AIPLA (American Intellectual Property Law Association)
WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization)

Juveniles & the Law
see also: Family Law
Juvenile Court - Hennepin County
Center on Children & the Law (American Bar Association, Young Lawyers Division)
Juvenile Justice Center (American Bar Association, Criminal Justice Section)
Children's Defense Fund - Minnesota
Children's Advocacy Institute (Univ. of San Diego School of Law)
Voices for America's Children
"...a nonprofit organization that coordinates a nationwide network of state and local child advocacy organizations in the United States."
Best Interests: the E-Magazine for Children's Advocates

Labor and Employment Law
Minnesota Dept. of Labor & Industry
Includes links to the various DOLI divsions, boards & commissions e.g. Workers Compensation, OSHA Compliance, Labor Standards. Also includes text of relevant statutes and rules.
Minnesota Dept. of Employee Relations
Handles state government personnel management and labor relations programs.
U.S. Dept. of Labor
Includes links to the various DOL agencies, e.g. OSHA, BLS.
U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC)
National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)
U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board
Law About Employment Law (Legal Information Institute Cornell Law School)
Provides brief summaries of law covering a wide scope of labor and employment related areas, e.g. labor law, work place safety and pensions. Includes links to key primary source material, other Internet resources, and useful offnet references.

Landlord Tenant Law
Housing Court - Hennepin County
Housing Law Web Page (Minnesota Attorney General's Office)

Law and Economics
Encyclopedia of Law and Economics Univ. of Ghent (via FindLaw)
Law and Economics Resources (FindLaw)

Law and Popular Culture
Law and Popular Culture Collection (Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas School of Law)

Legal Aid see also: Poverty Law
Minnesota
LawHelpMN.org
Minnesota Legal Services Coalition
Central Minnesota Legal Services
Legal Aid Service of Northeastern Minnesota
Legal Aid Services of Northwest Minnesota
Mid-Minnesota Legal Assistance
Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services
Minnesota Justice Foundation
Connects law students to public interest and pro bono attorneys to promote and support legal services to low-income and disadvantaged Minnesotans.
National
ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid and Indigent Defendants
ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel
ABA Center for Pro Bono (ABA Standing Committee on Pro Bono and Public Service)
Includes a Directory of Pro Bono Programs.
ABA Division for Legal Services
Includes national directories of lawyer-referral and pro bono programs, legal services publications, a "Consumer's Guide to Finding Legal Help on the Internet, and a little beyond", and a "Practitioner's Guide: a online resource center for lawyers serving people."
Handbook on Limited Scope Legal Assistance (ABA Section of Lititation, Report of the Modest Means Task Force)
Legal Services Corporation - LSC
Directory of LSC Funded Legal Aid Programs (Legal Services Corporation)
Brennan Center For Justice - Poverty Programs (New York University Law School)
Access to Justice Project and Economic Justice Project.
probono.net and ProJusticeMN.org
A lawyer to lawyer network to promote pro bono and public interest legal representation. Membership open to pro bono attorneys, legal services providers and organizations, law students, paralegals, and other legal professionals interested in donating legal services.

Legal Education

Legal Forms see also: specific topic, e.g. family law, tax law, corporations.
FindLaw Court Forms
Links to forms compiled by FindLaw and to other other collections of legal forms by topic and/or jurisdiction.
U.S. Legal Forms (uslegalforms.com)
Forms available for a fee. The "premier legal forms site on the Internet - Over 20,000 legal forms."
Lexis Legal Forms (lexisONE.com)
Over 6,000 free forms and access to "premium" forms and content with paid subscription. Search for forms by keyword or browse forms by topic or jurisdiction.

Legal History
Guide to Legal History Resources on the Web (Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas)
"...a selective guide to legal history resources on the World Wide Web, with special emphasis on archives and rare book collections that are relevant to legal history."
Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Digital documents dating from pre 18th century through the 20th century, relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (National Archives in London & the Univ. of Houston Law Center)
Digitizied documents from medieval and early modern England (c.1272-1650) from the National Archives in London made available by license to the Univ. of Houston O'Quinn Law Library.
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation (Library of Congress - American Memory Project)
U.S. Congressional documents & debates from the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, and the 1st-42nd Congresses: 1774-1873. The web site also includes volumes 1-17 of the U.S. Statutes at Large, which contain the laws of the 1st - 42nd Congresses (1789-1873).
American Society for Legal History
A Chronology of US Historical Documents (Univ. of Oklahoma College of Law)
Historic documents from pre-colonial, e.g., Magna Carta to present, e.g., Inaugural and State of the Union addresses. Indexed chronologically.
Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery (Prepared by Patricia Schaffer, J.D. Columbia University Law School).
Text of penal laws passed by the Protestant Parliament in Ireland to regulate the status of Roman Catholics. Includes laws passed from 1691-1760.
Selden Society
Learned society and publisher devoted to English legal history.
Roman Law Resources (Ernest Metzger, Dept. of Law, Univ. of Aberdeen)
Information on Roman law sources and literature, the teaching of Roman law, and the persons who engage in the study of Roman law. Includes links to related web sites of interest and bibliographies.

Legal Periodicals

  • Indexes & Finding Aids
    Minnesota Legal Periodical Index (Web-MLPI)
    Covers Minnesota law school, bar association and commercial publications as early as 1984. Links to full-text articles when available on the web. A collaborative effort of the Minnesota State Law Library and Pritchard Law Webs, publisher of LawMoose!
    Legal Journals (Compiled by the University of Southern California Law Library)
    Lists with links to legal journals. Lists in the following categories are available: "General Law Reviews", "Commercial Law Journals", "Subject Specific Law Reviews", "Foreign Law Journals", "ABA Journals & Newsletters". Each list indicates the types of information available on the web site (full-text, abstracts, table of contents and subscription). Additional lists available from this site include: "General Interest and Computing Periodicals", "E-Journal Locating Services", "Law Review Locating Services".
    Current Law Journal Content - CLCJ (Washington & Lee Law School)
    This database contains the tables of contents for over 1,188 law journals (as of 3/2006). Its coverage begins around 2005 and includes journals from 30 countries. The database does not contain full-text articles, but article citations provide links to full-text sources (both free and subscription-based). Users can specify a date range and/or country and browse the table of contents of all journals added to the database. Users can also search the article citations (author/title/abstract/journal-name fields) contained in the database. Results may be sorted in a number of ways including journal name, date-added, and "journal impact factor." Users can subscribe to a free email service that allows them to set up a profile and receive notification of new issues with links to the table of contents for journals the user selects. Users also have the option of viewing the table of contents via a feedreader, or displaying the table of contents of selected journals from CLCJ on their own web pages.
    FindLaw: Academic Law Journals and Law Reviews
    Contents Pages from Law Reviews & Other Scholarly Journals (Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas Law School)
    Provides recent (past 3 months), contents pages for over 750 law reviews and scholarly journals.
    Ulrich's Periodical Directory
    One of the most comprehensive directories of serial publications. It includes academic and scholarly journals, consumer and trade magazines, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, and active, ceased and forthcoming publications. Remote access (outside the Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus) restricted to affiliated users of the Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
  • Other
    Law Journals: Submissions and Rankings. (Washington & Lee University School of Law Library)
    The purpose of the Law Journals webpage is to allow authors to find law journals by subject, country, or (where available) journal rank, to display journal editorial information, and to facilitate an author's article submission to those journals.

  • Minnesota Publications
    Bench & Bar of Minnesota
    MN State Bar's monthly journal; includes author & subject index (1995-present and archive of articles Nov./Dec. 1998-present).
    Minnesota Lawyer
    "A weekly newspaper covering Minnesota's courts and legal community." Includes archives of articles (1999-present). See Reference Office for password access information.
    St. Paul Legal Ledger
    Covers state capitol and public policy news and issues. Published twice weekly.
    Finance and Commerce
    University of Minnesota Law School Law Journals
    Information, including links to tables of contents (and in some cases abstracts and full-text articles) for the six journals published by the University of Minnesota Law School (Constitutional Commentary, Law and Inequality: A Journal of Theory and Practice, Minnesota Intellectual Property Review, Minnesota Journal of Business Law & Entrepreneurship, Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Minnesota Law Review, Minnesota Journal of Global Trade).

Legal Writing see also: Legal Forms, Dictionaries, Quotations, Translation Services

Military Law & Military Tribunals
Legal Information Institute - Military Law: overview and sources (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
FindLaw - Military Law Web Sites
Military Law Links Utah State Bar Association, Military Law Section
U.S. Dept. of Defense
Selective Service System
U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Services
U.S. Air Force Court of Criminal Appeals
U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims
Board of Veterans Appeals
U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General
U.S. Army Judge Advocate General
U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General
Office of the General Counsel of the Dept. of Defense
ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel (LAMP)
ABA Family Law Section - Military Committee
Nuremberg Trials Project - a digital document collection (Harvard Law School Library)
Trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files and other papers from the library's extensive collection of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany.

Motor Vehicle & Traffic Law
Hennepin County Criminal/Traffic Court
Hennepin County Traffic Violations Bureau
Driver & Vehicle Services, Minnesota Dept. of Public Safety
Minnesota Transportation Statutes (Chapters 160-174A)
Minnesota State Patrol
Nolo's, Cars & Tickets Law Center Legal information on buying/leasing cars, warranties, financing, traffic tickets and more.

Native Americans
Indian Law Research
A Univ. of Minnesota Law Library research pathfinder focusing on print and electronic resources available at the University of Minnesota and relevant web sites on the Internet.
Minneosta American Indian Bar Association
Includes information on Minnesota tribal courts, e.g. admission.
Minnesota Indian Affairs Council
MIAC is the official liaison between Minnesota and the 11 tribal Governments within the state. Information on the tribes, treaties and other resources are available.
American Indian Communities Minnesota (Minnesota Office of Senate Counsel and Research)
This report published in 1998 provides background information on Minnesota's Native American communities and policy information on the affect of specific laws and issues on these communities.
Minnesota North Star - Tribal Government web links (State of Minnesota)
Links to information concerning the 11 American Indian tribes in Minnesota and other American Indian web sites and resources.
Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S. Dept. of Interior)
Tribal Law & Policy Institute
"...a Native American owned and operated non-profit corporation organized to design and deliver education, research, training, and technical assistance programs which promote the enhancement of justice in Indian country and the health, well-being, and culture of Native peoples." The Institute's Tribal Court Clearinghouse includes information and links to tribal courts, constitutions, laws/codes, court decisions, and much more.
Code Talk (U.S. Dept. of Housing & Urban Development, Office of Native American Programs)
"Code Talk is a federal-inter-agency Native American web site designed specifically to deliver electronic information from government agencies and other organizations to Native American communities."
Indian Trust Assets Management (U.S. Dept. of Interior's "clearinghouse for Indian trust management information")
National Tribal Justice Resource Center (National American Indian Court Judges Association)
Information about tribal courts, court opinions, tribal constitutions and bylaws.
Native American Legal Resources (Univ. of Oklahoma Law Library)
Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties. Compiled and edited by Charles J. Kappler (Oklahoma State University Library)
A digitized version of volume 2 (volume 1 expected in Spring 2001) from the classic set edited and compiled by Charles J. Kappler. It contains over 380 treaties concerning Native American Indian tribes.
National Indian Law Libary
A "public law library devoted to federal Indian and tribal law." Tribal documents, e.g. constitutions, codes, information on Native American law-related U.S. Supreme Court cases, links to related research links are available from the library's web site. The library's holdings can be searched from the National Indian Law Library Catalog available on the web.
Native American Rights Fund
Native American Sites (Maintained by Lisa Mitten, Hillman Library, Univ. of Pittsburgh)
NativeWeb Resources Center
"Resources for Indigenous Cultures Around the World." "NativeWeb is an international, nonprofit, educational organization... concerned with indigenous literature and art, legal and economic issues, land claims and new ventures in self-determination."
WWW Virtual Library - American Indians
"Index to Native American Resources on the Internet"

Newspapers/News Sources, see also: Legal Periodicals

Patents
United States Patent and Trademark Office - USPTO
European Patent Office
Delphion Intellectual Property Network
Formerly the IBM Intellectual Property Network. Primarily a subscription and pay-per-use service, some IP resources provided with a free basic subscription.
KuesterLaw - The Technology Law Resource (Jeffrey R. Kuester of Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP)
Follow the "IP Resources" and then "General Patent Resources" links.
Whacky Patent of the Month.

Periodicals see: Legal Periodicals, Newspapers, Publishing- books, periodicals and more.

Poverty Law see also: Legal Aid
Institute on Race and Poverty (University of Minnesota Law School)
National Center on Poverty Law
Access to select articles from Clearinghouse Review, abstracts of poverty law case reports and other poverty law research resources.
Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
National Center for Law and Economic Justice
A non-profit corporation involved in advocacy on behalf of low income people.
Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement (U.S. Dept. of Health & Human Services)
Brennan Center For Justice - Access to Justice and Economic Justice Projects (New York University Law School)
NLADA - National Legal Aid & Defender Association
CLASP - Center for Law & Social Policy
probono.net and ProJusticeMN.org
A lawyer to lawyer network to promote pro bono and public interest legal representation. Membership open to pro bono attorneys, legal services providers and organizations, law students, paralegals, and other legal professionals interested in donating legal services.

Professional Responsibility see: Attorneys - Professional Responsibility

Publishing- Books, Periodicals and more see also: Legal Periodicals
AcqWeb's Directory of Publishers & Vendors
"...an international directory of publishers and vendors used by libraries"
Reference Sources on Books & Publishing
Compiled by the University Libraries (Univ. of Minnesota), this page list links to web sites related to the publication of books and periodicals generally. It includes links to awards sites, book reviews, new & used book sites, directories and more.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory
One of the most comprehensive directories of serial publications. It includes academic and scholarly journals, consumer and trade magazines, monographic series, newsletters, newspapers, electronic publications, and active, ceased and forthcoming publications. Remote access (outside the Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities campus) restricted to affiliated users of the Univ. of Minnesota-Twin Cities.
Books In Print
Current edition courtesy of the Univ. of Minnesota Bookstore.
CRIVTool: Divested Titles List
A quick reference list of legal titles that have been divested from one publisher to another as a result mergers over the last decade in the legal publishing industry. (Compiled by AALL - Committee on Relations with Information Vendors)
A Legal Publishers' List: Corporate affiliations of Legal Publishers (Compiled by AALL - Committee on Relations with Information Vendors)
AALL Fair Business Practices Implementation Task Force
Committee guides the distribution and promotion of the AALL Guide to Fair Business Practices for Legal Publishers as the accepted standard in the industry.
Guide to Fair Business Practices for Legal Publishers (AALL)
Law Serials Pricing and Mergers: A Portfolio Approach (Prof. Mark J. McCabe, School of Economics, Georgia Institute of Technology)
This report estimates the impact of six publisher mergers on serials prices during the period 1990-2000 using data from more that 400 legal serials.
Publishers' Catalogues Home Page (Northern Lights Internet Solutions Ltd.).
Find Law - Legal Publishers Page
Hieros Gamos - Legal and Law Related Publishers Page
BookFinder.com
A "book shopping search engine that scans bookseller databases to find new, used, rare, and out of print books."

Quotations
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed.

Reference, see also: Dictionaries, Translation Services, Quotations, Acronyms,Abbreviations & Glossaries
Reference Sources
A selective list of general-interest, electronic reference sources arranged in categories from "abbreviations and acronyms" to "zip codes." (Compiled by the Univ. of Minnesota Libraries)
refdesk.com
Touted as "the single best source for facts on the Net," this site features a huge collection of reference and fact finding tools.
Virtual Reference Shelf
Selected Web resources compiled by the Library of Congress.
Univ. of Minnesota Law Library Reference Service
Information on reference service provided by this library and a link to an e-mail reference question form.
Ask Us! The University Libraries' Infopoint Service
Information on reference services provided the University of Minnesota Libraries. Describes, chat, email, phone and in-person services and an FAQ.
Ask a Librarian an online reference service from the Library of Congress
Email and chat reference covering a wide variety of subject areas from the Library of Congress.

Securities Law
Researching Securities Law
A guide to materials for researching securities law. Covers primarily hard copy sources held by the Univ. of Minnesota Law Library, although some electronic sources e.g. Lexis, Westlaw and Internet sites are included.
Minnesota Dept. of Commerce, Securities Division
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission
Securities and Exchange Commission Historical Society
National Association of Securities Dealers
North American Securities Administrators Association
Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (Stanford University Law School)
Contains detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation. Includes an index of filings and copies of litigation-related documents filed in these cases.
The Securities Lawyer's Deskbook (Center for Corporate Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law)
Contains full-text of basic federal securites laws and regulations and related forms.

Self-Help Legal Resources
ABA LawInfo.org (American Bar Association)
Minnesota Attorney General's Consumer Protection Division
Hennepin County District Court Self-Help Service Center
Nolo.com Self-help legal publications for free and purchase.
Personal & Family Legal Issues Web Page (MN Legal Reference Library - LawMoose)
Pro Bono & Pro Se Center (MN Legal Reference Library - LawMoose)
FindLaw for THE PUBLIC Self-help legal publications and resources.

Social Security Law
Social Security Online (Social Security Administration)
Social Security Offices in Minnesota
LII's Social Security Library (Cornell Law School) "This set of reference materials covers issues of entitlement and benefit calculation arising out of the set of programs popularly referred to as Social Security. At the heart of this library is a reference work designed to organize all of its contents, issue by issue, Martin on Social Security.

Statistics
Statistical Universe
Online version of American Statistics Index, Index to International Statistics and Statistical Reference Index. Also includes links to other statistical sources. Remote access (outside U of Minn. Libraries) is restricted to U of M faculty, students & staff.
Links to Statistics (University of Minnesota Government Publications Library)
FEDSTATS (Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy)
Statistical Resources on the Web (University of Michigan Documents Center)
Land of 10,000 Statistics: the 2000 Census in Minnesota (Capitol Area Libraries in Consortium - CALCO)
Guide to census data web sites and training, guides and references materials.
U.S. Census Bureau
Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Dept. of Justice)

Tax Law
Minnesota Department of Revenue Includes forms, instructions & publications.
Minnesota Tax Court
Information about the court including decisions, forms, rules and a pro se booklet.
Internal Revenue Service - IRS
Checklist of Federal Tax Research Tools
Lists print and electronic resources available at the Univ. of Minnesota Law Library.
Federal Tax Policy Research
Covers print material material held at the University of Minnesota and electronic resources e.g. CD-ROM & web sites.
Researching International Taxation
A guide to resources held at the University of Minnesota Law Library.
State Tax Agencies & Tax Forms
Links to agency home pages, forms and publications compiled by the Federation of Tax Administrators.
Tax World International, federal, state & local tax-related information & links.
ABA Section of Taxation
Federation of Tax Administrators
Includes Federal Legislative & IRS Links and links to Private Sector and Policy Oriented Tax Groups.
Tax & Accounting Sites Directory Comprehensive index of international, federal and state web sites.
Tax Prophet Contains a variety of tax publications, coverage of recent hot topics, and links to tax sites.

Tobacco & the Law
Tobacco Control Resource Center & Tobacco Products Liability Project
ASH - Action on Smoking and Health
National Legal-Action Antismoking Organization.
Galen II Tobacco Control Archives
University of California, San Francisco. Archives of papers, unpublished documents and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues primarily in California.
Tobacco on Trial
Court TV's collection of documents and news.
State Tobacco Information Center
State tobacco litigation site that archives documents related to state litigation against toboacco companies.

Trademarks
United States Patent and Trademark Office - USPTO
World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO
International Trademark Association.
FPLC Intellectual Property Mall (Franklin Pierce Law Center)
KuesterLaw - The Technology Law Resource (Jeffrey R. Kuester of Thomas, Kayden, Horstemeyer & Risley, LLP)
Thomson & Thomson
Click on the "IP Resources" link for trademark resources. (Trademark & Copyright Research Firm).

Translation Services & Translation of U.S. Legal Information
Altavista Babel Fish
Translate Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portugese and Spanish (to and from English), and Russian to English.
Free Translation.com
Includes free text and website translators. Translations (English to: Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portugese and Norwegian and translations from all the above languages (except Norwegian and Chinese) to English.
Sources of United States of America Legal Information in Languages Other than English (LLRX.com)
This article discusses the availability of U.S. legal information in other languages and identifies web resources, services and print publications from state and federal agencies, courts, libraries and academic institutions.

Verdicts, Awards & Settlements
Researching Jury Verdicts & Awards
Covers print resources (held by the Univ. of Minnesota Law Library) and electronic sources, e.g. Westlaw, Lexis and web sites.

Women and the Law
Minnesota Women Lawyers
National Women's Law Center
NOW - National Organization for Women
ABA Commission on Women in the Profession
Researching Women's Human Rights Issues
A guide to print resources held at the Univ. of Minnesota Law Library and electronic resources e.g. web sites.
Feminist Jurisprudence: Overview and Sources (Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School)
Women & the Law - World Legal Information Institute links
Women Gender & Law (CataLaw links)
Feminism and Legal Theory Project (Cornell Law School)
Hastings Women's Law Journal

Workers' Compensation
Workers' Compensation Division, Minnesota Dept. of Labor & Industry
Links to Minnesota workers' comp. laws and regulations, decisions, forms and publications.
Minnesota Workers' Compensation Court of Appeals
Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) U.S. Dept. of Labor
Workers' Compensation - Legal Information Institute

Other Indexes & Finding Aids to Legal Resources on the Internet


  • ALSO! - American Law Sources On-Line
    Provides links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the U.S., Canada, and Mexico.
  • CataLaw
    A "catalog of catalogs" or metaindex of legal resources worldwide.
  • Cornell Legal Research Search Engine
    A search engine for locating legal research guides covering a wide variety of topics available on the web. The search engine, "searches approximately 20 different web sites that either prolifically publish guides, or index and link to guides."
  • FindLaw
    One of the most popular and useful legal research web sites. Rich in content and features.
  • FindLaw.LawCrawler
    Search sites with legal information in the U.S. and worldwide using FindLaw's AltaVista powered search engine.
  • Hieros Gamos
    "The comprehensive law and government portal."
  • InSITE (Cornell Law Library)
    A current awareness service publication and keyword searchable database of law-related web sites. Helpful annotations are provided that contain commentary and descriptions of the web sites selected for coverage in the newsletter and archive database.
  • Internet Law Library (Pritchard Law Webs)
    Formerly the U.S. House of Representatives Internet Law Library. Well organized links to law-related resources on the web worldwide. Includes a search engine powered by the LawMoose Legal Search Engine.
  • Internet Legal Research Group (ILRG)
    Indexes more than 4000 web sites worldwide also includes orginal content material, e.g. legal forms archive.
  • LLRX.com
    Publishes articles and news covering a broad scope of legal, technology and research related issues.
  • Law & Policy Internet Guide
    A comprehensive site that covers U.S., foreign and international law. Links are well organized with useful annotations. It also includes a Legal Career Center and links to general reference resources.
  • LawMoose
    Composed of three different "legal communities" (Minnesota, Wisconsin and the World). Each community contains knowledge servers and search engines that provide comprehensive coverage of the communities they cover. Highly recommended, especially for locating law-related resources in Minnesota and Wisconsin.
  • Legal Information Institute (Cornell Law School)
    One of the more conprehensive and well organized legal research web sites. Includes Primary and secondary source materials and links to selected legal resources elsewhere on the web. Information is arranged by topic, jurisdiction or source and type of publication, e.g. constitutions and codes, court opinions, directories. It also includes special topical libraries on legal ethics and social security. Also features a new collaborative (wikipedia-like) legal encyclopedia & legal dictionary, Wex. publications and services.
  • lexisONE - Legal Internet Guide
    Links to over 20,000 law-related Web sites organized in 31 categories.
  • Minnesota Legislative Reference Library - Links to the World
    Focuses on issues of interest to Minnesota legislators.
  • REFLAW (Washburn University School of Law)
    Links to legal reference resources and search engines.
  • SurfWax LawKT.com
    The free version of this database provides access to over 60,000 law firm publications and articles. Publications can be searched by key word or phrase or browsed by topic or term of art, e.g. after-acquired-property, breach of contract.
  • Virtual Chase
    "The Virtual Chase informs about Web sites and research strategies for finding the law. Includes articles and research guides.
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