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GENERAL LAW AND LEGISLATION FINDING TOOLS

American Bar Association Journal and LawLink
ABA's journal and Lawlink, a directory of legal information on the Web.
American Law Sources Online
Catalaw
Electronic Law Journals
Links to law journals with full-text or abstracts/table of contents available on the web.
FindLaw (Internet Legal Sources)
The Internet Legal Resource Guide
A categorized index of 3100 select web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as more than 850 locally stored web pages and other files, this site was established to serve as a comprehensive resource of the information available on the Internet concerning law and the legal profession, with an emphasis on the United States of America.
Lawguru.com - Legal Questions, Answers, and Research
Provides direct links to the search engines for more than 200 law-related sites.
Law News Network : National Legal News Daily
Read daily legal news or browse the online law library.
LawLink -- ABA Legal Research Selected Starting Points
Legal Information Institute
The server offers the LII's collection of recent and historic Supreme Court decisions, its hypertext versions of the full U.S. Code, U.S. Constitution, Federal Rules of Evidence and Civil Procedure, recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and commentary on them from the liibulletin-ny, the American Legal Ethics Library, and other important legal materials -- federal, state, foreign and international.
Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator
Searchable by name, office, city, state, country, or kind of lawyer or law firm.
United States Federal Judiciary Homepage
United States Supreme Court Decisions
The Legal Information Institute offers Supreme Court opinions under the auspices of Project Hermes, the court's electronic-dissemination project. This archive contains (or will soon contain) all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990.
University Law Review Project -- Full Text Search of Law Journals on the Internet
The Virtual Chase Web Site: Legal Information Search Tools
Search tools for locating case law, government documents, commentary on law-related topics, law topic search sites, guide to resources for legal professionals.
WashlawWeb (Washburn University School of Law)
WashLaw WEB links you to law related resources on the Internet. In addition to specialized subject areas, you may access information about Law Schools and Law Libraries. You can search "full text" for the law and law journals, as well as browse law library catalogs. Special collections include the Brown vs Board of Education materials, Kansas Court Decisions, and the United States 10th Circuit Court of Appeals Opinions.
Web Journal of Current Legal Issues (full text)
The Web Journal of Current Legal Issues is published bi-monthly on the World Wide Web. The focus of the Journal is on current legal issues in judicial decisions, law reform, legislation, legal research, policy related socio-legal research, legal information, information technology and practice.
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FEDERAL LEGISLATION and REGULATION

ABA Selected Statutes and Codes
The Center For Information Law and Policy
The Federal Web Locator
The Federal Courts Locator
Code of Federal Regulations
Searchable; not always completely up-to-date -- see bottom of main page for current information.
Congressional Record Index
Constitutions, Statutes, and Codes
Judicial Opinions (Federal and State)
Legal Information Institute's Eye on the Courts: Newsworthy Decisions Available on the Net
LII's Eye on the Courts looks for news reports commenting on important appellate decisions from courts currently covered on the Net. When a high profile case is placed on the Net a link to the decision is entered here, along with links to background legal material, as available.
Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
Regulations (Federal and State)
Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
From the Library of Congress
The United States Code
This version is generated from the most recent version made available by the US House of Representatives. Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School.
U.S. Court of Appeals, Federal Circuit
The opinions of the Federal Circuit since August 1995 are brought to you by the Hugh F. Macmillan Law Library, Emory University School of Law, in cooperation with the United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit. All cases are in full text on the Web, or can be downloaded. The files to download are located at the end of each case.
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CHILDREN'S ISSUES

ABA Center on Children and the Law
The Center's areas of expertise encompass child abuse and neglect (including child sexual abuse and exploitation), child welfare and child protective service system enhancement, foster care, family preservation, termination of parental rights, child support, child fatalities, parental substance abuse, child custody and visitation, and parental kidnapping.


CRIMINAL JUSTICE

ABA Commission on Domestic Violence
The American Bar Association's newly created Commission on Domestic Violence researches model domestic violence programs across the country in an effort to understand why they work. This site contains a wide variety of links to law, legislation and issues related to domestic violence.
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DEMOGRAPHY

Immigration Central
This site contains a wide variety of resources including U.S. immigration law requirements and procedures. It also lists immigrations organizations and books and periodicals.
Siskind, Susser, Haas and Chang
This Nashville-based law firm, specializing in immigration law, provides latest federal laws and regulations as well as pertinent forms (INS and Social Security Administration) for downloading.
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EDUCATION

American Bar Association's Division for Public Education
EDLAW, Inc. and The EDLAW Center
This page is designed to provide a starting point for basic legal information of use to special educators, parents and their advisors in meeting federal and state requirements for the education of students with disabilities.
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EMPLOYMENT AND LABOR

Employee Benefit Research Institute
A nonpartisan organization committed to original public policy research and education on economic security and employee benefits.
Labor and Employment Law - American Bar Association
Contains many publications that are up to date on important developments and trends in the area of labor and employment law.
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HEALTH

American Bar Association Health Law Section
This site contains general information as well as publications lists and contact numbers dedicated to the increasing interest in the field of health law. It represents all areas of the health law industry and is committed to educating the legal profession in this rapidly changing area of practice.
Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly - American Bar Association
The Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly (CLPE) is dedicated to examining the law-related concerns of older persons. The Commission has sought to improve legal services for the elderly, and has explored legal issues surrounding long-term care, surrogate decision-making, individual rights, guardianship, housing, social security, elder abuse, and other public benefit programs.
Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law - American Bar Association
The Commission on Mental and Physical Disability Law has been committed to justice and the rule of law for persons with mental and physical disabilities since 1973. Besides a wide variety of publications, for the last nineteen years the Commission has been publishing the Mental and Physical Disability Law Reporter, the nation's longest running and most comprehensive source of disability law. Access to this Reporter is available at this site.
The Health Law Resource
This page is intended as a resource for health care practitioners, professionals or anyone interested in learning more about the dynamic field of health care law, and more specifically, the regulatory and transactional aspects of health care law practice.
Telemedicine and the Law
Deals with the legal issues surrounding health information systems, computerized decision support technologies and telemedicine. Developed by Arent, Fox (D.C. law firm).
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HOUSING

Affordable Housing and Community Development Law - American Bar Association
The American Bar Association's Forum on Affordable Housing and Community Development Law comprises over 1,500 attorneys, government officials and people who work in the arena of affordable housing. This site contains publications and project information, as well as links to related sites.


INTERNATIONAL LAW

ABA's Section of International Law and Practice
This is a general site containing American Bar Association publications, special projects and links to other useful international law and policy sites.
Foreign and International Law Sources on the Internet : Annotated (Cornell Law Library)
This metasite is a selective guide to web sites providing links to texts of laws and court decisions, international documents, directories, trade information, and/or statistics.
International Law Dictionary and Directory
Includes hyperlinks to international legal materials.
International Law Page
U.N. Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN)
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SOCIOLOGY

Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly - American Bar Association
The Commission on Legal Problems of the Elderly (CLPE) is dedicated to examining the law-related concerns of older persons. The Commission has sought to improve legal services for the elderly, and has explored legal issues surrounding long-term care, surrogate decision-making, individual rights, guardianship, housing, social security, elder abuse, and other public benefit programs.
Individual Rights and Responsibilities - American Bar Association
The IR&R Section plays a unique and vital leadership role and the legal community and nation at large in protecting and advancing individual human rights, civil liberties, and social justice. This site contains links to many law related pages dealing with social justice.
Southern Poverty Law Center
Located in Montgomery, Alabama, the Center is known for its years of courtroom accomplishments, legal victories against white supremacist groups, monitoring of hate activity across the country, national tolerance education and the Civil Rights Memorial. The site includes news of major legislation and cases and monitors a variety of groups.
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STATE AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT

The Center For Information Law and Policy
The State Web Locator
The State Courts Locator
Municipal Codes Online
In an effort to make municipal codes throughout the nation more accessible to the public, Seattle Public Library staff have prepared this list of links to city and county codes available for unrestricted searching on the World Wide Web.
State Law (State Law and Legislative Information)
A comprehensive set of links to state law. It also includes information and links to the Council of State Governments, State Services Organizations and a break down of the all state courts.
State Resources on FindLaw -- Internet Legal Resources
State Statutes and Legislation (Full-text)
Links to available state statutory law sources.
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WELFARE

American Public Human Services Association
APHSA provides information on what is happening in the states concerning welfare, child welfare, health care reform, and other issues involving families and the elderly.
National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty
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