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The following are law related resources that are on the web.

http://www.homeworkcentral.com/college1.htp?sectionid=21335

This is a great place to get some basic information on the U.S. legal system.  The site is divided into sections: an overview of the legal system, references, areas of law, law today and yesterday, and tutorials and practice.  It contains a good glossary of legal terms with definitions from legal texts.  It also contains a list of journals.   It is part of homework central.

www.law.cornell.edu/index.html

Cornell Law Library -An outstanding legal information web site. This site contains information on various laws, legal ethics, laws by jurisdictions and the ethics behind laws. This site also has search engines for Federal, State and appellate court decisions. There are search engines as well for constitutions and codes. Rules pertaining to evidence and procedure are also located here.

www.findlaw.com

Description: Includes the Findlaw library and the Constitutional Law Center. Links include Legal Subject Index, Law School Reviews, news and reference, Laws:Cases and Codes, US Federal Resources, US State Resources, and other links. It also includes a law library of more than 10,000 publications plus FindLaw Features and Legal News.

http://supreme.findlaw.com

Designed with students and the general public in mind, the FindLaw Constitutional Law Center features an easy-to-read guide that leads visitors through historical  documents, biographies, and Supreme Court decisions. Users can browse through the Federalist Papers, read the Constitution, or research the lives of the Founding Fathers or past and present Supreme Court Justices. In addition, the FindLaw Constitutional law Center hosts a Town Hall, where visitors can share ideas on message boards, vote on constitutional issues, and sign-up for free e-mail summaries of new Supreme Court decisions as they are issued.

 www.lawoffice.com

Description: A no charge service for information dealing with law. Includes a database of more than 400 legal topics. The Lawknowledge base provides information concerning developments in law.

www.lawCrawler.com

Description: Search engine for world wide websites with legal information plus additional LawCrawler search options including LawCrawler International, USA, California and other states.

http://web.utk.edu/~scheb/cases.html

Description:  Landmark decisions of the Supreme Court on various issues of law and additional links to more Supreme Court cases at this site.

http://www.louisville.edu/library/ekstrom/govpubs/goodsources/history/constitution/usconcopy.html

Description: copies of U.S. Constitution, Bill of Rights, and other related materials.

http://www.history.ohio-state.edu/projects/prohibition/Contents.htm

Description: The history and related legal cases of prohibition laws.

www.jrsainfo.org

Justice Research and Statistics Association -This site contains various online data bases pertaining to criminal justice research. There are online publications, and links to other research sites. The online publications require Adobe Acrobat Reader to view.

www.indiana.edu/~libpoli/rr/cj_res.html

Criminal Justice Research Center-This site composed by Indiana State University contains various criminal justice research guides, online encyclopedias of criminal justice and police science searches. This site is an excellent place to get started with an idea or brainstorm with an idea on a paper topic.

www.libraryspot.com

Library Spot -This web site contains many libraries that are online. There is a section devoted solely to law and criminal justice research. This site is an excellent expanded link site.

http://wcr.sonoma.edu/

Description: Journal with theory discussions, research, policy and practice in the fields of criminology and criminal justice.

http://dir.lycos.com/Society/Law/Legal_Publications/

This site provides a selection of law related materials including links to law journals, law books, case law and court rules, legal periodicals, and reports.

http://www.lawreview.org/

You can search this using a topic, or there is a list of journals by the type of law. You can sign up for a free email alert system notifying you of the most recently published articles in major law reviews. The site also contains links to the law professor's' network, internet legal resources, etc.

http://www.WashLaw.edu/lawjournal/lawjournal.html

This is apparently an exhaustive list of law related journals. This site provides you with hot links to the journals, information on whether they are electronic, and whether they offer a full text version on the web.

http://www.lawstreet.com/

Find the law you need fast and efficient, the web's legal authority on cases, the only site that makes ense of law.

http://www.talklaw.com/


This site contains information from national sites, federal agencies, other federal government sites, state legal information, law school information, general legal information, law related sites, and Intellectual Property Copyright and Patent information.


http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/index.htm

This website allows you to search the following:  U.S. Code, Code Classification, Legislation, Treaties, International law, low book reviews and publishers.

http://www.fastsearch.com/law/index.html

This website has a variety of legal resources that can be downloaded.  It also list specific law topics and publications. It also includes various law libraties from teh top schools in the U.S.

http://www.sociology.org/

An electronic online sociology journal. Recognizing that the current scholarly communication system is in financial crises caused by the predatorial practices of a handful of commercial publishers, and recognizing that there is considerable potentials inherent in information technology to reduce the cost of distributing scholarly information, it is the mission of the EJS and ICAAP to demonstrate that high quality, low cost, and non commercial alternatives to the commercial system are possible. The EJS is thus offered free of charge to individuals, libraries, academic and commercial organizations. It is part of, and a model for, a new publishing paradigm whereby the scholars themselves retain control over all aspects of the scholarly communication process.

www.ilrg.com/

This site has more than 4000 links representing 238 nations, islands, and territories. It was established as a comprehensive resource of all the information available on the Internet concerning issues surrounding law.

jurist.law.pitt.edu/

"The law professors' network"  This site is mostly dedicated to U.S. law, but also has world legal news, U.S. law reviews, lists of current research, Supreme Court news, etc.

http://www.academicpress.com/

IDEAL® is an online electronic library containing 174 Academic Press journals. In addition, selected W.B. Saunders, Ltd. and Churchill Livingstone titles are available. Abstracts and tables of contents are presented in HTML and full-text articles are delivered in Adobe Acrobat® format. There are mirror sites in the U.S.A. and the U.K.