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Topic in Focus—Legal Resources on the Web

U.S. General Legal Resources

• Legal Information Institute: http://www.law.cornell.edu
  • This Cornell Law School site contains primary legal materials and commentary to aid legal professionals, teachers, and students in their search for information. The most useful section is Law about…
• Links to U.S. Law Resources: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/linkslaw.htm
  • A good general list of links to most aspects of U.S. law, including state statutes.
• Selected U.S. Public Laws: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/majorlaw.htm
  • Documents here contain public laws as passed and do not necessarily contain amendments added since passage. Includes the the American Disabilities Act, the U.S. Patriot Act, and many others of special interest.
• Jurist—The Legal Education Network: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/index.php
• Law Library Resource Xchange: http://www.llrx.com
  • Extremely useful site for legal research - excellent source for knowledge management topics as well as essays on all aspects of the law.

International General Legal Resources

• Electronic Information System for International Law: http://www.eisil.org/
• FindLaw—International Resources: http://www.findlaw.com/12international/countries/
• Foreign Governments/Constitutions, Laws and Treaties: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/forcons.html
• Guide to European Legal Databases: http://www.llrx.com/features/europenew.htm
• NYU Law Library—Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/
• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law: http://www.asil.org/resource/treaty1.htm

International Treaties

• Selected International Treaties and Agreements: http://usinfo.state.gov/usa/infousa/laws/tradeagr.htm
• International Treaties: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/intl.html#treaties
• The Avalon Project at Yale Law School—Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy: http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
• Multilaterals Project: http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.html
  • The Multilaterals Project is an ongoing project at The Fletcher School of Law & Diplomacy, Tufts University, that makes available the texts of international multilateral conventions and other instruments.
• International Law Guide I—Treaties and Other Soruces of International Law:
  http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/resguide/rschguid.htm
• U.N. Treaty Collection: http://untreaty.un.org/
  • Includes subscription databases and free full-text access to more than 40,000 multilateral treaties and subsequent actions.
• Researching U.S. Treaties and Agreements: http://www.llrx.com/features/ustreaty.htm
  • Extensive tutorial on the topic by Georgetown University Law Center librarian Marci Hoffman.
• Researching Non-U.S. Treaties: http://www.llrx.com/features/non_ustreaty.htm
  • Detailed essay with extensive bibliography by Harvard Law School librarian Stefanie Weigmann.