Abbreviations
Cardiff Index to
Legal Abbreviations;
18 December
2008
Adobe
Acrobat 8.0 for legal practitioners
12 December 2006
features redaction, show metadata, Bates numbering, improved forms
functions, collaboration tools, ability to save set of documents
as PDF binder, each document to retain security values, save email
folders in MS Outlook or Lotus Notes to a PDF binder, batch
processes such as batch OCR
Arts Law Centre of Australia
See ART+law
(June 2010-)newsletter for what's on in arts law
25 September 2003
national community legal centre for arts in Australia; Low Budget
Film/Video Agreements, Visual Arts & Crafts Agreements; The
Arts Insurance Handbook 2nd Edition.2005; Image Reproduction
for Publication *NEW*; Music Licence for Film; Film Location
Release; Artwork Reproduction Licence for Film; Photographer
Model's Release; Interviewee's Release; Performer's Release; Venue
Hire; telephone advice queue; Answers
for artists; a guide to basic legal issues for artists(free);
ASIL Guide to
Electronic Resources for International Law(American Society
for International Law) 7 July 2006
UN; Human Rights; Treaties; International Environmental Law;
International Organizations; International Criminal Law; Private
International Law; International Economic Law; International
Commerce Arbitration; Intellectual Property Law;
Audiovisual Library of
International Law
8 Novermber 2008
high quality international law training & research materials;
Historic
Archives; Lecture Series; Research Library with links to
treaties, jurisprudence, publications, & research guides;
Australian
Law(Kempsey Library)
8 July 2006
Committees & Inquiries; Law by subject; Online vendors; Legal
Profession; Major sites; Libraries; Publishers; Law Schools; by
jurisdiction;
Australian Law Online
8
July
2002
Australian Government provided access to Government legal
information & services available nationwide; Commonwealth,
State & Territory government legal information via links on
map or browse; Search
Australian Legal Publishers; Australian
guide to legal citation;
AUSTLII
7 April 2005
browse access by year to numbered Commonwealth
numbered
Acts (1973-); ACT
numbered Acts (1989-); AustLII Point-in-Time (PiT)
Legislation System launched 7 April 2005 Act or section for
any date covered & visually compare sections at different
dates; covers most NSW legislation, & part of
legislation of S Australia & Queensland; fulltext
Australasian, Indigenous & Human Rights law journals; Update
status for Case Law for currency of AustLII case law
databases for each Australian jurisdiction, update date, most
recent decision, frequency of updates, where they exist, links to
Court or Tribunal's website; full text Macquarie
University Australian Journal of Legal History from 2003; AustLII
Toolbar for Netscape/Mozilla, Mozilla Firefox & Microsoft
Internet Explorer; links to major category materials for
Australasian jurisdictions with links to other Legal Information
Institutes; toolbar for Mozilla Firefox (21 Nov 2005); full text Journal of
Australian Taxation from 2005; CCH search
for AUSTLII material on CCH web; AustLII
Legal
Publishers Search ; (May 2006) users reported being unable to access site. In
most cases investigated problem occurred using
Microsoft Windows XP operating system & Microsoft Windows Internet Explorer
had installed an update using Microsoft Windows Update Service.
In each of the cases where access was regained, one of the
following actions was taken: Reformat & reinstall
everything on computer; or Download free Mozilla Firefox open source web
browser to access AustLII website instead of Microsoft
Internet Explorer. If after taking one of above actions, you
still cannot access our website, contact us by email to
feedback@austlii.edu.au; (1 June 2006) SIRO search
engine enhancements more compatible with Lexis, Westlaw &
Google syntax. Google style searches like +murder -child etc work
as do /10 style Westlaw/QL operators. Dates now work properly for
sorting results. All results from search are now returned. All
words searchable, a smaller list of common words needs to be put
in double quotes before they are searchable. Search times
are faster...excessive placing of phrases in quotation marks
can lead to very slow results...Toolbar for
Netscape/Mozilla Suite, Mozilla Firefox & Microsoft Internet
Explorer web browsers...(4 Sep 07)funding crisis; 1/3 staff
reduction; 20 new databases not loaded;
Australasian Law
Journals Project(AUSTLII)
4 July
2005
search facility for academic law journals in Australia & New
Zealand currently searches over 16 law journals
Australian Legislation: keyword title search, & subject index 23 June 2001
Basic Legal
Citation
15 December 2007
May 2007 online version of The
Bluebook as a public service from Legal Information
Institute(LII) at Cornell University's Law School, and it will be
helpful for those looking for a quick online; forms of citation
used in processional practice rather than journal publication...
Biographia
Juridica
11 March
2010
Biographia
Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary of the Judges of England,
From the Conquest to the Present Time, 1066-1870 (London:
John Murray, 1870), by Edward Foss
Blawgsearch.com:
Search Engine for Legal Blogs Only
23 November 2006
600+ legal blogs; tag cloud (post tags & recent search terms),
list of most popular blogs, directory of blogs indexed sorted by
category, "Admiralty Law" to "Trials and Litigation" especially
Intellectual Property Law, Business Law, Criminal Law; keyword
search results default by relevance instead of date & give
summary, title, date of post, name & URL of blog;
keyword-based RSS feed, directory
by category, state & country
Bracton Online
13
October 2007
Henry of Bratton(Henricus de Brattona or Bractona), a judge of the
court known as coram rege, later known as the King’s Bench, in the
1250's, best known for his extended treatise, De legibus et consuetudinibus
Angliae/ On the Laws &Customs of England “the
crown & flower of English jurisprudence”;
Cardiff
Index to Legal Abbreviations
18 July
2003
English language legal publications, from British Isles,
Commonwealth & US, including those covering international
& comparative law
Century of Lawmaking
for a New Nation
25 January 2003
additions include 25 volume Letters of Delegates to Congress (1774-89)
published by Library of Congress, 38 volume American
State Papers (1789-1838), 6 volume Revolutionary
Diplomatic Correspondence, Joint Resolutions of the Senate
(1824-73), volumes 1-3 of the Congressional Record
(1873-75); 700 volumes selected by Law Library of Congress; 26 Feb
2011: LC collection of US Congressional Documents & Debates
from Continental Congress in 1774 to 43rd Congress in 1875
digitized for students, scholars, & public; browse by
categories including Continental
Congress & Constitutional Convention, Journals of Congress, Debates of Congress, Statutes & Documents; Special Presentations for
non-researcher or law student; Timeline: American History as Seen in
Congressional Documents includes drawings & links to
illustrative documents such as Debates
of Congress; maps & history of Native Americans’
dealings with US government: Indian
Land Cessions in the United States 1784-1894; maps
browsed by Date, Tribe & State/Territory; debates
& documents from Senate impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson
are also available;
Citations
Citing
the Law;
18 December 2008
ComLaw Australian
legislative repository
26 April 2005
replacing SCALEPlus
Commonwealth primary legislation & ancillary documents in
digital form & new Federal Register of Legislative
Instruments(FRLI) established 1 Jan 2005; authoritative source for
legislative instruments & compilations; All new primary &
subordinate legislation will be published on ComLaw/ FRLI not on SCALEPlus, available to
users until historical material & material not currently
accessible from ComLaw has migrated e.g. all historical databases;
Statutory Rules not in force, legislation of non-self-governing
Territories
Comparison
of LexisLibrary & Westlaw UK
15 July 2010
Constitution Finder
27 Jauary 2007
database of nations constitutions, charters, amendments, related
documents online
Copyright Express(Australia)
6 August
2003
clearance service for one-off permission to photocopy or digitise
for non-licensees & licensees wanting to copy outside terms of
their licenses
Criminology Research Council
13 February 2007
controls & administers Criminology Research Fund research
grants for researchers in universities, government departments or
similar institutions within Australia;
Docstoc: documents for
small business & professionals
1 May 2011
repository of free & for purchase legal, business, financial,
technical, & educational documents; sell, store, bulk upload,
email, monitor private documents; Adobe Acrobat(PDF), Word
Files(DOC & DOCX), Spreadsheet (XLS & XLSX),
Presentations(PPT & PPTX) , text files (TXT & RTF); users
can access Docstoc Certified Premium Documents & Packages in
the Docstore;
subscription service access to Premium documents for a small
monthly fee;
ECOLEX: gateway
to environmental law
22 February 2004
United Nations(FAO), International Union for Conservation of
Nature & Natural Resources(IUCN) & UN Environment
Programme(UNEP); environmental law - treaties, international
soft-law, non-binding policy & technical guidance, national
legislation, judicial decisions; law & policy literature;
abstracted bibliographic data;
Electronic
Data Discovery
26 January 2008
authenticating digital photographs, electronically stored
information, metadata in photos; US States
That Have Enacted E-Discovery Rules; states
considering adoption of special court rules to address discovery
of electronically stored information;
Electronic Information System for
International Law(EISIL)
31
October 2003
directory for general international law, human rights, economic,
environmental, & criminal law; entries include site
descriptions & legal citations. Browsable & searchable.
From American Society of International Law;
EUR-Lex access to
European Union law
19 July 2010
free access to European Union law & documents considered to be
publice in 23 official languages of European Union; 2815000
documents with texts dating back to 1951; updated daily;
European
Judicial Network(European Commission)
12 January 2008
community law, European law, aspects of civil & commercial
law; click on flags of member states for each nation's legal
system; in 20 official languages of the European Union.
Evaluating
legal research guides on the Internet
8 July 2006
FindLaw
pioneer, leading online destination for legal information &
services free on the Web 12
July 2001
FindLaw - Law, Lawyers &
Legal Resources Copyright
1994-2001
12 July 2001
FirstPoint: An
Australian Legal Database
4 August 2005
Australian reported cases since 1825 & unreported judgements
since Sept 1999; fulltext resources: Laws of Australia;
Commonwealth Law Reports; Federal Court Reports; Federal Law
Reports; Unreported Judgements; retrieve case on specific topic or
point of law using Thomson's classification scheme; browse
hierarchical structure of cases using Thomson's classification
scheme; view relevant case details such as judges, date of
judgment, digest notes for some cases, catchwords, litigation
history, cases considered, cases citing, legislation judicially
considered, words & cases judicially considered
Forensic Science
Service(FSS) UK
15 February 2007
market leader in supply of forensic science services to police
forces in England & Wales; services & activities include
paternity testing, digital crime analysis (e.g. computers &
mobile phones), DNA analysis; descriptions of FSS cases e.g.
whether bones found in Russia in 1991 were those of
Romanovs;
Free legal resources
in plain English Legal definitions
1 May
2004
Gigalaw news, articles for
Internet & technology professionals, Internet entrepreneurs
& lawyers 12 June 2004
GlobaLex
international & foreign law research(Hauser Global Law School
Program at NYU School of Law) 1 April 2007
articles for legal academics, practitioners, specialists worldwide
active in foreign, international, comparative law research or
their domestic law; guides & articles, by scholars well known
in field, recommended for universities, library schools, &
legal training courses
Global
Legal Information Catalog(GLIC) research tool for the LC
Collections
24
October 2010
includes information about publications which reprint laws &
regulations of multiple jurisdictions on a particular legal topic;
provides additional identifying information about titles, beyond
that provided in the Library's online catalog; interfaces with
Library of Congress’s online catalog & is searchable by
jurisdiction, title, subject & keyword
Global Legal Information
Network(GLIN)Law Library(US Congress)
5 November 2005
official fulltext legal documents; judicial decisions,
legislation, laws; summary in English, subject terms from
multilingual index to GLIN; search countries including Brazil,
Costa Rica, Kuwait, Peru, Romania by jurisdiction, publication
date, subject terms, language; FAQ
Global
Legal
Monitor(Law Library of Congress)
25 January 2008
electronic publication for legal developments around the world;
updated frequently with information from Global Legal Information Network,
official national legal publications, & press sources; special
section includes lectures, conferences, symposia, exhibits;
Google
Scholar fulltext legal opinions from US federal & state
district, appellate & supreme
courts; 18 November 2009
Guide to
Electronic Resources for International Law
2 May 2002
part of Amer.
J of International Law website; human rights,
international economic law, treaties; provides extensive links
through subject headings & a description for each entry.
Highly recommended.
Guide
to Foreign & International Legal Databases(New York
University School of Law) 1 April
2007
Historical
Australian Acts, 1973-
20 June
2001
older consolidations of Acts used to find legislation "as at" a
given time; data may not be up to date as SCALEplus is
being progressively replaced by ComLaw
Intellectual
Property
on
the Internet: A Survey of Issues
2 February 2003
WIPO report on impact that digital technologies, the Internet in
particular, have on intellectual property (IP) & international
IP system.
International
Center for Not-For-Profit Law(ICNL) Online Library
18
May 2007
searchable directory of legal documents, court cases, reports,
civil society resourcesworldwide; 2338 resources/144 countries/37
languages; browse by country &/or language, keyword search;
recently added documents, with links; free registration for PDF
fulltext;
International
Criminal Court(ICC) in French or English
20 June 2009
founding & purpose; News & Highlights; streaming video of
proceedings in 2 different courtrooms in French or
English(30-minute delay); Court Schedule; Decisions; Documents;
Press Releases; Legal texts & tools(25000 documents &
legal commentaries) including Official Journal of the ICC, 13
collections & databases, reference tools on international
criminal law & justice; Recruitment;
Internet
Sites for Lawyers: Computerised Legal Research By Ron Huttner
8 July 2006
excellent directory of Australian & other legal sites; [now
defunct? Ron is retired but still active; Responses
about
Ron Huttner];
Justia: Law & legal
information for lawyers, students, business & the public
29 October 2009
Landmark U.S. Supreme
Court Cases
19 March 2005
Developed by Street Law & Supreme Court Historical Society for
teachers; teaching strategies include political cartoon analysis,
moot court, continuum exercises, website evaluation; cases covered
include Mapp v. Ohio, Gideon v. Wainwright, & Miranda v.
Arizona; detailed explanations of concepts such as
federalism, national supremacy, & judicial review; background
summaries & discussion questions for a variety of reading
levels & abilities.
Language
of Law on the Web(US) See also Legal
ontologies spin a Semantic Web
11
July 2009
Law handbook (South
Australia) online
8 July 2002
overview of law in South Australia in everyday language outlining
rights & responsibilities in a range of legal areas &
referrals for advice;
LawKT Service
19
December 2003
Surfwax has launched a free version of LawKT service; index of
60000+ law firm publications from 280+ law firms; aggregates news
on 1000+ topics
LAWLEX Legislation
Service
30 June 2005
up-to-date Australian legislative & regulatory change across
jurisdictions - new bills, assents, proclamations, regulations,
amendments, repeals; legislative alerts for subscribers;
regulatory newsfeeds on Environment & Occupational Health
& Safety; Real Estate; Taxation; Banking & Finance; links
to related material, amendment & commencement information,
written summaries - Premium Research for subscribers; free access
to primary legislative information on internet; No charge for
legislation available free from government sites.
Law Library of Congress
26 October 2007
Law Library of Congress Global
Legal Monitor (Issue 12/20/07), electronic publication on
legal developments around world; updated frequently with
information from Global Legal
Information Network, official national legal publications,
& press sources; special section includes lectures,
conferences, symposia, exhibits on timely legal topics;
Lawlinks(University
of Kent, UK) & Electronic
law library;
18 December 2008
Law of the Nations of the World 12 June 2004
LawPaths:
Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC)
24 February 2004
info about articles, guides, tutorials; brief description &
link to original material arranged by institution; fact sheets,
guides to using online legal research systems & subject
bibliographies
Law
Reports & Court Records: Print Resources at National Library
of Australia
22
September 2007
Law
Reports of Trials of War Criminals: United Nations War Crimes
Commission
17 April
2010
Library of Congress' Military Legal Resources website highlights
war criminal trials from World War II that offer "major points of
municipal & international law that were raised & settled
during the trials as well as the potential for the greatest legal
interest"; trials cover 1947-1949 & comprise 15 volumes;
each volume's table of contents contains breakdown of each case
including Outline of the
Proceedings comprised of facts & evidence, defense of
accused, findings & sentences; Notes on the Case name & discuss
appropriateness of laws or statutes applied;
Laws
that changed aboriginal lives
28
September 2006
specific Australian state & territory government laws largely
repealed by 1960’s -1970’s in response to widespread concern as to
effects of these policies.
Law
times
reports
:
containing
all
cases
argued
&
determined
in the House of Lords, ... ; together with a
selection of cases of universal application decided in the
superior courts in Ireland & in Scotland (1860) 9
January 2011
Book digitized by Google & uploaded to Internet Archive; Many
vols. include a section entitled: Statutes of the United Kingdom,
some v. include statutory rules & court rules; Vols. 1-17
called new series, v. 1-4 also carry vol. designation of the "old
series", v. 35-v. 38; Merged with: All England law reports of cases
decided in the House of Lords, the Privy Council, all divisions
of the Supreme Court, & courts of special jurisdiction;
to form: All
England law reports Issued in conjuction with: The law times(London,
England), continues vols. 1-34 of The law times reports[old series]
which were issued as part of & bound with The law times;
Legal
ontologies spin a semantic web
8 June 2009
Legal
Portraits Online(Harvard Law School Library)
1
September 2007
images of jurists, political figures, legal thinkers, lawyers from
Middle Ages to late C20, strong in C18 & C19 British &
American lawyers;
Legal Resources in the UK
& Ireland maintained by Delia Venables
1 February 2007
Legal
Web Site Directory(US)
12 November 2003
legalWiki.org.au
10
November 2007
legal journal edited by legal community, open to general public
for viewing without the need to register any user account;
Legify specialised search
engine covering current Australian state & federal
legislation review
29 March 2011
Google Instant-like immediate results & keyboard navigation;
authoritative, current versions of 13000+ Australian Acts &
Regulations from legislative publishers of Commonwealth, States
& Territories;
Legislation.gov.uk
800+ years of legal history in England, Scotland, Wales &
Northern Ireland 20 August 2010
built on an open Application Programming Interface(API) also
availing access to the raw data; Linked
data brings the semantic web into government; review;
Media
Law Handbook(Professor Jane Kirtley, Silha Professor of
Media Ethics & Law, U of Minnesota) 2 February 2011
privileges & responsibilities of a free press
Library of Congress: Military
Legal Resources
30 June 2007
specialized digital collection contains legal documents and
related ephemera such as Military Law Review, various US Army
Field Manuals, transcripts of Nuremberg Trials, Commentaries
on 1949 Geneva Conventions originally published between 1952 &
1959, legislative histories of important acts - Freedom of
Information & Privacy Acts of 1974; direct links to official
investigations of My Lai Incidents during Vietnam War;
Most-Cited
Legal
Periodicals(International)
28 July 2005
National Criminal Justice
Reference Service (NCJRS; US)
23 February 2008
offering justice & substance abuse information to support
research, policy, & program development worldwide; A-Z Topics,
biweekly email newsletter JustInfo, thematic reports from
Bureau of Justice Statistics; grants & funding opportunities;
Nations of
the World & Associated Jurisdictions
4 April 2005
Native
Title
Infobase(NTIB)
29 July 2004
all aspects of Australian native title & selected material
from other jurisdictions including New Zealand, United States,
Canada, Africa, Asia & other countries with indigenous
populations involved in disputes over access to their traditional
lands; See also National
Native
Title
Tribunal
Bibliographies(Australia) & AIATSIS
Bibliographies;
New Zealand Legislation
Acts, Bills, & Regulations to read & download free
of charge 2
February 2008
Online Secrets of Top Legal Researchers 3 October 2002
Oyez Project multimedia
archive
devoted to Supreme Court of the United States cases
since
1955 12 May 2011
complete & authoritative source for all audio recorded in
Court since installation of recording system in October 1955;
additional court information, recordings of case arguments can
be found by browsing by date, authoring Supreme Court Justice,
&/or tag/issue;
People’s
Law: Free Legal Help & Legal Research on the Web (Searcher,
April 2006)
Persistent Identification of Electronic Documents & the Future of Footnotes(Law Library Journal) 21 November 2005
Protect Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) See Stop Online Piracy Act(SOPA) (below)
Public Access to Court Electronic
Records (PACER) US
29 May 2010
case & docket information from federal appellate, district
& bankruptcy courts; PACER
Case Locator: national index for US District, Bankruptcy,
& Appellate courts. A small subset of information from each
case is transferred each night; US$26/name or item search; US50
cents /page printed; usage of less than $10 in a quarterly billing
cycle is waived;
Researching Australian Law 12 January 2003
Researching Primary Legislation of the United Kingdom 31 May 2003
SCADPlus
2 June 2005
user-friendly fact sheets summarising EU legislation divided into
32 subject areas - Activities of European Union; follow-up of
legislative proposals in policies as diverse as External
Relations, Employment & Social Affairs; almost 2,500 fact
sheets; updated daily
SCALEplus
6 August 2003
Commonwealth of Australia & non self-governing Territories
legislation & related material such as Reserved Commonwealth
Laws, Bills, explanatory memoranda, statements, tables; Australian
Treaty Library; user
manual & guides; Functional
Index guide to law & law- related functions offered by
Commonwealth Government; case law & state legislation removed;
working with AUSTLII to
ensure all removed data available there; From 1 January 2005,
legislation & related material previously published here is
now published on ComLaw/ FRLI.
SCALEplus will continue until historical material, & material
not currently accessible from ComLaw has migrated e.g. historical
databases; Statutory Rules not in force, legislation of
non-self-governing Territories;
Scientific
evidence
19 May 2012
Reference
Manual on Scientific Evidence(3rd edition; Washington: National
Academies Press, 2011), by Federal Judicial Center &
National Research Council Committee on Science, Technology, &
Law;
Selective
Guide
to Online International Arbitration Resources
3 July 2004
Short
Guide to Australian Legal Research
30 August
2005
South
Australian
Industrial Relations Tribunals
5 May
2005
South Australian
legal records (Adelaide Law Review Association, 1996)
March 2007
Vol. 1. Supreme Court of SA - v. 2. Legal records in public
collections - v. 3. Department of Correctional Services - v. 4.
Intermediate & minor courts - v. 5. S Austrn Police Historical
Society
South Australian legislation
19
October 2006
current & historical versions of public general Acts,
regulations, certain rules, aquaculture & environment
protection policies; Bills of current session of Parliament &
previous sessions(from 2005); proclamations & notices made by
Governor(from 2003); as made versions of Acts & regulations,
rules, proclamations & notices made by Governor(from 2003);
legislative index information; information about regulations due
to expire under Subordinate Legislation Act, Ministers to whom
Acts are committed; PDF & RTF formats; Subject Index
to South Australian Legislation(Australian Law Librarians
Association (SA Division) Inc.); Acts
of the Parliament of South Australia 1837 - 1880; South
Australian Legal History Archive(Flinders U of South
Australia) includes Acts
of the Parliament of South Australia 1837 - 2002: A
complete collection of South Australian Acts & Ordinances
1837 - 2002;
Stop
Online Piracy Act(SOPA) & Protect
Intellectual Property Act (PIPA) Overview
17 January 2012
Wikipedia
to be shut down for 24hrs to protest SOPA/PIPA; SOPA
& PIPA are bad industrial policy - The solution to
piracy must be a market solution, not a government
intervention(Tim O'Reilly);
Surfwax Free Search for Legal
Articles
8 December 2003
Meta-search service Surfwax free LawKT service index to 60000 law
firm publications & articles
Tom's Law - Legal Documents
Online
9 February 2004
drafts for company documents & contracts from Tom Mackay,
former head of Legal Department, London Stock Exchange; setting up
company, funding & investment, confidentiality agreements,
Intellectual Property contracts, contracts for junior & senior
employees.
Trans-Lex
transnational law & international business law
16 May 2009
National Legislation, Conventions, Principles/Restatements/Model
Laws, Arbitration Rules & Mediation Rules; countries covered,
include South Africa, Japan, US, but majority of the countries
covered are European Union; Links include topics & subtopics
on International Trade/Commercial Law, Private International Law,
International Commercial Arbitration;
Trial
of Major War Criminals before International Military Tribunal,
November
14th 1945 to October 1st 1946
24 March
2007
proceedings of trials of major civilian & military leaders of
Nazi Germany in Nuremberg; 42-volumes digitized by Library of
Congress as part of Military Legal Resources initiative; browse;
many volumes are in English & include transcripts in French
& German;
UK Legal
Factsheets
27 October 2010
UK Statute Law
Database(SLD)
23 December 2006
Department for Constitutional Affairs(DCA) historical database of
30000+ items of revised UK primary legislation ; advanced search
& navigation for primary legislation in force on 1 February
1991, primary & secondary legislation produced since; Chronological
Index;
Ultimate
Internet Law Meta-index
16 October 2005
index of Web indices on Internet law from Stephen D. Imparl,
moderator of WEB-LAW discussion
group;
UNESCO:
Collection of Copyright Laws
14 April 2007
national copyright & related rights legislation of UNESCO
Member States currently comprises about 100 laws, constantly
updated; International
Standard-Setting Instruments in the Copyright Field access
to major international instruments in copyright & related
rights;
USCodeSurf (US Code of
Law)
17 October 2008
21 Aug 2011: In Beta: searchable
version of US Code, a consolidation & codification by
subject matter of general & permanent laws of US;
Virtual Chase: Legal Research on the Internet(TVC) offline no later than May 2009 25 July 2008
Web
Guide to US Supreme Court Research
13 June
2004
annotated links to reliable, substantive sites for US Supreme
Court research; information freely, or inexpensively, available on
Internet
Weblaw subject gateway to
Australian legal resources
4 January 2009
Wex
publicly-accessible legal dictionary &
encyclopedia
1 December 2005
Cornell Legal Information Institute, registered with Creative
Commons; controlled community project; authors must qualify before
contributing articles;
Wikilaw Open Content Legal
Resource
27 January 2006
invites legal professionals to contribute, but offers no
information about editorial controls;
Wolfram
Lawyer’s Professional Assistant App - tools & features
from W database
8 December 2011
dictionary of legal terms; statutes of limitations for each US
state; information about visa types, including basic requirements,
common issues, extensions & limits; crime rates & history
for specific crimes, state & national average comparisons;
Workplace
Relations
Law Library (Austlii)
4 July 2006
AustLII databases of Workplace Relations law; searches Workplace
Relations materials on other websites as does Law on Google, Legal Publishers
Search on CCH's Industrial Law Library & ABL's
Workplace materials; section on High Court Workplace Relations;
World Legal Systems U of
Ottawa
9 January 2010
6 different languages, including Arabic, Russian, Chinese 7
English; map types of law that govern countries of world: Civil
Law, Common Law, Muslim Law, Customary Law, & Mixed Systems;
WorldLII (290 databases/50
jurisdictions/22 countries)
4 March
2003
Africa, Asia, Australasia, Europe, North America, South Pacific;
parliaments, legislation,lawyers, international decisions &
treaties
Zimmerman's
Research Guide: An Online
Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers(US)
12 November
2003