REFERENCE -- Law

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 Legal History Resources                                                                                             25 April 2005

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