John J. Ross - William C. Blakley Law Library
Arizona State University College of Law

Internet Legal Sites by Marianne Alcorn

Table of Contents

• Legal Search Engines, Directories, and Indexes
• Legal Profession
• Legal Forms
• General Law Sites
• Subject Specific Sites
• Arizona Information Sites
• Government and Data Resources
• State Information
• Links to Law Schools and Law Library Catalogs
• Foreign and International

Legal Search Engines, Directories, and Indexes

• American Law Sources Online (ALSO) – http://www.lawsource.com/ - A free, “one-stop shopping” resource which provides free cite retrieval, browsing options, and direct links to statutory, case law, administrative, court, municipal, and other legal information resources for the United States (federal, state, local, and territorial), Mexico, and Canada.
• CataLaw: Metaindex of Law and Government - http://www.catalaw.com
• Center For Information Law and Policy - http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl - Federal Web Locator and http://www.infoctr.edu/swl/ - State Web Locator.
• FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources - http://www.findlaw.com/ - Includes LawCrawler legal search engine, subscribe to Email lists of law journals, abstracts, and articles in your area of interest.
• FIRSTGOV - Database of Government Web Sites - http://www.firstgov.gov
• GSU College of Law - Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research - http://gsulaw.gsu.edu/metaindex/
• VersusLaw - http://www.versuslaw.com- Fee based collections of case law. Can search for case law citations but must subscribe to view full-text.

Legal Profession

• American Bar Association - http://www.abanet.org
• Law.com - http://www.law.com/ - List of Law links - Topical Law Materials, Law collections and resources, government materials, lawyers, firms, current legal news, decisions, law listservs.
• Federal Judges Biographical Database - http://air.fjc.gov/history/judges_frm.html
• Martindale Lawyer Locator - http://lawyers.martindale.com/marhub - Locate lawyers through Martindale-Hubbell by name, law firm, area of practice, location or language.
• West Publishing: West's Legal Directory (WLD) - http://directory.findlaw.com/ - Find law firms and lawyers.

Legal Forms

• Findlaw - http://forms.lp.findlaw.com/ - almost 8,000 state and federal court forms in pdf format.
• Lexis One - http://www.lexisone.com/ - Searchable resource with thousands of free legal forms available for download, as well as access to other legal information.  Free, but requires registration.
  

General Law Sites

• AALLNET - http://www.aallnet.org/index.asp - American Association of Law Libraries.
• ABA's LawLink - Legal Research Selected Starting Points - http://www.lawtechnology.org/lawlink/home.html
• Administrative Codes - http://www.nass.org/acr/internet.html - Compilation of all state administrative code available over the internet.
• Alphabetical list of listservs related to law - http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/lawlists/lawlists.txt
• American Law Sources Online (ALSO) – http://www.lawsource.com/ - A free, “one-stop shopping” resource which provides free cite retrieval, browsing options, and direct links to statutory, case law, administrative, court, municipal, and other legal information resources for the United States (federal, state, local, and territorial), Mexico, and Canada.
• Cornell Law School: Legal Information Institute - http://www.law.cornell.edu - same day Supreme Court decisions, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, links to many Internet legal sites, and Federal Court Statistics.
• Court TV Law Center - http://www.courttv.com/index.html
• Emory University School of Law - http://www.law.emory.edu - Access to Federal Circuit Courts Finder.
• Federal Court Locator - http://www.law.villanova.edu/library/researchguides/fedcourtlocator.asp
• Freedom Forum First Amendment Center - http://www.freedomforum.org - Information on the First Amendment.
• Hieros Gamos - http://www.hg.org - Links to state & federal government sources, and links to over 160 foreign governments and legal sources.
• Justice Information Center (NCJRS) - http://www.ncjrs.org/
• http://www.law.com - Excellent source of legal news (American Lawyer, National Law Journal, NYLJ). Click on State Sites to connect to each state's regulations, codes, cases, city codes, legal news and more.
• Law on the Web - http://lawlib.slu.edu/library/LawOnTheWeb.html - Links to U.S. Law available on the Internet organized by Jim Milles.
• Municipal Codes Online - check the website of the city and these sites; http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=collection_municodes (Seattle Public Library); http://www.municode.com/resources/online_codes.asp
• National Center for State Courts Home Page - http://www.ncsconline.org
• Practising Law Institute - http://www.pli.edu
• Scout Report/Internet Scout Project - http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/ - Online resources for the education community.
• Health Law Research Gateway - http://lawlib.slu.edu/healthcenter/research/research_index.htm
• Supreme Court of the United States - http://www.supremecourtus.gov - full text of Opinions, the Court calendar and schedule, information about the Court and justices, Court rules, Bar admissions information, and case handling guides.
• Uniform State Laws (NCCUSL) - http://www.nccusl.org/; NCCUSL Archives Information - http://www.law.upenn.edu/bll/ulc/ulc_frame.htm
• U.S. Federal Courts Finder - http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/
  

Subject Specific Sites

• Americans with Disabilities Act Document Center -http://jan.wvu.edu.edu/links/adalinks.htm - Contains documents related to the American with Disabilities Act and links to other sources concerning disability issues.
• American Bar Association's Commission on Mental & Physical Disability Law - http://www.abanet.org/disability/home.html
• Copyright Clearance Center Online - http://www.copyright.com - Copyrights On the Internet.
• Center for World Indigenous Studies - http://www.cwis.org/ - and the Fourth World Documentation Project - North, Central and South American Documents, as well as African, Micronesian, and some European- http://www.cwis.org/fwdp/fwdp.html - Excellent site for Indian treaties, speeches, documents.
• Divorce Help Line Home Page - http://www.divorcehelp.com/index.html
• Native American & Aboriginal Law - research materials & links to Indian Nations - http://www.nesl.edu/research/native.cfm
  

Arizona Information Sites

• ALIS Home Page - http://www.azleg.state.az.us - Arizona legislative information, Arizona Revised Statutes.
• Arizona Administrative Code - http://www.azsos.gov/rules.htm
• Arizona Association of Law Libraries (AzALL) - http://www.aallnet.org/chapter/azll/
• Arizona Central - http://www.azcentral.com - Arizona news, information, golf, food, business, travel and more.
• Arizona Court of Appeals, Division I - http://www.cofad1.state.az.us/ - Recent opinions, court information and policies and oral argument calendar available.
• Arizona Court of Appeals, Division II - http://www.apltwo.ct.state.az.us/ - Recent opinions, court information, and oral argument calendar available.
• Arizona Judicial Department - http://www.supreme.state.az.us - Arizona Supreme Court and Court of Appeals Decisions, child support guidelines, penalties for misdemeanors, felonies, drug offenses.
• Arizona State Bar - http://www.azbar.org/ - State Bar of Arizona’s web page- included lawyer locator.
• Arizona State University Libraries - http://www.asu.edu/lib/ - Search the online catalog.
• Arizona State University Libraries Video Resources - http://www.asu.edu/lib/video
• Arizona Supreme Court - http://www.supreme.state.az.us/azsupreme/default.htm - Court information, recent opinions, and the oral argument calendar are all available on this site.
• Arizona Supreme Court - http://www.supreme.state.az.us/selfserv/forms.htm Self service center forms.
• Arizona State Library, Archives & Public Records - http://dlaprcat.lib.az.us - access to catalog for the State Library, archives, and the State Law Library.
• Maricopa County Superior Court - http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/ - Law library and catalog, self-service centers, jury information, docket.
• Maricopa County Superior Court Law Library - http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/lawlibrary/ - A searchable catalog of the library’s holdings plus many court-related links appear on the first page of this site.
• Maricopa County Superior Court Self-Service Center - http://www.superiorcourt.maricopa.gov/ssc/sschome.html Court forms, filing instructions, and other court information; designed for pro se litigants.
• Phoenix Public Library Online Catalog - http://www.phoenixpubliclibrary.org/
• Ross-Blakley Law Library Home Page - http://www.law.asu.edu/Library
• State of Arizona Website -http://www.az.gov/
  

Government and Data Resources

• Bureau of Justice Statistics - http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/dtdata.htm - crime and justice electronic data abstracts are aggregated data from multiple published sources presented in spreadsheets to use with analytic software.
• CIA Publications - http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/ - CIA Publications, handbooks, maps, intelligence, etc. World fact book has overviews of country's demographic, economic, political and military layout.
• Environmental Protection Agency - http://www.epa.gov - Access to many agency publications.
• Federal Web Locator - http://www.infoctr.edu/fwl/ - List of Federal Agencies with information on the Internet.
• FedStats - http://www.fedstats.gov - access to statistical data from over 70 federal agencies.
• FedWorld Information Network Home Page - http://www.fedworld.gov - Searchable databases of federal government information on the Internet.
• FirstGov - http://firstgov.gov - Searches government and military sites.
• Government Resources on the Web - http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/govweb.html
• GPO Access - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ - Access to Federal Register, Congressional Record, public laws, bills and other government information.
• House of Representatives - http://www.house.gov/ - House information, reports, U.S. CODE.
• IRS Tax Forms - http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/lists/0,,id=97817,00.htmllists/0,,id=97817,00.html
• National Archives and Records Administration - http://www.archives.gov - N.A.R.A.'s web site includes presidential data and more.
• THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet - http://thomas.loc.gov - Congressional bills and information.
• United States Postal Service Home Page - http://www.usps.com - Zip Code locator.
• United States Senate - http://www.senate.gov - Information about members of the Senate.
• U.S. Census Bureau Home Page - http://www.census.gov - Presents users with options to access data on population, housing, economy, geography, and more.
• Washington Summary - http://www.abanet.org/poladv/summary/home.html - The ABA Office of Governmental Affairs puts out this bi-weekly, subscription only publication. A sample copy is displayed on the web site.
  

State Information

• National Center for State Courts Home Page - http://www.ncsconline.org/
• National Conference of State Legislatures - http://www.ncsl.org - Search other state's statutes and bills.
• State Court Sites http://www.statelocalgov.net/50states-courts.cfm
• State and Local Government on the Net - http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm
• State Tax Resources - http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/FORMS.html
  

Links to Law Schools and Law Library Catalogs

• Directories, Locators and Web Searching Tools - http://lawweb.usc.edu/library/resources/index.html
• Law School and Library Directory - http://www.lawresearch.com/clindex.htm
• Library of Congress World Wide Web Home Page -http://www.loc.gov/ - Searchable Index Global electronic library/ U.S. government legislative branch – Library of Congress and many other sources.
• University of Texas Law Library - http://tallons.law.utexas.edu - One of the best law library catalogs to check for hard to find books.
• WashLaw WEB -- Washburn University School of Law - http://www.washlaw.edu/
• webCATS: Library Catalogues on the World Wide Web -http://www.libdex.com/

Foreign and International

• Australasian Legal Information Institute - http://austlii.law.uts.edu.au - source for Australian and international Law.
• BUBL Information Service Web Server - http://www.bubl.ac.uk - British Law and Internet Sources.
• Council of Europe - http://conventions.coe.int/ - The European Treaties series consisting of the conventions and protocols of the Council of Europe.
• European Union - http://www.europa.eu.int/abc/obj/treaties/en/entoc.htm Selected instruments taken from the treaties of the European Union.
• ForInt-Law - http://www.washlaw.edu/forint/alpha/t/treaties.htm - International and Multilateral Treaties.
• Governments on the WWW - http://www.gksoft.com/govt/ - governmental institutions on the web includes parliaments, ministries, offices, law courts, embassies, and city councils from 200 countries.
• Hieros Gamos - http://www.hg.org/index.html - Comprehensive collection of international law.
• International Human Rights Law - http://www.umn.edu/humanrts/bibliog/BIBLIO.htm - Bibliography of resources and Internet links on human rights issues.
• Legal Information Institute - http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/topic2.html#internationalandcomparative - International materials.
• Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/forintlaw.html
• Multilaterals Project - http://fletcher.tufts.edu/multilaterals.htmlmultilaterals.html - International and Multilateral Treaties.
• NAFTAnet Home Page - http://www.nafta.net.pl/
• National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade - http://www.natlaw.com/index.htm - Database on Mexico trade law.
• Organization of American States - http://www.oas.org/ - Treaties, resolutions, conventions and declarations among any of the OAS members.
• United Nations Home Page - http://www.un.org
• United Nations System - http://www.unsystem.org - A web site locator for the United Nations system of organizations.
• United States Congress - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/serialset/cdocuments/index.html - Senate Executive Reports and Senate Treaty Documents.
• World Intellectual Property Organization - http://www.wipo.org
• World Trade Organization - http://www.wto.org

User-friendly URL: www.law.asu.edu/library/internet