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law library is located a the CUNY Law School in Queens, however, researchers
at Brooklyn College will find a basic paper collection for questions
dealing with: NY State law, Federal Statutes, Federal regulations, and
US Constitutional law and we subscribe to Lexis-Nexis Universe which provides
users with full text case law, statutes and law reviews. In addition, the
expansion of free legal resources on the internet vastly increased the
amount of material available to users without easy access to a law library.
Most sites listed below are free and can be used from any location. Licensed
sites that require on-campus, RPA or proxy server use are noted as licensed
products.
Indexes and Databases
Paper
(unless otherwise
noted, paper editions are located in the Documents Information Center)
Index to
Legal Periodicals & Books (Field Library
Reference KF8.I5)
Shepard's
Acts and Cases by Popular Names
US Supreme
Court Digest
General
Ebsco
Host
Get magazine
and journal articles and citations for many different topics. Available
on campus and through proxy server]
Government
Periodicals Universe
Covering 245
titles produced by Federal agencies this index provides a key to hard to
find government information and includes titles like the FBI Law Enforcement
Bulletin, Army Lawyer, many Bureau of Justice Statistics publications,
Civil Rights Journal, Crime Laboratory Digest, EPA Journal, and the Social
Security Bulletin among others. Citations only, no full text.
Law
Lexis-Nexis
Academic Universe
Find articles
from newspapers around the world and legal information including codes,
regulations and law reviews for your term papers. [Available on campus
and through proxy server]
DocsLaw
With their
usual thoroughness Washlaw has tracked down an impressive selection of
federal regulatory and oversight agency websites complete with links to
their manuals, publications, forms and opinions where available.
elaws
Advisors
Interactive
site designed to allow workers and small businesses to find out about
your rights and responsibilities under the employment laws and regulations
administered by the Department of Labor (DOL).
FedLaw
Created as
a legal resource for federal lawyers and other government employees the
site has
topical, subject
and title indexes. It includes federal laws and regulations, Federal Judiciary,
Congressional Resources, and arbitration & mediation materials. Also
includes links to legal research guides.
FindLaw
An excellent
and nearly comprehensive guide to legal information on the WWW. Includes
many levels of law both US and International.
Law
Library of Congress
Contains the
following:
- Introductions to Legal System & the Nation
- Constitution & Constitutional Law
- Congress & Federal Legislative Process
- Code & Other Federal Legislation
- Executive Agencies & Regulations
- Law - Particular Fields
- Federal Courts & Decisions
- States & Associated Jurisdictions
- Criminal Justice System (including states)
- Law Reviews Online
- Native Peoples ("American Indian Tribes")
- Other Online Guides & Lists to United States law
- NAFTA - North American Free Trade Agreement
- World Trade Organization & GATT
Judicial
Resources Page
Statutes,
regulations, judicial opinions, court rules, Comptroller General decisions,
law journals, and links to law related Internet sites.
Legal
Information Institute Cornell Law School
This WWW server
integrates both the Gopher based and the WWW-based offerings of the Legal
Information Institute (LII), Cornell Law School. Includes recent Supreme
Court decisions and indexes cases by justice's name, constitutional issue
and case name. Also includes recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals,
full US Code and many other important legal documents. Provides links to
other law sites.
RefDesk.Com--Legal
Search Engines
Features the
LawCrawler search engine.
Virtual
Chase
Sponsored
by a law firm this site is intended to teach users how to do legal research
on the Internet. It has legal content as well as explanatory material about
legal issues and information on how to evaluate other sites for usefulness
and accuracy.
WWW
Virtual Library-Law
A collection
of subject related Web sites maintained by institutions throughout the
world, each administering a different subject. Material within the Virtual
Law Library is organized by organization type (i.e., US government servers)
and by legal topic (i.e., contracts). There is also a list of search tools
and other comprehensive sites for law. Includes links to online legal periodicals.
One stop shopping for legal information.
Washlaw
Web
A rich site
with built-in search engines.
Dictionaries
Paper
Black's
Law Dictionary (Field Library Reference KF156.B53Z)
Electronic
Everybody's
Legal Dictionary
FindLaw
Legal Dictionary Online
US Resources
Paper
Statutes
at Large (aka Public Laws): the laws of the United States as passed
by Congress
Federal
Register
Code of
Federal Regulations (current volumes only)
US Reports:
the comprehensive set of Supreme Court decisions.
Constitution
of the United States (various editions)
Electronic
Core
Documents of US Democracy
Includes many
essential historical documents of the US Government, including the Constitution.
Century
of Lawmaking for a New Nation
US Congressional
Documents and Debates from 1774-1873 including full-text primary sources
such as the Journals of Congress, Journals of the Continental Congress,
Elliot's Debates, Farrand's Record, and selected volumes of the US Serial
Set.
Supreme
Court
All of the
Mega Sites have Supreme Court links but these sites have something extra:
Supreme
Court of the United States official site
Supreme
Court Decisions 1937-1975 at GPO Access
FedWorld
Full-text
retrospective collection of decisions from 1937-1975.
The
Oyez Project
Northwestern
University's site has selected cases and arguments back to 1961. You must
have the "Real Audio" plug-in in order to use this site.
Federal
Judiciary Homepage
Information
by and about the work of the Federal circuit and district courts with links
to the various courts' websites. Includes press releases, news, some decisions
and reports.
Legislation:
Bills, Statutes, and Regulations
The legislative
process involves several stages. Bills are introduced in Congress, whose
activities can be tracked using the Congressional Record. They are considered
by committees which generate hearings. New laws are first published as
Statutes at Large and later codified into the US code. The actual application
of laws is governed by the regulatory process which is published daily
in the Federal Register and compiled annually in the Code of Federal Regulations.
Bills &
Public Laws
THOMAS
Options include:
Bills in the News, bill summaries and status for the current Congress,
roll call votes, Public Laws by PL number back to the 93rd Congress, Congressional
Record back to the 101st Congress, and Committee Reports from the 104th
Congress to date. Major new laws are available through Thomas and via GPO
Gateway sites such as: http://www.gpo.ucop.edu/or
http://www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/
The
Historical History of Bills and Resolutions (1983- present)
The History
of Bills and Resolutions is a section of the Congressional Record Index
that provides information about all bills and resolutions introduced during
that session of Congress. The database is updated daily, usually the day
after publication of the Congressional Record. Each year can be searched
individually, however, the Historical database searches all years except
for the current year. Entries for each bill include actions that are reported
in the Congressional Record and reference issue, date and pages where the
action is reported.
Congressional
Record Index
Track Congressional
action on bills using this topical index to the Congressional Record. Browse
Date and Part indexes for the 103rd and 104th Congresses and search daily
proceedings on House and Senate Floors from 1994-to-date.
Historical
Congressional Record Index
The Congressional
Record Index is a publication of Congress' Joint Committee on Printing.
The database is updated daily when Congress is in session and indexes the
daily issues of the Congressional Record. Unlike the paper editions, these
databases cumulate from the beginning of each session of Congress.
Each year of the Congressional Record Index can be searched individually,
however, selecting the Historical database searches all years except for
the current year.
Congressional
Publications
Hearings,
bills and other material from recent Congresses are now available.
Bills
and Public Laws at GPO Access
Materials
from the 104th-106th Congress. Files are available in both ASCII
text and PDF format.
Regulations
Federal
Register
The official
online edition contains Presidential documents, proposed and final
Federal Regulations, general notices and other documents. It is published
Monday through Friday except on federal holidays. The table of contents
from the current issue is available here on the day of publication. The
issue date is always the same as the day of publication.
Unified Agenda
(Semiannual Regulatory Agenda)
GPO
Site
University
of Massachusetts Ce
Laws are put
into practice via regulations. Twice a year federal agencies are required
to publish regulatory information they are developing or have recently
completed. The Federal Register publishes this information in April and
October in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions.
It is available from the Government Printing Office site with an index
that assumes a detailed knowledge of regulatory material. The University
of Massachusetts' site offers more straightforward indexing with tables
of agencies and a subject searching option.
Code
of Federal Regulations
The Code of
Federal Regulations (CFR) is a codification of the general and permanent
rules published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and
agencies of the federal government. Its 50 titles correspond directly to
the titles of the US Code. Multiple years are available.
GPO
Gate's CFR
University
of California's GPO Gate offers an enhanced adaptation of GPO Access. The
enhancements include searching multiple variables such as title, part and
page number, keyword, and linked tables of contents.
STATE AND LOCAL SITES
Paper
New York
State Register ( 2 years + current issues)
NY Reports,
Court of Appeals, 2d Series (no index)
NYS Session
Laws (no index)
McKinney's
Consolidated Laws of New York State
New York
City Charter and Administrative Code
Electronic
NY State
Case Law
Lexis-Nexis
Academic
Universe
Select either
State Case Law or Get a Case from the Legal Research menu.
State and
NYC Laws and Information
NY
State Constitution
NY
State Legislature
Offers consolidated
laws of NYS by chapter, and information about the working of the State
Senate and Assembly.
NY
State Senate
Offers bills,
laws, reports, information about the work of the state senate.
NY
State Assembly
Has bills,
reports, information on Assembly members; committee, commission and task
force updates.
Selected
NYS Regulations
Not all agencies
and not all regulations are available, but with few online sources for
regulations this site is plum.
NY
State Attorney General
NY
State Unified Court System
Information
about New York State's legal system, legal opinions, jury service, legal
forms and much more.
NYS
Government Information Locator Service
Links to official
NYS WWW pages and provides subject and branch of government access.
Selected
Legal Resources from the NYS Library
Legal directories,
links to courts and cases, municipal law and even a few international links.
Additional
sources of state level legal information:
Washlaw
New York
FindLaw
New York
Library
of Congress State and Local Governments
New
York City Official Web site
City agencies,
forms, and publications.
International Law
NYU
School of Law Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases
An excellent
and extensive guide to online resources in this area of law.
American
Society for Internatinal Law Electronic Resources Page
Offers subject
and organizational links.
Education Law links
AllLaw
Education Law
Education
Law Info on the Cornell Law Site
Great site
for all law related material including cases, Blue Book citation manual,
statutes, regulations, etc.
Education
Law Info on the Findlaw Site
Nicely organized
set of education law links.
Internet
Law Library, Education & the Law
Education
Law Association
National
Assn. of College & University Attorneys
US
Dept. of Education
NY
State Dept. of Education
National
School Boards Association
NY
State School Boards Association
ERIC
Trends and Issues: School Law
Includes links,
references and resources pages.
Education
Week
Also includes
hyperlinks to primary sources.
United
Federation of Teachers
Includes current
contract.
Charter
Schools Organization
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