· Legal Information Institute from Cornell Law School - Strong in Federal and State Primary Laws http://www.law.cornell.edu

·         FindLaw - Very comprehensive. http://www.findlaw.com

·         Hieros Gamos - A Comprehensive portal for law and government http://www.hg.org/

·        American Law Sources Online (ALSO) – Excellent collection of Internet links to American laws http://www.lawsource.com/also/

·        U.S. Library of Congress. Law Library and Global Legal Information Network. Guide to Law Online: http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html
Produced by the Law Library of Congress and the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), this guide aims to gather "only the most useful and reliable" publicly accessible online law and government information web sites.

·        Access to Law: http://www.accesstolaw.org/site/default.asp

Law by subject categories (i.e. Criminal Law; Environmental law, etc.,) with a U.K. twist.

Senate.gov site http://www.senate.gov The Virtual Reference Desk has how-to manuals on researching U.S. Law.

·        SOSIG. Another U.K. site offering Law by Subject Area –allows comparison of U.S. Law with International Law on same topic: http://www.sosig.ac.uk/law/

·        University of Chicago Law Library: Internet Guides: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/db/ref and Lyonette Louis-Jacques’s Guides to Law:

·        http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/, how-to tutorials on how to research, law, both on the U.S. and International levels.

·        University of Virginia’s Legal Research in a Nutshell: http://www.law.virginia.edu/nutshell

United States Law:

Federal Level: General Sources:

§       United States Legal System http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usintro.html

§       The Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/constitution/index.html

§       Tracking Current Federal Legislation and Regulations: a Guide to Basic Sources http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/98-461.pdf

·        Federal Legislation - U.S. Code:

·        LII Hypertext version - http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode

·        House of Rep. Searchable Version http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

·        United States Statutes at Large http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lwsl.html

·        THOMAS with Search feature for locating full-text of Bills and Legislation and links to Congressional Record: http://thomas.loc.gov

·        Finding Congressional Documents from the Past: http://www.llrx.com/columns/reference44.htm

·        Federal Regulations and Administration Resources

·        Federal Government Agencies Administrative Law Materials: http://www.lib.virginia.edu/govdocs/fed_decisions_agency.html

·        Federal Register - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

·        Code of Federal Regulations - http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

·        Federal Agencies Directory- http://www.lib.lsu.edu/gov/fedgov.html

·        U.S. Government Information: http://www.law.virginia.edu/lawweb/lawweb2.nsf/pages/lev2calc?OpenDocument&Fr1=yyy/lawweb/lawweb2.nsf/pages/GovInfo&Fr2=/home2002/frames/lf_Library.htm

·        Federal Court Opinions:

·        Federal Court Locator - http://www.law.villanova.edu/library/researchandstudyguides/federalcourtlocator.asp

·        Supreme Court Web Site - http://www.supremecourtus.gov

·        FindLaw Supreme Court Opinions - http://findlaw.com/casecode/supreme.html

·        Circuit Courts - http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS

·        Federal Grand Jury - http://www.udayton.edu/~grandjur/

·        Federal Judiciary Home Page: http://www.uscourts.gov/

·        Latest Legal News: http://jurist.law.pitt.edu

State and Local Government Legal Resources:

·        State and Local Government on the Net http://www.statelocalgov.net/

·        State Legislation, Regulations and Court Opinions http://findlaw.com/11stategov/index.html

·        Drafting Manual: how to write a State law and amendments:

·        http://www.nccusl.org/nccusl/draftingprojects.asp

 State Laws Searchable by Subject:

·        http://nccusl.org/nccusl/uniformacts-subjectmatter.asp

·        Municipal Codes - Legal Links to U.S. States: http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/usstates.html and State Law Library at: http://www.socialaw.com/otherlaw/statelnks.html

International Legal Resources:

·        LII - Law from Around the World http://www.law.cornell.edu/world/ and the World Legal Information Institute: http://worldlii.org

·        Law Library of Congress - Nations of the World http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/x-nation.html (For x-nation, substitute the name of a specific country, e.g. /peru.html)

·        Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases: http://www.law.nyu.edu/library/foreign_intl/

Tutorials on Legal Research:

·        Legal and Factual Research on the Internet
http://www.virtualchase.com/legalresearcher/sitemap.html

·        Law Library Resource Xchange - http://www.llrx.com

·        Tutorials for Law Students - http://www.lexis.com/lawschool/

·        How to Effectively Locate Federal Information on the WWW:

http://gort.ucsd.edu/pcruse/universe/structure.html

 · Agency Approach to Locating Government Information: http://www.library.ucsb.edu/ala/tutorials/agency.html

 · Internet Legal Research Guides and Manuals from the University of Chicago Law Library: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/law/ (Excellent as a primer for how to research International, Federal and State laws)

Overall Meta Resources:  

• Librarians Index to the Internet - http://lii.org/search/file/law or just: http://lii.org (for all subjects and topics)

• The Law Librarians Society of Washington, DC http://www.llsdc.org and: http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/

• Searchable Contents Pages from over 750 Law Reviews and Other Scholarly Journals - http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/tallons/content_search.html

•  University of Michigan Government Documents Center: http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/