Law and Legal Research Sites
Find sites listed under the following headings.
Comprehensive coverage
Federal – Governmental sits other than agencies
Federal – Governmental Agencies
Federal – Courts
State of Oregon
State of Washington
International Law
Consumer Sites
Topical areas of law
Sites for attorneys
Law news sites
Legal history sites
Comprehensive Coverage Sites - includes sites that achieve coverage through links
to other sites.
http://www.law.cornell.edu
This is a reasonably complete law library providing access to legal codes and reported court opinions, both
federal and state. In addition, this site has complete legal ethics coverage again both federal and state.
There is some administrative law materials., i.e. Code of Federal Regulations. Cornell Legal Institute.
http://www.findlaw.com
Find Law - This site is a legal search engine for finding reported court opinions, legal codes and other law-
related materials. There is a lawyer finder service, list servs available in legal news and reported decisions.
It has been awarded Best Legal Site on the net several years running.
http://www.washlaw.edu
A publication of the Washington University School of Law. This site has all the Supreme Court and Court
of Appeals decisions, links to every conceivable resource connected to law and an updated list of legal
search engines. Law journals are also available. This is a very good site.
http://www.ilrg.com
Internet legal resource guide that lists and catalogues over 4000 legal resource sites from 238 nations. This
is a comprehensive site. Good site – information provided through links.
http://www.hg.org
Hieros Gamos, is a comprehensive legal and government materials portal. A good site, international in
scope and simultaneously published in several languages. It is divided into communities: business,
students, consumers and attorneys.
http://www.fastsearch.com
A legal search engine with the links provided on one page. The advantage here is quickness.
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http://www.currentlegal.com
The homepage of Quicklaw of America, Inc. Quicklaw is a Canadian publisher of legal materials from the
US and Canada. It is trying to be an inexpensive source of primary legal materials.
http://www.lib.pdx.edu/
Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe – probably the most comprehensive legal and news database in the world.
This is a commercial site available to subscribers. PSU is a subscriber – see the library page under
Databases. From an off-campus computer you will need a password, pick one up at the main desk in the
library with your PSU id.
http://www.wisbar.org/legalres/judreslinks.html
Comprehensive database of federal and state court opinions and search tools plus the rules of several of the
federal courts.
http://www.lawresearch.com
This site claims to be the largest law research site with over 200,000 resources. It has both primary and
secondary materials
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi.7468/poli-us.html
Comprehensive links to law related sites and includes a “US Law and Legal Research Sites” page with
links.
Federal - Governmental - sites other than those of regulatory agencies
http://www.loc.gov
The US Library of Congress has much law and law related information. Potentially this is a huge site with
good search tools. Everyone should be familiar with it.
http://lcweb2.loc.gov/law/glinv1/glin.html
The US Library of Congress – Global Legal Information Network. This site is a source for law from
nations around the world that have on-line materials. A great source of international law.
http://thomas.loc.gov
This is the official site on which to find bills and acts of Congress, current and historical. It also contains a
good discussion on how laws are made. Search for the current status of pending bills and acts. This is a
necessary site.
http://www.gpo.gov
The US Government Printing Office makes available a ton of government publications and materials to the
public. The site is searchable and a good tool. Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register and more.
http://www.legal.gsa.gov
This is the site of the General Services Administration that uses the name FedLaw. It is a site for federal
attorneys and government attorneys and is a very comprehensive source of legal materials. This is a good
site.
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http://uscode.house.gov
The main source of information on the US Code provided by the Office of the Code Revision Council of
the US House of Representatives. This site allows a full searching of the US Code. The site can be used
with Thomas Legislative service referred to below which gives access to pending bill and acts.
These are very important sites for the research into recent and pending legislation.
http://www.gpo.ucop.edu
University of California information regarding federal law and information. Includes an interface with the
Government Printing Office for access to the Federal Register, Congressional Record, Congressional Bills
and other information.
http://www.columbia..edu/cu/libraries
US Government documents, many in downloadable form
Federal – Government - Agencies
http://www.uspo.gov
The official site for the US Patents and Trademarks Office
http://www.osha.gov
Official site of the Occupational Safety and Health Administration with materials on worker’s injuries and
OSHA regulations. Also has links to other Department of Labor agencies. The library materials are
include legal, economic and statistical materials.
http://www.epa.gov
If you are interested in environmental materials this is your site. The official site of the EPA that includes
material such as regulations, publications, laboratory studies and more.
http://www.dol.gov
The official site of the department of labor with links to specific agencies within the department.
http://www.irs.gov
Tax forms, publications, tax regulations, revenue rulings and revenue procedures plus other tax related
materials. List servs available for practitioners.
http://www.eeoc.gov
Official site of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission with laws, regulations and policy guidance
for employers and employees and claim filing procedures for those who think they have been discriminated
against.
http://www.doj.gov/05publications
The official site of the Department of Justice, advisory letters, consent decrees, guidelines, regulations,
publications and laws by subject
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http://www.fdic.gov
The site of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp – this is the quasi government agency that insures the
deposits you make to federal banks.
http://www.compliance.gov
Site of the US Office of Compliance
http://www.usoge.gov This is the site of the Office of Government Ethics.
Federal Courts
http://www.usscplus.com
The site tracks the US Supreme Court and has its top 1000 cases plus digests of more.
http://ord.uscourts.gov
This is the official site of the US District Court of Oregon. The site contains court rules and a few other
items.
http://www.ustaxcourt.gov
The official site of the US Tax Court. You can get current and past tax court decisions. They will also
send you the opinions of cases decided today.
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/Fed-Ct
Intended to be the federal court system’s web page. Good links.
http://www.ce9.uscourts.gov
9th Circuit Court of Appeals decisions
http://www.uscourts.gov
The federal judiciary homepage
http://oyez.nwu.edu/
This is an award winning (American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award) multi-media US Supreme Court
database. Opinions, arguments, history, etc.
State of Oregon
http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us
Links to Oregon administrative rules, legislative records, archived records of Oregon law
http://159.121.112.45
Oregon judicial Department page with access to the decisions of the Oregon courts including the Oregon
Tax Court.
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http://www.leg.state.or.us
The official site of the Oregon legislature with access to laws, bills being considered by the House and
Senate, information of the committees and links to related information,
The Oregon constitution, Oregon Revised Statutes and Oregon Administrative Rules are all on this site.
http://www.willamette.edu/wuc/wlo
Willamette Law Online from Willamette University Law School. The site provides law of interest to the
region and includes US Supreme Ct, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, Oregon Supreme Court, Oregon Court of
Appeals and the Supreme Courts of California, Alaska and Washington.
http://www.lclark.edu/LAW/Index.html
The official site of Lewis and Clark Law School with descriptions of their programs and courses.
http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us
Official site of the Oregon judicial department with opinion of the Oregon courts updated weekly. Oregon
Supreme Court, Oregon Court of Appeals and Oregon Tax Opinions. This may be the best place to get
very recent opinions from these Oregon courts.
http://lawlibrary.uoregon.edu/sub-oregon.html
On site or through links Oregon statutes, regulations, case opinions, legislation and legislative history.
State of Washington
http://lib.law.washington.edu/reflguides.html
This is the site of the University of Washington School of Law Library, it has some guides to the conduct
of legal research.
http://wlc.leg.wa.gov/wacbytitle,htm
Washington Administrative Code
http://wsl.lwg.wa.gov/wsladm/rcw.htm
Washington Revised Statutes
http://www.leg.wa.gov
This is the official site of the state of Washington legislature and has a feature where one can check on the
status of bills and acts under consideration by that the House or Senate.
International Law
http://catalaw.com This is a site with an index by topic and country
http://www.hku.hk/law/law.html
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The site offers resources in the law of Hong Kong and China and is owned by the
University of Hong Kong Law School.
http://www.lawmoney.com
A commercial site for those interested in international law. No primary source materials or links thereto.
Mostly an international news site with articles of interest to those in international commercial practice.
http://www.lawsource.com
A free site linking to legal and governmental law related sites in the US, Mexico and Canada. It has all
states linked also with comprehensive state coverage.
University sites not listed elsewhere
http://www.ll.georgetown.edu Georgetown University Law Center
http://library.law.smu.edu
http://www.law.indiana.edu/lib
http://www.library.yale.edu/ref/err/primsrcs.htm
Consumer sites
http://www.nolo.com
A catalogue of plain language legal articles on subjects of interests for personal, consumer, and businesses.
This is a site that all non-lawyers should be familiar with as they are the intended audience. Good resource.
http://www.freeadvice.com
Description of law by areas with links to related sites and primary source materials.
http://www.lawoffice.com
This is a West Law site that is primarily a “how to find a lawyer” site. There are consumer, non-lawyer
descriptions of legal topics that might be helpful.
http://www.lawguru.com
A comprehensive source of legal information, including access to forms and chat rooms. This site is
maintained by a law firm and contains no primary authority.
http://www.knowhow.com
Links to law sites and legal materials, includes seminars on how to do legal research on the net.
http://wwwlcarlemon.com.lemonstat.html
Links to state car lemon laws
http://www.lawstreet.com
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A commercial site with no primary materials. It does have decent consumer materials on a state by state
basis. A non-lawyer can input a legal subject and get access to a synopsis of the law.
http://www.riversidelegal.com/links.mv
Software for people to use when they are representing themselves in legal matters. The site has links to a
lot of legal materials but is mainly for those who need forms that allow them to proceed in a legal matter
without the assistance of a lawyer.
http://www.lectlaw.com
http://www.lawhog.com
http://www.legaldocs.com
A site where you can write and customize legal documents.
http://www.academicinfo.net/lawmeta.html
http://www.methvenlaw.com
legal advice
Topical areas of law
http://www.eli.org
An environmental law site providing search features.
http://www.nrtw.org
National Right to Work Defense Foundation – employment law with a bias.
http://geocities.com/siliconvalley/bay/6201
A discussion of the problem of the boundary-less nature of the internet and the conflict with laws of
specific nation states and other geographical boundaries.
http://casinolaw.com
http://internetlaw.pf.com
A site about internet law that includes regulations and cases.
http://stolaf.edu.people/becker/antitrust/antitrust.html
A site about anti trust law with references to many important cases.
http://www.freedom-and-law.org
A site of the International Human Rights Conservancy. This site pushes a political position but claims to
be concerned with the oppressed peoples of the world.
http://www.web-access.net/~aclark/frames45.htm
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A site on class action law suits written by a non-lawyer that needed something to do.
http://www.jmls.edu/cyber/statutes/email
This site contains a discussion of the law as it relates to e-mail systems and consumer privacy; includes
discussions of various enacted federal acts on the subjects. Good source if you are interested in the privacy
issues surrounding your mail
http://www.lectlaw.com/tsf.htm
The site discusses many proposed federal laws i.e. Flag Desecration, Defense of Marriage Act. There is a
political position being pushed here but necessary reading if your interested in their issues.
http://www.law.upenn.edu/labor
The UPENN journal of labor and employment law site publishing articles on collective bargaining and
employment discrimination matters.
http://www.law.ucla.edu/students/studentorgs/BLT
The UCLA Bulletin of Law and Technology
http://www.aipla.org/html/careers.html
A site discussing intellectual property from technology to the arts.
http://www.bitlaw.com/links
A site discussing technology law
http://www.epi.umn.edu/alcohol/pathfinder/pathfinder4.html
A guide to laws regarding alcohol
http://www.kuestralaw.com
A commercial site with a comprehensive list of links to sites relating to technology law.
http://ceres.ca.gov/env_law
A site with environmental law materials
http://www.udrplaw.net
Uniform domain mane dispute resolution policy
Sites for Attorneys
http://www.law.com
Resources for attorneys and others interested in law. Materials available for a fee are seminars in
continuing education law topics. Free news service and free e-mail, a career center and resources for law
students.
http://www.virtualchase.com
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This site is a commercial site that supports legal research through the process of teaching the subject and
the use of links to content sites. It also publishing various news letters and announcements.
http://www.abanet.org
The site of the American Bar Association. Information of a general nature to lawyers plus continuing
education. Also information for the general public on subjects such as “how to find a lawyer.”
http://www.lawtechnology.org/lawlink.html
This is one of the ABA sites and concerns law and technology. It has links to related sites.
http://www.ali.org
The official site of the American Law Institute. The ALI is the body that writes, compiles and publishes
the Restatement of Laws, Model Laws and Uniform Laws. The Model and Uniform laws created to assist
in creating a consistent and unified body laws from state to state. The Restatements are attempts to
informally “codify” in rule form a body of common law opinions.
http://ali-aba.org
On this site is a Guide to Internet Law by subject matter.
http://www.versuslaw.com
This site provides legal research access to various materials and several fee scriber only services. It is
generally designed for fee-paying lawyers and other legal professionals who do legal research on the web.
The service mainly provides links to other sites.
http://www.morelaw.com
Jury verdicts and judgements and settlements
http://www.lawyers.com
The site provided by Martindale and Hubell listing lawyers from all over the US by geographic area and
specialty. Use it to find a lawyer.
http://www.osbar.org
Site of the Oregon State Bar Association
http://www.witness.net
Expert witnesses
http://www/icle.org
Continuing legal education
http://www.courtlink.com This site can be used to access and file legal documents in and to court files. It
is used for filing documents to pending law cases, and in due diligence research of pending actions. The
first and largest of site of its kind.
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http://www.llrx.com A free web journal providing legal professionals with internet legal research and
internet law materials and articles.
Law news sites
http://www.litigationlaw.com
This is a commercial site with legal news items. It did not seem to be very current but had links to
resources that might assist trial lawyers in their practices. Not a good research site.
http://www.lawyersweekly.com
A leading publisher of legal newspapers for attorneys and publisher of legal materials on the net.
Legal history sites
http://www.constitution.org
The constitution society has the federal and state constitutions and related source materials from the
founders.
http://elsinore.cis.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
The site offers historical and current legal and diplomatic documents, some pre-18th century.
http://www.commonlaw.com This is a legal history and philosophy site.
Other research sites
http://www.ncjrs.org
Extensive resources on criminal and juvenile law created by the National Criminal Justice Reference
Service
http://www.emory.edu
The Emory University site. Emory has a law school and law library that has links to some primary law.
http://www.lawlinks.com
A commercial site with links; no content for legal research.
http://www.members.aol.com
http://www.counselQuest.com
http://www.baywalk.com
http://www.alllaw.com/legal topic index
http://www.law.onu.edu
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The site of the law library at Ohio Northern University. It provides links to government and other law sites
and can be used as a portal for legal research.
http://www.appellate-counsellor.com
http://aclumontana.org
A discussion of the ACLU and some of their leading constitutional cases.
http://www.bna.com/e-law.cases/amnet.html
BNA is a large employee owned law publisher headquartered in Washington DC. Their e-commerce report
is just one of many works they publish and sell in specialty fields of law.
http://www.smlawpub.co.uk/kimes
This is a “how to find a lawyer” site with the emphasis on international. You can search by country or area
of law. No legal content, only lawyers.
http://www.aclu.org
This is the national site of the American Civil Liberties Union. Although you will not find primary
authority on this site you will find discussion of cutting edge civil liberties issues. The site is organized
around the issues, i.e. workplace rights (drug testing, electronic monitoring, lifestyle discrimination,
wrongful discharge etc.), other issues are death penalty, religious freedom etc. If you are interested in civil
liberties, and we all should be, this is a good site.
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook
The site contains the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics and related matter and discussion of crime,
public attitudes toward crime etc.
http://www.diamond-link.com/link/ded-law.html
http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/site/site.html
http://www.prairienet.org/~scruffy/f.htm
http://www.law.gsu.edu/libraryresources/infoseries/general/legalinfoonweb.htm
This is the site of the University of Georgia School of Law Library – lots of primary material on the page
with links to more.
http://www.maxlawsoft.net/journals.htm
Uses the Universal Law Search Directory to access national and international law journal links
http://www.voxlibris.claremont.edu/govdocs/guides/law.htm
A guide to legal resources
http://lcsweb.com
This is the site for Legal Computer Services a commercial firm for lawyers. The firm does software
consulting for law firms but does maintain links and a search engine for obtaining law materials on the net.
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http://www.romingerlegal.com
Research links on law subjects – emphasis on assisting non -legal professional
http://loislaw.com
A fee for service legal research site – very large library with a good search engine.
http://www.law.vill.edu
A joint venture by the libraries of two law schools, includes a search engine.
http://www.usc.edu/dept/law-lib/legal/journals.html
A site for searching legal journals
http://www.llrx.com/guide
A site that will teach one how to do legal research with very good explanations
http://www.law.onu.edu
Ohio University law page. Links to law sites and other materials.
http://galaxy.einet.net/net/galaxy
http://www.supremecourthistory.org
http://www.simon592-4.berkeley.edu
The site is maintained by UC Berkeley Law School with links to primary materials and access to secondary
legal research materials.
http://legaljournal.net
http://www.thelawengine.com
http://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook/index.html
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