Legal Research Links by Subject

Topics covered on this page: Death Penalty | Debate Topics | Divorce | Domestic Violence | Education | Elder Law | Environment | Expert Witnesses | Federal Government Info | Flags | Freedom of Information Act

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Death Penalty

Death Penalty Information Center covers all aspects of the death penalty across the nation.
ACLU Death Penalty site links to resources relating to the work of the ACLU in this issue area.
Survey of the Federal Death Penalty System report; available in WordPerfect or PDF.
Criminal Law and Procedure Research Guide.

Debate Topics

Debate Central offers resources related to this year's National Forensic League high school debate topic.
Jayhawk Debate Institute at the University of Kansas.
National High School Debate Topic materials compiled by the University of Michigan.
Yahoo also has a debate page.

Divorce

Credit and Divorce facts for consumers from the Federal Trade Commission.
Divorce Information from the Legal Information Institute.
Tax Law Research Guide.
Kansas Divorce and Name Change forms from the Johnson County Law Library.
Practice Tools for Johnson County include Family Law Guidelines.

Domestic Violence

ABA Commission on Domestic Violence website provides information about a wide-range of domestic violence issues and extensive links to other resources and organizations.
National Coalition Against Domestic Violence serves as a national information and referral center for the general public, media, battered women and their children, allied and member agencies and organizations.
Toolkit to End Violence Against Women from the National Advisory Council on Violence Against Women. Each of the 16 chapters is geared toward a specific audience and stresses ways in which each can increase prevention efforts and better services for victims.
Violence Against Women Office at the Department of Justice.
WomensLaw.org is an online resource that provides legal information to women and girls living with or escaping domestic violence.

Education

Brown v. Board of Education web sites.
The State of Public School Integration: Brown vs. Board of Education at 50 includes a searchable database of information on desegregation court cases and trends in racial composition of elementary schools for 1968-71, 1989-90 and 1999-2000.
State Statutes Dealing With Education.
NACUA-WEB (National Association of College and University Attorneys) site includes information on the organization itself, a legal reference service, FAQs, and a publications list.
School Finance / School Funding information compiled by the Kansas State Library.
USC Title 20 - Education full text and searchable.topics/education.html
U.S. Department of Education.
Hieros Gamos Guide to Education Law.
CataLaw: Education Law index to education law web sites.
Education Law Research Guide.
Home School Legal Defense Association provides access to many legal resources relating to home schooling.

Elder Law

Access America for Seniors provides senior citizens with one site to access government services and information.
An Aging World: 2001 presents comparative data related to aging, including population and projected population internationally, life expectancy, retirement, health information, and social support.
BenefitsCheckup is a 50-state (including the District of Columbia) online service to provide public benefit screening.
Elder Abuse Fatalities Manual from the ABA Commission on Law and Aging.
Elder Law Research Project at KU Law.
Elder Mistreatment: Abuse, Neglect, and Exploitation in an Aging America is a prepublication copy provided by the National Academy Press (NAP)
USA.gov for Seniors gateway to government information, services and resources.
Kansas Department on Aging.
Legal Forms
Long-Term Care Insurance: An Assessment of States' Capacity to Review and Regulate Rates explores state government's review process of long-term care insurance premiums.
Medicare: Nursing Home Compare allows users to compare and contrast nursing homes based on a wide range of information.
NIHSeniorHealth.gov easy-to-use website makes aging-related health information easily accessible for adults 60 and older and serves as a useful tool for family members and friends who are seeking online health information for their older relatives.
National Center on Elder Abuse (NCEA)
Older Kansans Information Forum provides electronic information of special significance to older Kansans and their caregivers.
Social Security Online.

Environment

Committee for the National Institute for the Environment currently provides access to over 140 CRS reports on environmental concerns in the areas of agriculture, forestry, mining, pollution, and waste management.
Environmental Law Net By David S. Blackmar, Esq., Holland and Knight LLP. Provides access to federal, state, international, and tribal environmental law and regulations, as well as court and environmental law agency decisions, documents and databases, and task-specific environmental law libraries.
Environmental Law Research Guide.
Environmental Working Group home page offers information on many environmental topics.
National Library for the Environment provides online books, reports, papers, articles, maps, datasets, bibliographies, links to online environmental journals, and access to over 700 Congressional Research Service reports.
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was established by WMO and UNEP to assess scientific, technical and socio-economic information relevant for the understanding of climate change, its potential impacts and options for adaptation and mitigation.
Yale Center for Environmental Law & Policy
1992 Worker Protection Standard (Pesticide Applicator Regulations) By US EPA and Purdue University. Presents the 1992 pesticide applicator regulations in a format that lets the user search for information pertaining to workers, handlers, agricultural employers, handler employers, and owners.

Expert Witnesses

Internet Directory of Expert Witnesses.
Online Directory of Expert Witnesses.
JurisPro Expert Witness Directory is a free-to-search expert witness directory.
ExpertPages directory of experts, expert witnesses, consultants and service providers to lawyers, law firms, insurance companies, businesses and government agencies.
ALMExperts directory with 15,000+ experts, expert witnesses, investigators, court reporters, consultants, and litigation support professionals.
SEAK's National Directories of Experts

Federal Government Information

Legislative Information including Congressional bills and directories of US senators and representatives.
Federal Courts page includes links to opinions and rules.
Federal Departments & Agencies that provide information on the Web.
Government Documents and publications including tax forms, HCFA State Medicaid Manual, and Congressional publications.
GPO Access is a comprehensive, searchable, official database of government publications and information.

Flags

Flags of the World includes the national and state flags, ensigns, and sub-national flags.
Flags of the world are included in this Country Reports site.

Freedom of Information Act

FBI's Freedom of Information Act Electronic Reading Room.
Freedom of Information Act pages on the Dept. of Justice web site.
Freedominfo.org provides data on freedom of information laws from areas all across the globe.
FOIA Resources put together by the Society of Professional Journalists.
Freedom of Information Act: a User's Guide.
E-FOIA Law Increases Access for the Public and Brings Changes to Agencies article by Joaquin Ferrao.
GAO Update on FOIA Implementation Status
National Security Archive collects and publishes declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA).
State of Freedom of Information George Washington University's National Security Archive released its first annual "State of Freedom of Information" report, 35 years to the day after President Johnson grudgingly signed the U.S. FOIA into law on July 4, 1966.
Using the Freedom of Information Act.