Legal Research Links
Topics covered on this page: Foreign Governments | Gun Control | Health Care | History | Immigration Information | Intellectual Property | Jury Verdicts/Settlements | Juvenile Justice | Kansas Information | Labor / Employment | Landlord & Tenant | Legal Citation | Legal Indexes & Directories
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Foreign Governments
- KU Law Library's Index to International Legal Information.
- International Law Research Guide.
- Immigration Law Research Guide.
Gun Control
- NRA site offers organizational information as well as the gun laws of each state.
- "The Kansas City Gun Experiment" is available in full-text.
Health Care
- CHID is a database produced by health-related agencies of the Federal Government; provides titles, abstracts, and availability for health information and health education resources. (not working 8/30/09)
- Centers for Medicare and Medicaid (CMS)administers Medicare, Medicaid, and the Child Health insurance programs. Formerly called the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).
- Living Wills information for all 50 states.
- 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.
History
- American Memory - collections of primary source and archival material relating to American culture and history.
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Anglo-American Legal Tradition features digitized resources from The National Archives (London) between the dates 1272 and 1650 and cover only the major legal series of documents; produced by the University of Houston Law Center.
- Douglass: Archives of American Public Address is an electronic archive of American oratory and related documents.
- Inaugural Addresses of the Presidents.
- Kansas Heritage Group
- Presidents of the United States is a comprehensive site containing background information, election results, cabinet members, notable events, and some points of interest on each of the presidents.
- The Reagan Tapes - NPR [Real Player]
- U.S. History Outloud has audio materials from presidential libraries and other archives.
- U.S. Historical Information indexed by the Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas.
- National Archives for England, Wales and the United Kingdom.
- Holocaust Documents from the Nizkor Project provides documents, people, camps, organizations, and other information.
Immigration
- American Family Immigration History Center at Ellis Island provides a searchable database that contains records on the 22 million passengers and ship crew members who passed through Ellis Island between 1892 and 1924.
- American Immigration Center is a comprehensive immigration-information site.
- immigration.com provides access to free information, forms, etc. )
- Immigration Forms are available for downloading.
- Immigration Law Research Guide.
- Immigration Lawyers is an online directory that also has limited topical legal information resources.
- The Immigration Portal links for lawyers, immigration information, news and forms.
- Immigration Reform Bill of the 110th Congress research guide created at Georgetown.
Intellectual Property
Copyright
- Copyright Clearance Center.
- Copyright Term and the Public Domain in the U.S.
- US Copyright Office.
- Copyright/Fair Use Information relating to class materials.
- Copyright Renewal from Stanford is a searchable database of copyright renewal records received by the US Copyright Office between 1950 and 1993 for books published in the US between 1923 and 1963.
- Canadian Copyrights Database.
Patent & Trademark
- Current Patent Literature and Current Trademark Literature are current awareness services from UT at Austin. Each provides basic bibliographic data for recent articles focused on patent and trademark law appearing in U.S. legal journals and non-U.S. legal journals published in English.
- PAT2PDF searchable database of U.S. patents.
- Google Patent Search covers patents made available by the USPTO from 1790s through mid-2006, with plans for future expansion.
General IP Information
- Intellectual Property Research Guide from Wheat Law Library, University of Kansas.
- Intellectual Property Law section on FindLaw.
- Intellectual Property on the Internet: A Survey of Issues addresses the far-reaching impact that digital technologies – the Internet in particular – have had on intellectual property (IP) and the international IP system.
- The Intellectual Property in the Information Society Forum is a legal publication designed and edited by students at the Boston College Law School to provide readers with rigorous, innovative scholarship, timely reporting, and ongoing discussion from the legal community concerning technology law and intellectual property .
Jury Verdicts & Settlements
- National Association of State Jury Verdict Publishers (NASJVP)
- Jury Verdict and Settlement information; searchable database from MoreLaw.com.
Juvenile Justice
- A Call to Action on Behalf of Latino and Latina Youth in the US Justice System is a report examining the treatment of Latino and Latina youth in the United States Justice System.
- Kansas Juvenile Justice Authority site for information about the agency, the facilities it operates, and its current initiatives.
- Juvenile Crime, Juvenile Justice is an authoritative review of the best available data and analysis on America's youth crime problem; full-text available online.
Labor & Employment
- Employment Law site is a clearinghouse of material about the world of employment law and its many facets.
- Key workplace publications compiled at Cornell.
- Labor Law Research Guide.
- Employment Discrimination/Termination Research Guide.
- Federal Times Online is a weekly news site for federal employees.
Landlord & Tenant
- Kansas Landlord/Tenant Law on the Sedgwick County Housing site.
- Missouri Revised Statutes dealing with landlord/tenant actions.
- Fair Housing Act (Federal)
- Fair Housing Institute.
- Landlord/Tenant Law Links from the Internet Law Library.
- Landlords and Property Management legal information.
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development offers information for landlords and tenants.
Legal Citation
- ALWD-Bluebook Quick Rule Conversion; also see a Comparison of Selected Rules.
- Eighty Years: The Uniform System of Citation site offers basic information plus PDF versions of editions 1 - 18.
- Introduction to Basic Legal Citation based on the Sixteenth Edition of the "Bluebook."
Legal Indexes & Directories
Professional Directories
- AVVO for finding a lawyer or legal guides.
- Law Professors' home pages indexed by JURIST.
- Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator.
- West's Legal Directory.
- Chambers Global provides a searchable database of lawyers and law firms worldwide.
- Kansas Municipal Judges Association.
- Bar Associations in the U.S.; listed by state.
- Immigration Lawyers is an online directory that also has limited topical legal information resources.
- TerraLex is one of the largest global networks of independent law firms.
- Internet Directory of Expert Witnesses.
- National Directory of Expert Witnesses.
- New Lawyer links to lawyers and law firms available for consultation.
- Other Legal Directories index
Legal Indexes
- ABA LawInfo.org is divided into eight sections of links to resources provided by ABA, handbooks, glossaries, documents.
- The Attorneys Forum offers discussion and support from professional attorneys, lawyers, and law firms nationwide.
- BriefBank: Techlaw briefs for the public domain.
- CataLaw.
- Federation of Defense & Corporate Counsel
- FindLaw, which now includes a Public section with general legal information and forms.
- Hieros Gamos provides directories, resource guides, subject-area discussion groups for law students and legal professionals.
- Index to Legal Periodicals subscription service is open to all KU students, staff, and faculty connecting to the Internet.
- KuesterLaw index to technology law resources.
- LLRX.com - Annotated Guide to a Select Group of Reliable Free Web Sites for Legal Researchers.
- Law & Politics Internet guide of law and political resources.
- Law Library of Congress covers historical information as well as up-to-the-minute information regarding challenges to and revisions of our judicial heritage.
- LawGuru includes the Internet Law Library.
- LawResearch has three levels of service: a free public service, a free test trial account for legal professionals, and a commercial version which contains over 100,000 legal resource links worldwide.
- Laws Online listing World Wide Web Sites dealing with all aspects of Law.
- 'Lectric Law Library includes topics of interest to attorneys, judges, paralegals, and others.
- Legal Ethics.
- Legal Information Institute aims to explore new ways of distributing legal documents and commentary.
- LexisONE(sm) offers free and pay-as-you-go legal resources.
- MoreLaw provides access to jury verdicts, settlements, and forensic experts.
- Public Library of Law (PLoL) indexes links to case law, statutes, rules, forms, etc.
- Rominger Legal Services Online Research Page.
- Speeding Ticket offers information on how to fight or challenge a speeding ticket in every state.
