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Nina Harris and Elyse Streit, Selector Librarians
CataLaw is a "catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet". It aids legal research by arranging all indexes of law and government into a uniform, universal and unique metaindex that is searchable by topic, region, and a host of focused sources. .
Annotated hypertext guide to legal sources worldwide (including U.S.) was created by the U.S. Law Library of Congress. The Library of Congress began its existence in 1801 essentially as a collection of law books. But in 1832, Congress ordered the 2,011 law books of the Library of Congress separated from its general collection, and the Law Library of Congress was thereby established. Its mission is to provide research and legal information to the U.S. Congress as well as to U.S. Federal Courts and Executive Agencies, and to offer reference services to the public. To accomplish this mission, it has created the world's largest collection of law books and other legal resources from all countries, and now moves into the age of digitized information with online databases and guides to legal information worldwide. This site provides links to high-quality sources of information on law and government that are available online without charge
Multiple links to state, national, and international sites. The table of contents can be presented in five different languages.The purpose of this Site, as with all resources on these pages, is to give the visitor a general understanding of the law; not to provide specific advice
A very good resource maintained by the School of Information at U. of M.
From the Marion Gould Gallagher Law School at the University of Washington comes this collection of websites providing legal information and materials (including laws, bills, court opinions, and related documents) and/or links to legal material. Most of these sites are freely available to all users with Internet access. Some sites are UW Restricted, that is, available to University of Washington faculty, students, and staff and visitors to UW Libraries.
Information about and links to employment and labor law topics, from the point of view of both employer and employee.
Provides law links on a wide variety of legal topics in a single-page format, including state and federal law, along with government agencies.
LegalEngine was developed as an online legal gateway that summarizes the most important state and federal law related links in a comprehensive and easy to navigate legal meta-search index. LegalEngine:s use is completely free to the public at large and is without any commercial purposes.
This Cornell Law School web site is outstanding, for information and links, as to wide ranging aspects of the law. However, remember that various parts of the law may be different in each state. This site has won numerous awards: its authors correctly guessed there were millions of people out there who needed to know—and understand—U.S. laws and court decisions. "The legal information industry in the U.S. in the mid–'90s had focused totally on judges and lawyers and hadn't paid attention to the information needs of others," explained Peter Martin, the Jane M.G. Foster Professor of Law t Cornell, and a major author of the LII site.
This site is not comprehensive, since it is a limited no charge subset of a massive for-fee LEXIS Database. Nonetheless, it is rich in content, offerings free Case Law searching, over 6,000 free legal forms, and a rich set on links to other internet legal resources as well as to the pricey LEXIS database.
Hundreds of high-quality, annotated links.
The Documents Center is a central reference and referral point for government information, whether local, state, federal, foreign or international. It offers a categorized menu with direct links to government sites by branch of government; specific laws, plus the CFR, Federal Register, U.S. Code and Constitution; Michigan governmental sites; foreign government and international organization websites.
The Farmington Community Library offers this legal
resource information as a service to the community. This material should not
be considered legal advice or a substitute for expert legal consultation as
appropriate to the circumstances.
Try to keep in mind that learning about legal research and the law is an
imposing task. It is no substitute for professional advice. Just as you would
not consider taking out your own appendix, even though you may have read
about how it is done, consider seeking the advice of a lawyer, or other
appropriate counsel, before making any major legal decision.
FindLaw Legal Search Engine.
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