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YouSendIt. This service provides a convenient email attachment solution, an easy-to-use FTP replacement, and eliminates the need to send files on disk with an overnight courier service.
Government Information Online (GIO). This is a free online chat (and email) information service supported by nearly twenty public, state and academic libraries throughout the United States. All participants are designated Federal depository libraries in the U.S. Government Printing Office's Federal Depository Library Program. Many are also official depository libraries for their other types of governments and public agencies.
Fastcase. This is a Public Library of Law that includes cases from the U.S. Supreme Court and courts of appeals; cases from all 50 states back to 1997; federal statutory law and codes from all 50 states; and regulations, court rules, constitutions, and more.
Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies. The Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS) is a membership-based non-profit research and educational organization. We assist scientists to design, obtain approval for, fund, conduct and report on research into the healing and spiritual potentials of psychedelics and marijuana.
Northern New York Historical Newspapers. This collected is provided by the Northern New York Library Network to enhance access to the region's unique local history. The online collection currently consists of more than 910,000 pages from 27 newspapers.
Project Sunlight. This project has resulted in a portal that permits public access to NYS information related to campaign finance, legislation, lobbying activity, and recipients of state government contracts. The site is maintained by the NYS Office of the Attorney General.
Internet Text Archive. The Internet Archive was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software as well as archived web pages in our collections.
Town & Village Courts. New YorkState has created this website to provide resources and news concerning the Justice Court system.
Veropedia. This is a collaborative effort by a group of Wikipedians to collect the best of Wikipedia's content, clean it up, vet it, and save it for all time. These articles are stable and cannot be edited. The result is a quality stable version that can be trusted by students, teachers, and anyone else who is looking for top-notch, reliable information.
Baylor College of Medicine’s Initiative on Law, Brains and Behavior. This project addresses how new discoveries in neuroscience should navigate the way we make laws, punish criminals, and develop rehabilitation. The project brings together a unique collaboration of neurobiologists, legal scholars, ethicists, medical humanists, and policy makers, with the goal of running experiments that will result in modern, evidence-based policy.
ABA-EPA Law Office Climate Challenge. The ABA Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have designed a program to encourage law offices to take simple, practical steps to become better environmental and energy stewards.
ABA Journal Law News. The site features: breaking legal news, updated as it happens by ABA staff of reporters throughout every business day; analysis from more than 1,000 legal blogs, written by lawyers who are experts in their fields; and stories that go beyond the headlines, from the pages of the nation’s most-read and most-respected legal affairs magazine.
ACS ResearchLink. This site collects legal research topics submitted by practitioners for law students to explore in faculty-supervised writing projects for academic credit. For a list of topics submitted, click here.
ACS ResearchLink: Connecting Law Students and Lawyers Committed to Justice. The American Constitution Society for Law and Policy Research (ACS) ResearchLink collects legal research topics submitted by practitioners for law students to explore for academic credit in faculty-supervised writing projects. ACS will post the resulting student papers in a searchable online library. The program is expected to launch in August 2007.
Prentice Hall's Cybrary. This is an extensive collection of annotated links to criminal justice resources created and maintained by Frank Schmalleger, PhD.
Deliberations' Library of Sample Juror Questionnaires. On this page is a growing library of juror questionnaires, either given or proposed, from actual cases. Use them to brainstorm or cross-check your own voir dire questions; as source material in asking your judge to permit a jury questionnaire; or just as a way to think about how an individual juror's background and experiences might shape the way she hears your case. Deliberations is a blog written by Anne Reed, a trial lawyer and jury consultant in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
CourTopics. The NationalCenter for State Courts has created a court information database that features in-depth information on court-related topics.
New York Legal Update. This is a blog that reports on new court decisions in civil and criminal areas of New York practice, and related federal cases. The site is maintained by Thomas Swartz, a former court attorney for the Appellate Division Second Department.
Actual Innocence Awareness Database . This database provides a listing of United States resources from academia and the media concerning wrongful convictions. The site is maintained by the Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin.
Criminal Justice: Crime News Letter . This website is to assist members of the Criminal Justice academic and professional communities to follow up what they read about evolving crime policies, inquire further, and to facilitate participation in the policy making process.
Stanford Criminal Justice Center . The Stanford Criminal Justice Center serves as a vehicle for promoting and coordinating the study of criminal law and the criminal justice system, including legal and interdisciplinary research, curriculum development, and preparation of law students for careers in criminal law.
Language Access Resource Center (Empire Justice Center). The Center provides information and resources about the rights of Limited English Proficient (LEP) individuals in the United States for specific subject areas. Since Spanish-speakers make up the largest population of LEP individuals in the United States, more materials are available in Spanish than other languages.
Blawgs.fm. This is a Justia directory of law-related Podcasts from academic, institutional and private sources.
Science.gov. This is a gateway to over 50 million pages of authoritative selected science information provided by US government agencies, including research and development results.
Appellate Briefs--Second Department . This database, created by the NY Office of Court Administration, contains b riefs filed in civil and criminal appeals calendared between January 2004 and approximately 6 months prior to the present date.
Public Defender Stuff Search Engine. This is a specialized tool that uses Google Co-op to create a search engine that will only scan selected public defender blogs. This site is maintained by the Public Defender Investigator Network, which also publishes the PD Blog Guide and Public Defender Stuff.
Bloglines . This is a free online service for searching, subscribing, creating and sharing news feeds, blogs and rich web content. Subscription required.
Legal Management Resource Center. The Legal Management Resource Center (LMRC), created and hosted by the Association of Legal Administrators (ALA), is designed to immediately provide the information you need or to quickly direct you to other resources.
Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse . This is a library of materials from current civil rights cases across the board, such as prison conditions, immigration, police profiling and some historical materials as well. The site is maintained by the Washington University School of Law in St. Louis.
Justice Center . This site was created by the Council of State Governments to provide information to policymakers about criminal justice issues in select areas, such as mental health and prisoner reentry.
FindLaw Newsletters . This is a free case summary service provided by Findlaw. Newsletters are available for US Supreme Court, federal circuit and some state courts, and in such topical areas as Criminal Law & Procedure, Ethics, Immigration and Family Law.
Media Tracker. This tool provides a directory of television, radio, cable, broadband and newspaper media in any given area based on zip code or city and state. It draws on a database of more than 5 million records. The site is maintained by the Center for Public Integrity.
DUI: A National Online Resource Library for the Judiciary on Impaired Driving. This is a collection of manuals, guides and research reports on topics related to the prosecution and trial of driving while intoxicated cases. This site was developed by the National Association of State Judicial Educators (NASJE), through the New Mexico Judicial Education Center, under a contract from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA).
Probono.net. This is a nonprofit organization whose goal is to increase access to justice through innovative uses of technology and increased volunteer lawyer participation. Through various practice groups they provide news, library resources, forums and training opportunities for pro bono civil practice and criminal defense lawyers. Among the areas that have been developed are Prisoners¥ Rights, Self-Help Support, and Criminal Appeals.
PD Blog Guide. This is an annotated collection of links to web logs about public defense. The blogs on this list report on news, legal developments or personal experiences of criminal defense and legal aid attorneys around the country. The Guide was developed by Public Defender Stuff, a news service of the Public Defender Investigator Network.
Self-Help Support. This is a national library of information concerning pro se or self-representation, and intended to help practitioners who provide assistance or direct pro se programs. The site was created as part of a collaborative effort among the National Center for State Courts, The State Justice Institute (SJI), Legal Services Corporation, The American Judicature Society, Zorza Associates, Chicago-Kent College of Law, the Justice Management Institute, and Pro Bono Net.
Human Rights Tools. This is a collection of online resources focused on human rights worldwide, including an electronic document library, news feeds, and web links. This site was created by Daniel D'Esposito, who has extensive experience working for the International Committee of the Red Cross.
Google Book Search . Google's book project enables users to search the full-text volumes of a substantial online library.
Google US Government Search. This is a new variation on the Google theme. It's a search engine that provides single point access to federal, state and local government information and news.
National Crime Victim Law Institute. This is a non-profit research and educational organization that provides assistance to attorneys representing crime victims, engages in training, advocacy and policy development, and researches and analyzes issues in this area. The Institute is part of the Lewis & Clark Law School in Portland, OR.
Anatomy Atlases . This is a digital library of medical science, containing a large collection of reference works and anatomical atlases. The site is maintained by Dr. Ronald A. Bergman.
PubMed Central. This is a free digital archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature maintained at the US National Institutes of Health.
US Government Telephone and E-mail Directories. The FirstGov website now contains a directory of federal government offices listing addresses and web links. It covers a broad spectrum of government departments and services, as well as some useful state level information.
Gateway to Clinical Legal Education. This is a directory of clinical legal educators and a wide range of practice-oriented programs and courses at law schools across the country. It was created by the University of Michigan Law School Clinical Law Programs.
Stolen Jewelry Web Site . This site is maintained by the Jewelers' Security Alliance to make available a central clearinghouse for the jewelry industry, law enforcement, insurance personnel and the general public to share information on stolen or recovered jewelry. The listings include watches, gems and jewelry. Searches and listings are free.
NationMaster.com and StateMaster.com. These sites gather and analyze thousands of statistics from various government agencies. Comparisons can be run on particular topics and represented in different ways. They also report on statistics in the news.
Translating Justice (VIJ). The Vera Institute of Justice has created this project to address problems and meet the needs of limited English proficiency (LEP) populations, in particular to overcome language barriers and improve communication between police and immigrant communities.
Taxonomy of Legal Blogs. This website is an ambitious start to indexing the universe of law-related web logs. It was created by a senior law student at the Mortiz College of Law.
Civil Rights Center (Findlaw). This site contains information on civil rights and different types of discrimination. It includes historical analysis, a dictionary of terms, articles and legal reference materials. The site was created by Findlaw.
NOVEL New York. NOVEL's magazine, newspaper and reference databases are open to New York State residents for free. Access requires either a public library card number or driver's license identification number. This service is provided by the New York State Library.
Federal Court Opinions (PACER). Current opinions issued by federal courts are accessible for free through PACER. The free database contains decisions from district courts using CM/ECF version 2.4 or higher, a charge may be incurred to view opinions from courts using an older version of the electronic filing system. This service is provide by the Administrative Office of the US Courts.
Hidden Cameras, Hidden Microphones. The Radio-Television News Directors Association & Foundation has created a resource guide on the discrete use of cameras and tape recorders. It includes essays on ethics and law; and a national guide to federal and state laws concerning eavesdropping, recording, and the use of hidden cameras.
Jus in Bello . This blog, sponsored by Pace Law School, concentrates on international criminal tribunals and the law of international criminal prosecutions.
Criminal Justice Journalists' News Center. This is a news service that provides daily updates with links to current stories devoted to criminal justice issues nationwide. It is published by Criminal Justice Journalists with the support of John Jay College of Criminal Justice.
European Civil Liberties Network. This is a resource and forum for civil liberties groups in Europe, which will publish information about conferences, research, campaigns and demonstrations.
European Court of Human Rights. This website provides free online access to the judgments, decisions, resolutions and reports of the European Court of Human Rights, the European Commission of Human Rights and the Committee of Ministers.
Amedeo. This service provides free access to new medical publications of interest to healthcare professionals and the public.
US Supreme Court Center. This is a web resource that has a complete collection of US Supreme Court decisions, links to blogs on the Court and related topics, and a reference section with websites that contain briefs, analyses, and other information about Court activities. The site was created by Justia, Oyez and US Court Forms.
Legalwriting.net . This is a blog devoted to educating its readers about the best practices in legal writing, drafting, editing, citation and plain English. The site is maintained by Wayne Schiess, Director of Legal Writing at the University of Texas School of Law
New York Towns and Cities. The New York Visitors Network provides a database of more than 3000 communities with links to descriptive information and services. And it enables users to find the county in which any town, village or city is situated.
State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web. This is a collection of web links to legislative history research guides and materials from the fifty states. It was compiled by Jennifer Bryan, Documents Librarian at the Indiana University School of Law Library – Bloomington.
State Legislatures, State Laws and State Regulations. This is a collection of web sites and contacts for information about state legislation and laws. It was compiled by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington DC.
D-Web Law Blogs . This is a collection of recently issued opinions from the US Supreme Court and federal circuit courts concerning criminal defense. The site is maintained by Paul M. Rashkind, Chief of Appeals, Office of the Federal Public Defender, Southern District of Florida.
Congressional Research Service Reports. This is an indexed collection of reports published by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) drawn from various online sources. The site is maintained by the University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department.
Current Law Journal Content . This is a current awareness service and searchable database of tables of contents from more than a thousand law journals in electronic and print sources. It is maintained by the Washington & Lee Law School.
Center for Law and Justice (CLJ). The Center provides assistance to the low-income and disadvantaged communities of New York through education and advocacy. It operates three major programs: Prevention and Empowerment Program; Community Empowerment Program; and Family Justice. They have posted many publications and links concerning the impact of incarceration, prisoner reentry and parole. Dr. Alice Green, its current executive director, founded the Center in 1985.
GungaWeb News . This is a web log that provides updates on the development of GungaWeb.com, which is an information system for analyzing and keeping current with sentencing laws, plea bargaining restrictions, sentencing alternatives, lesser included offenses, and statutory construction. The site is maintained by David E. Woodin, Esq., Catskill, NY.
National Center for Prosecution Ethics (NCDA). The Center collects and develops codes, rules, advisory opinions, court decisions and legislation concerning prosecution ethics from a variety of sources. Notably, there is a Topic Index of Ethics Advisory Opinions collected from the fifty states. It also provides educational programs and guides for prosecutors. Created by the National College of District Attorneys, the Center is sponsored by the University of South Carolina School of Law and the National District Attorneys Association. Access to most resources is limited to members only.
New York Supreme Court Criminal Term Library . This blog provides information about library services and judicial and legislative developments concerning New York criminal practice.
Time Magazine Archive 1923 to Present. Time Magazine has created an archive of its past issues spanning more than 80 years. Searching is free but full-text access is fee-based.
Answers.com. This is an encyclopedic reference source that draws materials from many standard dictionaries, glossaries, and other works. It claims to cover over a million topics. Search results highlight portions of answers from several sources. The site is maintained by GuruNet Corporation.
Public Defender Investigator Network . This is a topical collection of resources and links for public defense investigators. It includes resources in the following areas: death penalty, forensics, people finders, news, and other research links. The site is maintained by Greg Worthen an investigator with the Adams County regional office of the Colorado State Public Defender.
Zoominfo . This is a search engine that collects background information on people from various Internet sources. It presents results in an organized summary resembling a resume, along with citations to online sources.
Famous Trials . This is an archive of documents and information about notable cases from the trial of Socrates to O.J. Simpson. The site is maintained by Doug Linder, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School.
Appellate Support Network (NLADA). This is a network that brings together criminal law professors who are willing to provide support to public defenders filing briefs in important US Supreme Court and federal appellate court cases. The National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA) is compiling a database of law professors willing to participate.
How Stuff Works. This is an encyclopedia with explanations of the inner workings of electronics, computers, science, human health, and a variety of other topics. While aimed at a wide audience, it contains basic information on subjects of interest to criminal defense practitioners, e.g., "How DNA Evidence Works," "How Lie Detectors Work," and "How Breathalyzers Work."
Law Weblogs-Blawgs. This is a pathfinder that provides information on blogging and evaluating web logs. It provides a topical analysis of legal blogs in different areas of practice. The site is maintained by Lynn Lenart, Assistant Law Librarian for Reference Services at the University of Akron School of Law Library.
National Clearinghouse for Science, Technology and the Law (NIJ). This is a database of scientific, technological, forensic and legal resources. The topics covered range from biometrics to voice analysis. The site is maintained by the National Institute of Justice and located at Stetson University College of Law in Florida.
Eliyon. This is a people search tool with millions of records that focus on business professionals. It provides background information on a wide range of people drawn from Internet sources. The website is maintained by Eliyon, a privately held technology company located in Massachusetts.
Judicial Directory (OCA). This is a directory of New York State judges in the appellate and trial courts. For each entry it provides contact information, current offices held, professional biographies and other background data. The site is maintained by the New York Office of Court Administration.
Forensics Library (NLADA). This is an online library of briefs, memoranda, transcripts, training materials and reports concerning forensic evidence provided by criminal defense lawyers. The library is organized by topic: Autopsies, Arson and Explosives, Bitemarks, Blood Splatter, Canines, Child Sex Allegations, Controlled Substances, DNA, Eyewitness Identification, False Confessions, Fingerprints, Firearm Ballistics, Forensic Laboratories, Hair and Fibers, Handwriting, Photography, Psychiatric Risk Assessment, and Serology and Bodily Fluids. The library is maintained by the National Legal Aid and Defender Association.
Trial Advocacy Blog. This is a web log that covers news, resources and discussions about issues related to trial practice. The site is maintained by the Law Library of Temple University's Beasley School of Law.
WebCrims Case Information System. This is an online calendar system for select New York Criminal Courts. Calendar information includes names of defendants, their charges, and court assignments. It includes criminal and supreme courts in the following counties: Bronx, Dutchess, Erie, Kings, Nassau, New York, Orange, Putnam, Queens, Richmond, Rockland, Suffolk, and Westchester. The site is maintained by the New York Unified Court System.
Investigate THIS! This is a blog that covers news and resources related to legal investigations. The site is maintained by Tamara Thompson, a private investigator.
Government Information Online (GIO). This is a collaborative virtual reference service that answers questions about US government resources. It is comprised of dozens of official depository libraries. Patrons can use email or Internet chat to ask questions. This service is sponsored by Illinois State Library, OCLC, University of Illinois at Chicago.
GovTrack.us . This is a database and search tool for current information about the federal government. Information can be searched or reported through filtering and customized updating functions, such as email and RSS feeds. It includes: legislative updates, activities of legislators, voting records, and more. The site is maintained by Joshua Tauberer, a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania in the Department of Linguistics.
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