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FindLaw: Cases and Codes: Supreme Court Opinions

Findlaw (discussed in the February 23, 1996 Scout Report) has a browsable and searchable archive of US Supreme Court opinions from 1937 to the present. Cases can be browsed by volume number or year, and searched by citation, title and the full text of the opinions.

https://caselaw.findlaw.com/
FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources

FindLaw, originally a list of resources prepared for the Northern California Association of Law Librarians (NOCALL) by two Stanford University graduate students and a lawyer, is one of the most comprehensive law resources on the Internet. It includes pointers to law schools, legal publishers, legal associations, statutes and laws, judicial opinions and case law, law firms and lawyers, legal news,...

https://www.findlaw.com/
Foreign Law Online Legal Resources

This metasite, recently created by Jean Wenger of the Cornell University Law Library, contains annotated pointers in four major topical areas at this time: foreign law, international law, US government sources, and topical resources. Each area is further subdivided. Selection criteria is clearly stated; authority information for many of the resources is available. This growing site joins five...

https://guides.library.cornell.edu/onlinelegalresources?p=20...
Hieros Gamos: Law and Legal Research Center

Part of Hieros Gamos, a listing service for lawyers and law firms worldwide, the Hieros Gamos Law and Legal Research Center is free and open for consultation, offering an array of options for research into legal matters of every nature and variety. Literally, there is a little something for everyone, from the student to the average citizen in the market for legal information or, beyond that, to...

https://www.hg.org/
Jurist: Law Professors on the Web

Bernard Hibbitts, Professor and Associate Dean for Communications & Information Technology at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law, provides this site, "designed to connect Neterate legal academics to each other, to law students, to the legal profession and to the public at large as individual law professors become independent information-providers on the [web]." The site is highlighted by...

https://www.jurist.org/
LLSDC Legislative Source Book

The Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C. recently announced that they have placed online a series of unique informational documents and links of interest to law librarians and government researchers. Compiled by LLSDC's Legislative Research Special Interest Section, much of the material was previously available in print, but is gathered together online for the first time. Titles include...

https://www.llsdc.org/sourcebook
The Guide to Law Online

Created by the US Law Library of Congress for the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN), this metasite indexes online resources for legal information worldwide. Most of the resources are briefly annotated, and all are free, quality sources of information. The index is fairly deep and divided into four primary sections: US, Nations, International and Multinational, and Subjects. The largest of...

https://guides.loc.gov/law-library