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Research Beyond Google: 119 Authoritative, Invisible, and Comprehensive Resources
is an article which lists sources beyond the typical online sites for many different topics; such as business, consumer information, economic and job data, finance and investing, general research, government data, international, law and politics, Library of Congress, medical and health, science, and transportation. The article can be accessed at Beyond Google.
This service provides full-color, full-page displays of over 340 newspapers from more than 60 countries, in 35 languages. The collection includes approximately 45 days of each newspaper. For more details on this service and to access it go to Leyburn.
The UK Statute Law Database (SLD) is the official revised edition of the primary legislation of the United Kingdom made available online. SLD was released to the public on 20 December 2006. The content of SLD is available for viewing and private use free of charge, but please see the Crown Copyright notice for further information about re-use of the data. Some Acts from the November 2006 Royal Assents are not yet available on SLD. It is expect that all will be on the site and their effects incorporated into the Tables of Legislative Effects by the end of December 2006. The Acts are chapter numbers: 41, 42, 43, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 52, 53. The site can be accessed at SLD.
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Ed. Health Care Coverage Determinations An Internnational Comparative Study (Open University Press 2005).
Brian C. Murchison, Revisiting the American Action for Public Disclosure of Private Facts in New Dimensions in Privacy Law, Andrew Kenyon & Megan Richardson,eds. (Cambridge University Press 2006).
Westlaw has introduced a tool that allows you to create a direct link to
documents or databases on Westlaw from your web page. Learn more about it at Westlaw Link.
The text of the Baker Hamilton Report is available at Baker Hamilton.
Since May 2006 the Law Library of Congress has published the Global Legal Monitor on their web site. The Monitor is intended for anyone with an interest in legal developments around the world. Information included is drawn from the Global Legal Network, official national legal publications and reliable press sources. The site can be accessed at Monitor.
Frederic L. Kirgis, The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Decides Medellin’s Consular Convention Case, ASIL Insights (Dec. 2006) available at ASIL Insights.
David Zaring, Best Practices, 81 N.Y.U. L. Rev. 294 (2006).
Melissa A. Waters, Dialectical Regulation: The Murky Middle Ground, 38 Conn. L. Rev. 961 (2006) available at Westlaw.
At the urging of Congress, the United States Institute of Peace is facilitating the bipartisan Iraq Study Group whose mandate is to conduct a forward-looking, independent assessment of the current and prospective situation on the ground in Iraq, its impact on the surrounding region, and consequences for U.S. interests. Its site features material about leaders and meetings and links to related documents. The site can be accessed at ISG.
Project Diana is an online human rights archive at Yale University with case law decisions, important related treaties on human rights, and search engine. There are also abstracts and selected full text PDFs of the articles from archived volumes (1-8) and current volume of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal. Project Diana can be accessed at Project Diana.
Ajax Trans is an easy to use interface that offers translation from and to the following languages: English, Spanish, German, Italian, Portuguese and French. This free service allows users to email the translated text.The site is available at AJAX TRANS.
The University Library has acquired online access to Congressional Quarterly's Congress and the Nation. This respected database provides authoritative coverage of the events, trends, and controversies in the U.S. Congress and Presidency from the administration of Harry S. Truman through the first term of President George W. Bush, including review and analysis of legislation and policy during each Congressional session and presidential term, organized by policy area. Access at Congress and the Nation.
The SEC virtual museum and archive preserves and shares the history of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission and of the securities industry from 1929 to the present. It includes a wide range of primary materials, including a timeline, papers, photos, oral histories and original programs broadcast from this site. Archive also include letters, speeches, manuals, annual reports, and many other documents. The site is available at SEC.
Thomas Gallanis, The Mystery of Old Bailey Counsel, 65 Cambridge L.J. 158 (2006).
Senior Law: Elder Law and Legal Resources on the Web while not new has been recently revised and updated. It offers links to articles about and sources of elder law. The site is available at Senior Law.
Marylin Johnson Raisch, the Librarian for International and Foreign Law at the John Wolff International and Comparative Law Library of the Georgetown Law Center, has just completed an update of her excellent European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research. The document contains many useful links to official sites and documents. The guide can be accessed at European Union Law.
The purpose of this site is to make available to the public Richard Posner's largest body of work — his judicial opinions. The database contains opinions from 1981 to 2006. It will not contain the most recent opinions.The site can be accessed at Project Posner.
This July 2006 CRS (Congressional Research Service) Report for Congress surveys trends in terrorism, including more "micro-actors" (small autonomous groups and individuals), increased sophistication, and an overlap of terrorism with international crime. Includes statistics and policy discussions. Opens directly into a PDF file. Provided by the U.S. Department of State, Foreign Press Centers. The Report can be accessed at Terrorism 2006.
The National Conference of State Legislatures has a site devoted to the defense of marriage acts including a map of the current standing of legislation and a timeline of decisions and legislation. The site is available at Same Sex Marriage.
The Legal Information Institute (LII), a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School has posted a preview of the 2006-2007 Supreme Court term. The initial posting consists of some observations about a few of the high-profile cases and will be followed by a Bulletin on each and every case about two weeks before the Court hears arguments.The bulletin can be accessed at Bulletin.
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, The First Amendment in Cross-Cultural Perspective: A Comparative Legal Analysis of the Freedom of Speech (New York University Press, 2006).
Douglas O. Linder, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, has created the Famous Trials website. The site covers numerous famous trials and includes links to documents and other relevant information. The trials include historic trials such as the trials of Socrates, Thomas More, John Brown and Oscar Wilde. More recent trials such as the Clinton Impeachment, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the Zacarias Moussaoui trial are also included. The site is available at Famous Trials.
Website of a journal "covering emerging issues of law in the areas of intellectual property, high-tech, and biotech." Contains selected articles back to 1986 by students and practitioners, and a cumulative index. From the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley and available at BTLJ.
The website of this journal is devoted to publishing scholarship on all aspects of criminal law and procedure. Topics of past articles by students and practitioners include giving ex-felons the right to vote, stalking, and cybercrime. Includes archive of articles dating back to 2000. From the Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley and available at BJCL.
One of the first (if not the first) business law journal in the nation to publish online and in a concise, journalistic style. Contains interviews and articles written by professionals, academics, and law students on topics such as antitrust, corporate governance, cyberlaw, employment law, intellectual property, securities, and white color crime. Includes issues back to 2000. Published by the University of California, Davis, School of Law and available at Business Law Journal.
Reconceiving the Family Critique on American Law Institute's Principles of the Law of Family Dissolution (Robin Fretwell Wilson, ed., 2006).
Handbook of Children, Culture and Violence (Nancy E. Dowd, Dorothy G. Singer and Robin Fretwell Wilson, eds. 2006).
Scott E. Sundby, The Death Penalty's Future: Charting the Crosscurrents of Declining Death Sentences and the McVeigh Factor, 84 Tex. L. Rev.1929 (2006)(Symposium: Punishment Law and Policy II. Death Penalty in Practice) available at Lexis; Westlaw.
This is the official location for the Administration on pension reform, including the President's single employer defined benefit pension reform proposal. It provides links to documents on the Pension Protection Act of 2006 (signed by President Bush in August 2006), white papers, congressional testimony, press releases, and other documents.The site is maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor, Employee Benefits Security Administration. The site is available at Pension.
The following web pages link to all 1,202 exhibits admitted into evidence during the trial of U.S. v. Moussaoui, with the exception of seven that are classified or otherwise remain under seal. This is the first criminal case for which a federal court has provided access to all exhibits online. Includes transcripts and email messages, photos, images of evidence, audio and video files, and other materials. From the U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Virginia.The web pages can be found at Moussaoui.
Glossary of more than 2,500 terms related to business and finance. Find definitions for terms such as "bull market," "J-curve," "kiretsu," and "Pac-Man strategy." Compiled by a business professor for The New York Times. The glossary is available at Glossary.
Frederic L. Kirgis, Some Proportionality Issues Raised by Israel's Use of Armed Force in Lebanon, ASIL Insights (August 2006) available at http://www.asil.org/insights/2006/08/insights060817.html.
Adam Scales, Hurricane Katrina: Will Insurance Cover the Damage? The First Trial Suggests the Answer is Yes and No, Findlaw Legal News and Commentary (August 2006)
available at Findlaw.
Frequently visiting professor Jeffrey Lubbers has a new edition of, A Guide to Federal Agency Rulemaking, 4th ed. (ABA, 2006). The library copy is on the New Titles shelves.
A publication about worldwide illegal drug production, trafficking, and use. Find data and analysis on opium, heroin, cocaine, cannabis, amphetamine-type stimulants, and other drugs. The 2006 report features a special section on cannabis, "by far the most widely produced, trafficked and used drug in the world." Includes archived reports from past years. From the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC).Available at Drug Report.
David S. Caudill and Lewis H. LaRue, No Magic Wand: The Idealization of Science in Law (Rowman & Littlefield 2006).
Doug Rendleman, Cases & Materials on Remedies, 7th Ed. (Thomson West 2006)(American Casebook Series).
Adam F. Scales, How Much is That Doggy in the Window? The Inevitably Unsatisfying Duty to Monetize 33 Fordham Urb. L.J. 1045 (2006) available at Lexis; Westlaw .
This site "presents images of 423 petitions submitted to the Virginia legislature between 1774 and 1802." Searchable by keywords in bibliographic record, and browsable by geographic location and date. Includes information on the debate between church and state; the circulation, presentation, and form of petitions of the era; a chronology of religious development in America (1607-1835); maps; and related resources.This site is available at Petitions.
Wex is an effort to construct a collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia. It is sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute [LII] at the Cornell Law School. It is searchable, or browsable by category. Contributors are evaluated by LII before being authorized to add material; in general [LII prefers] formal legal education and give preference to legal academics and distinguished practitioners.Wex is available at WEX.
Frederic L. Kirgis, North Korea's Missile Firings, ASIL Insights (July 2006) available at http://www.asil.org/insights/2006/07/insights060724.html.
Timothy Jost, Diane Dawson & Andre den Exter, The Role of Competition in Health Care: A Western European Perspective, 31 J. Health Pol. Pol'y & L. 687 (2006) available at Westlaw .
Frederic L. Kirgis, The Supreme Court Decides a Consular Case, ASIL Insight (July 2006) at http://www.asil.org/insights/2006/07/insights060707.html.
This site contains the text of historic arms control agreements from the U.S. Bureau of Arms Control and the U.S. Bureau of Nonproliferation (which merged to become the Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation in 2005). Some of the treaties include the Chemical Weapons Convention, the Geneva Protocol, the Open Skies Treaty, the Outer Space Treaty, and the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT I and SALT II).Access at International Security.
This site contains three reports (released in June 2006) about emergency health care in the U.S: "Emergency Care for Children: Growing Pains," "Hospital-Based Emergency Care: At the Breaking Point," and "Emergency Medical Services at the Crossroads." The reports cover a range of emergency services, such as 9-1-1 and medical dispatch, and trauma care for children and adults. From the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences.The site can be accessed at Future of Emergency Care.
NationMaster is a massive central data source and a handy way to graphically compare nations. NationMaster is a compilation of data from such sources as the CIA World Factbook, UN, and OECD.The site allows you to generate both graphs and maps. The site is available at NationMaster.
The MINERVA Web Archiving Project is a program to collect and preserve primary source material from the Internet. (The acronym means Mapping the Internet Electronic Resources Virtual Archive.) MINERVA's archives include "Election 2002" and "September 11, 2001." Also find a list of anticipated topics for archives and presentations about the operation of this project. From the Library of Congress. The site can be accessed at MINERVA.
David Zaring, The Use of Foreign Decisions by Federal Courts :An Empirical Analysis, 3 J. Empirical Legal Stud. 297 (2006).
Brian C. Murchison, Speech and the Self-Governance Value, 14 Wm. & Mary Bill Rts. J.1251 (2006).
Robert T. Danforth, Article Five of the UTC and the Future of Creditors' Rights in Trusts, 27 Cardozo L. Rev. 2551 (2006), available at
Lexis; Westlaw.
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Our Broken Health Care System and How to Fix It: An Essay on Health Law and Policy, 41 Wake Forest L. Rev. 537 (2006) available at, Lexis; Westlaw.
Timothy Stoltzfus Jost, Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medicare: What theDepartment of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Medicare and Medicare Services Can, and Should Do, 9 DePaul J. Health Care L. 667 (2005) available at,Lexis; Westlaw.
Andrew W. McThenia, Jr., A Tribute to Lewis L. LaRue, 63 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 3 (2006), available at
Lexis; Westlaw.
Samuel W. Calhoun, Critical Vendors: Line Breakers Par Excellence, 63 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 483 (2006), available at Lexis.
The purpose of this Guide is to provide you with a general roadmap of some of the legal issues specific to podcasting. It addresses some of the standalone issues that are of primary relevance to podcasters, as opposed to bloggers. Discussions include copyright (for written content, music, video), publicity rights, and related topics. Also included are some introductory material on podcasting. The guide can be accessed at Podcasting Legal Guide.
The ethics code of the American Medical Association(AMA) along with related updates and opinions can be read online or downloaded to PDAs. Some of the topics covered include abortion, capital punishment and end of life care.The file can be accessed at AMA.
Year Books are the law reports of medieval England. The earliest examples date from about 1268, and the last in the printed series are for the year 1535. The Year Books are our principal source materials for the development of legal doctrines, concepts, and methods from 1290 to 1535, a period during which the common law developed into recognizable form. About 20,000 individual reports or 'pleas' have been printed, and others remain in manuscript. This database indexes all those year book reports printed between the years 1378 and 1535 and a large number from 1268 forward. Of these reports, more than 4,000 from 1399 forward have been fully indexed and paraphrased in this database. The database can be accessed at Year Books.
The Law Library of Congress announces a new electronic publication, the Global Legal Monitor, which will track new legal developments from around the world. The first issue of the Global Legal Monitor may be accessed from the Law Library of Congress's opening Web page, at: LC Home and then clicking the New
Global Legal Monitor link.
Frederic L. Kirgis, Iran and the Nuclear Proliferation Treaty,ASIL Insights (May 2006), http://www.asil.org/insights/2006/05/insights060530.html.
Mark A. Drumbl, The ICTR and Justice for Rwandan Women, 12 New Eng. J. Int'l Comp. L. 105 (2005), available at Westlaw.
Ronald J. Krotoszynski, Jr., "I'd Like to Teach the World to sing (in Perfect Harmony)":International Judicial Dialogue and the Muses--Reflections on the Perils and the Promise of International Judicial Dialogue, 104 Mich. L. Rev. 1321 (2006) available at Lexis; Westlaw.
Mark A. Drumbl, Charles Taylor and the Special Court for Sierra Leone, ASIL Insights (April 2006), at http://www.asil.org/insights/2006/04/insights060412.html.
Timothy S. Jost and Mark Hall,The Role of State Regulation in Consumer-Driven Health Care, 31 Am. J. L. and Med. 395 (2006), available at Lexis; Westlaw.
Timothy S. Jost, Consumer-Driven Health Care in South Africa: Lessons from Comparative Health Policy Studies, 1 J. Health & Biomedical L. 83 (2005), available at Lexis.
Beginning May 12, 2006, LexisNexis adds a selection of Factiva news and business materials, including The Wall Street Journal, the Dow Jones® and Reuters® newswires, and Barrons® financial information to its other news and business sources.
This site features articles and links to resources about medical law topics such as alternative dispute resolution, fraud and abuse, good samaritan laws (including a state-by-state survey), Medicare and Medicaid, payment issues, peer review, patient-physician relationships (such as informed consent and patient confidentiality), and professional liability insurance. From the American Medical Association (AMA) Office of General Counsel. The site can be accessed at Hot Topics.
The Documentary Record is a compilation of documents related to Palestine, Israel, and other countries and regions in the Middle East. It includes the Balfour Declaration (1917), the Alexandria Protocol (1944), the Israeli Declaration of Independence (1948), the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt (1979), the Hamas Covenant (1988), and many documents from the United Nations. It is part of the Avalon Project at Yale Law School.
The site is accessible at Record.
The Center for Comparative Immigration Studies: Working Papers is a collection of dozens of publications on immigration topics such as U.S. immigration reform, illegal immigration, refugees, the U.S.-Mexico border, and health and education of immigrants. Archives go back to 2000. From the Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, University of California, San Diego.The Collection is available at Immigration.
The Department of Justice has put together a website to provide convenient access to documents related to the government’s case against former Enron executives. The bulk of the material is numerous exhibits admitted into evidence by the government during February and March of 2006. The format of the material is the same as admitted in court. Most of the files are in PDF or TXT. Exhibits include e-mails, transcripts of conference calls, letters, meeting minutes, and handwritten notes. The material is organized by date admitted into evidence. Also available on the site is the government’s list of witnesses, dated January 2006, and several press releases. The site includes a basic search feature that assists users in navigating through the extensive material. The site can be accessed at Enron Trial.
Dorothy A. Brown, Taking Grutter Seriously: Getting Beyond the Numbers,
43 Hous. L. Rev. 1 (2006) (The Tenth Annual Frankel Lecture), available at
Lexis; Westlaw.
Dorothy A. Brown, A Tax Credit or a Handout?, N.Y. Times, April 18,2006, Sec. A at 27.
Timothy Jost, The New Governance, the Open Method of Coordination and Social Health Insurance in Europe, 7 Med. L. Int. 249 (2006).
Joan Shaughnessy, Commentary: Unpublication and the Judicial Concept of Audience, 62 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1597 (2005), available at Westlaw.
Mark H. Grunewald, Roy L. Steinheimer, Rick Kirgis, Randall P. Bezanson, L.H. LaRue, Edward O. Henneman,Jr., Lesley Brown Scless, Susan May Eckman, Kirkland Malloy Kelley, Elizabeth Turley & Robert T. Danforth, A Tribute to Edward O. Henneman, 62 Wash. & Lee L. Rev. 1411 (2005), available at Westlaw.
The goal of the Open CRS Network is to provide access to reports created by the Congressional Research Service.
From the website: American taxpayers spend nearly $100 million a year to fund the Congressional Research Service, a "think tank" that provides reports to members of Congress on a variety of topics relevant to current political events. Yet, these reports are not made available to the public in a way that they can be easily obtained. A project of the Center for Democracy & Technology through the cooperation of several organizations and collectors of CRS Reports, Open CRS provides citizens access to CRS Reports already in the public domain and encourages Congress to provide public access to all CRS Reports.Open CRS Network can be accessed at Open CRS.
The Supreme Court on April 2nd adopted a historic rule change that will
allow lawyers to cite so-called unpublished opinions in federal courts
starting next year. The new rule takes effect unless Congress countermands
it before Dec. 1. Under the new rule, circuits will still be able to give varying
precedential weight to unpublished opinions, but they can no longer keep
lawyers from citing them -- in the same way lawyers cite rulings from other
circuits or other authorities, such as law review articles.
Tom Regan a leading animal rights scholar and North Carolina State University Libraries have created a website to archive Regan's collection and to develop an animal rights research portal. The site is available at Regan Archive.
Westlaw has released RegulationsPlus an enhanced federal regulatory service which includes among many enhancements a new online CFR index with more than 1.4 million references arranged by topic and linked directly to the CFR and over 600,000 CFR notes of decisions with links to the cases. RegulationsPlus is accessed by selecting the appropriate regulatory database on Westlaw.
The Law Library of Congress has created a website presenting information and documents about the trial of Saddam Hussein. The site includes information about the defendants, background to the trial, procedural rules, and relevant Iraqi and international law. The site can be accessed at Saddam Trial.
Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO) provides information about theory and research in international affairs. It publishes a wide range of scholarship from 1991 onward that includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from NGO's, foundation funded research projects, proceedings from conferences,books, journals and policy briefs. It also provides an interactive map that gives patrons information and statistics about individual countries. The database can be accessed at CIAO.
The Government Printing Office has announced the launch of the new enhanced Catalog of U.S. Government Publications (CGP). The new CGP offers more than 500,000 records to both historical and current government publications.The catalog can be accessed at
CGP.
U.S. Congress Votes Database, a project of The Washington Post, "lets you browse every vote in the U.S. Congress since 1991." You may browse by Congress (from current back to 102nd), member, bill number, etc. and display vote totals by party, state, region, or gender.Database available at Congress-Votes.
JSTOR (the Scholarly Journal Archive) has released its linking function which enables JSTOR users to follow a link from a reference in an article directly to the cited article. Currently this function works internally only(i.e. linking only to journals archived in JSTOR). See the help page at JSTOR/Help for more details.
The new Internet Archive service Archive-It allows any user to create, search and manage their own web archive or search the other archives housed there. A number of National libraries, state libraries and archives have added collections. The site can be found at Archive-It.
Frederick L. Kirgis, The American Society Of International Law's First Century: 1906-2006 (Lieden 2006).
Thomas F. Cotter, Evaluating the Pro- and Anticompetitive Effects of Intellectual Property Protection, 5 Antitrust Source 2006 (reviewing Antitrust, Patents and Copyright: EU and US Perspectives (2005)), at Antitrust Source.
David Partlett and Russell L. Weaver, International and Comparative Perspectives on Defamation, Free Speech, and Privacy, 50 N.Y.L. Sch. L. Rev. 1 (2006), available at Westlaw.
Calvin Massey, 2005 Supplement American Constitutional Law: Powers and Liberties (Aspen Publishing 2005).
Darryl Brown, The Decline of Defense Counsel and the Rise of Accuracy in Criminal Adjudication, 93 Calif. L. Rev. 1585 (2005), available at Lexis; Westlaw.
David Partlett, Of Law Reform Lions and Limits of Tort Reform, 27 Sydney L. Rev. 417 (2005), available at Lexis.
Mark A. Drumbl, Jose E. Alvarez, David Partlett, David Millon, Blake D. Morant, Detlev F.Vagts, Paul F. Kirgis, John H. Jackson, Lucinda A. Low, Malgosia Fitzmaurice,
Joan M. Shaughnessy, Brian C. Murchison, Samuel W. Calhoun, David A. Wirth,
Roger D. Groot, Mark H. Grunewald, Scott E. Sundby, Thomas L. Shaffer, Matthew
Z. Earle, A Tribute to Frederic L. Kirgis, 62 Wash. & Lee L. Rev 833 (2005), available at Lexis;
Westlaw.
David F. Partlett, The Right to Speak Ill: Defamation, Reputation and Free Speech (Carolina Academic Press 2006) (with Russell L. Weaver, Andrew T. Kenyon & Clive P. Walker).
Frederic L. Kirgis, Alleged Secret Detentions of Terrorism Suspects, ASIL Insights (February 2006), at http://www.asil.org/insights/2006/02/insights060214.html.
Timothy S. Jost, International Encyclopaedia of Laws: Medical Law, United States of America (Kluwer 1995, Supp. 42 2005)(with Barry Furrow, Thomas Greaney, Sandra Johnson and Robert Schwartz).
Frederic L. Kirgis, International Law and the Report of the High-Level U.N. Panel on Threats, Challenges and Change in 10 International Peacekeeping: The Yearbook of International Peace Operations 163 (Langholtz, Kondoch, & Wells, eds., Koninklijke Pub. 2006).
Dorothy Brown, Moving Beyond the Black/White Paradigm: An Introduction, 12 Wash.& Lee J. Civil Rts. & Soc. Just. 1 (2005).
Blake D. Morant, The Jurisprudence of the Media's Access to Voting Polls, 4 First Amend. L. Rev. 107 (2005), available at Lexis.
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