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Research Guides

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Research Websites

Comprehensive Legal Research Sites

- subscription required -
Lexis.com
Westlaw.com

- free on the web -
American Law Sources Online (U.S., Canada and Mexico)
CataLaw
FindLaw
Hieros Gamos
Internet Legal Resource Guide
Jurist
Law and Politics Internet Guide
LawGuru
Law Street
'Lectric Law Library
Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
The Virtual Chase
Virtual Law Library
WashLaw Web
Yahoo Law Directory

Associations & Lawyer Directories

American Bar Association
Connecticut Bar Association
ILRG Law Firm Guide
ILRG Law Schools Guide
Lawyer Referral Services
Lawyers.com
Lawyers Weekly
Martindale Hubbell
National Jurist Online
West's Legal Directory

Federal Government

U.S. Constitution: Analysis and Interpretation
Federal Forms
Federal Web Locator

Executive Branch - agency list
The White House	Interior
Agriculture	Justice
Commerce	Labor
Defense	State
Education	Transportation
Energy	Treasury
Health and Human Services	Veteran Affairs
Housing and Urban Development

Judicial Branch
The Supreme Court	5th Circuit
The Judiciary Page	6th Circuit \| @Emory
DC Circuit \| @Georgetown	7th Circuit
Federal Circuit \| @Georgetown	8th Circuit
1st Circuit \| @Emory	9th Circuit
2nd Circuit	10th Circuit \| @Emory
3rd Circuit	11th Circuit \| @Emory
4th Circuit \| @Emory	Federal Judicial Center

Legislative Branch
The House of Representatives	General Accounting Office
The Senate	Government Printing Office
Thomas	Library of Congress

Regulations
CFR (traditional) \| eCFR (updated daily)	Federal Register
Regulations.gov	SEC - Edgar filings database
IRS Forms	ABA Administrative Law Database

Federal Court Decisions
Federal Appellate Courts	USSC+ Supreme Court cases
Federal Judicial Opinions at LII	Supreme Court 1937 - 1975
FindLaw Supreme Court cases 1893-present	Supreme Court Oral Arguments - Oyez Requires installation of sound card and RealAudio software
Supreme Court briefs at Curiae

Federal Legislation
Lexis Congressional (Legislative history) Restricted access	Thomas (recently enacted fed'l laws)
House Of Representatives Homepage	US Code at the House Homepage
Senate Homepage	US Code at the LII
	US Code via GPO Access

Foreign & International Resources:

Foreign, International and Transnational Resources Main Page

Human Rights Organizations & Documents
1994 Draft - Declaration of Principles on Human Rights and the Environment	International Institute for Sustainable Development
AAAS Science and Human Rights Program	International Service Agencies
ACCESO	International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights
Action Coalition Homepage	International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights	International Human Rights Instruments : Minnesota
American Civil Liberties Union	LACASA - Latin America and Caribbean Solidarity Association
American Communication Association	Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
American Kurdish Information Network	Lawyers Without Borders
Amnesty International Homepage	Magnus Hirschfeld Centre for Human Rights
CARE	Mennonite Central Committee
Casa Alianza/Covenant House	The Milarepa Fund
Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law at Washington College	National Child Rights Alliance
Center for the Study of Human Rights at Columbia University	National Organization for Women
Center for World Indigenous Studies	Peace Brigades International
Children's Defense Fund	Peacenet Homepage
Coalition on Child Prostitution and Tourism	Peacenet Gopher
Coalition Against Prostitution and Child Abuse in Thailand	Peaceworks
Coalition for International Justice	Peacenet Gopher at IGC/APC
Colombia Support Network	People's Communication Charter
Committee in Solidarity with Central American People	Physicians For Human Rights Gopher
Committee to Protect Journalists	Physicians for Social Resposibility
CHRI : Comprehensive Human Rights Initiative	Planet Peace
Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility	Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies
Cultural Survival	Refuse and Resist Homepage
Derechos	Rigobreta Menchu Tum Foundation
Documents at Fletcher, Tufts University	Simon Wiesenthal Center
Documents Center at the University of Michigan	SolidarityGroup Political Prisoners
Draft Declaration on Rights of Indigenous Peoples	Soros Foundation : Open Society Homepage
Documents from the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women	Texts of the Human Rights Instruments
Equipo Nizkor	Together Foundation
Fourth World Documentation Project	USA for UNHCR
Focus Hope	United Nations Commission on Human Rights from the University of Minnesota
Freedom Forum	Vera Institute of Justice
Grandmothers of the Plaza de Mayo	Voice of America Gopher
Human Rights Interactive Network	Volunteers in Technical Assistance (VITA)
Human Rights Watch Gopher	Websurfers against the Death Penalty
Human Rights Brief	World Neighbors
Human Rights Documents from Tufts	Union Romani
IGC/APC Homepage	UNICEF
IGC/APC Human Rights Gopher	United Nations
International Committee of the Red Cross	Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Information Axis	Washington Office on Latin America
InterAction Homepage	Witness for Peace
International Association Against Torture	Worldviews
International Criminal Court

Human Rights Sites on the Web
AAAS Science and Human Rights Page	International Center for Human Rights and Democracy
ACLU Civil Liberties News	International Human Rights Law Institute
CEDAW	International Human Rights Organizations Page at Case Western University
CUSHRID - Canadian-U.S. Human Rights	International Law and Human Rights through the Doddel Server
Campaign for Labor Rights	Karen Parker Home page for Humanitarian Law
Carter Center	LASNET Archives (searchable for Human Rights material)
Center for International Policy	Legislative Briefing from the Human Rights Campaign
Center for Women's Global Leadership	Minnesota Human Rights Library
Children Now	Native Web
Children's House in Cyberspace	The Nizkor Project
Clarity Press, Inc.	North America Project
Contact Directory to Nonprofits on the Web	OneWorld Online
Crosslines Global Report	Pennsylvania Expose
Cybrary of the Holocaust	Prison Legal News
D I A N A Human Rights Database	Prison Page
The Dying Rooms Trust	Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Earthlife Africa	Reebok Human Rights Page
Electronic Democracy Resources	RefWorld
Ethical Spectacle	Religion or Belief Information Network (ROBIN)
File Room Censorship Archive	Rob's Civil Rights Page
First Amendment Pledge	Save the Children
Globalvision	States of Emergency Database
Human Rights Campaign	Statewatch Database
Human Rights Databases	Stop Prisoner Rape
Human Rights for Workers	Systematic Studies of Human Rights at Binghamton
Human Rights from Friedrich Ebert Stiftung	UNICEF - Voices of Youth
Human Rights Gopher	University of Nottingham Student Human Rights Center
Human Rights Interactive Network	The Video Project
Human Rights Internet	Virtual Sisterhood
Human Rights Page maintained by Martin Hogan	Virtual Library on International Development
Human Rights Page at YAHOO	Washington College of Law Human Rights Page
Human Rights Page at Penn	Women's Human Rights Resources from DIANA
Human Rights Research and Education Centre	Women's International Center
Human Rights Web	Wrongful Executions
Hunger Web	Yad Vashem Homepage
ISFiT Human Rights Page	Youth Forum - Human Rights

Legal Periodicals - see Legal Articles & Periodicals

Legal Databases - see Legal Databases

State Law & Government

FindLaw State Resources
HG State Government Resources
LawGuru State Statutes and Codes
Legal Explorer State Resources
LOIS - Restricted access, see librarian for password
Municipal Codes
Internet Law Library
Municipal Codes - MCC
Piper State and Local Govt.
State Government Web Servers
State Resources at the Internet Law Library
State Resources at Yale
State Statutes organized by Topic

State Resources:

State Home Pages

AL	AK	AR	AZ	CA	CO	CT	DE	FL	GA
HI	IA	ID	IL	IN	KS	KY	LA	MA	MD
ME	MI	MN	MO	MS	MT	NB	NC	ND	NE
NH	NJ	NM	NY	OH	OK	OR	PA	RI	SC
SD	TN	TX	UT	VT	VA	WA	WV	WI	WY

State Court Pages

AL	AK	AR	AZ	CA	CO	CT	DE	FL	GA
HI	IA	ID	IL	IN	KS	KY	LA	MA	MD
ME	MI	MN	MO	MS	MT	NB	NC	ND	NE
NH	NJ	NM	NY	OH	OK	OR	PA	RI	SC
SD	TN	TX	UT	VA	VT	WA	WI	WV	WY

Law Library Catalogs

Eureka
Bibliographic database of more than 22 million titles
Restricted to Yale University network (including PPP)

HOLLIS
Harvard University's Library Catalog

Law Schools
With links to library catalogs

Library of Congress Catalog

Major Research Libraries
With links to library catalogs

General Reference:

Dictionaries
Acronym Dictionary	O E D (Restricted to Yale campus/PPP only)
Bartlett's Quotations	Research-It - Language
Biographical Dictionary	Rhyming Dictionary
Black's Law Dictionary	Thesaurus
Glossary Agent	Translators
'Lectric Legal Lexicon	Webster's Dictionary
Legal Dictionary	Wordbot
Menu of Dictionaries
One Look Dictionary

Directories
Amtrak Schedules	MetroNorth (and LIRR) Schedules
Area Code Directory	New Haven Resources
Ask Jeeves	Paperless Guide to NYC
Currency Converter	Salary Calculator
1-800 Directory	Shareware.com
Human Languages Page	Travelocity
Mapquest Map Generator	Tucows Software
MapsOnUS

People Finders
AT&T Directories	Research-it - People
BigYellow	Switchboard Phone Directory
555-1212 Directories	Who Is
Internet Address Finder	Yahoo People Finder
lawyers.com	Yale Directory
Martindale-Hubbell	Zip Code Directory
No Place to Hide

Historical Documents

Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
Congressional Documents and Debates
Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention
Hanover Historical Texts Project
Historical Text Archive at Mississippi State
Library of Congress American Memory
United States History at Univ. of Kansas
Web Sites of Interest to Historians
Wiretap Document Collection

Non-Legal Sources

Bartleby Library:Columbia University
Bartlett's Quotations
Complete Works of Shakespeare
Electronic Text Center
Eureka Access restricted to Yale campus
Federal Statistics
Internet Public Library
Library of Congress Homepage
Library List at Yahoo
List of American Universities
Online Library Catalogs
Project Gutenberg
Publishers' Catalogs-U.S.
Scholarly Societies
Subject Oriented Internet Guides
Virtual Reference Desk
Web Catalogs (Geographical Index)
Yahoo Subject List

News & Current Events

CNN Interactive
Court TV Law Center
Law.com
MSNBC
New York Times
Wall Street Journal

Statistical Information

Statistical Universe
United States statistical informtion
Restricted to Yale University network (including PPP)

Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research
Raw data from various government, university and private studies.
Restricted to Yale University network (including PPP)

Search Engines:

AltaVista
Dogpile
Excite
Google
HotBot
Lycos
MetaCrawler
MetaIndex for U.S. Legal Research
Search Engine Watch
Webcrawler
Yahoo

Tutorials

UC Berkeley Internet Tutorial - Search Engines
UC Berkeley Internet Tutorial - MetaSearch Engines

Legal Search Engines

FindLaw
Hieros Gamos
LawCrawler
LawGuru
LawRunner

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