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AMERICAN SITES
FindLaw
A US-based web directory of Internet legal information
for lawyers, students, businesses and the public. It provides summaries of
various areas of law, and access by subject index, law schools, consultants,
law firms, etc. Also a good source of US case law and legislation for those
without subscriptions to the more structured on-line legal services like
Westlaw or Lexis. www.findlaw.com/law
Findlaw for students:
Academic Law Reviews and Journals According to the LibraryCo
description, this site lists and provides links to the homepages of a wide
range of law journals, with particular emphasis on the United States.
While the site is searchable, there is also a helpful list of journals
by subject. Each individual
title has a hyperlink to the web page for the journal, whether or not the
full text is available on-line. http://stu.findlaw.com/journals/
Law Engine
Another US web directory for law on the Internet, claiming to provide "the
best on-line law sources in an easy, single-page format!" Provides searching
and links to a variety of information, including US case law and legislation,
and a very useful source of the ever-popular Delaware State Code. The Law
Engine is a good alternate source of American material where in offices and
libraries where print versions are not available.
http://www.thelawengine.com/
Litilaw: published
articles for litigators
Journal articles are often hard to find online.
They’re either not available electronically, or you need a paid subscription.
That’s why litilaw is such a nice surprise, providing pdf files of selected
articles or linking to them from actual credible US law reviews and journals
or CLE materials. According to the website guidelines, Articles must
have been presented as part of a legal continuing legal presentation (CLE),
in a legal journal, or be of similar quality, be of current interest to
litigators and related legal professionals, and published in the last two
years. Detailed topics are listed under three main headings:
Procedural law, Substantive Law, and Other. While the material is
American, Canadian lawyers will be interested in the articles on law practice
management, forensic computer investigations, and alternative dispute
resolution. This site is produced by
Lexbe.com, a commercial web-based case analysis and
litigation management system. While some of the links don’t work, and
some of the articles are less than substantive i.e “legal alerts” from law
firms, this site is still worth checking out at
http://litilaw.lexbe.com/
Citation Machine
This web tool was created by U.S. educator David Warlick and is part of the
Landmarks for Schools web site for teachers. Since 1995, Mr. Warlick has been
the owner and principal consultant of The Landmark Project, a professional
development and web design firm in Raleigh North Carolina.
This wonderful resource allows you to
translate any type of raw bibliographic data into an authoritative APA or MLA
style citation with one click of the mouse. It includes everything from web
pages to an article from an
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