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LEGAL ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND REFERENCES

1. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia: Cornell Law Library. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia. The Legal Research Encyclopedia, currently under development, is a research tool for the 21st...
URL: www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/take1.html

2. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia: Cornell Law Library. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia. The Legal Research Encyclopedia, currently under development, is a research tool for the 21st...
URL: www.lawschool.cornell.edu/library/take1t.html

3. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia: Virtual Reference Desk Home. Virtual Reference Desk Abstract. Title. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia. Author. URL....
URL: www.virtualref.com/abs/586.htm

4. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia: Virtual Reference Desk Home. Virtual Reference Desk Abstract. Title. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia. Author. Cornell Law Library. URL....
URL: www.virtualref.com/abs/825.htm

5. Encyclopedia of Law and Economics: Bibliographical Database: 5860 Legal Profes: Home Page: Bibliographical Database: 5860 Legal Professions. 5860 Legal Professions. Allen, Ronald J., Grady, Mark F., Polsby, Daniel D. and Yashko,...
URL: encyclo.findlaw.com/biblio/5860.htm

6. West's Encyclopedia of American Law Gale Research Lawyer Reference Legal Court: Offering West's Encyclopedia of American Law with easy online ordering. West's Encyclopedia of American Law, 12 Volume Set Gale Research and...
URL: www.groupone.net/gwills/ae9.htm

7. Excite Searching: Search Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia Use keywords to search for information on a legal topic or view by category. Search Nolo's Store Use keywords to search...
URL: www.nolo.com/Excite/AT-NoloWebsitequery.html

8. Tenant's Rights Association Home Page: Tenants Rights Association Home Page. Sponsored by your Student Government Association. Student Renter's Survival Guide. --A Pamphlet Provided by SGA....
URL: www.cmich.edu/~cmusga/tenrts.html

9. What You Should Expect From a Lawyer: Courts and Mediation · Lawyers and Legal Malpractice · · · Search · · · Helpful Books & Software. What You Should Expect From a Lawyer. This article...
URL: www.nolo.com/NNMAD.HTML

28. What to Do When You're Mad at Your Lawyer: Courts and Mediation · Lawyers and Legal Malpractice · · · Search · · · Helpful Books & Software. What to Do When You're Mad at Your Lawyer. This article..
URL: www.nolopress.com/nnmad2.html

29. Cornell Law Library: WHAT'S NEW. Updated May 18, 1999. Permanent Court of Arbitration Cornell now hosts the official website. Selected Acquisitions List Selected list of...
URL: www.lawschool.cornell.edu/lawlibrary/
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30. Limited Liability Companies: How Do They Work?: Here are the main features of the LLC, which make it so attractive to many small business owners....
URL: 140.174.208.58/chunksb/SB20.HTML

31. Law: Law. Internet Law Library, U.S. House of Representatives. Legal Encyclopedia, Nolo Press. Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School. Locate a...
URL: courses.dsu.edu/finance/www/law.htm

32. Law resources: Law,criminal justice, court, correction, terrorism, law enforcement...
URL: disc.cba.uh.edu/~jpatlova/law.htm

33. Lawyer Malpractice Basics: Courts and Mediation · Lawyers and Legal Malpractice · · · Search · · · Helpful Books & Software. Lawyer Malpractice Basics. Copyright © Nolo Press. Here..
URL: www.nolopress.com/Chunkcm/malpractice_basics.HTML

34. American Lawyers--Stuck in the Middle Ages: Increasingly, a growing army of legal self-helpers is turning to nonlawyer suppliers--from independent paralegals to self-help law books-- for...
URL: unixwannabe.lanminds.com/ChunkCM/middle_ages.html

35. Law List of Links: Law Links. find law. copyright law. Law.Net. Court TV Small Business Law Center. Nolo Press Legal Encyclopedia. Crash Course in Wills & Trusts. Estate...
URL: web.p3.net/~epolesin/links/ListLaw.htm

36. How to Avoid Being Found by a Collection Agency: How to avoid being found by a collection...
URL: www.nolo.com/chunkdc/DC13.HTML

37. Debt Collections--Introduction: How bill collectors try to make debtors pay and what you can do legally as...
URL: www.nolo.com/chunkdc/DC11.HTML

38. Using an ATM or Debit Card: What you need to know about using an ATM card or debit...
URL: unixwannabe.lanminds.com/ChunkDC/DC3.HTML

39. Limit the Number of Credit Cards You Carry: Limiting the number of credit cards you carry can help you improve your credit....
URL: www.nolopress.com/ChunkDC/DC25.HTML

40. ENCYLCOPEDIAS: Virtual Reference Desk Home. ENCYLCOPEDIAS. Subject Structure. Entries for ENCYLCOPEDIAS. Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia Full Record. Cornell Law...
URL: www.virtualref.com/subj/233.htm

41. Your Rights on the Way Out the Door: Employment · Losing or Leaving a Job · · · Search · · · Helpful Books & Software. Your Rights on the Way Out the Door. by Barbara Kate Repa Copyright ©...
URL: www.nolo.com/LoseLeav.html

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"Law on the Web" "List of Law-Related Internet Books and Newsletters"

_The Legal List_(covers all types of Net resources - webs, gophers, ftp sites, etc.)

Lyo's "Law Lists" (keyword search feature) Nice handy one

http://www.findlaw.com/

Indiana University Law School (maintains the World Wide World Virtual Library for Law)

Cornell University Law School (Legal Information Institute (LII); includes links by "Legal Topics" and "Source")

Emory University Law School (look under "Electronic Reference Desk" and "Federal Courts Finder")

University of Chicago Law School

http://lcweb2.loc.gov/glin/us.html (Guide to U.S. Law) or home page

Chicago-Kent College of Law (look under "Legal Resources")

Washburn University Law School (wonderful site! Includes AALS information, and much, much more law-related information)

Hieros Gamos (Lex Mundi)(aims towards being a comprehensive law site)

Internet Legal Resource Guide (ILRG)

American Law Sources Online (ALSO)

FedLaw (links to U.S. federal and state legal resources)

Yahoo (Law Links)(subject catalog of the Internet - includes many key links)

CourtTV's Legal Documents.

fee-based services include the WestDoc case service, VersusLaw, and LOIS (but they are not as comprehensive as the LEXIS-NEXIS and WESTLAW legal databases.

STANDARD SEARCH ENGINES

Lycos(great robotic index to Internet web sites (over 90%) - quick results for keyword searches)

Yahoo(subject catalog and keyword index to the Internet)

AltaVista(Internet search engine; very popular)

Liszt(enables keyword searches of a list of 90,095 listserv, listproc, majordomo, and independently managed lists; compare with listTool covering 650 lists and Topica: Email Lists Made Easy)

Tile.Net(another "list of lists", but only of lists run by the LISTSERV and Lyris software)

DejaNews(a keyword-searchable web archive of Usenet newsgroup messages; great for looking to see if someone, or something, has been discussed somewhere)

LIST SERVES, GROUPS FOR SPECIC INTERESTS

AALSMIN-L (discussion list of the Section on Minority Groups of the Association of American Law Schools)
Send the following message to LISTSERV@UBE.UBALT.EDU:
subscribe aalsmin-l Your Name institution

COC-L (Clinicians of Color in Law Schools)
Send the following message to listserv@ube.ubalt.edu:
subscribe coc-l Your Name (school)

LATINO-LAW-PROFS (Latino Law Professors Communication List)
Send the following message to LISTPROC@UCDAVIS.EDU:
subscribe latino-law-profs Your Name

TRIBALLAW (Tribal Law; forum for discussion of laws and policy affecting Native Americans in North America)
Send the following message to LISTSERV@THECITY.SFSU.EDU:
subscribe triballaw Your Name

YLOPEARL (Asian Pacific American Law Professors Discussion Group)
Send the following message to listserv@listserv.syr.edu:
subscribe ylopearl Your Name

IMMPROF (Immigration Law Professors List)
Send the following message to listproc@lists.colorado.edu:
subscribe immprof Your Name

MIDWSTPOCCONF (Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference; subscription is subject to approval of listowner)
Send the following message to listserv@assocdir.wuacc.edu:
subscribe midwstpocconf Your Name

LAWPROF (Law Professors and Lecturers)
Send the following message to LISTSERV@CHICAGOKENT.KENTLAW.EDU:
subscribe lawprof Your Name

AFFAM-L (Affirmative Action list)
Send the following message to listserv@cmsa.berkeley.edu:
subscribe affam-l Your Name

AFAM-INTL (forum for African Americans in academia and business and law to discuss international issues)
Send the following message to listproc@u.washington.edu:
subscribe afam-intl Your Name

NET-LAWYERS (Lawyers and the Internet)
Send the following message to LISTSERV@PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM:
subscribe net-lawyers Your Name

CLNET (Chinese Law Net)
Send the following message to listproc@u.washington.edu:
subscribe clnet Your Name

ASIA-LAW (Canada-based Asian Law List)
Send the following message to majordomo@unixg.ubc.ca:
subscribe asia-law

AALLC (list of the Asian American Law Librarians Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries)
Send the following message to listserv@ftplaw.wuacc.edu:
subscibe aallc Your Name

BLACK-LIB (list of the African American/Black Law Librarians Caucus of the American Association of Law Libraries)
Send the following message to listserv@houston.law.howard.edu:
subscribe black-lib Your Name

LAW-LIB (Law Librarians (mainly U.S.))
Send the following message to LISTPROC@UCDAVIS.EDU:
subscribe law-lib Your Name

INT-LAW (Foreign, Comparative, and International Law Librarians; was on listserv@tc.umn.edu)
Send the following message to MAJORDOMO@LISTHOST.CIESIN.ORG:
subscribe int-law

EURO-LEX (All EUROpean Legal Information EXchange)
Send the following message to LISTSERV@LISTSERV.GMD.DE:
subscribe euro-lex Your Name

Scholarly Publishing (Law Journals)

Michigan Journal of Race and Law (includes links to related Internet resources)
Journal of Gender, Race and Justice (University of Iowa College of Law; site under construction)
University Law Review Project (a service of FindLaw and the Coalition of Online Law Journals)
Law Journals (Washburn University Law School links to journals on the Internet, with full text index)
Legal and Law-Related Journals (Lex Mundi's Hieros Gamos web site)
On-Line Directory of Law Reviews and Scholarly Legal Periodicals (Anderson Publishing Co. list of addresses, phone, and fax numbers)
Law Review Editorial Addresses (top 101 law reviews in rank order)

How to Keep Track of New Internet Legal Resources

The sources below can be used to find out about new Internet resources related to law (other than the ones listed in C. Burgess Allison's guide above, and the INT-LAW and NET-LAWYERS lists):

InSITE-L (Cornell University Law Library newsletter for announcements of key Internet resources; archived at http://128.253.118.14:8080/insite/insitetp.html)
Send the following message to listproc@cornell.edu:
subscribe insite-l Your Name

SITE-TATION (American Bar Association legal resources announcements list)
Send the following message to listserv@abanet.org:
subscribe site-tation Your Name

NEW-LIST (New Lists announcement list)
Send the following message to LISTSERV@CS.WISC.EDU:
subscribe new-list Your Name

The following web pages contain useful information on researching the law using Internet resources:

Finding Law-Related Internet Resources (Cindy Chick)(at the Law Library Resource Xchange)
Legal Research FAQ (Mark Eckenwiler's guide to print sources for American legal research)
Factbooks About... the American Legal System (American Bar Association Division for Media Relations and Public Affairs; includes factbooks in PDF format on the American Judicial System, Women and the Law, Law and the Elderly, Children and the Law, and the American Criminal Justice System)
Legal Research: On Paper and Online (Nolo Press guide)
The Practicing Attorney's Home Page (Peter Krakaur)
The Internet Lawyer (Josh Blackman; includes links to "How to Find Anything on the Net", "Fact-Finding Research", "Cool Sites for Lawyers", and "Legal Research" on the Internet generally)
The Compleat Internet Researcher: Advanced Strategies and Techniques (AALL conference workshop materials by Donald A. Arndt, Elliot C. Chabot, Mary E. Cornaby, Kenneth S. Kozlowski, Sheri H. Lewis, and Genie Tyburski)
The Annotated Guide to Resources for Legal Professionals (Genie Tyburski; part of The Virtual Chase: A Research Site for Legal Professionals; was at http://www.hslc.org/~tyburski/)
Internet Skills and Strategies for the Legal Researcher (Genie Tyburski)
Conducting Legal Research on the World Wide Web (Michael Geist)
LAWLINKS: Legal Information on the Internet (Sarah Carter)
Guide to Internet Law Resources (S.D. Stein)
Legal Research Newsletters (subscription required):

Special Topics

Organizations and Universities

Midwestern People of Color Legal Scholarship Conference (MWPOC)
JusticeNet (links on affirmative action, racial justice, police brutality, human rights, etc.)
Minority Rights Group
Minority Rights Database (University of East London)
Black Law Librarians Caucus (American Association of Law Libraries)
Committee on Diversity (American Association of Law Libraries)
Diversity Links (American Association of Law Libraries)

Journals

African-American Law and Policy Report (University of California - Berkeley (Boalt Hall Law School))
Injustice Studies: An On-Line Journal (includes links to related sites)

Faculty Homepages

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