Law
Dictionaries
Bouvier Law
Dictionary
"A law dictionary adapted to the Constitution and
laws of the United States of America and of the several states of the
American Union." Browseable dictionary of nearly 5,000 international legal
terms. Includes large section of (19th century) legal abbreviations.
Revised Sixth Edition compiled by John Bouvier in 1856.
Shark Talk:
Everybody's Law Dictionary
Search or browse this dictionary of
legal jargon which "dictionary contains plain-English definitions for
hundreds of legal terms, from the common to the bizarre."
WWLIA Legal
Dictionary
Defines hundreds of legal terms from abatement to habeas
corpus to yellow dog contract "in plain language." From the World Wide Legal
Information Association.
Directories
West's Lawoffice.com
Search for lawyers, law firms, and subject specialists with this handy
directory. Includes listings for over one million listings for lawyers and
law firms in the United States and Canada (including international offices).
Updated daily from the West Legal Directory.
Martindale-Hubbell
Lawyer Locator
Database of over 900,000 lawyers and law firms
worldwide. Search by lawyer or firm name, area of practice, location, or
language. Includes detailed law firm descriptions. "Updated monthly" but
some entries are dated. Locate a lawyer with MH's Lawyers.com.
National Law Journal
250 Database
2002 annual survey of the largest 250 law firms in the United
States.
AttorneyFind
Search for an attorney in the U.S. and Canada by
category and location.
Federal
Judicial
Nominations
Alphabetical, chronological, and geographical lists of
federal judicial nominations and confirmations for the 109th Congress.
Legal Documents
FindLaw
Highly-regarded index to legal materials. Set up by subject much like Yahoo.
Constitution
Finder
Alphabetical index to constitutions, charters, amendments, and
other documents for over 150 countries around the world. Maintained by the
University of Richmond School of Law. See also
Constitutions From Around the World
Country Reports on Human Rights
Practices
Complete text of
U.S. State Department Human Rights Reports as submitted to Congress for 194
countries (excluding the U.S.) since 1995. See also Annual Reports from
Amnesty
International.
UNHCR Treaty of Bodies
Database
Search for
information on principal international human rights treaties submitted to the
Secretary General. Includes several browsing options including status of ratification.
U.S.
Supreme Court Decisions
From Cornell University, this site includes
recent Court decisions (May 1990 to present), selected historic decisions,
and all court decisions from 1937-1975. Search present decisions by topic,
date, or keyword. Decisions include the syllabus and all opinions.
Download as ascii file or Word Perfect document.
FindLaw Court Forms
This latest site in a long line of useful legal sources from findlaw.com
is a large collection of court forms from all Federal, Circuit, and
Appellate Courts as well as 35 State Court systems. State Courts can
include forms for civil, criminal, family, domestic relations, juvenile
protection, traffic divisions, and small claims courts, but these forms
are not consistently available from state to state. Selected forms include
accompanying instructions.
Search the
United States Code
From the U.S. House of Representatives Office of the Law Revision Counsel. Search full-text
versions of the United States Code.
Law
Library
This source contains an amazing amount of full-text legal
documents from the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. U.S. contents include:
Decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, U.S. District and Circuit Courts,
State Court of Appeals, State Constitutions, Codes, and Legislation and
more.
Criminal Justice
Uniform Crime Reports
County-level arrest data for murder, rape, robbery,
assault, burglary, larceny, auto theft, and arson for adults and
juveniles. Data collected from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).
FBI's Ten Most Wanted
Fugitives
Just the facts on ten folks to avoid in life.
NCJRS Abstracts
Database
"The National Criminal Justice Reference Service Abstracts
Database contains summaries of more than 140,000 criminal justice
publications, including Federal, State, and local government reports,
books, research reports, journal articles, and unpublished research."
Searchable by author, subject, keyword and date.
Bureau of Justice
Statistics
Statistics on crime, drugs, law enforcement,
corrections, courts and more. Includes the 1995 National Crime
Victictimization Survey. Additional site available through the University of Albany.
The World's Most
Wanted
Links to most-wanted pages from all 50
states and selected
countries.
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