Internet Resources

Compiled by our law librarians, this page contains hundreds of special-interest resources found on the Internet. Resources are grouped by subject, then by category.

If you would like to suggest an Internet Resource or add to this list, please send suggestions to reference.law@ttu.edu.

Subject: Federal Legal Sources

Administrative Sources

ABA Administrative Procedure Database Archive

Subcategory: (ABA Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice & Florida State University College of Law). Includes a bibliography of papers funded and sponsored by the Administrative Conference of the United States (ACUS). In addition, recommendations made by the ACUS are available.

ABA Section Of Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice

Subcategory: Homepage of the ABA section dedicated to administrative law. This site contains the full-text of the publication, Administrative and Regulatory Law News.

Code of Federal Regulations

Subcategory: Full-text of the most recent general and permanent rules published by executive departments and agencies. Past versions are available beginning with 1996.

County and City Data

Subcategory: The United States's county and city annual data.

Federal Administrative Law: A Brief Overview

Subcategory: This website contains links and information about Federal Administrative Law and is part of LLSDC's Legislative Source Book, By Richard J. McKinney of the Federal Reserve Board Law Library

Federal Register

Subcategory: (FDsys) Contains the full-text of the current version of the Federal Register and previous versions starting with 1994.

List of CFR Sections Affected: 1997-Present

Subcategory: (FDsys) Features access to regulations by date.

List of CFR Sections Affected: 1986-2000

Subcategory: (GPO Access) Features access to regulations via volumes: Volume I (Titles 1-16); Volume II (Titles 17-27); Volume III (Titles 28-41); and Volume IV (Titles 42-50).

National Archives' Access to Archival Databases

Subcategory: (National Archives and Records Administration) Contains documents, reports, and other information on topics ranging from Japanese-American internees during World War II to special prosecutors and independent counsels.

National Association of Attorneys General - NAAG

Subcategory: Homepage of NAAG, which contains a directory of all attorneys general in the 50 states and U.S. territories.

National Association of Secretaries of State

Subcategory: Homepage of NASS which includes links to individual secretary of state offices as well as information on elections, business services, and electronic government.

National Center for Health Statistics

Subcategory: NVSS collects and publishes official national statistics on births, deaths, and, prior to 1996, marriages and divorces in the United States

Office of Administrative Law Judges

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of Labor) Allows a user to search the docket of the OALJ. Collections of information on whistleblowing, Black Lung, ERISA, and immigration are also available.

Precursors, Chemicals and Equipment Frequently Used in the Illicit Manufacture of Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances

Subcategory: The annual reports on precursors provide an overview of the most important actions taken to implement article 12 and 13 of that Convention and to strengthen the functioning of the international precursor control system in any given year. The reports also provide a detailed account of the latest trends and developments in legitimate international trade and in trafficking in precursor chemicals under international control, as well as their non-scheduled substitutes and alternatives.

Regulations.gov

Subcategory: Features announcements of proposed rule changes, full-text of the changes, and a link to the information on making comments. (Note: Not all agencies allow emailed comments.)

State Data

Subcategory: The population and economy of each US State.

Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal

Subcategory: Former homepage of the now defunct Texas Tech Administrative Law Journal, a student publication that was produced in conjunction with the State Bar of Texas until it was dissolved .

The National Association of Administrative Law Judiciary - NAALJ

Subcategory: Homepage of the NAALJ which contains information on central and non-central panel states. The NAALJ also publishes a newsletter, NAALJ News, that is available electronically.

The White House

Subcategory: Includes Presidential radio addresses, information on important political issues, news, executive orders, press briefings, and proclamations.

Title 5 U.S.C., Chapter 5 - Administrative Procedure

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Full-text, searchable version Administrative Procedure, Chapter 5 of Title 5 U.S.C.

U.S. Department of Justice - DOJ

Subcategory: Contains the history and organizational structure of the DOJ, as well as information regarding task forces, terrorism, trafficking in persons, community safety, victim assistance, and fraud.

U.S. Government Departments and Agencies Directory

Subcategory: Get contact information for U.S. federal government agencies, departments, corporations, instrumentalities, and government-sponsored enterprises. Find websites, email, phone numbers, addresses, and more.

USA.gov

Subcategory: Provides answers to questions regarding federal programs, benefits, and services. This site also contains a directory of federal telephone numbers.

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Judicial Sources

Federal Court Locator

Subcategory: (Villanova University School of Law) Provides links to the federal courts, including district courts organized by state.

Supreme Court of the United States

Subcategory: Contains the latest slip opinions, court opinions, docket, case handling guides, court rules, and information regarding bar admissions.

U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals

Subcategory: Contains published and unpublished opinions from 1992, court costs and fees, docket information, pattern jury instructions, and biographies of the judges.

U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces

Subcategory: Includes information regarding the history of the Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces and appellate review of courts-martial. Audio files for select hearings and full-text opinions beginning in 1997 are also available.

U.S. Courts

Subcategory: Information about and links to federal courts.

U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas

Subcategory: The homepage of the District Court for the Eastern District of Texas includes e-filing information, forms, biographical information of the judges, a report of technology available in the courtrooms, and local rules.

U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas

Subcategory: This site provides the local rules adopted by the Northern District, filing information, directories of courts and legal resources, forms, court publications, and opinions organized by judge.

U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas

Subcategory: Homepage of the District and Bankruptcy Courts in the Southern District. This website contains procedures and rules adopted by individual judges and magistrates, select orders and opinions, information on alternative dispute resolution and attorney admissions, and notable cases.

U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas

Subcategory: Provides the rules used by the courts, forms, a pro se manual, jury information, and notable cases.

U.S. Supreme Court Collection

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Collection of Supreme Court decisions, including an archive of decisions by topic, author, and party. A preview of cases argued during the current term is also provided.

Understanding the Federal Courts

Subcategory: (Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) Provides an introduction to the federal judicial system, its organization and administration, and its relationship to the legislative and executive branches of the government.

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Legislative Sources

Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress

Subcategory: Search for representatives and senators by last name, first name, position, state, party, year, and Congress.

Congress.gov

Subcategory: This site from the Library of Congress has the full-text of legislation and the Congressional Record.

Congressional Budget Office - CBO

Subcategory: Includes cost estimates for potential legislation, studies conducted by the CBO, briefs, and other publications. A new document notification feature is also available.

Congressional Research Service Reports

Subcategory: (University of Michigan Library, Government Documents Department) Provides links to selected reports from the nonpartisan, analytical, research and reference arm for Congress. This page contains links organized by subject.

C-SPAN Congressional Chronicle

Subcategory: An index to the C-SPAN video recordings of the House and Senate floor proceedings.

Federal Digital System

Subcategory: (FDsys) Information on GPO Access is being migrated to FDsys. Congressional Record, Congressional Reported, and Federal Register are just some of the information currently available on FDsys.

GPO Access - Congressional Committee Materials

Subcategory: (Government Printing Office) Provides access to hearings and prints of Senate and House standing committees.

How Our Laws Are Made

Subcategory: (CONGRESS.GOV, formerly THOMAS) Provides a detailed explanation of the lawmaking process.

Law Librarians’ Society of Washington, D.C.

Subcategory: Designed for educational, informational and scientific purposes, to develop and increase the effectiveness of law librarians

Law Library of Congress

Subcategory: Homepage of the Law Library of Congress, which provides research and legal information to Congress, the federal courts, and executive agencies. This site contains many links to information regarding international events and foreign countries.

Office of Law Revision Counsel

Subcategory: Provides information about the office which publishes the U.S. Code, as well as downloadable copies of the current Code, prior versions, and classification tables.

Office of the Legislative Counsel - U.S. House of Representatives

Subcategory: Homepage of the legislative drafting service for the U.S. House of Representatives. This site contains information on drafting federal statutes and links to state and foreign drafting organizations.

U.S. Government Accountability Office - GAO

Subcategory: Homepage of the office that studies the programs and expenditures of the federal government. Full-text of GAO reports are available and can be accessed by date, topic, and agency.

U.S. House of Representatives

Subcategory: Contains links to roll call votes, the full-text of bills and the U.S. Code, and an online form to write your representative.

U.S. Senate

Subcategory: Includes links to senators' webpages, information on committees, records and full-text of active legislation, and a virtual reference desk.

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Subject: Foreign and International Legal Sources

Foreign and International Legal Sources

Camara De Diputados

Subcategory: Homepage of the Mexican Congress.

Canadian Legal Information Institute

Subcategory: Site is managed by a non-profit organization in order to allow free access to Canadian law on the Internet. Federal law as well as the laws of the provinces and territories are included.

Constitutions of the World Online

Subcategory: Access to constitutional documents from around the world. Coverage includes constitutions written between the years 1776 to 1849.

Department of State Background Notes

Subcategory: ARCHIVED WEBSITE. Contains information up to the year 2009. Site has background notes on foreign countries compiled by the U.S. Department of State. The background notes include information on each country's government, history, economy, foreign relations, and many other facts.

Electronic Guide to Mexican Law

Subcategory: (Compiled by Francisco Avalos and Elisa Donnadieu, University of Arizona College of Law Library) Contains an overview of the Mexican Legal System with links to relevant internet sites.

Europa

Subcategory: The gateway to the European Union, which includes information on topics such as external relations, customers, human rights, food safety, foreign and security policy, development, and others.

Eye on the U.N.

Subcategory: Homepage of an organization dedicated to making sure the U.N. identifies and protects against human right violations. This site contains human rights news and a list of U.N. shortfalls by category.

Guide to Electronic Resources for Mexican Law

Subcategory: Compilation of electronic sources on Mexican law organized by country of publication and organization.

Institute of Global Law - French and German Law

Subcategory: (University College London & University of Texas at Austin) Contains a collection of translated materials, primarily French and German cases, statutes, and news.

Instituto De Investigaciones Juridicas

Subcategory: Contains information regarding the Mexican constitution and federal legislation. A website translator will be necessary for non-Spanish speakers.

Interam Database

Subcategory: (National Law Center for Inter-American Free Trade) A collection of laws, regulations, case law, and other materials for countries in the Americas. A fee is required to access some materials.

International Constitutional Law

Subcategory: Provides English translations of international constitutional documents.

International Justice Resource Center

Subcategory: The International Justice Resource Center is making available online resource to assist activists, victims, attorneys, and law students researching or practicing international human rights law.

International Law Commission

Subcategory: Contains a research guide to help locate documents and history produced by the Commission. Documents are also accessible by session and are available in a variety of languages.

International Money Laundering Information Network

Subcategory: Contains model laws and treaties from the United Nations and other sources.

International Relations & Security Network

Subcategory: Created by the Center for Security Studies & Conflict Research, ETH, Zurich.

NAFTA Full-Text

Subcategory: (SICE - Foreign Trade Information System) Contains the full-text of the North American Free Trade Agreement.

NAFTA Research Guide

Subcategory: NAFTA research guide by Duke Law Library.

NAFTA Secretariat

Subcategory: Includes Secretariat decisions and rules of procedure.

Treaties in Force

Subcategory: (U.S. State Department) A list of treaties and other international agreements of the United States as of January 1, 2000.

Treaty Actions

Subcategory: (U.S. State Department) Treaty actions from 1997 to 2008.

Treaty Documents

Subcategory: Includes U.S. Senate treaty documents from the 81st Congress to present.

United Nations - International Law

Subcategory: Provides information and research guides on topics including human rights, peace and security, economic and social development, humanitarian affairs, and international law.

United Nations Documentation - A Research Guide

Subcategory: An excellent guide to UN publications and agencies.

Whitecase Jessup

Subcategory: (Sponsored by the White & Case Law firm) a partner in the Jessup competitions. Focuses on competitions in Australia, Georgia, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

World Legal Information Institute

Subcategory: Provides free access to laws worldwide including databases on the laws of foreign countries, international decisions, law journals, treaties, and much more.

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Subject: Multistate Legal Sources

Multistate Legal Sources

Council of State Governments - CSG

Subcategory: Homepage of the organization that provides information on trends to officials in all state government branches. This site includes policy materials on aging, education, health, immigration, and more.

National Association of Attorneys General - NAAG

Subcategory: Homepage of NAAG, which contains a directory of all attorneys general in the 50 states and U.S. territories.

National Association of Counties

Subcategory: This website contains the resources that the National Association of Counties collects, researches, and publishes on a variety of topics for, on and about counties.

National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - NCCUSL

Subcategory: Contains full-text versions of the uniform acts written by NCCUSL's Uniform Law Commissioners and legislative tracking for all states.

National Conference of State Legislatures - NCSL

Subcategory: Bipartisan organization which serves state legislatures by providing research and technical assistance. This site is full of information on issues facing states.

State Constitutions Project

Subcategory: Searchable access to the texts of state constitutions of the United States and amendments with coverage through the year 2000. Provided by the University of Maryland and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Uniform Laws & Model Acts

Subcategory: (ALSO!) Provides an extensive list of uniform laws and model acts drafted by NCCUSL with links to state-enacted versions.

Uniform Laws

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Includes the full-text of the UCC, links to the adopted versions of the UCC, the Uniform Probate Code, the Uniform Code of Evidence, as well as uniform laws concerning marriage, family, health, business, and finance.

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Subject: Texas Legal Resources

Other Resources

State Bar of Texas CLE Online Library

Subcategory: Law Students and faculty have access to the Texas Bar CLE library by creating a login and certifying their status on the registration page.

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Subject: Texas Legal Sources

Administrative Sources

Office of the Governor

Subcategory: Contains a biography of the governor and his priorities, as well as news and links to the governor's administrative divisions.

Texas Administrative Code

Subcategory: Contains the full-text of the Texas Administrative Code, a compilation of all state agency rules in Texas.

Texas Attorney General Opinions

Subcategory: Provides full-text of Attorney General Opinions. Opinions may be accessed through a search or through an index categorized by attorney general or by subject.

Texas Attorney General

Subcategory: Homepage of the Texas Attorney General that includes information on child support, crime victim services, cyber crimes, open government, and the Texas-Mexico border.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - TDCJ

Subcategory: The TDCJ homepage contains an online offender search function as well as information on victim services and individual TDCJ units.

Texas Department of Insurance - TDI

Subcategory: Homepage of the department that regulates Texas's insurance industry. This website contains insurance-related news, research on insurance agents and companies for a variety of coverages, and directions on how to file a complaint.

Texas Department of Public Safety - DPS

Subcategory: Allows a user to search for criminal history (for a fee) and for sex offenders (no charge). In addition, information on victim services, driving, ID theft, and the Amber Alert Network is available.

Texas Department of State Health Services - DSHS

Subcategory: DSHS provides health, medical care, mental health, and substance abuse services. Users can browse services by topic or search all services that DSHS provides. In addition, vital statistic records may be ordered directly through this website.

Texas Ethics Commission - TEC

Subcategory: TEC is responsible for administering and enforcing laws related to campaign finance, lobbying, and financial disclosures made by state officers and employees. This website provides the full-text of campaign finance and lobby reports as well as advisory opinions.

Texas General Land Office - GLO

Subcategory: Homepage of the agency charged with managing state lands and mineral-right properties.

Texas Health & Human Services Commission - HHSC

Subcategory: HHSC oversees the operations of the health and human services system. Because HHSC directly administers the Texas Medicaid Program, Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP), some family services programs, Texas Works, and Disaster Assistance, detailed information on these programs is available.

Texas Online

Subcategory: Provides online services, such as driver licenses renewals, vehicle registration, and eFile of court documents, as well as helpful links to other governmental units.

Texas Records and Information Locator - TRAIL

Subcategory: TRAIL searches and locates information collected in an archive of more than 180 Texas state agency web servers.

Texas Register

Subcategory: The Texas Register contains changes and additions to rules made by Texas administrative agencies. The full-text of the current issue is available with a link to the archived issues.

Texas Secretary of State

Subcategory: Provides information on elections and voting; state rules and open meetings; business and public filings; and Texas border and Mexican affairs. A collection of business forms can be accessed under SOSDirect.

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County & City Sources

Municipal Code Corporation

Subcategory: Provides many municipal codes adopted by cities throughout the United States with a user-friendly table of contents.

Municipal Codes Online

Subcategory: (Public Library) Provides a limited number of U.S. city and county codes organized by state.

National Association of Counties

Subcategory: This website contains the resources that the National Association of Counties collects, researches, and publishes on a variety of topics for, on and about counties.

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Judicial Sources

Judicial Advisory Council - JAC

Subcategory: JAC advises the Community Justice Assistance Division and the Texas Board of Criminal Justice on matters of interest to the judiciary. This website contains information regarding terms and current membership.

Office of Court Administration - OCA

Subcategory: Homepage of OCA, an organization that provides training, technical assistance, and research on court administration.

Task Force on Indigent Defense - TFID

Subcategory: Contains model policies, forms, and standards concerning indigent defense in Texas. In addition, TFID provides the local procedures implemented by counties to fulfill the requirements of the Texas Fair Defense Act.

Texas Center for the Judiciary

Subcategory: The Texas Center for the Judiciary provides specialized judicial education and training opportunities for Texas judges. This website contains links to ethics opinions, court rules, rules of judicial education, and copies of their official publication, In Chambers.

Texas College of Probate Judges - TCPJ

Subcategory: Homepage of the TCPJ with helpful links to probate law and Texas law.

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals

Subcategory: Includes rules and procedures, issues, oral argument instructions, as well as the option to search and track cases and opinions of the Court of Criminal Appeals.

Texas Courts of Appeal

Subcategory: Homepage of all 14 Courts of Appeals with links to the individual courts. The websites of the specific courts contain local rules, cases, and opinions.

Texas Courts Online

Subcategory: Contains a helpful diagram of Texas's judicial structure with links to the homepages of the individual courts, where specific cases and opinions can be viewed.

Texas Judicial Branch

Subcategory: The official portal of the Texas Judicial Branch (TJB). It provides information on the courts in Texas: from the Supreme Court of Texas to appellate courts and trial courts. It also offers rules, forms and standards for court processes in Texas (for example, standardized protective orders, local rules) under the �Rules & Forms� section. It further links to organizations, agencies and programs that support the judicial system in Texas (for example, commissions, court security, electronic filing). Finally, it provides data and resources: directories, statistics, self-help materials, and information for the public and court professionals. 

Texas Judicial Council

Subcategory: The Texas Judicial Council studies methods to simplify judicial procedures, expedite court business, and better administer justice. Reports included on this website cover topics such as public access to court records, jury service, judicial workload, and state funding.

Texas Reports (1846-1881)

Subcategory: The portal to Texas History at University of North Texas Libraries has Texas Reports from 1846-1881.

Texas State Commission on Judicial Conduct

Subcategory: Homepage of the agency responsible for investigating and disciplining judicial misconduct and disability. This website includes an overview of the complaint process; complaint forms; and summaries of past and private public sanctions, resignations, and suspensions.

Texas State Law Library

Subcategory: Provides research guides and links to legislative information, as well as an online catalog.

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Legislative Sources

Legislative Archive System

Subcategory: (Texas Legislative Reference Library) provides scanned copies of bills and analysis from the 54th Session (1955) through the 80th Session (2007) of the Texas Legislature.

Revised Civil and Criminal Statutes of Texas (Historical)

Subcategory: The Texas State Law Library has digital versions of the Texas Statutes from 1879 through 1925.

Texas Constitution and Statutes

Subcategory: Homepage for the Texas Constitution and Statutes online. Sponsored by the Texas Legislature Online.

Texas Constitution

Subcategory: Contains the full-text of the latest version of the Texas Constitution. The Constitution may be downloaded in its entirety or viewed by Article.

Texas Constitutions Digitization Project

Subcategory: A project of the Jamail Center for Legal Research at the University of Texas School of Law, this website contains historic versions of the Texas Constitution.

Texas House of Representatives

Subcategory: Contains news, schedules, profiles of representatives, and bill research.

Texas House Research Organization - HRO

Subcategory: The website of the independent administrative department of the Texas House of Representatives that publishes non-partisan information on legislation and issues considered by the Texas legislature.

Texas Legislative Council - TLC

Subcategory: Provides information about the legislative process and how a bill is drafted in Texas.

Texas Legislative Reference Library

Subcategory: Provides a guide to compiling legislative intent, bill/chapter number cross-references, and an index to code sections affected.

Texas Legislature

Subcategory: Prime source for Texas bills, bill analysis, and statutes.

Texas Senate

Subcategory: Includes information on senators and committees, as well as live and archived webcasts.

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Other Sources

Baylor University Law Library

Subcategory: Homepage of the Baylor University Law Library. The online catalog may be searched for law library holdings only by limiting the collection.

Justices of the Peace & Constables Association of Texas

Subcategory: Homepage of the JPCA, an association that protects the joint relationship existing between Justices of the Peace and Constables.

South Texas College of Law Library

Subcategory: Homepage of the Fred Parks Law Library at South Texas College of Law, which contains a comprehensive list of law-related links. The online catalog is also available.

Southern Methodist University Law Library

Subcategory: SMU's Underwood Law Library Web site contains the online catalog for all SMU libraries, a list of internet resources, and numerous legal research guides.

St. Mary's University School of Law Library

Subcategory: Homepage of St. Mary's Sarita Kenedy East Law Library. The online catalog may be searched for volumes contained in the law library by limiting the collection to "Kennedy East Law Library."

State Bar of Texas - Administrative and Public Law Section

Subcategory: Contains links to Texas state agencies; the State Capitol telephone directory; the Texas Register; and Texas rules, procedures, and statutes.

State Bar of Texas

Subcategory: Contains information on filing a grievance against a lawyer, law practice management, the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, the Texas Rules of Professional Conduct, attorney profiles, the Texas Lawyers' Assistance Program, and the Lawyer Referral Information Service. Law students may access CLE materials free of charge by registering and following the "Subscribe Now!" link on the CLE webpage under "Your Own Library."

Texas A&M University Law Library

Subcategory: Homepage of the Dee J. Kelly Law Library with a link to the online catalog.

Texas Association of Defense Counsel

Subcategory: Homepage of the organization of Texas civil trial attorneys in private practice who devote a substantial amount of time to representation other than plaintiffs' personal injury cases.

Texas Board of Law Examiners

Subcategory: Contains information on the requirements of becoming an attorney in Texas as well as the full-text of past bar examinations.

Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Subcategory: Includes information on becoming certified in one of 20 areas and a directory of certified attorneys and legal assistants.

Texas Center for Legal Ethics & Professionalism

Subcategory: Includes citations for print materials and links to online sources related to legal ethics and professionalism.

Texas Civil Justice League

Subcategory: Homepage of the Texas Civil Justice League, a legal reform coalition in Texas. This site contains news, information on tort reform, and the Texas Civil Justice League Journal.

Texas Comptroller, Window on Texas Government

Subcategory: View state expenditures, unclaimed property auctions, and sales and franchise tax information.

Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association - TCDLA

Subcategory: Homepage of TCDLA, which provides assistance, support, and continuing education for Texas criminal defense attorneys.

Texas District & County Attorneys Association

Subcategory: TDCAA is a non-profit organization dedicated to serving Texas prosecutors and attorneys in government representation. This website contains sample jury charges, forms, briefs, news, and a job bank for government attorneys.

Texas Ethics Reporter

Subcategory: (University of Houston Law Center) Includes the full-text of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, Ethical Considerations, Canons, and Ethics Opinions.

Texas Lawyer

Subcategory: Online edition of the Texas Lawyer which provides information on the latest legal news and case law.

Texas Municipal Courts Education Center - TMCEC

Subcategory: Homepage of the organization that provides educational training, assistance, and resource materials to municipal courts. This site contains TMCEC publications, case law, and seminar materials covering municipal court issues.

Texas Publications Depository Program

Subcategory: Contains indexes of Texas state publications and resources for depository libraries.

Texas Southern University Thurgood Marshall School of Law Library

Subcategory: TSU's Law Library site contains many links to Texas legal sites, other Internet sources, and the online catalog.

Texas Tech University Law Library

Subcategory: The TTU Law Library site includes information regarding hours of operation, the Certificate of Excellence in Legal Research, as well as career and research guides, lists of databases, library presentations, and the online catalog.

Texas Trial Lawyers Association - TTLA

Subcategory: Homepage of TTLA, an association of plaintiffs' attorneys, who seek to protect the rights of Texas families.

Texas Young Lawyers Association

Subcategory: Homepage of the State Bar of Texas department aimed at new attorneys. This site contains a survival guide, resources for solo practitioners, and 10-minute video practice tips.

University of Houston Law Library

Subcategory: The Web site of the O'Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston includes online collections covering the Anglo-American Legal Tradition, Foreign & International Law, and Admiralty & Maritime Law; legal information Web sites categorized by jurisdiction; research guides on topics such as federal tax law and Texas legal ethics; and an online catalog which can be limited to volumes within the Law Library by selecting UH-Law.

University of Texas at Austin - Tarlton Law Library

Subcategory: The Tarlton Law Library provides a law in popular culture collection; legal research outlines on foreign and international law; subject guides; lists of current literature related to domestic violence, capital punishment, and copyrights; and an online catalog.

Work in Texas

Subcategory: Allows employers to search for potential employees and job seekers to search job listings.

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Subject: Topical Legal Sources

Admiralty Law

Admiralty & Maritime Law Guide

Subcategory: Contains over 1,500 links to codes, opinions, guides, courts, and associations related to admiralty law.

Forwarder Law

Subcategory: Resource for legal issues in freight forwarding and global logistics.

Oceans and the Law of the Sea

Subcategory: (United Nations - Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea) Homepage of the division responsible for providing assistance in implementing the UN Convention on Law of the Sea. This site contains the full-text of the convention and related agreements, reports of the Secretary-General, plus links to international courts hearing disputes.

Tetley's Maritime & Admiralty Law

Subcategory: A comprehensive collection of full-text maritime-related articles authored primarily by Prof. William Tetley.

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Agriculture Law

Agriculture & the Law

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains links to general agriculture sites, as well as relevant statutes and court cases.

Agriculture Law Materials

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Provides an overview of agricultural law with links to federal and state statutes and judicial decisions.

American Agricultural Law Association - AALA

Subcategory: National organization focusing on legal problems of the agricultural community. This site contains links to government, commercial, and educational resources.

Animal Laws & Regulations

Subcategory: (Michigan State University College of Law) The Animal Legal & Historical Center provides access to state and international animal laws and regulations. It also contains news, cases, and links to the Journal of Animal Law.

Animal Legal & Historical Web Center

Subcategory: (Michigan State University College of Law) Provides laws and cases regarding animals accessible by state, topic, and species. This site also contains some international resources.

Animal Rights: the Abolitionist Approach

Subcategory: Website of an organization dedicated to a nonviolent approach to animal rights and veganism.

Animalconcerns.org

Subcategory: (EnviroLink Network) Provides environmental and animal rights/welfare links divided by topic.

Farmer's Legal Action Group

Subcategory: Nonprofit center that provides legal help to farmers and rural communities. This site contains research links to agricultural resources and farm law research.

Guide to Agriculture Law

Subcategory: (Hieros Gamos) Includes links to international resources, federal laws and agencies, state information, and publications related to agriculture law.

Legal Treatment of Animals

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains links to state statutes and agencies, foreign laws, international conventions, and general resources related to the treatment of animals.

National Agricultural Law Center

Subcategory: (University of Arkansas School of Law) Comprehensive site containing links to statutes, regulations, case law, publications, and reference resources on 33 topics including biotechnology, food safety, packers & stockyards, and pesticides.

Texas Agriculture & Natural Resources Law

Subcategory: Addresses primarily agricultural production contracts and farm bankruptcies.

Texas Department of Agriculture

Subcategory: Provides information on all Texas Department of Agriculture services and programs, child nutrition, compliance, livestock export pens, and marketing news.

U.S. Department of Agriculture - USDA

Subcategory: Homepage of the USDA containing information on agricultural laws and regulations, food and nutrition, conservation, marketing and trade, and travel.

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Alternative Dispute Resolution - ADR

American Arbitration Association

Subcategory: Includes the rules and procedures used by the AAA; online case-filing services; a collection of ADR guides, articles, and news; and international, national, and state laws.

Arbitration & Mediation (ADR)

Subcategory: (FindLaw) Links to attorneys and firms, articles, FAQ and more.

Mediate.com

Subcategory: Contains a mediator locator as well as an expansive collection of articles organized by topics such as commercial, divorce & family, ethics, school, and workplace.

Texas State Bar ADR Section

Subcategory: Contains a list of articles, ethical guidelines, both federal and Texas statutes, and a compilation of academic, research, and professional links.

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Antitrust Law

ABA Antitrust Law Section

Subcategory: Under "Resources," the Antitrust Law Section provides a searchable antitrust library and a list of online resources.

Antitrust & Monopoly Law

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains a list of internet resources pertaining to antitrust and monopoly law, including links to organizations, court decisions, and statutes.

Antitrust Division, U.S. Department of Justice

Subcategory: Contains Division documents filed in cases since 1994 and other public documents. Information on making an antitrust complaint is also provided.

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Attorneys

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Includes the Model Rules of Professional Conduct, ABA ethics opinions, contact information for state disciplinary agencies, as well as links to other ethics resources.

ABA Law Student Division

Subcategory: Legal Education - Associations & Organizations
Contains membership and scholarship information, career resources, and writing and advocacy competition details.

ABA Lawyer Referral Services

Subcategory: Directories - Lawyers, Law Firms, & Lawyer Referrals
Includes a directory of lawyer referral services for all 50 states.

ABA Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar

Subcategory: Bar Admissions & Examination Information
Includes the full-text of the ABA publication, Comprehensive Guide to Bar Admission Requirements.

ABA Section of the Legal Education and Admission to the Bar

Subcategory: Legal Education - Associations & Organizations
Contains resources on accreditation, bar admissions, distance education, pre law, pro bono, and legal education statistics.

ABA-CLE

Subcategory: Continuing Legal Education - CLE
Includes information on CLE programs offered by ABA, career articles and resources, and a listing of jobs for law students and attorneys.

ABA-LSAC Official Guide to ABA-Approved Law Schools

Subcategory: Legal Education - News, Directories, Rankings, & Admissions
This searchable edition allows you to locate law schools based on bar passage rate, geographic location, and post-graduation employment. The guide also provides basic information about the admissions process and preparing for law school.

ALI-ABA

Subcategory: Continuing Legal Education - CLE
ALI-ABA is a national CLE provider. This site contains course descriptions and registration materials for live, webcast, telephone, and online programs.

American Bar Association - ABA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - U.S., Foreign, & International
Provides practice resources and tools as well as information regarding professional development, CLE, and legal education.

American Legal Ethics Library (Archive)

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) "This digital library contains both the codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a state by state basis." Links to state PR codes & opinions, comparisons with ABA Model Rules and Code, and more.

Association of American Law Schools - AALS

Subcategory: Legal Education - Associations & Organizations
The AALS site contains statistics on the characteristics of law school faculty, a world directory of law schools, plus links to other legal education organizations and standards of good practices for recruiting and hiring faculty.

Austin Bar Association

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
The Austin Bar Association is composed of attorneys practicing in Travis County. This site contains a list of Austin-area legal resources, including referral, dispute resolution, and population-specific services.

Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction - CALI

Subcategory: Legal Education - Associations & Organizations
Provides online lessons on a variety of topics. The lessons are organized by subject, by casebook, and by course outline. CALI also has a directory of law schools with links to the individual homepages.

Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) Provides the full-text of all five canons of the Code of Judicial Conduct for Judicial Employees with references to the United States Code.

Code of Conduct for United States Judges

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) Includes the full-text of all seven canons plus checklists for financial and other conflicts.

College of the State Bar of Texas

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Honor society formed to promote voluntary attendance at CLE programs. Membership requires eighty CLE hours in the past three calendar years or forty-five hours during the current calendar year.

Council on Legal Education Opportunity - CLEO

Subcategory: Legal Education - Associations & Organizations
Non-profit organization seeking to increase law school opportunities for minorities and low-income individuals.

Dallas Asian American Bar Association - DAABA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Contains Dallas-area job listings and links to other bar associations.

Dallas Association of Young Lawyers - DAYL

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
DAYL is composed of 2,000 lawyers and seeks to improve the quality of life for these lawyers while completing a variety of community service projects.

Dallas Bar Association

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Homepage for the Dallas-area bar that consists of approximately 9,000 attorneys.

Dallas Hispanic Bar Association - DHBA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Site contains membership information and an archive of DHBA's newsletter.

Denton County Bar Association

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Denton County bar of approximately 230 lawyers.

Departmental Ethics Office

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(Justice Management Division, U.S. Department of Justice) The Departmental Ethics Office Web site contains references to ethics statutes for the executive branch and information on travel, conflicts, entertainment, and political activities.

Directory of ABA-Approved Law Schools

Subcategory: Legal Education - News, Directories, Rankings, & Admissions
(ABA Section of Legal Education & Admissions to the Bar) Includes a listing of all law schools. Separate lists for public and private schools are available. In addition, those schools who have been provisionally approved or have been placed on probation are also listed.

Directory of U.S. Law Schools - By State

Subcategory: Legal Education - News, Directories, Rankings, & Admissions
(Justia) A listing of U.S. law schools organized by state.

Ethicsweb.ca

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(Dr. Chris MacDonald, Philosophy Dept., St. Mary's Univ. Halifax, Canada) A collection of ethics-related Web sites, many with a Canadian perspective.

Findlaw Legal Directory

Subcategory: Directories - Lawyers, Law Firms, & Lawyer Referrals
(FindLaw) Find lawyers by state and by legal issue.

House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(U.S. House of Representatives) Contains forms, ethics rule changes, financial disclosure details, and advisory memorandum.

Houston Bar Association - HBA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
A 12,000 member bar association for Harris County attorneys. This site contains the full-text of current and past issues of The Houston Lawyer.

J.L. Turner Legal Association - JLTLA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
African-American bar association in Dallas. JLTLA's site contains job postings and an attorney directory.

Jefferson County Bar Association

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Contains lawyer referral information for individuals in Jefferson County.

Judging the Law School

Subcategory: Legal Education - News, Directories, Rankings, & Admissions
Evaluation and rankings in various categories by Thomas E. Brennan, Sr., President of the Thomas M. Cooley Law School.

Jurist - Law Professors

Subcategory: Law Professors
A directory of U.S. law school faculty pages with biographies, contact information, and personal homepages.

Lawyer Referral Information Service

Subcategory: Directories - Lawyers, Law Firms, & Lawyer Referrals
(State Bar of Texas) Provides attorney referrals for individuals in counties that do not have their own referral service.

Legal Association Internet Sites

Subcategory: Bar Associations - U.S., Foreign, & International
(ABA Legal Technology Resource Center) Contains a variety of links to national legal organizations.

Legalethics.com

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Focuses on legal ethical issues raised by the Internet and Internet technology. Includes links to articles, rules, and other information.

LSAC - Law School Admission Council

Subcategory: Legal Education - News, Directories, Rankings, & Admissions
Information on the Law School Admission Test (LSAT) and the Law School Data Assembly Service (LSDAS). Includes test preparation materials, information on choosing a law school and law school recruitment forums, financial aid and downloadable forms.

Martindale-Hubbell Lawyer Locator

Subcategory: Directories - Lawyers, Law Firms, & Lawyer Referrals
(LexisNexis) International directory of attorneys. Search by location, name, law school, and practice area.

Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam - MPRE

Subcategory: Bar Admissions & Exam Information
(National Conference of Bar Examiners) Provides MPRE information and online registration.

National Association for Law Placement - NALP

Subcategory: Career Placement Resources
Contains directories of law schools and legal employers plus information on job searches and public service opportunities.

National Conference of Bar Examiners

Subcategory: Bar Admissions & Exam Information
Includes information and study aid information for the following exams: Multistate Bar Exam (MBE), Multistate Professional Responsibility Exam (MPRE), Multistate Performance Test (MPT) and the Multistate Essay Examination (MEE).Includes an online registration form for the MPRE.

Post-J.D. Programs

Subcategory: Legal Education - News, Directories, Rankings, & Admissions
(ABA Section of Legal Education and Admissions to the Bar) Directory by schools and categories. Includes a list of programs for foreign lawyers and definitions of graduate law degrees.

Practising Law Institute

Subcategory: Continuing Legal Education - CLE
Continuing legal education programs offered nationally and via the Web, course handbooks and other publications.

Rockwall County Bar Association

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
One hundred sixty member bar consisting of Rockwall area attorneys.

San Antonio Bar Association - SABA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
The SABA site contains a San Antonio lawyer referral service, a number of publications for the public, information on the pro bono Community Justice Program, and e-filing resources.

Senate Select Committee on Ethics

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(U.S. Senate) Contains an overview of the Senate Code of Conduct, the Senate Ethics Manual, and final disclosure information and forms.

State Bar of Texas

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Contains information on filing a grievance against a lawyer, law practice management, the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, the Texas Rules of Professional Conduct, attorney profiles, the Texas Lawyers' Assistance Program, and the Lawyer Referral Information Service. Law students may access CLE materials free of charge by registering and following the "Subscribe Now!" link on the CLE webpage under "Your Own Library."

Tarrant County Bar Association

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Bar association of Tarrant County/Fort Worth area attorneys.

Texas Aggie Bar Association

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Bar association whose membership is comprised of Aggie lawyers. This site also contains a directory of members.

Texas Bar CLE

Subcategory: Continuing Legal Education - CLE
(State Bar of Texas) Find Texas Bar CLE schedules and materials. Law students can access all the materials free of charge by registering.

Texas Bar Foundation

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
(State Bar of Texas) Philanthropic organization that awards grant funds to organizations dedicated to advancing the justice system.

Texas Board of Law Examiners

Subcategory: Bar Admissions & Exam Information
Includes bar admission information, rules, application forms, instructions, and bar exam results.

Texas Board of Legal Specialization

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Includes information on becoming certified in one of 20 areas and a directory of certified attorneys and legal assistants.

Texas Center for Legal Ethics & Professionalism

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
Includes citations for print materials and links to online sources related to legal ethics and professionalism.

Texas Criminal Defense Lawyers Association - TCDLA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Homepage of TCDLA, which provides assistance, support, and continuing education for Texas criminal defense attorneys.

Texas Ethics - Filing a Grievance

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(State Bar of Texas) Includes the full-text of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct and the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure as well as information for the public regarding when and how to file a grievance.

Texas Ethics Commission - TEC

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
TEC is responsible for administering and enforcing laws related to campaign finance, lobbying, and financial disclosures made by state officers and employees. This website provides the full-text of campaign finance and lobby reports as well as advisory opinions.

Texas Ethics Reporter

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
(University of Houston Law Center) Includes the full-text of the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, Ethical Considerations, Canons, and Ethics Opinions.

Texas Independent Bar Association - TIBA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Bar association that provides weekly seminars covering criminal law topics and developments.

Texas Institute of Continuing Legal Education

Subcategory: Continuing Legal Education - CLE
This site contains information on upcoming conferences and links to online CLE courses.

Texas Tech School of Law - Career Services

Subcategory: Career Placement Resources
Contains an overview of job placement services provided by Career Services and contact information.

Texas Trial Lawyers Association - TTLA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Homepage of TTLA, an association of plaintiffs' attorneys, who seek to protect the rights of Texas families.

Texas Women Lawyers - TWL

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
Organization of women lawyers practicing in Texas for networking, educating, and promoting women's issues.

The Bar

Subcategory: Bar Admissions & Exam Information
(FindLaw) Bar exams results and information published by state, links to state bar home pages, bar review courses, sample bar exams, a related Web sites.

Travis County Women Lawyers' Association - TCWLA

Subcategory: Bar Associations - Texas
An association of women attorneys in the Austin area.

U.S. Attorneys Offices Contact Information

Subcategory: Directories - Lawyers, Law Firms, & Lawyer Referrals
(U.S. Department of Justice) Provides phone numbers, fax numbers, and addresses for U.S. attorneys by state.

U.S. News & World Report - Law School Rankings

Subcategory: Legal Education - News, Directories, Rankings, & Admissions
Contains the U.S. News & World Report law school rankings by tier as well as information on specialties.

U.S. Office of Government Ethics - OGE

Subcategory: Ethics & Professional Responsibility
The OGE is an executive branch agency responsible that deals with conflicts of interest issues on the part of government employees within the executive branch.

West Legaledcenter

Subcategory: Continuing Legal Education - CLE
(Thompson/West) West LegalEdcenter provides online CLE programs from local, state and national providers.

Worldwide Bar Associations

Subcategory: Bar Associations - U.S., Foreign, & International
A listing of bar associations by continent.

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Banking & Financial Institutions Law

ABA Section on Business Law - Banking Law Committee

Subcategory: Contains the full-text version of the Banking Law Committee Journal, a list of sites of interest, and a calendar of committee events.

Banking Law

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains links to general banking law information, state statutes, constitutional provisions, and foreign laws.

Banking

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) An overview of banking law with links to the full-text of relevant federal and state statutes and judicial decisions.

Conference of State Bank Supervisors - CSBS

Subcategory: Homepage of the national organization dedicated to the advancement of the state banking system.

Federal Deposit Insurance Company - FDIC

Subcategory: The FDIC website contains a calculator to determine if deposits are insured, guidelines on deposit insurance, industry analysis, an institution directory, and loan sale announcements.

Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas

Subcategory: Provides economic research and data for the region and the nation, information on filing a complaint against a bank, and a list of publications.

Federal Reserve Board

Subcategory: The Federal Reserve homepage contains economic research and data, statistics, reporting forms, monetary policy, consumer information, and speeches and testimony of officials and board members.

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Administrator of National Banks - OCC

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of the Treasury) Office charged with chartering and supervising national banks. This site contains a list of pending and recently enacted relevant legislation, as well as information on filing a complaint against a national bank and electronic banking.

Recovery.gov

Subcategory: Federal Government site that tracks the funds provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Texas Department of Banking

Subcategory: Contains a large amount of information and resources regarding banks & holding companies, foreign banks, trust companies, money services businesses, prepaid funeral contracts, perpetual care cemeteries, and private child support enforcement agencies, as well as a Law & Guidance Manual that provides the relevant statutes for the above topics.

U.S. Federal Trade Commission - FTC

Subcategory: The FTC homepage contains information on competition, consumer protection, and identity theft, as well as a consumer complaint form, economic reports, and statutes enforced by the FTC.

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission - SEC

Subcategory: The SEC website contains forms, relevant acts with links to corresponding rules and regulations, a variety of investment calculators, and commission opinions.

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Bankruptcy Law

American Bankruptcy Institute - ABI

Subcategory: Provides an overview of bankruptcy, filing information, and full-text of ABI published journals and newsletters.

Bankruptcy & Debt Collection Law

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains a list of general internet resources, federal bankruptcy statutes, foreign laws, and relevant cases.

National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys - NACBA

Subcategory: Website for the national organization for consumer bankruptcy attorneys that contains an attorney finder as well as a list of links and articles.

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Civil Procedure

Federal Rules of Civil Procedure

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Contains the full-text of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure accessible by an easy-to-use table of contents.

Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code

Subcategory: Contains the full-text of the Texas Civil Practice & Remedies Code divided by title and chapter.

Texas Rules of Civil Procedure

Subcategory: Contains the full-text of the Texas Rules of Civil Procedure. The entire document or individual sections may be viewed or downloaded.

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Civil Rights

American Civil Liberties Union - ACLU

Subcategory: Contains summaries and previews of Supreme Court terms as well as a function that allows a user to browse cases by issue.

Civil Liberties, Civil Rights: General

Subcategory: (LawMoose) A collection of constitutions, statutes, cases, and other resources on the topic of civil rights.

Civil Rights

Subcategory: (FindLaw) List of civil rights resources including newsletters, attorneys, witnesses, job openings, documents, briefs, articles, and internet sites.

U.S. Commission on Civil Rights

Subcategory: Contains a complaint referral service to assist individuals in filing a civil rights complaint as well as commission reports, state advisory committee reports, and other resources which can be accessed by type of resource or topic.

U.S. Department of Justice - Civil Rights Division

Subcategory: Site of the DOJ division responsible for enforcing numerous civil rights laws, including those related to race, sex, disability, religion, and national origin. The pages of the Division's sections contain great overviews of the relevant statutes.

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Commercial Law

Uniform Commercial Code - UCC

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Includes the full-text of Articles 1-9 with a table of contents and a feature that searches the individual articles or the entire UCC.

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Communications Law

Communications Law

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains a list of links to general communications law websites, as well as federal, state, and foreign statutes and case law.

Federal Communications Commission - FCC

Subcategory: In addition to information on major initiatives, the FCC website contains information regarding media regulations and wireless communications. Consumers may also make a complaint online.

National Telecommunications & Information Administration - NTIA

Subcategory: Homepage of the organization that advises the executive branch regarding telecommunications and information policy issues.

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Computers & the Law

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center

Subcategory: Provides a wealth of resources on law office and courtroom technology, communications, online researching, mobile lawyering, and metadata.

Berkman Center for Internet & Society

Subcategory: (Harvard Law School) The Berkman Center is a research program that examines the relationship between democracy, the internet, and society. The Center's publications and current projects can be accessed.

Computer Crime & Intellectual Property Section - CCIPS

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of Justice) Contains news and information on reporting computer and IP crimes, as well as cases and legal resources concerning electronic evidence, computer crimes, and intellectual property.

Computers & the Law

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains a list of internet resources pertaining to computer law, including links to organizations, court decisions, and statutes.

Cyb3rcrim3

Subcategory: (University of Dayton School of Law) This site contains model cybercrime laws, a number of articles written by Prof. Susan Brenner on cybercrime issues, and cybercrime news.

Internet Crime Complaint Center

Subcategory: (Federal Bureau of Investigations & the National White Collar Crime Center) Includes an online complaint form, annual reports about widespread abuses and information on how to avoid being scammed.

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Constitutional Law

Center for Constitutional Rights - CCR

Subcategory: Includes news, information on Guantanamo, and synopses of lawsuits filed by the CCR alleging government misconduct; racial, social, or economic discrimination; violations of international human rights; and corporate accountability.

Constitution Finder

Subcategory: (University of Richmond, T.C. Williams School of Law) This index offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents. Nations of the world and states are listed alphabetically.

Constitutions of the World

Subcategory: (FindLaw) Links to constitutions of countries worldwide and related resources.

The American Constitution: A Documentary Record

Subcategory: (Yale Law School - Avalon Project) Documents related to the U.S. Constitution from pre-colonial, e.g., Magna Carta (1215 to constitutional ratification documents.

The Charters of Freedom: The Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, the Bill of Rights

Subcategory: (National Archives and Records Administration) An online exhibit of "some of the most highly detailed photographs... of these documents."Includes the text of the Eleventh through Twenty-Seventh Amendments and biographies of the 55 delegates to the Constitutional Convention.

The Founders' Constitution

Subcategory: Web edition of the five volume set, edited by Profs.Kurland and Lerner of the Univ. of Chicago, containing an anthology of documents from the early seventeenth century to the 1830s arranged under "Major Themes" of the U.S. Constitution and then arranged by article, section and clause of the Constitution from Preamble through the Twelfth Amendment.

U.S. State Constitutions

Subcategory: Links to the constitutions of all 50 states as well as the official state websites.

Usconstitution.net

Subcategory: A site all about the U.S. Constitution with many links to other constitution sites and an extensive FAQ section.

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Consumer Law

Consumer Issues

Subcategory: (FindLaw) Contains information to help consumers, including how to get a passport, avoid identity theft, and resolve marketplace disputes.

Consumer Protection Information

Subcategory: (Texas Attorney General) Provides an online complaint form, a list of major lawsuits and settlements, and information regarding consumer protection.

Federal Trade Commission - FTC

Subcategory: Includes the Bureau of Consumer Protection, online consumer complaint and identity theft complaint forms as well as consumer information publications in English and Spanish.

Internet Crime Complaint Center

Subcategory: (Federal Bureau of Investigation & National White Collar Crime Center) Includes an online complaint form, annual reports about widespread abuses, and information on how to avoid being scammed.

National Consumer Law Center

Subcategory: Advocacy organization for low-income consumer justice issues and leading publisher of practical, practice oriented consumer law publications.

Texas Consumer Protection Statutes

Subcategory: A collection of links to Texas consumer protection statutes, including the Deceptive Trade Practices Act.

Texas Department of Transportation - Lemon Law Information

Subcategory: Provides an overview of the state's lemon laws. Has not been updated since 2004.

Texas State Bar - Consumer & Commercial Law Section

Subcategory: Includes back issues of the Journal of Texas Consumer Law and information on consumer laws, identity theft, Check 21, small claims court, lemon law, three day right to cancel, landlord lockouts, and security deposits.

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Corporations & Partnerships Law

Corporations, Partnerships, & Business Associations

Subcategory: (LawMoose) Contains a list of internet resources on corporations, partnerships, and businesses, including links to state constitutional provisions, court decisions, and organizations.

State Corporation & Business Forms

Subcategory: A compilation of business form links divided by jurisdiction.

Texas Secretary of State - Corporations Section

Subcategory: Contains Business Organizations Code forms, links to corporation related Texas laws, filing information, and information on starting a business.

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Courts & Judges

ABA Judicial Division

Subcategory: Associations
Homepage of the ABA division seeking to address the needs of the judiciary.

American Judges Association

Subcategory: Associations
Homepage of the ABA organization of judges.

American Political Science Association (APSA) - Law and Courts Section

Subcategory: Associations
Contains a list of data and statistical resources on a variety of legal topics.

CNN Crime + Justice Section

Subcategory: Trials
A great source for information on high-profile trials.

Code of Conduct for Judicial Employees

Subcategory: Courts
(Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) Provides the full-text of all five canons of the Code of Judicial Conduct for Judicial Employees with references to the United States Code.

Code of Conduct for United States Judges

Subcategory: Courts
(Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) Includes the full-text of all seven canons plus checklists for financial and other conflicts.

Commission on Structural Alternatives for the Federal Courts of Appeals

Subcategory: Associations
Archive of the Commission's hearings, testimony, and reports. The Commission completed its duties March 19,1999.

Conference of Chief Justices

Subcategory: Associations
Association composed of the highest judicial officers of each state.

Conference of State Court Administrators - COSCA

Subcategory: Associations
Organization composed of the state court administrator of each state. COSCA's site contains policy statements, a list of related organizations, and state contact information.

Court Forms

Subcategory: Court Rules, Forms, & Dockets
(FindLaw) Court forms for federal, state and bankruptcy courts.

Court Rules, Forms, & Dockets

Subcategory: Court Rules, Forms, & Dockets
(LLRX.com) Includes links to over 700 sources for state and federal court rules, forms and dockets.

Electronic Discovery Law

Subcategory: Electronic Discovery Law
(K&L Gates) Blog covering electronic discovery news and information written by K&L Gates's e-Discovery Analysis & Technology Group

Famous Trials

Subcategory: Trials
(University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law, Douglas O. Linder) Contains photographs, summaries, procedural information, and other resources on famous trials from Socrates in 399 B.C. to Zacarias Moussaoui in 2006.

Federal Court Clerks Association - FCCA

Subcategory: Associations
FCCA is an organization composed of clerks of federal courts. This site contains the full-text of FCCA's journal as well as links to job openings and other court administration sites.

Federal Judicial Center - FJC

Subcategory: Associations
FJC's site contains an extensive list of their publications and videos; a biographical directory of federal judges; and historical, administrative, and judicial legislation information.

Federal Rules of Evidence

Subcategory: Evidence
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School) Full-text of the Federal Rules of Evidence with notes. Accessible through a table of contents.

Kenwithers.com

Subcategory: Electronic Discovery Law
(Ken Withers, Senior Judicial Education Attorney for the Federal Judicial Center) Contains articles and resources on computer disclosure and discovery.

National Association for Court Management - NACM

Subcategory: Associations
Contains a code of conduct for court administrators and a glossary of common legal terms.

National Association for State Judicial Educators - NASJE

Subcategory: Associations
Provides links to other judicial education sites and DUI resources.

National Association of Women Judges - NAWJ

Subcategory: Associations
Organization seeking gender equality in American courts.

National Center for State Courts - NCSC

Subcategory: Associations
Organization that conducts research and provides education for state courts. This site contains the full-text of NSCS studies and and research publications on topics such as Access & Fairness, ADR, Courthouse Facilities, Juries, Court Administration, and Technology.

National College of Probate Judges

Subcategory: Associations
Organization of probate judges. The National College's site contains information on elder abuse as well as links to various probate courts.

National Conference of Appellate Court Clerks - NCACC

Subcategory: Associations
Contains a Code of Professional Conduct for appellate court clerks as well as a full listing of state and federal appellate courts.

National Council of Juvenile & Family Court Judges - NCJFCJ

Subcategory: Associations
Contains numerous publications concerning child abuse and neglect, delinquency, family violence, juvenile justice, and substance abuse.

National Judicial College - NJC

Subcategory: Associations
NJC is a national judicial education provider that is also responsible for the Tribal Judicial Center and the National Center for Courts and Media.

Nuremberg Trials Project - A Digital Document Collection

Subcategory: Trials
(Harvard Law School Library) Trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files, and other papers from the library's extensive collection of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany.

Supreme Court of the United States

Subcategory: Courts
Contains the latest slip opinions, court opinions, the docket, case handling guides, court rules, and information regarding bar admissions.

Texas Courts Online

Subcategory: Courts
Contains a helpful diagram of Texas's judicial structure with links to the homepages of the individual courts, where specific cases and opinions can be viewed.

The Recovered Memory Project

Subcategory: Evidence
(Prof. Ross E. Cheit, Taubman Center for Public Policy, Brown University) Cases and academic research studies regarding forgotten and later remembered traumatic events.

U.S. Courts

Subcategory: Courts
Information about and links to federal courts.

Uniform Rules of Evidence Act

Subcategory: Evidence
(National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws - NCCUSL)

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Criminal Law & Criminal Justice

ABA Criminal Justice Section

Subcategory: Federal/General
Contains a collection of links on topics such as prosecution, defense, corrections, military justice, and victim services.

Buffalo Criminal Law Center

Subcategory: Federal/General
Contains past issues of the Buffalo Criminal Law Review and many criminal law internet resources, particularly international and victim information links.

Bureau of Justice Assistance - BJA

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) Homepage of the organization that provides grant assistance and criminal justice policy development.

Bureau of Justice Statistics - BJS

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) Statistics on crime, victims, offenders, drugs, deaths in custody, trends, international comparisons, law enforcement, prosecution, sentencing, and corrections.

Crime, Law Enforcement, and Prisons - Sentencing & Parole

Subcategory: Sentencing
(LawMoose) Contains links to general sentencing and parole sites, as well as relevant statutes and court cases.

Crime, Law Enforcement, and Prisons: General

Subcategory: Federal/General
(LawMoose) Contains links to state statutes and agencies, foreign laws, international conventions, and general resources related to the criminal law and criminal justice.

Federal Bureau of Investigation - FBI

Subcategory: Federal/General
Provides information on investigative priorities, wanted fugitives, safety, and the history of the bureau. Also available is Crime in the United States (CIUS), an annual publication containing crime and enforcement statistics.

Federal Bureau of Prisons - BOP

Subcategory: Federal/General
(U.S. Department of Justice) Includes an inmate and facility locator, BOP annual reports, and information on inmate matters such as work, healthcare, education, temporary release, and substance abuse.

Federal Public Defenders

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Defender Services Division Training Branch, Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts) Includes publications, materials and links to federal criminal law resources.

Justice Research and Statistics Association - JRSA

Subcategory: Federal/General
National organization of state Statistical Analysis Centers (SACs) personnel. This site contains an electronic clearinghouse of SAC research; however, most results will be only be abstracts-you will have to contact the SAC for full-text.

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data - NACJD

Subcategory: Federal/General
Contains data collected by NACJD grantees, which users can manipulate and run statistical analyses with. In addition, users may search an online bibliography of data-related literature. Each entry provides a link to the data analyzed by the article's author(s). See also the NACJD list of related sites for more criminal justice resources.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service - NCJRS

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) Provides information concerning substance abuse and justice. Topics include corrections, courts, crime, crime prevention, drugs, justice system, juveniles, law enforcement, and victims.

National Institute of Justice - NIJ

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) Provides numerous full-text NIJ publications and research reports on a wide-range of crime-related topics. See the index of topics for more information.

Office for Victims of Crime - OVC

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) Contains resources and information on topics such as campus crime, death notification, domestic and family violence, drunk driving, hate and bias crimes, homicide survivors and co-victims, impact statements, mental health, restorative justice, and victim's rights and services. OVC's Web site also includes statistics on crime victims and resources for international victims.

Office of Justice Programs - OJP

Subcategory: Federal/General
(U.S. Department of Justice) Information on corrections, courts, identity theft, the Prison Rape Elimination Act, prosecutions, safer schools, substance abuse & crime, technology to fight crime, terrorism & domestic preparedness, victim services, and youth violence prevention.

Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention - OJJDP

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) Office that provides juvenile delinquency and victimization resources. OJJDP's Web site contains information on their programs, plus publications, state contact information, and statistical materials.

Office of National Drug Control Policy - ONDCP

Subcategory: Federal/General
ONDCP provides many resources and publications concerning drugs, including drug facts, policy, news, prevention, treatment, and enforcement.

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics

Subcategory: Federal/General
(Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Department of Justice) Provides raw opinion data on criminal justice characteristics; public opinion; crime and victims; arrest and seizures; courts, prosecution, and sentencing; and parole, jails, prisons, and the death penalty.

Texas Attorney General - Criminal Justice Resources

Subcategory: Texas
Resources for law enforcement regarding fugitive sex offenders, gangs, nuisance abatement, cyber crimes, detained foreign nationals, and training.

Texas Criminal Justice Coalition - TCJC

Subcategory: Texas
Organization looking to solve problems faced by Texas's criminal justice system. TCJC promotes ending racial profiling, ensuring the right to an attorney, stopping over-incarceration, and educating the public.

Texas Department of Criminal Justice - TDCJ

Subcategory: Texas
The TDCJ homepage contains an online offender search function as well as information on victim services and individual TDCJ units.

The Sentencing Project

Subcategory: Sentencing
Organization promoting sentencing reforms. This site contains statistics; information on sentencing policy, incarceration, racial disparity, felony disenfranchisement, drug policy, women in the justice system, and collateral consequences; Sentencing Project publications; and a collection of true stories.

U.S. Department of Justice - DOJ

Subcategory: Federal/General
The DOJ's Resource page contains publications as well as cases and documents relevant to each division, including antitrust; alcohol, tobacco, firearms, and explosives; civil rights; Enron; environment; immigration; and terrorism.

U.S. Sentencing Commission

Subcategory: Sentencing
Homepage of a judicial branch agency responsible for establishing and researching federal sentencing policies. This site contains sentencing statistics; the sentencing guideline manual with commentary; information on Booker, Fanfan, and other Supreme Court cases regarding the guidelines; and state sentencing information from the National Association of State Sentencing Commissions.

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Disability Law

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Subcategory: Provides information and resources on mental health legal topics including insurance, commitment, managed care, criminalization, supplemental security income, restraint and seclusion in hospitals and residential treatment centers, and voting.

Consortium for Citizens With Disabilities

Subcategory: Contains research and publications done by a group of national disability organizations on topics such as communications, education, housing, and many others.

HIV/AIDS Workplace Education Hiv.gov

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) Contains a list of federal laws and legal issues related to HIV/AIDS as well as workplace training materials.

Individuals With Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1997

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of Education) Contains archived information (last updated 8/26/02). Text of the act, legislative history, regulations and other documents and information.

Job Accommodation Network

Subcategory: (Office of Disability Employment Policy, U.S. Dept. of Labor) Provides information and resources designed to increase the employability of persons with disabilities. Includes portals for private employers, government employers, individuals with disabilities, educational settings and ADA information.

National Council on Disability - NCD

Subcategory: Includes links to other federal entities, state agencies, resources for locating healthcare, and information on rights under various federal disability laws.

U.S. Department of Justice - ADA Homepage

Subcategory: Contains new and proposed ADA regulations, settlement information, design standards, and information regarding the mediation program.

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Elder Law

Elder Options of Texas

Subcategory: Online resource for locating assisted living and nursing home facilities, hospice, caregiver support, and transportation. Also contains a library of articles on elder law topics.

National Academy of Elder Law Attorneys - NAELA

Subcategory: NAELA is an association of lawyers and organizations who work with older clients. This site contains an elder law attorney locator.

National Senior Citizens Law Center - NSCLC

Subcategory: Provides resources regarding federal rights, long-term care, Medicaid, Medicare Part D, income security, and assisted living.

Nursing Home Abuse and Neglect Resource Center

Subcategory: This site contains information on assessing nursing homes, financing care, abuse, medical issues, relevant laws and regulations, and how to make a complaint.

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Environmental Law

Center for International Environmental Law - CIEL

Subcategory: Contains a collection of CIEL publications on subjects such as biodiversity and wildlife, chemicals, climate change, trade and sustainable development, and international financial institutions.

Environment & Natural Resources Division - U.S. Department of Justice

Subcategory: DOJ division responsible primarily for prosecuting violations of pollution-control laws.

European Environmental Law

Subcategory: Contains cases, legislation, in-depth views on specific issues, and other documents on European environmental law. This site also contains a news service which delivers case updates every two weeks.

Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law

Subcategory: (American Society of International Law) A thorough guide to primary and secondary online sources and discussion lists related to international environmental law.

Journal of Water Resource and Protection

Subcategory: (Scientific Research) JWARP is an international refereed journal dedicated to the latest advancements in water resources and protection.

State Bar of Texas - Environmental & Natural Resources Law Section

Subcategory: Homepage of the State Bar of Texas section of environmental lawyers. This site contains a long list of environmental and natural resources sites, organizations, and associations.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency - EPA

Subcategory: Contains federal environmental laws and regulations, a wealth of information on an extensive list of environmental topics organized by subject, and with a zip code, several tools to find specific information about your community.

U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service - FWS

Subcategory: Includes FWS administrative information as well as bird, fishing, hunting, wildlife refuge, and endangered species resources.

U.S.D.A. Forest Service

Subcategory: Contains research and development publications accessible through Treesearch, maps and brochures of national forests and grasslands, and the projects and policies of the Forest Service.

U.S.D.A. National Resources Conservation Service - NRCS

Subcategory: NRCS is the organization dedicated to helping private landowners conserve natural resources. This site contains many technical resources on environmental quality and compliance.

United Nations Environment Programme

Subcategory: Contains information on the Billion Tree Campaign. Technical information on topics such as agriculture, air quality, biodiversity, climate change, freshwater, and waste management can be found in the UNEP Resource Kit.

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Family Law

ABA Section of Family Law - Military Committee

Subcategory: General
Provides information on pre-deployment and reemployment as well as a collection of handouts which give general overviews of specific areas of military family law.

ABA Section of Family Law

Subcategory: General
Includes a FAQ section geared towards answering general marriage, divorce, and custody questions and a list of additional online family law resources.

Adoption Law

Subcategory: Adoption
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Provides an overview of adoption law with links to federal and state statutes and judicial decisions.

Adoption Resources

Subcategory: Adoption
(Adoption Ring) Resources for adoptive parents, adult adoptees, and birth parents.

Adoption.org

Subcategory: Adoption
Search over 400,000 adoption sites.

Center on Children & The Law

Subcategory: Children's Rights
(ABA Young Lawyers Division) Contains standards of practice for attorneys representing children, parents, and child welfare agencies; child welfare laws; and ABA policies relating to children.

Children's Advocacy—Free Electronic Newsletters

Subcategory: (Center for Children's Advocacy) Provides links to free e-newsletters dealing with children's advocates.

Divorcenet.com

Subcategory: General
Find local divorce attorneys and mediators as well as child support, alimony, visitation, property division, and military divorce resources.

Family Law Resources

Subcategory: General
(FindLaw) Contains listings for family law jobs and attorneys and online family law documents and articles.

North American Surrogacy Center

Subcategory: Provides information about surrogacy, as well as applications and affiliates with the organization.

Texas Adoption Resource Exchange - TARE

Subcategory: Adoption
TARE's site allows users to view and search for children awaiting adoption, research disabilities, and learn about the requirements of becoming a foster or adoptive family.

Texas Family Code

Subcategory: General
Full-text of the Texas Family Code accessible by chapter.

Texas State Bar - Family Law Section

Subcategory: General
Contains information on proposed legislation and links to valuation resources and family law sites.

Texas State Bar - Juvenile Law Section

Subcategory: Children's Rights
The Juvenile Law Section website contains numerous forms on topics such as certification, lack of responsibility, determinate sentencing, sealing files and records, and sex offenders.

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General Legal Sites

Bespacific

Subcategory: (Sabrina Pacifici, creator and editor of LLRX) Provides law and technology news with links to sources on topics including e-government, cybercrime, the Patriot Act, FOIA, and RSS.

Crimelynx

Subcategory: A legal resource center for criminal defense practitioners with links to court opinions, statistics, statutes, blogs, and other criminal justice resources.

FindLaw

Subcategory: One of the most popular and useful legal research Web sites. Rich in content and features.

Hieros Gamos

Subcategory: Huge database with international, career, and legal practice resources.

Jurist - Legal News & Research

Subcategory: Collection of legal news and commentary, primary source documents, and an index of hot topics.

Law Library Resource Exchange - LLRX.COM

Subcategory: Provides articles on legal research, technology, and other items of interest to law librarians.

Law.com

Subcategory: Legal News presented by ALM.

Laws Online

Subcategory: Contains an extensive collection of legal directories, including directories for witnesses, mediators, investigators, process servers, and trial consultants.

Legal Engine

Subcategory: Links to cases, government sites, law schools and libraries, plus a subject guide to legal materials on the net.

Legal Information Institute (LII)

Subcategory: (Cornell University Law School) A wonderful collection of full-text statutes which can be searched, overviews of legal topics, court opinions, and legal directories.

LexisNexis Legal Newsroom

Subcategory: Selected cases, forms, a statutory guide, and legal links from LexisNexis.

Municode

Subcategory: (Municipal Code Corporation) Provides a limited number of U.S. city and county codes organized by state.

National Center for State Courts - NCSC

Subcategory: Organization that conducts research and provides education for state courts. This site contains the full-text of NSCS studies and and research publications on topics such as Access & Fairness, ADR, Courthouse Facilities, Juries, Court Administration, and Technology.

The Virtual Chase

Subcategory: (Justia) Includes not only links, but research strategies for finding legal information on the web.

WWW Virtual Library - Law

Subcategory: Contains links to numerous legal topics, including admiralty, ADR, digital rights management, forensic toxicology, legal history, and offenders rehabilitation.

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Health Law

ABA Health Law Section

Subcategory: General
Contains a list of health links and resources comprised mainly of health organizations, associations, and companies

Action on Smoking & Health - ASH

Subcategory: Tobacco & the Law
Homepage of a nonprofit legal action antismoking organization. This site contains tobacco related news and smoking links.

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law

Subcategory: Mental Health Law
Provides information and resources on mental health legal topics including insurance, commitment, managed care, criminalization, supplemental security income, restraint and seclusion in hospitals and residential treatment centers, and voting.

Bioethics.net - Journal of American Bioethics

Subcategory: Bioethics
(Alden March Bioethics Institute & University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics) Current and past issues of the Journal of American Bioethics. A limited number of articles are available free of charge.

Center for Bioethics

Subcategory: Bioethics
(University of Pennsylvania) Contains numerous articles related to the Center's projects, such as vaccines, artificial nutrition and hydration, and neuroethics.

Consortium on Law & Values in Health, Environment, & the Life Sciences

Subcategory: Bioethics
(University of Minnesota) Contains a video archive of clips of bioethics lectures and presentations.

Galen Tobacco Control Archives

Subcategory: Tobacco & the Law
(University of California, San Francisco) Archives of papers, unpublished documents, and electronic resources relevant to tobacco control issues (primarily for California).

Gallen II Tobacco Litigation Documents

Subcategory: Tobacco & the Law
An archive of litigation documents for suits brought by states against tobacco companies.

Health Care Ethics

Subcategory: Bioethics
(W. Maurice Young Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia) Contains an extensive list of links to bioethic organizations, topics, and publications.

Health Policy Watch

Subcategory: General
(Century Foundation) Health Policy Watch seeks to promote ideas and research aimed at bringing about reform in various areas of health policy, such as Medicare. The site provides access to various publications and information on books published by the Century Foundation and others. It also contains links to related research from other organizations and links to other sites.

Legal Issues & HIV in the U.S.

Subcategory: AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Provides a collection of articles and resources detailing the legal rights of people with HIV.

National Health Law Program - NHELP

Subcategory: General
Public interest law firm dedicated to improving health care for low-income individuals. This site contains a comprehensive topical index of publications and resources.

National Institutes of Health (NIH)

Subcategory: General
(U.S. Department of Health & Human Services) Comprehensive collection of health related material including topic browsing, newsletters, and database links.

Nuffield Council on Bioethics

Subcategory: Bioethics
Contains the full-text findings of the Nuffield Council on topics such as neonatal medicine, genetic screening, animal research, genetically modified crops, pharmacogenetics, and patenting DNA.

Public Agenda - Reports & Resources

Subcategory: Public Agenda is a nonpartisan public opinion research organization with reports and guides on health care.

Pubmed

Subcategory: Medical Literature Research
Search citations from biomedical and life sciences journals from the 1950s to present. The majority of the citations will not have links to the full-text article.

Researching Health Law & Policy

Subcategory: General
(University of Minnesota Law School) Identifies resources to research health law & policy, including books, treatises, periodicals, and web sites.

Social Security Online

Subcategory: Social Security Law
(Social Security Administration) Contains information on how to get new or replacement cards, retirement, medicare, disability, as well as an extensive question and answer section and a form search tool.

Social Security Treatise

Subcategory: Social Security Law
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Reference material covering topics such as entitlement and benefit calculation.

Texas Department of State Health Services - HIV/STD Program

Subcategory: AIDS - Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome
Contains testing and reporting information, statistics, as well as links to Texas and federal legal information under Policy and Legal Resources.

Texas State Bar - Health Law Section

Subcategory: General
Contains a list of links to health information, organizations, policy, and media sources.

Tobacco Litigation

Subcategory: Tobacco & the Law
U.S. Department of Justice site on tobacco litigation.

Tobacco Products Liability Project

Subcategory: Tobacco & the Law
(Public Health Advocacy Institute) Contains the latest tobacco related legal news.

TTUHSC Library Catalog

Subcategory: Medical Literature Research
Click the "Library Catalog" link on the right and search the TTU Health Sciences Center Library Catalog. "Change to Power Search" to sort the results by location.

TTUHSC Online Journals

Subcategory: Medical Literature Research
A listing of TTUHSC journal holdings. Students, other than medical students, may not be able to access some of these databases.

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Immigration Law

American Immigration Lawyers Association - AILA

Subcategory: Homepage of the national association of immigration law practitioners. This site contains synopses of immigration decisions and legislation as well as a find an immigration lawyer search function.

Embassy.org

Subcategory: Includes a directory with links to foreign embassies in Washington, D.C. and a virtual tour of Embassy Row.

Executive Office for Immigration Review - Department of Justice

Subcategory: Provides EIOR forms, links to immigration courts nationwide, statistics, and the Virtual Law Library which contains decisions, regulations, and attorney resources.

Immigration Superhighway

Subcategory: Contains the full-text of the INA, information on visas, asylees, extensions, and change of status, as well as a collection of immigration articles.

U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services - USCIS

Subcategory: Includes immigration forms, immigration laws, BIA decisions, handbooks, and information on visiting the U.S. and citizenship.

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Intellectual Property

ABA Section of Intellectual Property

Subcategory: General
Contains a list of U.S. and international sites of interest for IP lawyers.

American Association of Law Libraries - Copyright Committee

Subcategory: Copyrights
Provides information on issues such as the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the Copyright Term Extension Act, the Fair Use Doctrine, as well as an list of copyright links.

American Intellectual Property Law Association - AIPLA

Subcategory: General
National bar association for intellectual property practitioners. For those considering a path in IP, an overview of different practice areas is provided.

American Society of Composers, Authors & Publishers - ASCAP

Subcategory: Copyrights
Association that licenses and distributes royalties for public performances of works copyrighted by ASCAP's composer, songwriter, lyricist, and music publisher membership.

Case Summaries & Law Updates - Intellectual Property

Subcategory: General
(Williamette Law Online) A weekly publication containing summaries of cases from federal and state jurisdictions covering trademark, copyright, trade secret, and patent law.

Compleat World Copyright Website

Subcategory: Copyrights
A compilation of links to sites concerning copyright in the common law tradition of creator's rights that can be browsed by author, country, institute, journal, and topic.

Copyright & Fair Use

Subcategory: Copyrights
(Stanford University Libraries) Includes a collection of primary materials, an overview of copyright and related topics, a list of relevant internet links, and information on current issues.

Copyright Clearance Center

Subcategory: Copyrights
Allows businesses, schools, publishers, and authors to search for works they wish to use and obtain licenses and permissions.

Copyright Crash Course

Subcategory: Copyrights
(University of Texas) A great overview of copyrights, including information on who owns what and fair use.

Copyright Information & Education

Subcategory: Copyrights
(University of Minnesota Libraries) An overview of copyright, including a great diagram to use when deciding when permission should be obtained.

Copyright Society of the U.S.A.

Subcategory: Copyrights
Contains a comprehensive list of copyright links and a thorough FAQ section.

European Patent Office - EPO

Subcategory: Patents
Organization which provides uniform patent application procedures for 37 European countries. This site contains the step-by-step procedure for applying for European patents.

Free Patents Online

Subcategory: Offers free advanced patent searching online as well as PDF document delivery, document annotating and sharing, and alerts.

International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations - IFRRO

Subcategory: Copyrights
Organization which seeks to manage reproduction on an international scale.

International Trademark Association - INTA

Subcategory: Trademarks
An association of trademark owners and professionals. This site contains job postings and a policy development section with model guidelines.

Liblicense

Subcategory: Copyrights
(Yale University Library) Provides a wealth of information on licensing agreements, including sample clauses with commentary, definitions, model licenses, and resource links.

Sumobrain

Subcategory: Free full-text searching of US & EP patents and applications, PCT documents, and Japanese abstracts. Bulk PDF downloading is also available.

The IP Mall - Pierce Law Center

Subcategory: Trademarks
Contains the latest IP news and an extensive list of links and resources.

Thomson Compumark - Global Trademark Solutions

Subcategory: Trademarks
Provides an overview of trademarks and copyrights in a life cycle format.

U.S. Copyright Office

Subcategory: Copyrights
Contains forms, a collection of copyright laws and policy, information on registering by type of work, and a searchable database of works already registered.

United States Patent & Trademark Office - USPTO

Subcategory: Contains forms, a glossary of terms, several "how to" guides, and a searchable database of items already covered by patents and trademarks.

Wacky Patent of the Month

Subcategory: Patents
A new selection made by Michael J. Colitz, Jr., a patent attorney, each month.

World Intellectual Property Organization - WIPO

Subcategory: Website of the agency of the UN dedicated to developing an international system of intellectual property.

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International Criminal Law

Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) International Justice Statistics

Subcategory: Complete resource for international criminal justice statistics with explanations and references to U.N. statistical sources, international web sites, and National Archive of Criminal Justice Data. Includes crime surveys and studies from individual countries and regions and Global Report on Crime and Justice as well as World Factbook of Criminal Justice Systems.

National Criminal Justice Reference Service - Justice Information Center

Subcategory: Database of abstracts of books, articles and reports published by the U.S. Department of Justice, other state and federal agencies, international organizations and private sector. Areas of focus include: corrections, courts, crime prevention, criminal justice statistics, drugs, international information, juvenile justice, law enforcement, and victims.

National Institute of Justice (NIJ)

Subcategory: U.S. Department of Justice's research agency site with links to international criminal justice community. Includes full-text of articles in NIJ publications.

UN Crime and Justice Information Network (UNCJIN): Statistic and Research Sources

Subcategory: Links to collections of global crime statistics and includes the UN Surveys of Crime Trends and Operations of Criminal Justice Systems.

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International Law

ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law

Subcategory: Discussion on how to do international legal research on the Internet, highlighting important primary and secondary sources. The section on International Criminal Law provides a textual pathfinder to major electronic sources for researching international and transitional crime as well as current issues common to both categories.

Columbia International Affairs Online (CIAO)

Subcategory: Full-text collection of working papers, journal articles, books, policy briefs, research projects and conference proceedings discussing theory, policy and research of international affairs.

Customary International Humanitarian Law Database

Subcategory: This database is the online version of the Study on customary international humanitarian law, conducted by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and published by Cambridge University Press in 2005. (from website).

United Nations Dag Hammarskjold Library

Subcategory: Good place to access U.N. information and documents.

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Labor & Employment Law

Division of Workers' Compensation - Texas Department of Insurance

Subcategory: Workers' Compensation
Included on this site is an online workers' compensation complaint form, statistics on fatal and non-fatal work injuries, lists of approved doctors and covered employers, and information on insurance fraud.

Employment Law

Subcategory: General
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) An overview of employment law with links to federal and state statutes and judicial decisions.

National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health - NIOSH

Subcategory: Provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), NIOSH offers workplace safety tips and information on a variety of health topics.

National Labor Relations Board - NLRB

Subcategory: General
Homepage of the federal agency that administers the National Relations Act, the law governing union-employer relationships.

Occupational Safety & Health Administration - OSHA

Subcategory: Workers' Compensation
Provides resources for employers to help prevent occupational injuries and to stay in compliance with the Occupational Safety and Health Act. In addition, this site also contains the text of relevant laws and regulations, enforcement information, statistics, and links to approved state plans.

Texas Labor Code

Subcategory: General
Full-text of the Texas Labor Code accessible by chapter.

Texas Workforce Commission - TWC

Subcategory: General
Provides recruiting, training, and market statistics for employers and job search, training, and unemployment resources for job seekers.

U.S. Department of Labor - DOL

Subcategory: General
Contains a large amount of information on employment topics, including disability, equal employment opportunity, health plans, termination, training, hiring, wages, unemployment insurance, work hours, retirement, and workplace safety and health.

U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission - EEOC

Subcategory: General
Contains resources pertaining to federal equal employment opportunity laws, discriminatory practices, and filing a complaint.

U.S. Merit Systems Protection Board - MSPB

Subcategory: General
MSPB is a quasi-judicial agency that hears personnel action appeals made by federal employees and conducts research studies of the merit systems implemented by the federal government. Both decisions and studies are available online.

Workers' Compensation Law

Subcategory: Workers' Compensation
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) Provides an overview of workers' compensation with links to federal and state statutes and judicial decisions.

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Landlord Tenant Law

Center for Housing & Urban Development - CHUD

Subcategory: (Texas A&M, College of Architecture) Homepage of the Center which seeks to improve the quality of life of individuals living in colonias along the Texas-Mexico border. Included in this site is a list of resources on colonias, community development and housing, health, and promota.

Housing Topics - U.S. Census Bureau

Subcategory: Includes data on home ownership, affordability, vacancy, and market absorption of apartments, as well as historical information.

Landlord-Tenant Law

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) An overview of landlord-tenant law with links to federal and state statutes and judicial decisions.

National Low Income Housing Coalition - NLIHC

Subcategory: Contains information on low income housing services and issues, as well as links to congressional testimony, NLIHC research, and polls.

Shelterforce

Subcategory: Independent non-profit organization that examines housing crisis issues and how these issues affect people trying to build healthy neighborhoods. Select publications are available in full-text.

U.S. Department of Housing & Urban Development - HUD

Subcategory: Federal department entrusted with regulating the housing industry, helping build healthy communities, and expanding housing opportunities.

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Legal Aid

ABA Center for Pro Bono

Subcategory: Federal
The Center for Pro Bono provides technical and planning assistance to individuals and pro bono programs. The National Pro Bono Volunteer Opportunities Guide allows attorneys to search for available positions by state.

ABA Division for Legal Services

Subcategory: Federal
Includes national directories of lawyer-referral and pro bono programs, legal services publications, "Consumer's Guide to Finding Legal Help on the Internet, and a little beyond," and "Practitioner's Guide: a online resource center for lawyers serving people."

ABA Standing Committee on Legal Aid & Indigent Defendants

Subcategory: Federal
Provides information on civil and criminal defense services, indigent defense systems, and Loan Repayment Assistance Programs (LRAPs) for attorneys who wish to pursue careers in public service but whose debt prevents them from doing so.

ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel

Subcategory: Federal
Contains information on the Service members Civil Relief Act and the rights of service members, CLE materials, and other military personnel resources.

Advocacy, INC.

Subcategory: Homepage of an organization which advocates for the rights of individuals with disabilities. This site contains information on education, health care, civil rights, housing, and accessibility topics as well as cases Advocacy, Inc. is involved with and numerous publications.

American Gateways

Subcategory: Texas
American Gateways (formerly Political Asylum Project of Austin - PAPA) provides legal services and education to immigrants and refugees in Central Texas. This site contains links to immigration, embassy, victims of violence, Austin, and Texas resources.

Brennan Center for Justice - Poverty Program

Subcategory: Federal
(NYU School of Law) Center focusing on access to justice and economic justice. This site contains information on issues such as campaign finance reform; courts and government; immigrant rights; liberty and national security; criminal justice reform; voting rights and elections; wages, jobs, and the economy.

FindLaw for the Public

Subcategory: Self-Help
(FindLaw) Information for the public accessible from a legal subject area list.

Handbook on Limited Scope Legal Assistance

Subcategory: Federal
(ABA Section of Litigation, Report of the Modest Means Task Force) Full-text of guide to providing legal services to clients who cannot afford to hire an attorney. Included in this handbook are forms and other helpful practice materials.

Houston Volunteer Lawyers Program - HVLP

Subcategory: Texas
The HVLP site contains information for individuals seeking pro bono legal services in Harris County and for attorneys seeking to provide such services.

Legal Hospice of Texas

Subcategory: Texas
Since 1989, Legal Hospice of Texas has been providing timely and compassionate legal services to low income individuals with terminal illnesses or HIV disease.

Legal Services Corporations - LSC

Subcategory: Federal
LSC helps fund civil legal aid by providing grants to local programs. The LSC website contains enabling legislation, program information, and a map of funded programs with links to the individual organizations.

Mexican American Legal Defense & Educational Fund - MALDEF

Subcategory: Texas
Homepage of the national non-profit organization that protects the civil rights of Latinos living in the U.S. The MALDEF sites contains a collection of publications as well as information regarding employment and economic development; immigration, citizenship, and voting rights; and fair share and equal access.

Nolo.com

Subcategory: Self-Help
Nolo provides legal information for consumers and small businesses regarding topics such as business and human resources; patents, copyright, and art; wills and estate planning; property and money; family law and immigration; and rights and disputes.

Probono.net

Subcategory: Federal
A non-profit organization dedicated to helping the poor gain access to justice by helping pro bono attorneys get involved.

Texas Advocacy Project

Subcategory: Texas
The Texas Advocacy Project, formerly Women's Advocacy Project, provides legal assistance to victims of domestic violence. Their Resource Center contains many useful documents and links to help individuals who are in harmful relationships.

Texas Equal Access to Justice Foundation - TEAJF

Subcategory: Texas
Contains information on attaining legal help as well as resources for banks and attorneys needing to set up IOLTA accounts.

Texas Law Help

Subcategory: Offers free and low cost legal advice on a variety of civil law issues including divorce, landlord-tenant issues, wills, child custody and many other topics. Also includes a legal aid directory and legal forms.

Texas Legal Services Center - TLSC

Subcategory: Texas
LSC's site contains a large collection of Texas, federal, and research links for individuals looking for legal services.

Volunteer Legal Services of Central Texas - VLS

Subcategory: Texas
Contains information on attaining legal services at no cost. Most of the clinics and pro bono services offered by VLS occur in Travis County. The VLS website also contains a FAQs section covering a variety of legal topics, such as family law and landlord tenant law.

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Legal Forms

Forms and Contracts

Subcategory: FindLaw's collection of legal forms and business contracts.

U.S. Legal Forms

Subcategory: (USLegal) A for-fee site that allows users to browse forms by state and topic.

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Legal History

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

Subcategory: (Library of Congress - American Memory Project) Contains documents and debates from the Continental Congress, Constitutional Convention, and Congresses from 1774-1873. Volumes 1 through 17 of Statutes at Large are also included.

Anglo-American Legal Tradition

Subcategory: (O'Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center and the National Archives of the United Kingdom) Digital images of English Court Records from c.1272-1650.

Annotated Justinian Code

Subcategory: (University of Wyoming) Justice Blume's translation of the 6th century codification of Roman law under Emperor Justinian.

Constitutions of the World Online

Subcategory: Access to constitutional documents from around the world. Coverage includes constitutions written between the years 1776 to 1849.

Documents in Law, History, & Diplomacy

Subcategory: (Avalon Project at the Yale Law School) Digital documents dating from pre-18th century through the 21st century relevant to topics such as law, history, economics, politics, diplomacy, and government.

Early English Laws

Subcategory: Collaboration between the Institute of Historical Research at the University of London and the Centre for Computing in the Humanities at Kings College London that aims to translate and provide commentary on pre-Magna Carta (1215) English laws.

Internet Archive's Text Archive

Subcategory: Location for Pre-statehood statutes, and older legal materials.

Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery

Subcategory: (Prepared by Patricia Schaffer, Columbia University Law School) Text of penal laws passed by the Protestant Parliament in Ireland from 1691-1760 to regulate the status of Roman Catholics.

Roman Law Resources

Subcategory: (Ernest Metzger, University of Glasgow) A site dedicated to Roman law with an extensive listing of sources, literature, and bibliographies.

State Constitutions Project

Subcategory: Searchable access to the texts of state constitutions of the United States and amendments with coverage from the original state constitutions through the year 2000. Provided by the University of Maryland and the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

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Legal Writing

Association of Legal Writing Directors - ALWD

Subcategory: Associations
Contains survey results that report legal writing program and faculty characteristics and information on the ALWD Citation Manual.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th Edition

Subcategory: Reference Sources, Guides, & Publications
Searchable database of quotations. Quotations can also be accessed by author and through a keyword index as well.

Citing Sources

Subcategory: Reference Sources, Guides, & Publications
(Duke University Libraries) Contains APA, Chicago, CSE, MLA and Turabian citation guides, as well as information about plagiarism.

Elements of Style - William Strunk, Jr.

Subcategory: Reference Sources, Guides, & Publications
The complete text of Strunk's famous grammar reference book.

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation

Subcategory: Reference Sources, Guides, & Publications
(Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School, Peter Martin) Includes a brief history of legal citation and the different citation manuals plus examples of different citation forms.

Jurist Legal Dictionary

Subcategory: Reference Sources, Guides, & Publications
(Jurist) Covers basic legal terminology with a focus on procedure. In addition, this site links to several other general and subject specific legal dictionaries.

Law Dictionary

Subcategory: Reference Sources, Guides, & Publications
(FindLaw) Legal dictionary for legal professionals

Legal Writing Institute - LWI

Subcategory: Associations
Contains sample grading rubrics and syllabi plus plagiarism and citation resources.

Scribes - The American Society of Legal Writers

Subcategory: Associations
Legal writing society advocating for a writing style that is "clear, succinct, and forceful."

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Legislative History

Federal Legislative History Research Guide-Library of Congress

Subcategory: This research guide is a basic outline of resources such as bills, committee hearings, committee reports, congressional debate and other documents (e.g. committee prints or presidential messages) which can provide insight into the legislative intent of a particular law.

Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws

Subcategory: (Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.) A list of selective legislative histories by popular name and public law number with links to the Legal Information Institute at Cornell University Law School.

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Military Law & Military Tribunals

ABA Family Law Section - Military Committee

Subcategory: Provides information on pre-deployment and reemployment as well as a collection of handouts which give general overviews of specific areas of military family law.

ABA Standing Committee on Legal Assistance for Military Personnel

Subcategory: Contains information on the Service members Civil Relief Act and the rights of service members, CLE materials, and other military personnel resources.

Board of Veterans Appeals - BVA

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs) Contains information on how to appeal from a benefits determination made by a local VA office. Forms and past BVA decisions are also available.

Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue Database

Subcategory: (Stanford Law School, Robert Crown Law Library) A database of legislation, regulations, proceeding materials, and policy documents on sexual orientation policy in the military beginning with World War I.

Military Law - Overview & Sources

Subcategory: (Legal Information Institute, Cornell University Law School) An overview of military law with links to federal and state statutes and judicial decisions.

Military Law Links

Subcategory: JAG, court, and organization links for the different military branches.

Military Law Web Sites

Subcategory: (FindLaw) Databases, agency links, statutes, cases, and news covering military law.

Nuremberg Trials Project - A Digital Document Collection

Subcategory: (Harvard Law School Library) Trial transcripts, briefs, document books, evidence files and other papers from the library's extensive collection of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi Germany.

Office of the General Counsel - OGC

Subcategory: (Department of Defense) The General Counsel advises different organizations and individuals within the Department of Defense and sets policies and positions. This site contains speeches made by the General Counsel as well as biographies of those individuals in leadership positions.

U.S. Air Force Judge Advocate General

Subcategory: Contains biographies of the Judge Advocate General and the Deputy Judge Advocate General of the U.S. Air Force, as well as a legal assistance locator for active duty individuals in need of service.

U.S. Army Judge Advocate General

Subcategory: Contains legal services information plus FOIA, personnel, and TJAG Legal Center and School resources.

U.S. Court of Appeals for Veterans Claims - USCAVC

Subcategory: Court with exclusive jurisdiction over Board of Veterans' Appeals final decisions.

U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps

Subcategory: Contains information on the Navy JAG, including the JAG TV feature that provides updates and resources on relevant information.

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Motor Vehicle & Traffic Law

Texas Traffic Laws

Subcategory: (FindLaw) Links to traffic laws and driving rules in Texas -- including the online vehicle code, statutes on common traffic violations, and state-specific driving manuals (where available)

Texas Transportation Code

Subcategory: Texas Transportation Code hosted by the Texas Legislature.

Traffic Tickets Resource Center

Subcategory: (Nolo) Articles on what to do if you get pulled over, if you are considering fighting a ticket, and if you have been in a traffic accident.

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National Security

National Security Agency / Central Security Service

Subcategory: The National Security Agency/Central Security Service (NSA/CSS) website includes information on cryptology, Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Information Assurance (IA) products and services, and Computer Network Operations (CNO).

National Security Archive

Subcategory: (George Washington University) A collection of declassified documents acquired through the Freedom of Information Act and records on topics such as national security, intelligence, and economic policies.

Rand Corporation - National Security

Subcategory: RAND conducts a broad array of national security research for the U.S. Department of Defense and allied ministries of defense. RAND's three U.S. federally funded research and development centers (FFRDCs) explore topics from acquisition and technology to personnel and readiness. (from website)

Washington Post - National Security

Subcategory: National newspaper's section for national security articles and opinions.

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Poverty Law

Brennan Center for Justice - Poverty Program

Subcategory: (NYU School of Law) Center focusing on access to justice and economic justice. This site contains information on issues such as campaign finance reform; courts and government; immigrant rights; liberty and national security; criminal justice reform; voting rights and elections; wages, jobs, and the economy.

Center for Law & Social Policy

Subcategory: Non-profit organization that advocates on behalf of low-income individuals. CLASP's research and policy analysis focuses on child care and support, legal assistance, job training and employment, prisoner re-entry, and youths.

Institute for Research on Poverty - IRP

Subcategory: (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Research institute whose primary focus is on the cause and effect of poverty in the United States. IRP's publications and reports cover topics such as welfare reform, child support, health & poverty, and group memberships & poverty.

National Center for Law & Economic Justice - NCLEJ

Subcategory: Non-profit organization seeking equal access to disability, health care, and other government benefits. NCLEJ's site contains information on benefit privatization, civil rights, food stamps, access to justice, and civic participation.

National Legal Aid & Defender Association - NLADA

Subcategory: NLADA is an advocate for legal aid programs and attorneys.It contains a wealth of resources.

Poverty Guidelines, Research, & Measurement

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of Health and Human Services) Contains the most recent poverty guidelines as well as a list of poverty resources and research centers.

Probono.net

Subcategory: A non-profit organization dedicated to helping the poor gain access to justice by helping pro bono attorneys get involved.

Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Subcategory: Organization advocating for improvement in the lives, economic security, and neighborhoods of low-wage workers through communication and policy development.

Southern Poverty Law Center - SPLC

Subcategory: SPLC is an organization that monitors hate groups operating within the U.S., that uses the court system to combat hate groups and discriminatory practices, and that provides teaching materials.

Texas Medicaid & Healthcare Partnership - TMHP

Subcategory: TMHP is a collection of contractors that are responsible for the administration Medicare claims in Texas.

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Presidential/Election Law

Campaign Finance Institute

Subcategory: CFI has successfully established its reputation as the nation's preeminent think tank for campaign finance policy.

CNN Politics

Subcategory: CNN.com is among the world's leaders in online news and information delivery. Staffed 24 hours, seven days a week by a dedicated staff in CNN's world headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, and in bureaus worldwide, CNN.com relies heavily on CNN's global team of almost 4,000 news professionals. CNN.com features the latest multimedia technologies, from live video streaming to audio packages to searchable archives of news features and background information. The site is updated continuously throughout the day.

Commission on Presidential Debates

Subcategory: The Commission on Presidential Debates (CPD) was established in 1987 to ensure that debates, as a permanent part of every general election, provide the best possible information to viewers and listeners. Its primary purpose is to sponsor and produce debates for the United States presidential and vice presidential candidates and to undertake research and educational activities relating to the debates. The organization, which is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) corporation, sponsored all the presidential debates in 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004 and 2008.

Communist Party USA

Subcategory: Founded in 1919, the Communist Party USA has championed the struggles for democracy, labor rights, women's equality, racial justice and peace for ninety years. The Communist Party has an unparalleled history in the progressive movement of the United States, from the struggle against Jim Crow segregation, the organizing of the industrial unions, from the cannieries of California to the sweatshops of New York City.

Compilation of Presidential Documents

Subcategory: (U.S. Government Publishing Office) - The Compilation of Presidential Documents collection consists of the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents and the Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents which are the official publications of materials released by the White House Press Secretary.

C-SPAN

Subcategory: C-SPAN (Cable-Satellite Public Affairs Network) is a private non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. Their mission is to provide public access to the political process. C-SPAN receives no government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming

Democratic National Committee Website

Subcategory: Provides information on the Democratic National Committee and election information.

Election Law @ Moritz

Subcategory: (Ohio State University Moritz College of Law) News, information, and analysis on federal, state, and local election laws.

Election Law Blog

Subcategory: Blog maintained by Professor Rick Hansen, Loyola Law School, which contains news and links on topics such as election law, campaign finance, voting, and redistricting.

Federal Election Commission - FEC

Subcategory: Contains a disclosure database, electronic filings which can be downloaded, and other financial reports filed by campaigns, parties, and PACs. Additionally, every 2 years the FEC publishes Federal Elections, a compilation of the official, certified federal election results obtained from each state's election office and other official sources. This site provides links of the primary, runoff and general election results for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives, and, when applicable, U.S. President. This page also provides access to a variety of legal resources, including the statutes, regulations, and advisory opinions, policy statements and non-enforcement litigation, as well as PACRONYMS, a list of acronyms and common names of political action committees (PACs).

Gallup Politics

Subcategory: Gallup News reports empirical evidence about the world's 7 billion citizens based on Gallup's continuous polling in 160 countries.

Green Party of the United States

Subcategory: Provides information on the views of the Green Party. This site is maintained by the Union Labor.

Historical Election Results

Subcategory: Provides information on Electoral College Box Scores from 1789-1996.

Huffington Post Politics

Subcategory: Huffington Post Politics includes information and blog posts on U.S. politics and upcoming elections.

Legal Information Institute - Elections

Subcategory: (Cornell Law School) Provides an overview of election laws and how the Electoral College plays a role in elections.

Libertarian Party

Subcategory: The Libertarian Party is America's third largest political party, founded in 1971. Paid for by the Libertarian National Committee.

Library of Congress - Election Law

Subcategory: The Library of Congress offers links to primary sources of law pertaining to Election Law.

Library of Congress American Memory: Presidential Elections and the Electoral College

Subcategory: This site provides links to a wide variety of materials on presidential elections and the electoral college, historically.

Library of Congress American Memory: The Impeachment Trial of Andrew Johnson

Subcategory: This site provides background information and links to historical documents regarding the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson in 1868.

National Voting Rights Institute - NVRI

Subcategory: Non-partisan organization dedicated to ensuring meaningful political participation. The Legal Library contains cases and documents related to campaign spending limits, barriers to political participation, public funding for campaigns, and challenging the wealth primary.

New York Times Politics

Subcategory: Contains breaking political news, opinion pages, an electoral map, and many interactive features.

Pew Research Center Publications

Subcategory: The Pew Research Center is a nonpartisan fact tank that provides information on the issues, attitudes and trends shaping America and the world. The center conducts public opinion polling, demographic studies, media content analysis and other empirical social science research. It does not take positions on policy issues.

Political Humor

Subcategory: Political jokes, cartoons, and humor.

Presidential Debates 1960-2012

Subcategory: The American Presidency Project provides information on presidential debates from 1960-2012.

Presidential Libraries and Museums

Subcategory: Sponsored by the National Archives, Presidential Libraries promotes understanding of the presidency and the American experience.?

Presidential Signing Statements

Subcategory: The Library of Congress' guide is intended to serve as an introduction to research on official pronouncements issued by the President of the United States at or near the time a bill is signed into law, called signing statements.

Project Vote Smart

Subcategory: Citizens volunteer and research the backgrounds and records of thousands of political candidates and elected officials to discover their voting records, campaign contributions, public statements, biographical data, and evaluations of them generated by special interest groups.?

Republican National Party Website

Subcategory: The official site of the Republican National Party.

Rock the Vote

Subcategory: Rock the Vote's mission is to engage and build political power for young people in our country.

Founded twenty-one years ago at the intersection of popular culture and politics, Rock the Vote has registered more than five million young people to vote and has become a trusted source of information for young people about registering to vote and casting a ballot. We use music, popular culture, new technologies and grassroots organizing to motivate and mobilize young people in our country to participate in every election, with the goal of seizing the power of the youth vote to create political and social change.

Smithsonian: The American Presidency

Subcategory: Contains an online exhibit providing detailed information on the role of the president.

Socialist Party USA Platform

Subcategory: The socialist party of the United States was formed in 1958 at the dissolution of the Independent Socialist League. The Socialist Party stands for the abolition of every form of domination and exploitation, whether based on social class, gender, race/ethnicity, age, education, sexual orientation, or other characteristics. We are committed to the transformation of capitalism through the creation of a democratic socialist society based on compassion, empathy, and respect as well as the development of new social structures.

Texas Election Code

Subcategory: Full text of the Texas Election Code viewable by chapter.

Texas Secretary of State - Elections Division

Subcategory: Contains information on where to vote, absentee ballots, election law opinions, and election returns.

The American Presidency Project

Subcategory: (University of California, Santa Barbara) This site was established in 1999 and is the only online resource that has consolidated, coded, and organized into a single searchable database thousands of documents related to the study of the Presidency.

The American Presidency Project: Political Party Platforms: 1840-2012

Subcategory: Provides historical information on political party platforms of parties receiving electoral votes from 1840-2012.

The Campaign Disclosure Project

Subcategory: A project of the UCLA School of Law, the Center for Governmental Studies, and the California Vote Foundation, supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts.

The Campaign Disclosure Law Database contains statutes and regulations in 105 categories from 50 states, the District of Columbia and the Federal Election Commission. Users can choose to view some or all categories in a single state, or to compare individual categories across two or more states. The database is current as of December 31, 2006. The entire database is available for download upon request.

The Living Room Candidate

Subcategory: The Living Room Candidate: Presidential Campaign Commercials 1952-2012 is an online exhibition presenting more than 300 television commercials from every election year since 1952, when the first campaign TV ads aired. The website will be updated through the 2012 election between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. The site includes a searchable database and features commentary, historical background, election results, and navigation organized by year, type of ad, and issue. There is a playlist feature that allows visitors to select, annotate, and share their own groups of ads, and to view playlists by guest contributors. Each selected commercial is accompanied by a list of related ads. There is a transcript for each ad and a feature that allows visitors to search the entire database by title and by words in the transcripts.

U.S. Census Voting and Registration

Subcategory: Information on reported voting and registration by various demographic and socioeconomic characteristics is collected for the nation in November of Congressional and Presidential election years in the Current Population Survey (CPS). The CPS is a monthly survey of about 50,000 households conducted by the Bureau of the Census for the Bureau of Labor Statistics. The CPS is the primary source of information on the labor force characteristics of the U.S. population. The voting supplement does not provide estimates of partisanship, such as what candidate a voter supported or what political party a voter aligned themselves with.

U.S. Election Assistance Commission - EAC

Subcategory: Includes voter registration and turnout statistics, voting guidelines and standards, and information on the Help America Vote Act of 2002.

U.S. Electoral College

Subcategory: (National Archives & Records Administration) Contains a FAQ section about the electoral college, deadlines for state officials, an electoral college calculator, timeline for the 2012 election, and voting resources.

Yahoo News Destination 2012

Subcategory: Up-to-date news information on the 2012 Presidential Election.

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Privacy Law

Electronic Privacy Information Center

Subcategory: Contains numerous privacy issues by topic with news articles and other materials for each.

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Publishing

Bookfinder.com

Subcategory: Search engine that locates books (including textbooks) for sale online with prices and direct links to the vendor.

Guide to Fair Business Practices for Legal Publishers

Subcategory: (AALL) Contains the full-text of the AALL's publication, Guide to Fair Business Practices for Legal Publishers.

Law Serials Pricing & Mergers: A Portfolio Approach

Subcategory: (Mark McCabe, Contributions to Economic Analysis & Policy) Full-text of article describing the impact of mergers during the 1990s on legal publishing.

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Reference

ABA Legal Technology Resource Center

Subcategory: This site features free searches of over 350 online law reviews and law journals and academic papers.

American Law Sources On-Line - ALSO!

Subcategory: Other Indexes & Finding Aids to Legal Resources on the Internet
Provides a collection of legal links for the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Links to constitutions, statutes, and court information are available for most all national and state governments.

Ask a Librarian: An Online Reference Service

Subcategory: General
(Library of Congress) Email and chat reference covering a wide variety of subject areas.

Ask.com

Subcategory: Searching the Internet
Ask provides a search engine that ranks results based on pages considered to be "experts" and not solely on sheer volume of visits. The handy Binocular Site Preview allows you to preview the page without having to travel away from your search results.

Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th Edition

Subcategory: Quotations
(Bartleby.com) Searchable database of quotations. Quotations can also be accessed by author and through a keyword index as well.

Bing Translator

Subcategory: Translation Services
Translate Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese and Spanish (to and from English), and Russian to English.
Formerly Yahoo! Babelfish.

Bureau of Justice Statistics - BJS

Subcategory: Statistics
(Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice) Statistics on crime, victims, offenders, drugs, deaths in custody, trends, international comparisons, law enforcement, prosecution, sentencing, and corrections.

Chronicle of Higher Education

Subcategory: News - General
Publication with news and information for university faculty and staff. A job database is available for members.

CNN Crime Section

Subcategory: News - Legal
A great source for information on high-profile US crime and trials.

CNN

Subcategory: News - General
Continuously updated news stories and live streaming video. Users can also download news podcasts.

C-SPAN Video Library

Subcategory: Digital archive featuring every C-SPAN program aired since 1987. Over 160,000 hours of searchable programming.

Dallas Morning News

Subcategory: News - General
The major newspaper of the Dallas metroplex.

Fedstats - Federal Interagency Council on Statistical Policy

Subcategory: Statistics
A database of statistics recorded by federal agencies. Data can be located by topic, location, or by promulgating agency.

FindLaw

Subcategory: Other Indexes & Finding Aids to Legal Resources on the Internet
One of the most popular and useful legal research Web sites. Rich in content and features.

Free Translation

Subcategory: Translation Services
Includes free text and Website translators. Translations (English to: Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Dutch, Portuguese and Norwegian and translations from all the above languages (except Norwegian and Chinese) to English.

Guide to Law Online

Subcategory: General
(Law Library of Congress) An annotated guide of Web sites organized by jurisdiction - international, foreign, U.S. federal, and U.S. states. The Guide index lists all countries and states alphabetically. For each jurisdiction, the Law Library of Congress has links to the constitution; executive, judicial, and legislative sources; and other legal guides and general sources.

Law Dictionary

Subcategory: Dictionaries
Covers basic legal terminology with a focus on procedure. In addition, this site links to several other general and subject specific legal dictionaries.

Legal Dictionary

Subcategory: Dictionaries
(FindLaw) Legal dictionary for legal professionals.

Legal Headlines

Subcategory: News - Legal
(FindLaw) Contains the top legal headlines.

Legal News & Commentary

Subcategory: News - Legal
(FindLaw) Contains commentary on the top legal headlines.

LexisNexis Legal Newsroom

Subcategory: Searching the Internet
The LexisNexis Legal Newsroom delivers breaking news headlines, opinions, fast-turn analysis and more.

List of Government Acronyms

Subcategory: Acronyms, Abbreviations, & Glossaries
(University of California San Diego) Contains the abbreviations of government agencies, offices, and programs.

Lubbock Avalanche Journal

Subcategory: News - General
Online version of the Lubbock area newspaper.

Merriam-Webster Dictionary

Subcategory: Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster's online search contains a dictionary, thesaurus, Spanish-English translations, and a medical feature.

Military Acronyms & Glossaries

Subcategory: Acronyms, Abbreviations, & Glossaries
(Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis) A directory of sites that provide databases or listings of military acronyms for all branches.

Most-Cited Legal Periodicals - U.S. & Select Non-U.S.

Subcategory: Legal Periodicals - Indexes & Finding Aids
(Washington & Lee Law School) Provides rankings of law journals by citations, cost, and impact.

MSNBC

Subcategory: News - General
Online source of news. MSNBC also offers podcasts and MSN alerts.

Newspapers.com

Subcategory: News - General
Easy-to-use site that allows you to find U.S. newspapers by state and world papers by country.

Refdesk.com

Subcategory: General
Touted as "the single best source for facts," this site features a huge collection of reference and fact finding tools.

Research Guide Series

Subcategory: Searching the Internet
Compiled by law librarians, these research guides help you research legal topics in the Texas Tech Law Library. The guides discuss official and/or reliable Internet sources when relevant and feature active links to those sources. The guides also include references to some databases restricted to on-site use or password required access.

Sources of United States of America Legal Information in Language Other Than English

Subcategory: Translation Services
(LLRX.com) This article discusses the availability of U.S. legal information in other languages and identifies Web resources, services and print publications from state and federal agencies, courts, libraries and academic institutions.

Statistical Resources on the Web

Subcategory: Statistics
(University of Michigan, University Library Documents Center) The Clark Library combines our map collection, government information center, and spatial and numeric data services.

U.S. Census Bureau

Subcategory: Statistics
The U.S. Census site contains a population clock, population estimates, housing and economic statistics, and news about the next census.

U.S. Senate Glossary

Subcategory: Acronyms, Abbreviations, & Glossaries
Provides a brief definitions of terms related to Congress and the legislative process.

Virtual Reference Shelf

Subcategory: General
(Library of Congress) A compilation of online resources covering a wide variety of legal and non-legal topics.

Wordsmyth: The Educational Dictionary-Thesaurus

Subcategory: Dictionaries
A dictionary that allows users to search for exact words, for words spelled like their search word, and for narrower/broader words.

Yippy

Subcategory: Searching the Internet
Meta search engine that queries multiple search engines and then compiles a list based on rankings. Does not track searches for private browsing.

Yourdictionary.com

Subcategory: Dictionaries
Dictionary search that provides definitions, thesaurus entries, spelling, pronunciation, and etymology results.

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Securities Law

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority - FINRA

Subcategory: Non-governmental regulator of the security industry. FINRA's site contains information on broker registration and compliance.

Guide to Insider Trading

Subcategory: (SEC) Contains basic information on what constitutes insider trading plus information on filing a complaint.

North American Securities Administrators Association - NASAA

Subcategory: NASAA's site contains a directory of securities laws in the United States and Canada plus investor information and registration requirements for investment advisers and broker dealers.

Securities Class Action Clearinghouse

Subcategory: (Stanford University Law School) Contains detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation, as well as an index of filings and copies of litigation-related documents filed in these cases.

Securities Lawyer's Deskbook

Subcategory: (University of Cincinnati College of Law) This updated online reference book is a compilation of federal securities laws and regulations.

U.S. Securities & Exchange Commission - SEC

Subcategory: The SEC website contains forms, relevant acts with links to corresponding rules and regulations, a variety of investment calculators, and commission opinions.

Virtual Museum & Archive of Sec & Securities History

Subcategory: (Securities & Exchange Commission Historical Society) Contains pictures, oral histories, and papers as well as galleries that include all the materials on a specific SEC historical topic.

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Space Law

European Centre for Space Law

Subcategory: (European Centre for Space Law) This page provides a link to the UN Space Legal Framework and various space institutions. There are links to basic international space information, and case law dealing with space.

Space Law: Basic Legal Documents

Subcategory: Provides online access to all documents in the Space Law: Basic Legal Documents collection.

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Tax Law

IInternal Revenue Service - IRS

Subcategory: (U.S. Department of Treasury) Tax information for individuals, businesses, non-profits, and government entities. Online filing applications can be also be accessed.

Legal Bitstream

Subcategory: Legal Bitstream is a tax law research website that provides searchable databases of United States federal income tax and estate tax law. (from website)

State Tax Agencies & Tax Forms

Subcategory: (Federation of Tax Administrators) Find tax information by state or locate tax forms directly by state.

Texas Tax Code

Subcategory: Full-text of the Texas Tax Code accessible by chapter.

Texas Taxes

Subcategory: (Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts) Provides information on sales and use, cigarette, hotel, and all other taxes imposed by the state. This site also discusses local taxes and contains forms and filing information.