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Law Related Research

Supreme Court Opinions and Other Law-Related Sites There are a variety of sites on which Supreme Court opinions can be found. Each site has its own advantages and fans. The brief comments below should not be read as cataloging everything that can be found at a particular site, but rather provides only a few of each site’s highlights. What is available also changes frequently with additions making a particular site more valuable than it previously had been.

CataLaw http://www.catalaw.com/ "All legal and government indexes [arranged] into a unique, uniform and universal metaindex."

The Center for Information Law and Policy http://www.law.vill.edu/ Provides state and federal discussions and links to government sites.

Center for Legal Education http://www.lawlib.duq.edu The law library at Duquesne University School of Law has put together a site that provides links to all of the best websites for legal research. In addition, it has links to legislative records at the federal and Pennsylvania levels.

Cornell Law School http://www.law.cornell.edu Maintained by the Legal Information Institute, the Cornell Law School site gives access both to state constitutions and to state and federal laws.

Emory University School of Law http://www.law.emory.edu/ Offers a "Federal Courts Finder" that links to case law from Supreme Court and federal circuits.

The Federal Judiciary Home Page http://www.uscourts.gov/ Source of information about the federal judiciary.

Findlaw http://www.findlaw.com Arguably the best law-related site, Findlaw has Supreme Court decisions going back to 1893. It also allows access to decisions of the United States Courts of Appeals and many state courts, as well as law-related news stories.

Hieros Gamos http://www.hg.org/ "The comprehensive legal and governmental portal."

Internet Law Library http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/ Established by U.S. House of Representatives, it gives access to the U.S. Code.

Landmark Supreme Court Cases http://www.landmarkcases.org/

LawCrawler http://lawcrawler.findlaw.com/ Indexes legal web sites.

Mumford Center http://www.albany.edu/mumford/brown/ The Mumford Center at the University of Albany (SUNY-Albany) provides easy access to litigation involving the issues of segregation/integration running from the seminal case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas (1954) to the present.

Oyez Project http://www.oyez.org/oyez/frontpage The invention of Professor Jerry Goldman, the Oyez site has all oral arguments before the Court since 1995 and seeks eventually to provide access back to 1955 when arguments were first taped. Also located at the site is a “virtual tour” of the Supreme Court Building and information on the justices.

Supreme Court of the United States http://supremecourtus.gov The official site of the Supreme Court of the United States. Among the many features of this site is access to the Court’s docket and schedule for oral argument. It also provides access to related web sites including the Department of Justice and the Solicitor General’s Office.

Thomas http://thomas.loc.gov/ A service of the Library of Congress containing legislative information form the House of Representatives and the Senate.

U. S. Founding http://www.archives.gov/national_archives_experience/charters.html The Charters of Freedom.

WashLaw http://www.washlaw.edu/ Washburn Law Library, site offers links both to federal and to state legal materials.

For more information contact: Dr. Francis Graham Lee, Coordinator glee@sju.edu Site designed and developed for Legal Studies|Para-Legal Program by: Jane Frangiosa, Saint Joseph's University Political Science Department Administrative Assistant.

Last updated: October 2005