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Legal Portals and Metaindexes

These pages try to provide one-stop shopping for legal information on the Internet. Not too surprisingly, they have mixed success. You may have to try more than one site depending on your subject matter and specific needed and interests.

WashLaw WEB (Washburn Law School)
Links you to law related resources on the Internet. In addition to specialized subject areas, you may access information about Law Schools and Law Libraries. You can search full text of caselaw and law journals, as well as browse law library catalogs. The Law Library hosts many law related web servers and listserv discussion groups.

Cornell Legal Information Institute
This site includes constitutions, codes, court opinions, law by source or jurisdiction, topical libraries, and more.

FindLaw
Legal Resources Organized by Subject Matter, Geography, and Type of Material. Includes guides to Internet legal resources in over 30 practice areas, state specific, federal and international materials, case law and codes, legal associations, legal forms, law firms, law reviews, legal news, legal discussion areas and more. In addition to the materials indexed on FindLaw, the site provides access to LawCrawler, a search engine that only searches "legal" sites.

Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research
Judicial Opinions, Legislation, Federal Regulation, Other Legal Sources, People in the Law (Created at GSU College of Law)

Internet Legal Resource Guide
Categorized index of 4000 Web sites in 238 nations, islands and territories.

CataLaw is the catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet. It aids legal research by arranging all indexes of law and government into a uniform, universal and unique metaindex.

Emory Law Library's Electronic Reference Desk
Subject oriented lists

Yahoo! Law Links
The famous Yahoo!'s collection of legal resources.

Hieros Gamos
Virtually all on-line and published legal information is accessible within three levels.HGI contains information on over 6,000 legal organizations including every government in the world. HGII's 200+ practice areas, 300+ discussion groups and 50 doing business guides provide free access to substantive information.

Jurist
this site from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law is particularly focused on current legal education, news, and events.

LawRunner
provides a search of a Web index of more than thirty million web pages found on 476,000 server, as well as select legal databases. In addition, Users not interested in American web sites should visit the LawRunner Global Index of 238 jurisdictions world-wide. Users who wish to limit their searches to the jurisdictions of any of the fifty United States should visit the LawRunner American State Index.

LegalTrek.com
compiles tens of thousands
of the most important
web-based sources of free legal research
in one convenient location.

Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia Subject Listings

Last modified on April 24, 2007 by Steven Melamut.Please send comments and suggestions to the Library Web Committee
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