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ABORIGINAL LAW

Aboriginal Law and Legislation Online

Aboriginal Practice Points (CLE Society of BC)

Canadian Native Law Cases (1763-1978)

LegalTree.ca

AUSTRALIA

Australasian Legal Information Institute (AUSTLII)

Guide to Online Research Sources for the Australian Federal System

LexisNexis Butterworths

Researching Australian Law

Scaleplus

BLOGS

BlawgSearch

Canadian Law Blogs List

Technorati

BRITISH COLUMBIA LEGAL

Administrative Justice Office

AdminLawBC.ca

British Columbia Courthouse Library Society

British Columbia Reports (1867-1948)

British Columbia Securities Commission

British Columbia Law Institute Home Page

British Columbia Superior Courts Home Page

Clicklaw

Continuing Legal Education Society of BC

Law Society of British Columbia

Legislative Assembly of British Columbia

Revised Statutes of British Columbia, 1996

Rules of Court

CANADIAN LEGAL

Courts, Judges and Tribunals - Canada

Alberta Courts

British Columbia Superior Courts Home Page

Canadian International Trade Tribunal

Canadian Human Rights Tribunal

Canadian Judicial Council

Canadian Legal Information Institute (CanLII)

Competition Tribunal Home Page

Copyright Board of Canada

Court Martial Appeal Court of Canada

CRTC

Employment Insurance Jurisprudence Library

Immigration and Refugee Board of Canada

Ontario Courts

Prince Edward Island Supreme Court Decisions

The Federal Court of Canada

Supreme Court of Canada Decisions

Supreme Court of Canada Library Catalogue

Faculties of Law - Canada

Jurist Canada listing of Canadian Law Schools

Government - Canada

Canadian Information By Subject

Canadian Parliamentary Publications: A Research Guide (Univ. of Toronto)

Custom search for Canadian Government Information (Carleton University)

Legisinfo

Parliamentary Internet

Weekly Checklist: Federal Government Databases (4th ed.)

Legislation - Canada and Provinces

CanLII (all jurisdictions except BC)

Justice Canada - Statutes and Regulations

Orders in Council (1867-1910)

Other Legal Resources - Canada

ACJNet

Alberta Law Reform Institute

Canadian Bar Association Home Page/Page d'origine de l'ABC

CIPO Canadian Patent Database

Jurist Canada

Law Reform Commission of Nova Scotia

Law Society of Upper Canada

Legal Tree

LexUM

LSUC, The Great Library

Maritime Law Page

National Library of Canada

Raw Law

Site de la Bibliothèque de droit de l'Université Laval

Uniform Law Conference of Canada

York University Law Library Links

DIRECTORIES

AnyWho

Canada 411

Canada Post - Postal Code Lookup

The Canadian Law List

Directory of Law Teachers (US - AALS)

Findlaw West Legal Directory

Martindale.com Lawyer Locator

US ZIP Code Lookup

EUROPEAN UNION

Europa: Treaties and Law

European Court of Human Rights Home Page

European Court of Justice

ECJ Blog

European Environment Agency

European Union Law: An Integrated Guide to Electronic and Print Research

RAVE Homepage (English)

LAW JOURNALS AND JOURNAL ARTICLES

Cambridge University List of Journals on the WWW

Database of Law Journals Available Electronically

Directory of Open Access Journals

FindLaw: Academic Law Reviews and Journals

Legal Scholarship Network

SCC Library Journal Titles A-Z

The Legal Workshop

Washburn full text index for law journals

LEGAL GENERAL

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia

FindLaw for Legal Professionals

InSITE

Legal Information Institute - Cornell University

WashLaw WEB -- Washburn University School of Law

LEGAL PUBLISHERS

A Legal Publishers' List

Butterworths (Canada)

Canada Law Book

Captus Press

Carswell Product Catalogue

CCH Canadian Limited

CLE Society of BC Publications

Irwin Law

Lancaster House

LexisNexis Canada

LexisNexis UK

LexisNexis US

Maritime Law Book

Micromedia ProQuest

Practising Law Institute

Quickscribe

Sweet & Maxwell

West Thomson

WorldCat

LEGAL RESEARCH AND WRITING

American Guides

Cornell Legal Research Encyclopedia

Free & Low Cost Legal Research Guide (Georgetown)

Free and Low Cost Resources for Legal Research (Pace)

Harvard Law School Research Guides

Law Library Research Guides & Resource Links (Boston College)

Online Legal Research: Beyond LexisNexis & Westlaw (UCLA)

Canadian Guides

Courthouse Libraries BC Legal Research Resources

Doing Legal Research in Canada

Guide to Legal Research (Bora Laskin Law Library)

Legal Research Guides (University of Calgary)

Legal Research Materials (Queen's University)

Research Tools and Law Links (University of Manitoba)

Supreme Court Law (Eugene Meehan QC)

Courses

Advanced Legal Research Courses: A Survey

Jurist Canada

JURIST: The Law Professors' Network

International and European Guides

European Union Law: an Integrated Guide

Harvard Law School Research Guides

Peters and Cane, Researching Foreign Law

Internet Research

Annotated Guide to Resources for Legal Professionals

Competitive Intelligence - A Selective Resource Guide

Evaluation Criteria for Internet Research

InSITE

Intute: virtual training suite

The Law Library Resource Xchange

Organisations

Association of Legal Writing Directors

Canadian Association of Law Libraries

Law Reform Commissions Worldwide

Legal Writing Institute

 

Writing, Reference Works and Citation

Bartleby.com

Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations

Gender-free Legal Writing

Glossary of Maritime Law Terms

Grammar and Style Notes

Introduction to Basic Legal Citation

Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing

Reference Shelf

SEARCH FORMS - DICTIONARY

yourDictionary.com

LITIGATION

American Association for Justice (Association of Trial Lawyers of America)

CJC National Model Practice Direction for the use of Technology in Civil Litigation

CJC National Generic Protocol for the use of Technology in Civil Litigation

Comparative Civil Procedure: A Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources

Defense Research Institute

Findlaw - Defective and Dangerous Products

Findlaw Interactive Guide to Electronic Discovery

LLRX Court Rules, Forms and Dockets (US)

Ontario Bar Association E-Discovery Guidelines and Resources

Trial Lawyers Association of British Columbia

 

MEDICAL

Anatomy and Histology

Medscape

The Merck Manual

Researching Medical Literature on the Internet

U.S. Pharmacopeia

Wheeless' Textbook of Orthopaedics

 

NEW ZEALAND LEGAL

An Introduction to New Zealand Law and Legal Information 2002

New Zealand Legal Information Institute (NZLII)

LINX (subscription-based)

The GP Pages - New Zealand Legislation

New Zealand Legislation

 

TREATIES, INTERNATIONAL AND COMPARATIVE LAW

Canada Treaty Information

Canada-US treaties from 1783-1997

Comparative Civil Procedure: A Guide to Primary and Secondary Sources

Electronic Information System for International Law

Flare Index to Treaties

Foreign and International Law

GlobaLex

Global Legal Information Network (GLIN)

Global Legal Monitor

Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases

Guide to International Trade Law Resources on the Internet

Hague Conference on Private International Law

Hague Justice Portal

Harvard Law School Research Guides

International Relations Research Resources

International Court of Justice Homepage

International Law Video Library

International Parliaments

JuriGlobe - World Legal Systems

Law by Source - Law from around the Globe

Legal Research System for International Law in U.S. Courts

Legal Research on International Law Issues Using the Internet

Multilaterals Project

Preferential Trade Agreements Database

RAVE Homepage (English)

Rulers.org (heads of state)

SICE - Foreign Trade Information System

TRANS-LEX.org (transnational commercial law)

UN Data

UN Documentation Centre

UN Legal Publications Global Search

UN Treaty Collection

UN Treaty Reference Guide

United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL) Home Page

United Nations Home Page

U.S. Department of State International Agreements Collection

World Bank Doing Business Law Library

World Court Digest

WTO/GATT Research

UK LEGAL

Acts of Parliament

British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)

Cambridge University Law Journals on the Internet

COPAC - UK university library catalogues

The Court Service

English Reports

A Guide to the UK Legal System

House of Lords Decisions (since 1997)

Houses of Parliament - UK

InfoLaw

LawCite

Law Links

Law Society Legal Research Guides

Scottish Courts

UK Government Information

UK Hansard (1803-2005)

UK Law Commission

UK Statutory Instruments

UK Statute Law Database

Westlaw UK

USA LEGAL

Federal

AltLaw

DocLaw WWW (U.S. Federal Government Information Sources)

Federal Agency Directory

Federal Court Locator

FedLaw (U.S. Federal Law)

Government Domain: GovTrack and OpenCongress go beyond THOMAS

Government Information Resources (Federal Administrative Agencies)

GovTrack US

Justia

Law Library of Congress

Public Access to Court Electronic Records (PACER)

Supreme Court Decisions - Legal Information Institute

The Law Review of The Federal Courts (US)

THOMAS: Legislative Information on the Internet

United States Code - Cornell

US Code (searchable)

US Supreme Court Official Site

Other Legal Resources

AALLNET : The American Association of Law Libraries Online Information Service

AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION

FindLaw for Legal Professionals

Government Information Online (GIO): Ask a Librarian

LAW SCHOOLS & LIBRARIES "BY STATE"

Precydent.com

Public.Resource.Org

Uniform Law Commission: Archived Drafts

Uniform Law Commission: Final Acts & Legislation

State

Government Domain: State Government Fundamentals

StateLaw: State & Local Government - Executive, Legislative, and Judicial Information

USA.gov State Government links

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