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United states law

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Abortion Law: Provides an overview of abortion law in the US, details of core cases, and accounts of constitutional, federal, and canon law. Includes background information about state laws, a glossary of legal terms related to termination of pregnancy, and full text transcripts of notable cases which can be downloaded as zip files or accessed as audio files online.
Author: Schwenkler, John E.
Subjects: pregnancy, united states law
DeweyClass: 342.084
Resource type: documents, sounds
About.com: Current Events - Law: Offers original articles and features about current legal issues in the USA, plus annotated links to selected relevant Internet resources, compiled by a subject specialist, a subject-specific bulletin board, and details of related news and events. Topics include abortion, alternative dispute resolution (ADR), affirmative action, cyberspace, copyright and trademark issues, the death penalty, family law, immigration law, legal education, antitrust law and the Year 2000 problem.
Author: About.com
Subjects: united states law
DeweyClass: 349.73
Resource type: forum, index, news
ALSO: American Law Sources Online: The purpose of ALSO is to provide a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to all online sources of American law, including Canadian and Mexican law as well as federal and state law for the United States.
Author: LawSource
Subjects: canadian government, mexico, united states law
DeweyClass: 349.73
Resource type: index
American Bar Association: Legal professional association. Provides information for members, those in the legal community, and the general public. Topics covered include domestic violence, mental and physical disability law, and children and the law.
Author: American Bar Association
Subjects: domestic violence, legal education, united states law
DeweyClass: 340
Resource type: institution
American Civil Liberties Union: Campaigning organisation with information on the church and state, criminal justice, the death penalty, free speech, lesbian and gay rights, and racial equality, among other topics.
Author: American Civil Liberties Union
Subjects: civil liberties, death, racism, united states law
DeweyClass: 323
Resource type: documents
Copyright and Fair Use: Primary materials including statutes and judicial opinions, current legislation, cases and issues, and an overview of copyright law. Collaboration between Stanford University Libraries, the Council on Library Resources, and FindLaw Internet Legal Resources.
Author: Stanford University Libraries
Subjects: copyright, intellectual property, united states law
DeweyClass: 346.04
Resource type: documents
Fed Law: Index of full text US Federal and State statutes and law reports.
Author: US General Service Administration
Subjects: united states law
DeweyClass: 348
Resource type: index
Federal Communications Law Journal: Discusses a wide range of US and international communications and information issues, including telecommunications, the First Amendment, broadcasting, telephony, computers, intellectual property, communications and information policy making, and related fields.
Author: Indiana University School of Law and the Federal Communications Bar Association
Subjects: media studies, telecommunications, united states law
DeweyClass: 340
Resource type: journal
Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center: Offers access to the US Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database containing information about suspects and defendants processed in each stage of the Federal criminal justice system in a given year. A data dictionary identifies and describes the variables in the database and organises data according to suspects and defendants entering, leaving or pending a stage of criminal case processing.
Author: Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center
Subjects: crime, united states law
DeweyClass: 364
Resource type: reference documents
Food and Drug Law Institute: A forum for critical examination of the laws, regulations and policies related to drugs, health care technologies and food.
Author: US Food and Drug Law Institute
Subjects: food safety, pharmacy, united states law
DeweyClass: 344
Resource type: index
From the Back Alleys to the Supreme Court and Beyond: An audio adaptation of a video trilogy which documents the history of abortion rights in the US. It begins when abortion was illegal, tells the story of the fight for safe abortions, and describes the laws surrounding abortion in the US today.
Author: University of Albany
Subjects: pregnancy, united states law, women's rights
DeweyClass: 342.084
Resource type: sounds
GPO Access: Searchable database of US Government Federal Regulations. The database is searchable by; CFR title number, CFR title and part number, and CFR Title, Part and Page number, by keyword, or by title. The database also allows searching for updates to CFRs found in the database.
Author: US Government Printing Office
Subjects: united states government, united states law
DeweyClass: 350
Resource type: document collection
IMHL: Institute of Mental Health Law: The Institute specialises in all areas of the UK Mental Health Act 1983 and related legislation. It provides legal services to several trusts who provide care to patients with both mental illness and learning disabilities. Includes research and journal articles on the subject, and details of court cases.
Author: Institute of Mental Health Law
Subjects: mental health services, mental illness, united states law
DeweyClass: 344.044
Resource type: documents
Law and Politics Internet Guide: Index of legal, judicial, and government information including law journals and publishers, book reviews, continuing legal education resources, and political material.
Author: Roberts, Randy
Subjects: government links, legal education, united states law, united states politics
DeweyClass: 340
Resource type: index
Law Library Resource Xchange: Set of articles, departments and columns for legal professionals written by law librarians, attorneys, information technology specialists and legal technology consultants. Covers research, management and technology in the legal field. Also features KeyCite - a citation database and case finder.
Author: Law Library Resource Xchange
Subjects: legal research, united states law
DeweyClass: 340
Resource type: documents
Lawbook Exchange Ltd: Catalogue of scholarly and out-of-print books for mail order, mainly from the 20th century and with a US focus.
Author: Lawbook Exchange
Subjects: old books, united states law
DeweyClass: 070.5
Resource type: productinfo
LawGuru.com: Collection of legal resources including research tools, answers to legal questions and links to information on a range of legal topics such as law enforcement, legal forms and sexual harassment. Also hosts the Internet Law Library.
Author: Eslamboly and Barlavi
Subjects: law links, legal research, united states law
DeweyClass: 349.7
Resource type: documents
Lawyers Weekly: Provides US legal news and headlines.
Author: Lawyers Weekly
Subjects: united states law
DeweyClass: 340
Resource type: news
Legislative Indexing Vocabulary: Designed for use by the US Congressional Research Service, this body of controlled vocabulary can be used by indexers to assign subject terms to bills, resolutions, and public policy literature in a consistent fashion. Enables users to narrow queries for more precise retrieval or to broaden queries for retrieving related legislation.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: united states law
DeweyClass: 340
Resource type: thesaurus
lexisONE: Resource for legal professionals practising American law. Contains a free searchable database of Federal and State Case Law, legal forms available for download, and links to more specialised law resources on the Web.
Author: Lexis-Nexis Group
Subjects: law links, united states law
DeweyClass: 349.73
Resource type: documents, index
Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research: Links to many of the searchable US legal services. Subjects covered include judicial opinions, legislation, federal regulation and people in law.
Author: Georgia State University College of Law
Subjects: united states law
DeweyClass: 340
Resource type: index
Native American Legal Resources: Provides access to resources produced at the University of Oklahoma Law Centre such as American Indian Law Review, and the Native American Constitution and Law Digitisation Project. Also offers a selection of tribal, historical and cultural resources related to American Indians.
Author: University of Oklahoma Law Center
Subjects: american indians, united states law
DeweyClass: 349.7
Resource type: documents
Nolo's Legal Encyclopaedia: Compendium of brief advice on fifteen topics about US law, including small businesses, patents, copyright, trademarks, legal research, wills and estate planning.
Author: Nolo Press
Subjects: united states law
DeweyClass: 349
Resource type: documents
THOMAS: A service provided by the Library of Congress and making Federal legislative information available on the Internet. Provides access to databases, Bills, the Congressional record, information on the legislative process and access to US Government Internet resources.
Author: Library of Congress
Subjects: united states government, united states law
DeweyClass: 349.73
Resource type: document collection
Tobacco Control Archive - Brown and Williamson Collection: The documents consist primarily of scientific studies on the addicitve nature of nicotine and other health effects of tobacco smoke. The materials have been the subject of a suit in San Francisco Superior Court in which Brown & Williamson sought to permanently remove the disputed material from the Library. After further legal discussion the California Supreme Court rejected the appeal made by the company allowing UCSF to release the documents.
Author: University of California San Francisco
Subjects: addiction, tobacco, united states law
DeweyClass: 362.296
Resource type: documents
United States Code: Searchable database of US laws in force, divided into fifty subject categories, each individually searchable.
Author: LII, U.S. Government Printing Office
Subjects: united states law
DeweyClass: 349.73
Resource type: reference documents
United States Patents and Trademark Office: Through the issue of patents, USPTO encourages technological advancement by providing incentives to invent, invest in, and disclose new technology worldwide. Offers online access to a range of general reference documents, directories, and data collections.
Author: United States Patents and Trademark Office
Subjects: intellectual property, inventions, patents, united states law
DeweyClass: 608
Resource type: reference documents