In Custodia Legis is the blog compiled by staff of the Law Library of Congress. Its focus is on the work and resources of the Law Library of Congress, but posts cover a wide range of legal topics, including global law and foreign law news, legal databases and resources, library collections and research guides.
This is a Law Library of Congress research guide providing guidance on using the internet to identify free US cases. The guide was written in 2018 (and updated in 2019) by Barbara Bavis, Bibliographic and Research Instruction Librarian, and Robert Brammer, Senior Legal Information Specialist at the Law Library of Congress. The guide focuses on Google Scholar, CourtListener, FindLaw, Justia, and the Public Library of Law (PLoL) website.
Online guide to the United States Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), by Andrew Grossman, who is a retired US Foreign Service Officer. The guide was published in 2018 (and updated in 2023) on the Globalex website and made freely available by the Hauser Global Law School Program at the New York University School of Law. FATCA requires foreign financial Institutions to report on foreign assets held by their US account holders.
This blog is concerned with United States sentencing law and policy and is written by Professor Douglas A. Berman of the Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University. The blog has been running since 2004 and posts cover issues such as sentencing guidelines, sentencing reform, sentencing data and state sentencing guidelines. There are also posts focusing on specific cases and aspects of policy such as gun policy and sentencing. Previous posts can be browsed by date or topic or searched by keyword. Links are given to other US law and justice websites and other criminal law blogs.
Online guide to recent resources concerning fingerprint evidence in United Sates law. Information is given on a range of resources including key opinions, articles from law journals and forensic science journals, books and reports. The guide was written by Ken Strutin, who is Director of Legal Information Services at the New York State Defenders Association, and was published in 2017 on LLRX.com, the free web journal on law and technology. Most of the resources linked can be freely accessed.
The International Center for Law and Religion Studies is part of the J. Reuben Clark Law School at the Brigham Young University in Utah. The Center promotes freedom of religion worldwide and is focused on the relationship between law and religion. The Center compiles Religlaw a database of documents including laws, treatises, articles and case law affecting freedom of religion in countries around the world.
Guide to law and policy regarding open government in each US state and in the District of Columbia. Covers the rights of citizens to access official information and attend official meetings. For each state, and for DC, there is a guide available in both html and pdf format. The Guide is the work of the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press, which is based in Washington, DC.
Guide to US federal law and policy regarding freedom of information, privacy and the right to attend official meetings, by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press. The guide is available in either html or pdf format.
Portal to US state and federal rules and regulations. Explains what administrative rules are and gives links to codified and uncodified versions for each state and for the federal government.The resource is provided by the Administrative Codes & Registers Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State.
Online archive of US presidential documents, election documents and data, and audio visual material. Includes executive orders, proclamations, State of the Union addresses and messages, inaugural addresses, addresses to Congress, press conference material, veto messages, party convention addresses, election debates and other resources. The archive is hosted by the University of California, Santa Barbara, and covers the period from 1789 to the present.
