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Free Law Project

The Free Law Project is a California based non-profit organisation providing free online access to primary legal materials. The Project is also involved with the development of technologies for legal research. Current work includes CourtListener (a searchable database of legal opinions from federal and state courts), RECAP (an extension for Firefox and Chrome to improve the use of PACER) and Juriscraper which gathers opinions from federal appeal courts, state supreme courts and oral arguments from all appellate federal courts that offer them.

Appeals to the Privy Council from the American Colonies: An Annotated Digital Catalogue

Online catalogue of British Privy Council appeals from the 13 colonies that became the United States and from colonies in Canada and the Caribbean heard before the creation of the United States Supreme Court in in 1789. The catalogue was compiled by Sharon Hamby O’Connor and Mary Sarah Bilder and made freely available online by the Ames Foundation in the United States. The catalogue can be searched using a simple keyword search option or by party, participants or counsel. Appeals can also be browsed by colony. Links are given to digital images of original documents.

How To Conduct Free Legal Research Using Google Scholar in 2015

Online guide to using the free Google Scholar search engine to find United States legal cases, opinions and journal articles. The guide is written by Nicole Black who is a New York based attorney and published in April 2015 on LLRX.com. This step-by-step guide covers case searching, finding citations and creating alerts. Part 2 of Nicole Black’s article (focusing on the more advanced search features) is posted in the same edition of LLRX.com. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free online web journal for legal information professionals.

Cameras in the Streets: Focus on Justice

Online guide looking at the issues arising from the increased use of videotaped information provided by the police and public in legal cases. 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 December 2014 on LLRX.com. The author brings together cases, reports, articles, websites and news items that cover privacy issues, use of video as evidence and the civil rights of the videographer. Not all of the resources linked to are freely available. The guide relates to United States law throughout.

Privacy and Data Security Violations: What’s the Harm?

Article on privacy and data security written by Daniel J. Solove who is John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. The article was published in August 2014 on LLRX.com and looks at United States law regarding breaches in data protection and the concept of harm in these circumstances. This is the first of four articles on this topic published in this issue of LLRX.com. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free online web journal for legal information professionals.

Why the Law Often Doesn’t Recognize Privacy and Data Security Harms

Article on privacy and data security written by Daniel J. Solove who is John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. The article was published in August 2014 on LLRX.com and looks at United States law regarding breaches in data protection and the difficulty the law has in recognising and dealing with the concept of harm in these circumstances. This is the second of four articles on this topic published in this issue of LLRX.com. LLRX.com (Law Library Resource Xchange) is a free online web journal for legal information professionals.

How Should the Law Handle Privacy and Data Security Harms?

Article on privacy and data security written by Daniel J. Solove who is John Marshall Harlan Research Professor of Law at George Washington University Law School. The article was published in August 2014 on LLRX.com and looks at United States law regarding breaches in data protection and the concept of harm in these circumstances. The author discusses how the law should handle privacy and security harms. This is the fourth of four articles on this topic published in this issue of LLRX.com.

Canon Law Society of America

Website of the Canon Law Society of America (CLSA) a professional association “dedicated to the promotion of both the study and application of canon law in the Catholic Church”. The CLSA was formed in 1939 and the website provides information on the governors and committees of the society. The CLSA constitution and by-laws are also provided along with full text copies of the online newsletter available back to 2003. CLSA members provide advisory opinions on the Code of Canon Law and canonical issues which can be downloaded from the site.

Law Professor Blog Network

This American website hosts a set of more than 40 law blogs edited mainly by academics. Many of the blogs cover particular areas of law, including international and comparative law as well as many aspects of US law, but there are also blogs focusing on legislation, legal education, legal technology and other topics. The Law Professor Blog Network was founded by Paul Caron of Pepperdine University School of Law, together with Joseph A. Hodnicki.

DNA evidence: brave new world, same old problems

Online guide to the use of DNA evidence in United States law. 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 October 2013 on LLRX.com. There is commentary on and links to books, individual chapters, law review articles, reports, standards and scientific articles focusing on the “role of DNA in identification, investigation and prosecution of crime, social and privacy issues, and to some degree exculpation or evidence of third party culpability”.

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