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Justice Project

The Justice Project (TJP) is a Washington-based independent campaigning organisation which seeks to foster fairness and accuracy in criminal cases and advocates reform of the death penalty. The website has information on the staff and activities work of the TJP and provides its reports and recommendations, related publications and case studies. The National page has information and guidance on the Innocence Protection Act, which forms part of the Justice for All Act 2004 (HR 5107), and other federal matters. The States page covers TJP work in Texas, Georgia, Illinois and Tennessee.

Legal Blawg Archive

The Legal Blawg Archive has been compiled by the Law Library of Congress since 2007. It consists of selected law blogs by universities, research institutes and think tanks based in the US and elsewhere. The collection can be browsed by area of law, country of origin and other criteria, and there is a search facility.

Lincoln and the Law

Online guide providing access to legal materials relating to Abraham Lincoln and his involvement with the law. The guide is made freely available by the Law Library of Congress as one of their series of Current Legal Topics. The first section covers his role as an Illinois lawyer and includes digitised versions of books about Abraham Lincoln, lectures and minutes of meetings of the Law Association of Philadelphia.

A compilation of state lawyer licensing databases

Online guide to state lawyer licensing databases compiled by Andrew Zimmerman who is Director of Library Services at Gordon, Feinblatt, Rothman, Hoffberger & Hollander LLC in Baltimore, Maryland and Trevor Rosen who is Librarian at Shapiro Sher Guinot & Sandler in Baltimore, Maryland. These databases can be used to check whether an individual United States lawyer is licensed to practice in a particular state. Most databases are provided by either the state bar association, the state's court system, disciplinary agency, bar examiners or licensing agency.

Journal of Legal Analysis

The Journal of Legal Analysis (JLA) is published by Oxford University Press on behlaf of Harvard Law School.  This peer reviewed journal aims to publish the "best legal scholarship from all disciplinary perspectives and in all styles, whether verbal, formal, or empirical". The site has information about the JLA including details of the Editorial Board. Articles are made freely available in full text and can be downloaded in HTML and PDF. Recent topics covered include judicial salaries, equality in criminal law and class action settlements.

Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System

Website of the Institute for the Advancement of the American Legal System (IAALS) a national research body based at the University of Denver. IAALS research is focused on the US civil justice system covering the following areas: civil justice reform; civil case management; judicial selection; judicial performance evaluation; judicial independence and domestic relations. IAALS reports are made freely available on the site to download in full text. However free registration is required before users can download the publications.

Federal Judicial Center

The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) is the education and research agency for the US federal courts. Its website provides research on the federal courts as well as educational materials for judges and court employees. Datasets covering civil and criminal filings and terminations in federal district courts, together with details of bankruptcy court and appellate court cases from 1970 onwards, are available in the FJC's Integrated Data Base . A section of the site gives information about the FJC International Office's work with foreign judges and court officials.

Organized Crime Research

Website focusing on organised crime in the United States and Germany, produced by Klaus von Lampe, Professor of criminology at the Berlin School of Economics and Law in Berlin. The site includes definitions of organised crime from the United States and elsewhere and gives details of books, articles, reports and presentations by the author, many of which are available in full. There are also book reviews of books and an annotated list of links to related sites. The site is in English and German.

A Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals

Full text copy of "A Primer on the Jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals" written by Thomas E. Baker of the Florida International University, College of Law and made freely available online by the Federal Judicial Center, an education and research agency for the federal courts in the United States. The primer was published in 2009 (and updated in 2023) and provides an "introduction to the complexity and nuance in the subject-matter jurisdiction of the U.S. Courts of Appeals".

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