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Trademark and Patent Assignments on the Web

The Trademark Assignments and Patent Assignments on the Web databases are provided by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) and made freely available on their website. The trademark database provides information on ownership of trademarks from 1955 to date and patent information is available from 1980 onwards. The database can be searched using a range of criteria including registration or serial number and by assignor or assignee name, applicant name or registrant name.

Education Law Association

Web pages of the US Education Law Association (ELA) which is based at the University of Dayton's School of Education in Ohio. The ELA is a non-profit organisation whose members include educational and legal scholars and practitioners. The site has information about ELA publications including yearbooks, newsletters, case citations, monographs and conference materials. There are also details of ELA events and other education law related events and a page of links to other education law websites. Parts of the site are restricted to members only.

Supreme Court Forecasting Project

The Supreme Court Forecasting Project is based at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The project looks at "the accuracy of the different ways in which legal experts and political scientists assess and predict Supreme Court decision making". During the Court's 2002 term two methods of predicting the votes of judges were compared. One used a statistical forecasting model and the other used forecasts provided by legal experts. The site provides all the forecasts for 2002. The study has been published in the May 2004 issue of the Columbia Law Review.

National Agricultural Law Center

The National Agricultural Law Center is based at the University of Arkansas School of Law in the United States. The Center conducts legal research, provides information facilities and publishes articles by leading agricultural law scholars. The site has a selection of 'Reading Rooms' which are resource guides to a range of agricultural law topics. Subjects covered include bankruptcy, cooperatives, federal crop insurance, farm credit and the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

American Agricultural Law Association

Website of the American Agricultural Law Association (AALA)which describes itself as "the only national professional organization focusing on the legal needs of the agricultural community." The site has organisational information, details of conferences and events and a selection of resource links to other agricultural law websites. A link is given to an online bibliography compiled by the AALA and hosted on the National Center for Agricultural Law at the University of Arkansas School of Law website.

Energy law: an overview

An online guide to US energy law produced by the Legal Information Institute of Cornell University and provided as part of the Wex online legal encyclopedia. The guide provides a summary of the law and links to key primary source material and other internet resources. There are links to federal and state statutes and case law dealing with energy. The federal material is broken down to include nuclear energy, natural gas, oil, alternative sources and energy conservation. Key internet sources include Federal agencies, Congressional Committees and relevant international bodies.

Law journals: submissions and ranking

Online database providing information on more than 1500 legal journals. The database is compiled by John Doyle of the Law Library at the Washington and Lee University, School of Law in the United States. The journals can be organised by country and subject such as administrative law, banking law, constitutional law, family law, economics and the law, insurance law, human rights and legal history. Journals can be ranked by other criteria such as whether the journal is peer reviewed or student edited and whether it is available online or in printed versions.

First Amendment Library

The First Amendment Library forms part of the website of the First Amendment Center an organisation affiliated to the Freedom Forum and based at the Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee and Arlington, Virginia in the United States. The Library provides access to information relating to the five freedoms of the First Amendment -speech, press, assembly, petition and religion. The database is arranged by category including freedom of expression, freedom of religion and the Freedom of Information Act.

First Amendment Center

Website of the First Amendment Center, an organisation affiliated to the Freedom Forum and based at Vanderbilt University in the United States. The aim of the Center is to protect First Amendment freedoms. Its website provides access to information about freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of assembly and the right to petition. Subjects covered within these categories include school children's freedom of expression, freedom of information issues, religious liberty in schools and public life, abortion protests and freedom of association.

Child Care Law Center

The California based Child Care Law Center (CCLC) is a non-profit organisation that focuses on the legal issues affecting childcare. The CCLC describes itself as "a legal resource for the local, state, and national childcare communities" and provides advocacy, training and information.The CCLC produces a quarterly newsletter called Legal Update. This is made freely available on the site in PDF and deals with legal developments affecting childcare law.

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