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Database of Federal Statute Names

Free database of popular names of US federal statutes, compiled by Yale’s Lillian Goldman Law Library. The main focus is on names which do not communicate clearly the subject of the legislation, for example the ‘Rankin Act’ and the ‘Serve America Act’. For each statute, the official citations and short title (if any) are given. Each statute title is categorised using the following list of types: Sponsor, Description, Honor, Case, Tribe, Victim, Political Description, Location, Undefined, Award, Abbreviation, Acrostic, Private Law, Institution.

Discover Criminal Justice

Free website providing a directory of more than 5,000 accredited criminal justice courses available in the United States, together with careers articles and interviews with criminal justice experts from academia, legal practice and the police force. All degree levels are covered by the directory, including doctoral programmes, and it includes a variety of specialisms, such as court reporting, juvenile justice, criminology, counter-terrorism, IT, international criminal justice and legal studies.

Empirical Research

A comprehensive online research guide describing resources useful for empirical legal research including information on data sets and statistical packages, compiled by Alissa Black-Doward at Fordham University Law Library. The guide identifies relevant online and print resources including collections of statistics, empirical legal research centres, websites, books, journals and articles.

Society for Empirical Legal Studies

Official website of the Society for Empirical Legal Studies (SELS), an international association of scholars interested in empirical legal studies, highlighting recent articles and publishing information on events, news and conferences in the field of empirical legal studies and research . The site includes information about the Society's official journal, The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies (JELS) and the annual Conference on Empirical Legal Studies (CELS) organised by the Society. Resources presented on the site include PDFs of presentations from past conferences.

Empirical Legal Studies

A law blog focusing on topics related to empirical legal studies. The blog features posts and comment on current topics, conferences and workshops, and database services relevant for empirical legal studies and research. A monthly archive of discussions is available. The blog has been created and developed as a collaborative project by Vermont Law School, Cornell Law School, John Marshall Law School in the USA.

Congress.gov

Congress.gov is the official website for United States federal legislative information. It provides federal bills and laws from 1951/52 onwards and tracking information for legislation currently going through Congress. Information about Congressional committees is also given, including reports and other documents. The Congressional Record is also available, back to the nineteenth century. There are also member profiles showing legislation sponsored and co-sponsored.

Cyberspace Law

Online guide to cyberspace law made freely available on the Legalmatch website. Legalmatch is a US based lawyer directory. The guide has annotated links to articles, reports, bibliographies, news sites and other guides to internet law. The links are organised under the following headings: commerce; cyber-crime; freedom of expression; privacy and intellectual property. The emphasis is on United States law throughout.

Rethinking Music: a briefing book

This publication by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University consists of papers presented at the Rethink Music Conference in April 2011. The book is on music law and policy, focusing on changes to the music industry brought about by the shift to online music consumption. There are papers dealing with cloud-based music services, music rights clearances and public media and voluntary payment models.

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