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American Society of Comparative Law

The American Society of Comparative Law (ASCL) promotes the study of foreign and comparative law in the United States. It publishes the American Journal of Comparative Law and organises events and meetings. The ASCL website provides a seardchable index to the Journal from 1952 to 2006. Details of recent conferences and meetings are available under "Programs". The site also outlines the Society's research opportunities and interests. A Links feature gives access to selected resources on international and comparative law.

National Conference of State Legislatures

Website for the US National Conference of State Legislatures, an organisation founded in 1975 to represent state interests before Congress, the administration and federal agencies. Membership is made up of US state lawmakers and legislative staff. The site outlines the work and policies of the organisation and features regular news, views and job listings. It describes the work of the NCSL's 12 standing committees which "develop the official policy statements that determine our positions on the wide range of federal actions that affect the states".

Famous Trials

Website compiled by Doug Linder, Professor of Law at the University of Missouri-Kansas City Law School, for educational and non-commercial purposes. Provides materials relating to famous trials, mostly American, ranging in date from the Salem Witchcraft Trials of 1692, to the Clinton Impeachment Trial of 1999. World trials are also featured e.g. the trials of Socrates and Galileo and the Nuremburg Trials.

All Law

An American portal to legal materials on the Internet created by AIS, Attorney Internet Services. The site offers links to US federal and state resources and international law resources via listings and structured search forms. Links to legal organisations and a topics index are available. The site also features a compilation of links to legal forms, a state attorney database, law school listing, and list of legal support service vendors.

LawGuru

Website of LawGuru, a US legal resource site maintained and operated by WebSiteBroker, Inc. a California corporation. The site includes a message board where members of the public can post legal questions that will be answered by a lawyer. A database of these questions and answers can be searched by keyword or browsed by subject. A large number of legal forms can be purchased on the site. There is also a LawGuru wiki giving definitions of legal terms and a collection of short legal articles.

Journal of Intellectual Property

Website of the Journal of Intellectual Property, published 3 times a year by students at the Chicago-Kent College of Law, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago, USA. The journal began in Spring 1999 and provides full text articles from this date onwards. The journal aims to include articles on copyright, patents, trademark law, and trade secrets. The website offers pages on intellectual property issues, which summarise news, cases and developments on these subjects, with links where possible to full-text of cases and statutes.

Harvard Human Rights Journal

Web pages of the Harvard Human Rights Journal, an annual journal edited by the students at Harvard Law School, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA. The journal is aimed at academics and legal practitioners who work in human rights, and focuses on new developments and innovations in the human rights field. The site offers full text content from 1999 onwards and tables of contents from 1988 onwards. Recent issues have articles on United States ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, reform of the United Nations and extraordinary rendition.

Pennsylvania legal research websites

Website developed by Duquesne University Law Library in Pittsburg, USA providing a collection of links to Pennsylvania legal research sites. The service is aimed at scholars, lawyers and other users carrying out Pennsylvania legal research. Links are given to government and legislation sites, general Pennsylvania legal sites, law schools, legal journals, courts and case law, court rules, statutory law, professional associations, news sources, county information and legal subjects.

Administrative Law Review

The Administrative Law Review is published four times annually by the students of the Washington College of Law in conjunction with the American Bar Association's Section of Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice. The ALR strives to develop legal research and writing skills of students while publishing articles that serve both practitioners and academicians. Each issue contains articles by practising lawyers, judges, and academicians considering legal theory and practice from a US perspective. The ALR also contains student comments and casenotes on administrative law issues.

Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law

Web pages for the Journal of Gender, Social Policy and the Law, published three times a year from 1992 onwards, and edited by students at the Washington College of Law. The journal publishes articles addressing social and political equality under the law, and aims to attract those interested in gender issues and feminist legal studies. The website provides tables of contents from 1992 onwards along with selected full text articles. Subscriptions can be purchased from William S. Hein and Co. Full text is available through LEXIS and Westlaw.

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