Resource guides and directories

Guide to Law Online

The Guide to Law Online, developed by the Law Library of Congress in the US, is a global directory of websites concerned with law and government. It focuses on sites of interest to legal researchers and provides links and some annotations. The guide is arranged by jurisdiction under four main headings: International, US Federal, US States and Territories and Nations (of the world - Afghanistan to Zimbabwe).

American Legal Ethics Library

The American Legal Ethics Library has been developed by Cornell Law School's Legal Information Institute, and is now under the editorial leadership of W. Bradley Wendel, Associate Professor of Law at Cornell. This digital library contains the US codes or rules setting standards for the professional conduct of lawyers and commentary on the law governing lawyers, organized on a state by state basis. Contributions are by both practising and academic lawyers.

rightsnet

The rightsnet website is designed to provide up to date welfare rights information and news for advice workers. It is managed by lasa (London Advice Services Alliance). The site provides a news section, training, policy news, an email discussion group and summaries of the latest welfare benefit and tax credit case law from the Administrative Appeals Chamber of the Upper Tribunal for subscribers.The Toolkit facility jas links to sites offering legislation, case law, current benefit rates and factsheets.

Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta

The Centre for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA) is an electronic service that brings together people, information and educational resources on Canadian justice and legal issues. It is available in English and French, with a special section for Alberta. The site has links to official sources of Canadian legislative materials including statutes, bills and case law. It also offers a resource centre including educational materials for the classroom and access to legal newspapers, and other reference and publicly available information.

Kieron Wood's pages

Website of Kieron Wood, a barrister practising in Dublin, Ireland. The site contains articles, features and information on Irish legal matters. There are sections dealing with family law and civil law covering divorce, marriage, links to Irish family legislation, citizenship, labour law and defamation law in Ireland. There is a glossary of legal terms, contact details for other Irish barristers and a page of links to Irish legal sites.

Women's Human Rights Resources Programme

The Women's Human Rights Resources Programme is a database maintained by staff at Bora Laskin Law Library, University of Toronto. It contains articles and documents relating to women's human rights law, a collection of research guides and bibliographies, details of law courses in Canada relating specifically to women and a directory of women's rights organisations in Canada. Issues covered include: immigration, indigenous women's rights, violence against women, reproductive rights, feminist theory, religion and culture, race and gender, and domestic implementation of international law.

FindLaw

A comprehensive US-centred site indexing and linking to online legal resources aimed at legal professionals and the public. The service is freely available on the internet. Legal information and links to resources for the public are arranged under the following broad headings: accidents and injuries; bankruptcy and debt; car accidents; civil rights; criminal law; dangerous products; family law; employee's rights; estate planning and probate; immigration law; intellectual property; real estate; small businesses and taxation. Information is broken down into further sub categories.

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