Comprehensive Legal Information Sites
- FindLaw - FindLaw is a comprehensive, commercial legal site with substantive content in addition to lists of links. It includes a service called LawCrawler, the legal world's answer to search engines like Google and AltaVista.
- Legal Information Institute - Cornell's Legal Information Institute (LII) was one of the first World Wide Web sites devoted to law, and is still among the best and most complete.
- Wex - Wex is a collaboratively built legal dictionary and encyclopedia hosted by the Legal Information Institute.
- Wikilaw - Wikilaw's goal is to build the largest open-content legal resource in the world. The site's creators encourage anyone with legal knowledge to contribute information to the resource.
- Georgetown Legal Explorer (Georgetown University) - The Georgetown University Law Library web is an excellent starting point for all kinds of legal research in cyberspace.
- WashLaw - Washburn University law librarians have been at the cutting edge of Internet-based legal resources for nearly a decade, originating many topical discussion lists and websites in addition to WashLaw, notably AALLnet.
- WWW Virtual Law Library (Indiana University) - The people at CERN who created the web in the early 90's founded a network of "World Wide Web Virtual Library" sites. These are topical websites maintained at different locations all over the world, which remain among the best places to begin any web-based research project.
- Yahoo Law Links -Yahoo serves as a gateway to web resources on thousands of topics. This is a link to their page covering law-related resources.>
- CataLaw - CataLaw is a self-described "Metaindex of Law and Government,"combining over 100 web indexes in 12 jurisdictions. It appears to be focused on Canadian research, but includes U.S. sources as well.
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