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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U.S. Government Information

• UNLV Government Publications Department - The Government Publications staff at UNLV's Lied Library have created an excellent one-stop-shopping place for government information on the web, which is unique for its Spanish-language interface.  In addition to providing a formidable collection of links in their own right, they link to other key government information sites such as those below.
• University of Michigan Documents Center
• FirstGov Reference Center
• Federal Consumer Information Center (GSA)
• GPO Access (Government Printing Office)
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet (Library of Congress)

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Foreign and International Information

• Foreign and International Law Resources on the Internet (Cornell)
• Foreign and International Law Web (WashLaw)
• World Legal Information Institute
• International Law Dictionary and Directory
• Australian Attorney General
• Australasian Legal Information Institute

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Miscellaneous Useful & Interesting Sites

• ABA-Accredited Law Schools
• AALLnet (American Association of Law Libraries)
• The Code of Hammurabi
• Court TV Online
• Law School Rankings (US News)
• Nolo Press (includes Legal Dictionary and Encyclopedia)
• Oyez Project - Supreme Court Oral Arguments (Northwestern)
• Uniform Laws - Drafts and Final Acts
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws

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