What type of information can I find on websites?
Websites can be published by individuals, companies, or organizations and usually provide specific information about topics. Websites can help you find current information and websites are easily changed and updated. Be careful when reviewing information from websites. Often times, information on websites are not held to scholarly or journalistic standards.
Websites
- Legal Information InstituteMaintained by the Cornell University Law School, the Legal Information Institute provides access to a great deal of legal information written for the layman, including a legal encyclopedia, a chat room with online lawyers, a lawyer directory, and links to legal resources.
- Guide to Law OnlinePrepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division, this is an annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. Links are selected for usefulness and reliability for legal information.
- Law CrawlerA legal search engine, focusing on legal web databases.
- SCOTUSblogSCOTUSblog is devoted to comprehensively covering the U.S. Supreme Court without bias and according to the highest journalistic and legal ethical standards. The blog is provided as a public service and is sponsored by Bloomberg Law.
- Public and Private Laws - govinfoAccess govinfo's public and private law collection. Access available from 104th congress to the present.