Administrative Law - Antitrust - Appellate - Arbitration - Banking - Bankruptcy - Business and Corporate - Copyright - Environment - Ethics / Historical Documents - Humor - Immigration Law - Intellectual Property - Labor and Employment - Legal Media / Patents - Privacy - Securities and Investment - Senior Law - Stock Exchanges - Tax Law - Trade Law - Trademarks

Administrative Law

• Administrative Codes and Registers (ACR) Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS) 
• Has links to federal and state registers.
• Federal Register Current Issue 
• The current issue of the Federal Register.
• FindLaw Legal Subjects: Administrative Law 
• Links to law firms, government agencies, news, laws, and related topics.
• LII Administrative Law Materials 
• Links to federal and state administrative laws and regulations.

Antitrust

• American Antitrust Institute 
• Antitrust news, who's who in antitrust, resources guide.
• Antitrust Division of the Department of Justice 
• Press releases, public documents, antitrust case filings, report violaitons, search tools.
• Emory Law Library Securities & Antitrust Law 
• Links to major laws, organizations, and general securities sites.
• Federal Trade Commission: Antitrust 
• Public documents include advisory opinions, commission actions, early terminations, guidelines, Hart-Scott-Rodino Act, press releases, speeches, and more.
• National Association of Attorneys General 
• News, find your attorney general, projects of the association.

Appellate Law

• Acts/Rules/Codes 
• State Bar of Texas Administrative and Public Law Section Acts/Rules/Codes
• Local Court Rules 
• From the US Courts System
• Texas Judiciary Online 
• Texas Rules of Evidence
• Texas Judiciary Online 
• Texas Rules of Appellate Procedure
• The Federal Judiciary 
• From the US Courts System: includes links to Federal Rules of Appellate, Civil, Criminal, and Bankruptcy Procedures.
• The Federal Judiciary 
• This page is maintained by the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts on behalf of the U.S. Courts.

Arbitration

• American Arbitration Association (AAA) 
• Current arbitration news, rules, forms, protocols, ADR guides.
• Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service 
• Description of services, forms, news, calendar of events.
• International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Court 
• Information about the ICC's arbitration court, rules and services.
• International Chamber of Commerce Arbitration Rules 
• The ICC set of arbitration rules.
• National Academy of Arbitrators 
• Code of Professional Responsibility, list of links to other Alternative Dispute Resolution sites, constitution and bylaws, upcoming conferences, some arbitration related briefs.

Banking

• American Bankers Association 
• Many of the features are available only to ABA members, but there are some news stories of interest to the banking industry.
• America's Community Bankers 
• Banking news, consumer services, banking information resources related to community banks and the people they serve.
• Comptroller of the Currency 
• The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) charters, regulates, and supervises national banks to ensure a safe, sound, and competitive banking system
• Consumer Price Index 
• All sorts of pre-formatted CPI reports, also build it yourself reports.
• Credit Union National Association 
• Credit union related news, consumer information, regulation & compliance, eCommerce & technology, research & statistics, and more.
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation 
• The FDIC site has access to bank data, regulations, and FAQs for the general public. Many searchable databases that allow searches on individual banks.
• Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council (FFIEC) 
• This agency oversees the processes and procedures of all of the other federal banking agencies.
• Federal Reserve Board 
• regulation, payment systems, economic research and data, consumer information, community development, reporting forms, publications and education resources.
• House Committee on Financial Services 
• The Committee oversees all financial services, including securities, insurance, banking, and housing industries.
• Mortgage Bankers Association of America 
• Current news, mortgage interest rates, federal updates, state & local updates, consumer information.
• National Credit Union Administration 
• National agency that charters and administers credit unions. It has a searchable database on credit unions, legislative news, and reference links.
• TreasuryDirect (formerly US Savings Bond site) 
• From the web site: "Establish a secure account with the U.S. Treasury through TreasuryDirect and manage your purchases, redemptions, and savings portfolio online—no paper bonds or paperwork."
• United States Department of the Treasury 
• Accounting and budgets, currency and coins, financial market, bonds, taxes, latest press releases, international markets, small business, law enforcement, and more.

Bankruptcy Law

• American Bankruptcy Institute 
• Web site for the ABI, has cases, conference reports and links to other bankruptcy sites.
• Commercial Law League of America 
• Very useful legislative reports and updates concerning bankruptcy.
• LII Bankruptcy Law Materials 
• Definition of bankruptcy, links to federal and state statutes and regulations.
• Official Bankruptcy Forms 
• Links to bankuptcy forms provided by the US Courts
• US Bankruptcy Code 
• Hyperlinked version of the Bankruptcy code, provided by Cornell University.
• US Trustee Program 
• Component of the Department of Justice responsible for overseeing Contains information about the trustee program and includes full text administrative decisions issued by the Program re private trustees.

Business and Corporate Law

• American Institute of Certified Public Accountants 
• Has information for CPAs, accounting standards, audit standards, exposure drafts and more. Also has section on Sarbanes-Oxley Act and implementation.
• Financial Accounting Standards Board 
• Contains summaries and information on the status of all FASB statements, recent FASB Exposure Drafts, and substantial information about the FASBs activities.
• Hoover's Company Profiles 
• Contains snapshots of the largest public and private companies, plus links (if they exist) to company home pages. Complete profiles are available to subscribers.
• International Chamber of Commerce 
• Information about the ICC, global business issues, committees, conferences and the text of the ICC Rules of Arbitration.
• Securities and Exchange Commission 
• Laws and regulations, EDGAR filings, regulatory actions, staff interpretations, investors' information, litigation releases, press releases, more.
• Securities Industry Association 
• Reference materials, some available for free, surveys, conferences, news.
• Securities Law Desk Book 
• From the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Full text of major securities laws and regulations.
• Securities Law Home Page 
• Guides to securities law, current headlines, newsletter, message boards..
• SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval) 
• Canada's system for filing with securities administrators - similar to EDGAR.
• Standard Industrial Classification Code (1987) 
• Provided by the Occupational Health & Safety Administration. You can choose between searching the code or looking at an expanded table of contents from the manual (1987 version.)
• Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse 
• This site provides detailed information relating to the prosecution, defense, and settlement of federal class action securities fraud litigation.
• Uniform Business and Financial Laws Locator 
• Links to state statutes which correspond to Uniform Laws in the subject areas of business and finance, provided by the LII at Cornell University.
• Uniform Laws and Model Acts 
• From American Law Sources Online, links to uniform laws and their state enactments.
• Uniform Laws Commissioners Drafts 
• National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. Has the text of various model drafts, uniform laws, and the Uniform Commercial Code.

Copyright Law

• Copyright Clearance Center 
• Information about the CCC's services, as well as a searchable catalog of titles and publishers covered by CCC licenses.
• Copyright Law 
• The entire copyright act, Cornell University.
• Copyright Office: Library of Congress 
• Copyright basics, registration database, forms, circulars, licensing, laws, regulations.
• Creative Commons 
• A site dedicated to providing copyright licensing terms that allow for some creative use or reuse of works. Insightful articles and examples.
• Ed Foster's Gripe Line 
• Ed Foster's blog often touches on copyright and licensing issues involving the computer industry.
• Electronic Freedom Frontier 
• A non-profit organization devoted to protecting civil liberties as related to technology, especially copyright and free speech issues.
• Stanford Copyright and Fair Use 
• Links to primary and secondary copyright law and materials, grouped by intended audience.

Environment Law

• Agency for Toxic Substrances and Disease Registry 
• List of documents, contact personnel and the HazDat Database.
• Environmental Law: An Overview 
• Mostly links to US Code sections dealing with the environment, but also has some state links, cases, agency links, and links to organizations.
• Environmental Protection Agency 
• EPA topics, laws, regulations, information and education resources, compliance, pollution, research, tips, more.
• European Environmental Law 
• Texts of treaties, cases and articles on European environmental law.

Ethics Law

• American Bar Association 
• Links to other ethics sites.
• American Bar Association: Model Rules of Professional Conduct 
• Linked from table of contents, the Model Rules are here. For comments on the rules, click on the comments link at the bottom of each rule.
• Center for Professional Responsibility 
• Section of the American Bar Assocation.
• FindLaw: Ethics and Professional Responsibility 
• Findlaw's collection of links on ethics.
• LegalEthics.com 
• Articles, cases, commentary and list of links to ethics issues associated with lawyers and the Internet.
• LII: American Legal Ethics Library 
• From Cornell University. Listings of legal ethics topics by jurisdiction, topic, multidisciplinary topic.

Historical Documents

• Avalon Project at Yale Law School 
• Digital documents from pre-18th century to the present relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government.

Humor

• Biblia's Warrior Librarian 
• If you need a bit of levity, wander in the Warrior Librarian's stacks for a while. Just try not to laugh too loudly.
• Lipstick Librarian 
• Some content has not been updated in years, but the LL now has a blog. Worth a quick glance.
• Peeps Research in the Library 
• Research involving Peeps using an academic library. Winner of the Peeple's Choice Award, 2003.
• Yahoo! Directory of Library Humor 
• Another famous Yahoo! directory.

Immigration Law

• VisaLaw.com 
• From the law offices of Siskind, Susser. This site has such goodies as immigrations forms, the US Immigration Handbook, Canadian immigration information and immigration bulletins

Intellectual Property

• American Intellectual Property Law Association 
• The official web site of the AIPLA. This site contains laws, committee reports, pending legislation, membership application, and good links to other IP sites.
• Chilling Effects Clearinghouse 
• A joint project of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and Harvard, Stanford, Berkeley, University of San Francisco, and University of Maine law school clinics
• FindLaw Intellectual Property 
• Summaries of IP law, databases, message boards, links to government agencies, journals, discussion groups and more.
• Intellectual Property Owners Association 
• News and information, IP issues and policies, IP in the courts, committees, meetings and events.
• Stanford Technology Law Review 
• The online version of this journal is great for fast access to feature articles, working papers, and commentary in the Perspectives column.
• Wired 
• Popular magazine covering technology issues, sometimes legal implications of technology.

Labor and Employment

• AFL-CIO 
• News, worker's rights fact sheets, issues & politics, Eye on Corporate America (includes information on Enron, executive pay, research resources.)
• American Arbitration Association (AAA) 
• Current arbitration news, rules, forms, protocols, ADR guides.
• FindLaw Labor Links 
• Links to databases, agencies, news, laws, government documents, related topics.
• Index of Major Laws related to the DOL 
• Index of laws related to the Department of Labor.
• Job Accommodation Network 
• Resource center for disability accomodations, a a service of the Office of Disability Employment Policy (ODEP) of the U.S. Department of Labor.
• LII: Law about Labor 
• Federal & state statutes, regulations, cases, agencies, links to other sources.
• Occupational Outlook Handbook 
• Career information from the U. S. Government.
• OSHA - Act of 1970 
• Hypertext linked version of the OSHA Act, from the Occupational Safety Health Administration.

Legal Media

• American Lawyer Media's Law.Com 
• Recent stories from law.com sources.
• BeSpacific.com Blog 
• Blog from Sabrina I. Pacifici, editor of LLRX.com. Covers all sorts of techonology issues of interest to law librarians and the legal community.
• CourtTv.com 
• News from the courttv.com network
• Federal News Service 
• Featuring congressional transcripts, other news blurbs.
• FindLaw Legal News 
• Recent headlines from various sources.
• LitWatch.com 
• LitWatch provides subscribers with real-time news about significant commercial litigation, plus downloadable copies of actual litigation documents (in Adobe Acrobat format).
• LLRX.Com 
• Blurbs from BeSpacific.com updated daily, articles updated semi-monthly.

Patents

• Delphion Intellectual Property Network 
• Premium intellectual property search site with varying levels of membership. Also allows free registration for purchasing documents on an as-needed basis. Owned by Thomson.
• European Patent Office 
• Information about the EPO and ordering patents. Free searching available for last 24 months of patents.
• Google Patents 
• Beta service - covers patents available on the USPTO web site, approximately 1790 - 2006.
• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) 
• Patents can be searched by title, number, inventor, assignee, class, year, and many other fields.
• World Intellectual Property Organization 
• The PCT Database contains the first page data (bibliographic data, abstract and drawing) of published PCT applications.

Privacy

• Electronic Freedom Frontier 
• Information on privacy and technology issues, encryption issues, free speech, and intellectual property.
• Electronic Privacy Information Center 
• EPIC is a public interest research center in Washington, D.C., established in 1994 to research and protect privacy, constitutional rights, and more.

Securities and Investment

• North American Industry Classification System 2002 
• Replaces the U. S. Standard Industrial Classification System (SIC); jointly developed by Canada, the United States, and Mexico. Links to the current NAICS, the old SIC, and the correlation tables.
• Securities and Exchange Commission 
• Current news, about the SEC, the EDGAR database, current rulemaking, SEC Digest, Enforcement Division, other sites.
• Securities Class Action Clearinghouse 
• Contains complaints, briefs, pleadings, settlement-related documents, and opinions for federal securities class actions filed nationwide since late 1995.
• Securities Exchange Commission Enforcement Actions 
• The Division of Enforcement investigates possible violations of securities laws, recommends Commission action when appropriate.
• Securities Lawyer's Deskbook 
• A service of the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Has the full text of major securities laws and SEC rules.
• SEDAR (System for Electronic Document Analysis and Retrieval) 
• Canada's system for filing with securities administrators - similar to EDGAR.

Senior Law

• National Senior Citizens Law Center 
• Information about issues that affect senior citizens.
• Social Security Administration 
• Social Security Aministration news, information about benefits, publications, more.

Stock Exchanges

• American Stock Exchange 
• Stock quotes, market and historical data, active issues, news, and much more.
• Mexico Stock Exchange 
• Quotes, investor information (in Spanish)
• Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board 
• The MSRB makes rules regulating dealers who deal in municipal bonds, municipal notes, and other municipal securities.
• NASDAQ 
• Stock quotes, news headlines, trading research (for members).
• National Association of Securities Dealers 
• Information about investing, regulations, dispute resolution, and more.
• New York Stock Exchange 
• 20 minute delay stock quotes, information about listed companies, marked information, regulations, news, and much more.
• North American Securities Administrators Association 
• Association web site, has news, find a regulator, forms, and more.

Tax Law

• ABA Section of Taxation 
• Links to federal, state and international tax sites.
• Ernst & Young: Tax 
• Lots of tax information, free PDF format reports, books and services for sale.
• Federation of Tax Administrators 
• Links to tax forms from all states.
• Internal Revenue Service 
• Main entrance to the IRS.
• IRS Forms and Publications 
• From the IRS. Links to multiple ways to search for tax forms and publications, most of which are in Adobe Acrobat form. Also contains a link to state tax forms.
• Kurt Adamson's Favorite Internet Links 
• All sorts of links, including several tax links.
• Tax Prophet 
• by Robert L. Sommers, attorney-at-law. Information on tax laws, articles by Robert L. Sommers, links to other sites.
• TaxSites 
• Schmidt Enterprises, LLC. Directory of tax, accounting and other useful sites. Includes links to laws, forms, discussions, publishers, associations and web search engines.

Trade Law

• International Trade Law and the CISG 
• from Pace University. The text of the convention, discussion, legislative history and information about the Pace Institute.

Trademarks

• United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) 
• Trademark information from the USPTO, including forms, laws and regulations, publications, trademark searching.

Last updated 12/01/2010