American Law, by Subject

Alternative Dispute Resolution | Animal Rights | Antitrust Law | Bankruptcy Law | Civil Rights | Commercial Law | Computer Law | Communications Law | Constitutional Law | Corporation Law | Criminal Law | Disability Law | Election law | Environmental Law | Family Law | Gay and Lesbian Rights | Health Law | Immigration Law | Intellectual Property: Copyright, Patent and Trademark Law | International Law | Legal History | Legal Theory | Military Law | Securities Law | Social Security and Welfare | Tax Law | Women and the Law

Alternative Dispute Resolution

• U.S. Code, Title 9: Arbitration
• American Arbitration Association (AAA)
• ABA Section of Dispute Resolution
• ADR Links from Gavel2gavel
• Mediate.com
• Dispute Resolution, Arbitration and Mediation links from FindLaw

Animal Rights

• Animal Rights Law Center at Rutgers

Antitrust Law

• BNA's Antitrust & Trade Regulation Reporter (restricted to U of C)
• CCH Trade Regulation Reporter at CCH Business (restricted to U of C)
• Findlaw Antitrust
• Antitrust Division, U.S. Dept of Justice
• Federal Trade Commission
• Microsoft Trial Documents from FindLaw

Bankruptcy Law

• Bankruptcy Law Finder
• Bankruptcy Code and Federal Rules of Bankruptcy Procedure
• Bankruptcy Creditors Service, Inc. (news, laws, reference materials)
• American Bankruptcy Institute

Civil Rights

• U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Rights Division
• U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
• American Civil Liberties Union
• NAACP
• Anti-Defmation League - fighting Anti-Semitism
• American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee

Commercial Law

• Uniform Commercial Code
• Commercial Law League of America
• American Bar Association Section on Business Law

Communications Law

• Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
• Competition Policy Institute - think tank advocating pro-competition communications and energy policies.

Computer Law

• Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF)
• Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
• Center for Information Technology and Dispute Resolution (CITDR)
• crypto.com, Matt Blaze's cryptography resource on the Web
• The Software Industry Site - the online home of the Computer Software Industry Assocation
• UCITA Online - guide to the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (originally proposed Article 2B of the Uniform Commercial Code)
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsiblity (CPSR)
• Centre for Computing and Social Responsiblity (UK)
• Scientology vs. the Net
• CAUCE: Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email - anti-Spam activism clearinghouse

Constitutional Law

• Researching Constitutional Law on the Internet by Lyonette Louis-Jacques
• The Founders Constitution - anthology of sources on the ratification of the U.S. constitution, edited by Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner
• The Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation
• Free Expression Network
• Banned Books Online

Consumer Protection Law

• The Consumer Law Page
• National Consumer Law Center
• Federal Trade Commission (FTC)
• Federal Drug Administration

Corporation Law

• Corporate Governance
• AFL-CIO Executive Paywatch

Criminal Law

• U.S. Dept of Justice
• Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)
• America's Most Wanted (TV Program)
• National Criminal Justice Research Service (NCJRS)
• Search NCJRS Abstracts
• Bureau of Justice Statistics - the latest BJS crime data: reports, spreadsheets, and news releases.
• National Archive of Criminal Justice Data - download over 500 data collections from the Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) and the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS), U.S. Department of Justice.
• National Association of Criminal Justice Defense Lawyers (NACDL) - includes selected article from their magazine, The Champion.
• Illinois Governor's Commission on Capital Punishment
• Vera Institute of Justice

Disability Law

• Disability Resources, Products and Services - sponsored by Evan Kemp Associates (EKA)
• Council on Disability Rights
• The Disability Rights Activist

Election Law and Voting Technology

• Election Law @ Moritz, from Moritz College of Law at Ohio State University
  
• Electoral College home page from the National Archives and Records Administration
  
• Voting and elections information from FirstGov
  
• Caltech-MIT Voting Technology Project
  
• EFF E-voting from the Electronic Frontier Foundation
  
• ElectionLine
  
• National Committee for Voting Integrity
  
• Verified Voting
  

Environmental Law

• United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• Environmental Law and Regulations
• EnviroText - environmental, health and safety regulations, plus Indian Tribal Codes and Treaties.
• Index to Enivironmental Law Resources on the World Wide Web
• Environmental Law Institute (ELI Online) - information about the ELI's activities, publications, and research reports
• CIESIN (Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network)
• EcoNet (at IGC)

Family Law

• Family Law (Cornell Law School web server)
• The Determination of Child Custody
• DivorceNet - information about divorce laws in several states
• Divorce from Justice - companion site to the book of the same name by Karen Winner. Information for consumers about Divorce Court.
• AdoptioNetwork
• National Data Archive on Child Abuse and Neglect (data sets)

Gay and Lesbian Rights

• The Queer Resources Directory
• Planet Out
• Same-Sex Marriage: A Selective Bibliography by Paul Axel-Lute

Health Law

• U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
• Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (formerly HCFA)

Immigration Law

• American Immigration Law Resources
• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)

Intellectual Property: Copyright, Patents, and Trademarks

• Copyright Act and Regulations
• Lanham Act (Trademarks)
• Library of Congress, Copyright Office
• Copyright Registrations with Library of Congress
• United States Patent and Trademark Office
• Derwent World Patents Index (DWPI) on Delphion
• MicroPatent - U.S. Patent documents from 1790 to the present
• Patent Electronic Business Centerfrom the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
• Oppedahl & Larson Patent Law Web Server
• Patent FAQ
• United States National InformationInfrastructure Virtual Library - The NII is in charge of developing the national "information superhighway."
• Intellectual Property and the National Information Infrastructure - The Report of the NII Working Group on Intellectual Property
• The President's Information Infrastructure Task Force
• Copyright Clearance Center Online

Legal Theory

• Legal Theory Web Site
• Feminist Legal Studies
• International Journal for the Semiotics of Law
• Legal semiotics monographs
• Law & Critique
• Liverpool Law Review
• Res Publica

Military Justice

• DefenseLINK - news from the Department of Defense and links to armed forces internet sites
• Uniform Code of Military Justice
• Gulflink: Persian Gulf Ware Illnesses Home Page

Securities Law

• Center for Corporate Law at the University of Cincinnati - text of federal securites laws, rules and forms
• Securites Act of 1933
• Securities Exchange Act of 1934
• U.S. Securites & Exchange Commission - SEC News Digests, EDGAR Database of Corporate Information
• Disclosure offers access to the SEC EDGAR filings, plus information about their subscriber services for investors and businesses.

Social Security and Welfare

• Social Security Administration
• Crowe & Shanahan - law firm specializing in Social Security and SSI claims and appeals

Tax Law

• Internal Revenue Service - provides tax forms and instructions, IRS publications, and explanations of tax rules in plain language.
• FederalTax Forms and Publications
• The Tax News Network fromCoopers & Lybrand
• TaxSites- Income Tax Information in Internet
• TaxTalk - Plain & Simple (monthly newsletter)
• Congressman Dick Armey's Flat Tax Home page
• The Tax Prophet San Francisco columnist Robert L. Sommers
• Ernst & Young Tax Services
• Quicken Tax Center
• Illinois Tax Forms from the Illinois Department of Revenue
• State Tax Forms from the LSU Libraries

Women and the Law

• National Organization for Women
• Feminist Activist Resources on the Net (at IGC)
• American Bar Association Commission on Women in the Profession
• Glass Ceiling Commission Reports