building blocksResources for finding resources
Statutes, Codes, Regulations, and Rules
Finding, searching, and linking aids
Downloadable and CD-ROM based course materials
Note: Our normal revision cycle involves annual updates to these
materials which occur during the summer months and are generally completed
by August 15. If your use of the material is time- or version-bound, you
may want to check with us
about the status of any new version.
LII
topical overviews
Each topical overview is essentially a miniature legal encyclopedia entry, providing a brief explanation of an area of law and many pointers to relevant resources both at the LII and across the Net, including federal, state, and international materials as appropriate. A complete list is too long to give here; it currently covers about 50 topics. The series is being revised and expanded during the summer of 1997.
LII
listing of legal resources by type or source
Another way of dividing the world of legal information; this list is organized by the type (treaty, statute, etc.) of legal information and by its origin. It is particularly useful for locating international materials by country.
LII
listing of state law materials
This resource provides a comprehensive list of pointers to model codes which apply in many states, as well as individual state constitututions, statutes, and legislative information.
BigEar is an LII-created software agent which monitors traffic in a number of law-oriented listserv lists, plucking out the addresses of information resources on the Net and listing them comprehensively in a concise weekly listing. The service has been in operation since November of 1995, and has accumulated quite an assortment of legal information resources. The Cornell Law Library staff has selected certain of these for review and commentary as part of their InSite project. i
All cases since 1990. We also produce the LIIBULLETIN-NY, a collection of commentaries on important decisions of the Court of Appeals, issued within a few days of the decision.
Cases released under the auspices of Project Hermes (since 1990) and selected historical decisions, as well as court-related information such as argument and session calendars, biographies of the justices, etc.
We also provide some linking and searching aids which will help you build links to collections of caselaw elsewhere. See below.
United States Constitution
United
States Code
Administrative
Procedure Act and selected
cases
Civil
Rights Statutes of the US
United
States Copyright Act and selected
cases
Lanham
Act (trademark) and selected
cases
United
States Patent Act and selected
cases
Securities
Act of 1933
Securities
and Exchange Act of 1934
Federal
Rules of Civil Procedure
Federal Rules of Evidence
Federal
Rules of Judicial Conduct
American Legal Ethics Library:
Topical Overview, State Narratives and Rules of Professional Conduct for
Cal., DC, Fla., Ill., N.Y., Penn. and Texas (to be released on the Net
and CD-ROM summer 1997)
Uniform Commercial Code
LII's
Eye on the Courts
Newsworthy decisions from around the globe.
E-mail delivery, within minutes, of syllabi of Supreme Court opinions as they are handed down.
Code
of Federal Regulations
Supreme
Court Choice-of-Viewing
New
York Laws
United States Circuit Courts
of Appeal
How
to work with embedded searches generally
The
Allegheny College Case
Bruce Markell's hypertext view of a 1927 contracts decision of the New York Court of Appeals. It was written by Benjamin Cardozo, and the losing counsel was Robert H. Jackson, both future members of the United States Supreme Court.
Basic
Legal Citation
An introduction to legal citation per the Bluebook. Under extensive
revision during summer 1997.
JURIST - Law
Professors on the Web
LII
Report on student use of laptops at Chicago-Kent
Peter Martin looks at the technologically intensive 'laptop cohort' of first-year students at Chicago-Kent. In his words: "As a visiting faculty member at Chicago-Kent during the 1995-96 academic year I devoted much of my time to learning from this program that is at once unique but at the same time a forerunner of changes soon to occur at most U.S. law schools, more or less inevitably."