pic03 LAW SEARCH ENGINES DIRECTORY

TOPICAL - ACCOUNTING

AICPA Online (American Institute of Certified Public Accountants)
http://www.aicpa.org/index.htm -- Includes links to state information, online publications, current news .

Deloitte & Touche LLP - Library
http://www.dtonline.com/INDEX.HTM -- Contains full text guides prepared by Deloitte & Touche on business, taxes and personal finance.

The Electronic Accountant
http://www.electronicaccountant.com/ -- Created by Faulkner & Gray, this includes links to accounting sites, daily news, tax software .

H&R Block - The Tax Site on the Internet
http://hrblock.com/tax/

Rutgers Accounting Resources on the Internet
http://accounting.rutgers.edu/

TOPICAL - AGRICULTURAL LAW

Animal & Plant Health Inspection Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
http://www.aphis.usda.gov/

Congressional Research Service Reports (Committee for the National Institute for the Environment)
http://www.cnie.org/NLE/CRS/

Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc.
http://www.flaginc.org/

Foreign Agricultural Service (U.S. Department of Agriculture)
http://www.fas.usda.gov/

National Agricultural Library (part of the Agricultural Research Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture)
http://www.nalusda.gov/

National Center for Agricultural Law
http://www.usda.gov/

TOPICAL - ANTITRUST LAW

Department of Justice Antitrust Division
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/ -- Includes briefs and other case documents, guidelines, business review letters, bank merger transaction documents, international agreements, press releases, Congressional testimony, speeches, .

Department of Justice Antitrust Division Cases
http://www.usdoj.gov/atr/cases.html -- Electronic version of selected documents filed by the Antitrust Division beginning in 1994. Cases are indexed by party names and Amicus Curiae briefs are listed by plaintiff.

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov/ -- Includes the FTC Rules of Practice, amicus briefs, legislation, litigation status report, complaints, orders, advisory opinions, .

Federal Trade Commission - Statutes
http://www.ftc.gov/ogc/stat2.htm -- Full text of statutes enforced by the FTC.

American Antitrust Institute
http://www.antitrustinstitute.org/about.cfm

ABA's Section of Antitrust Law
http://www.abanet.org/antitrust/

Antitrust Policy
http://www.antitrust.org/ -- An on-line resource linking economic research, policy and cases.

Internet Legal Research Compass from Villanova
http://vls.law.vill.edu/compass/guide/antitrust.htm

Plain English Guide to Antitrust Laws
http://www.ftc.gov/bc/compguide/index.htm -- Prepared by the Federal Trade Commission.

TOPICAL - ARBITRATION AND MEDIATION

ADR and Mediation Resources by Texas attorney Stephen R. Marsh
http://adrr.com/ -- includes essays on mediation and a collection of links to other ADR web sites.

American Arbitration Association
http://www.adr.org/ -- includes forms; ethics codes; procedural guides; state arbitration statutes; federal legislation; the Uniform Arbitration Act.

American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution
http://www.abanet.org/dispute/home.html

Campus Mediation Resources (Wayne State University)
http://www.mtds.wayne.edu/campus.htm -- has information regarding the development of mediation and conflict resolution services at colleges and universities, including sample documents.

CPR Institute for Dispute Resolution
http://www.cpradr.org/ -- includes sample ADR clauses; Model ADR Procedures and Practices; directories of the CPR Panels of Distinguished Neutrals.

Federal Judicial Center Publications
http://www.fjc.gov/newweb/jnetweb.nsf/autoframe?openform&url_r=pages/556&url_l=index -- Several ADR publications are available on in Portable Document Format (PDF).

FedLaw - Arbitration and Mediation Materials
http://www.thecre.com/fedlaw/default.htm -- compiled by the U.S. General Services Administration, has links to federal statutes, ethics codes, rules, .

Hieros Gamos ADR Links
http://www.hg.org/adr.html -- This site links to ADR web sites.

International ADR
http://www.internationaladr.com/ -- This web site includes treaties, arbitration laws arranged by country, summaries of recent arbitral awards and judicial decisions, a directory of institutions and rules and a directory of model clauses.

International Commercial Arbitration: Resources in Print and Electronic Format Lyonette Louis-Jacques (University of Chicago Law School, D'Angelo Law Library)
http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/~llou/intlarb.html -- This is a bibliography that includes links to ADR web sites.

International Chamber of Commerce - International Court of Arbitration
http://www.iccwbo.org/index_court.asp -- includes model clauses and rules.

Mediation Information and Resource Center
http://www.mediate.com/ -- includes articles, an international database of mediation service providers, and ethical standards.

NASD Regulation (National Association of Securities Dealers)
http://www.nasdr.com/ -- includes the full text of the NASD Manual, which includes NASD's Code of Arbitration Procedure.

National Center for State Courts' ADR Clearinghouse
http://ncsc.dni.us/is/clrhouse/adrsumm.htm -- includes a listing of state court rules for ADR programs, a list of contacts for state ADR programs and bibliographies of publications on arbitration, mediation and ADR generally.

National Mediation Board
http://www.nmb.gov/ -- A U.S. government agency dealing with labor-management relations in the rail and air transport industries.

Recommended Conflict Resolution Web Links
http://www.adrr.com/adr0/links.htm -- Includes a link to a mediation search engine.

U.S.-Mexico Conflict Resolution Center
http://crc.nmsu.edu/ -- includes sample clauses.

Yahoo! Arbitration and Mediation Resources
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Alternative_Dispute_Resolution/ -- A listing of ADR web sites.

TOPICAL - BANKING LAW

FEDERAL AGENCIES

Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
http://www.fdic.gov/ -- Includes Financial Institution Letters since 1995, final regulations, proposed regulations, .

Federal Reserve Board
http://www.federalreserve.gov/ -- -Includes Supervision and Regulation Letters since 1990, Interpretive Letters since 1996, 1997 articles from the Federal Reserve Bulletin.

Federal Reserve System's National Information Center of Banking Information
http://www.ffiec.gov/nic/default.HTM

National Credit Union Administration
http://www.ncua.gov/ -- Includes NCUA Letters to Credit Unions since 1975, Regulatory Alerts since 1996, Interpretive Rulings and Policy Statements since 1979, Legal Opinion Letters since 1979, Prohibition Orders since 1991, regulations, proposed regulations, .

Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
http://www.occ.treas.gov/-- Includes OCC's monthly publication Interpretations and Actions beginning May 1996, OCC's Weekly Bulletin beginning April 1996, Community Reinvestment Act regulations and interpretations, proposed regulations, .

Office of Thrift Supervision
http://www.ots.treas.gov/ -- Includes final rules and interim final rules, proposed regulations, 1997 Office of Chief Counsel Opinions, .

American Banker
http://www.americanbanker.com/ -- A daily newsletter covering the financial services industry.

Bank Rate Monitor
http://www.bankrate.com/

Credit and Collections World
http://ccr.faulknergray.com/ -- Includes daily news summaries.

Credit Union Journal
http://www.cujournal.com/ -- Includes daily news summaries.

MISCELLANEOUS

The Banking Channel(Thomson Financial Publishing)
http://www.federalreserve.gov/pubs/shop -- Includes a survey of credit card plans offered by financial institutions.

TOPICAL - BANKRUPTCY LAW

U.S. BANKRUPTCY COURTS

Federal Judiciary Links Page
http://www.uscourts.gov/allinks.html -- Links to all Bankruptcy Courts arranged by Federal Appellate Circuit. The site begins with other links including a party index.

PRIMARY SOURCES

Title 11 of the U.S. Code, Bankruptcy Code (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/11/

U.S. Bankruptcy Law (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/bankruptcy.html -- A listing of bankruptcy sources.

MISCELLANEOUS

National Bankruptcy Review Commission
http://www.usdoj.gov/ust/ -- Includes FOIA information and private trustee resources.

AllLaw Bankruptcy
http://www.alllaw.com/legal_topic_index/bankruptcy/

American Bankruptcy Institute
http://www.abiworld.org/ -- Includes news, statistics, bills, etc.

Bankruptcy Lawfinder (Created by Warren E. Agin of Swiggart & Agin, LL.C)
http://www.high-tech-law.com/lawfind/ -- A listing of bankruptcy web sites.

Bernstein’s Dictionary of Bankruptcy Terminology
http://www.bernsteinlaw.com/publications/bankdict.shtml

Commercial Law League of America
http://www.clla.org/

InterNet Bankruptcy Library (Worldwide Troubled Company Resources. Bankruptcy Creditors' Service, Inc. and Beard Group, Inc.)
http://bankrupt.com/index.html

Internet Law Library Bankruptcy & Debt Collection
http://www.priweb.com/internetlawlib/311.htm -- A private law firm site with excellent links.

LawInfo Bankruptcy
http://www.lawinfo.com/legal-audio/windows/bankruptcy-guide.html

National Association of Consumer Bankruptcy Attorneys, Inc.
http://nacba.com/

TOPICAL - COMMUNICATIONS LAW

PRIMARY SOURCES

Communications Law Materials (Cornell Law Library)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/communications.html -- Includes federal statutes and recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/

FCC Cable Services Bureau
http://www.fcc.gov/csb/ -- Includes news releases, notices and orders.

FCC Common Carrier Bureau
http://www.fcc.gov/ccb/ -- Includes notices, news releases, orders, .

FCC Consumer Information Bureau
http://www.fcc.gov/cib/ -- Includes orders and news releases.

FCC International Bureau
http://www.fcc.gov/ib/ -- Includes news releases, notices and orders.

FCC Mass Media Bureau
http://www.fcc.gov/mmb/ -- Includes news releases, orders and notices.

FCC Office of General Counsel
http://www.fcc.gov/ogc/ -- Includes recent court opinions.

National Telecommunications and Information Administration
http://www.ntia.doc.gov/

MISCELLANEOUS

American Communication Association
http://www.americancomm.org/

Electronic Frontier Foundation
http://www.eff.org/

Federal Communications Law Journal (Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington and the Federal Communications Bar Association)
http://www.law.indiana.edu/fclj/index.shtml -- Issues are online beginning December 1993.

TOPICAL CRIMINAL LAW

FEDERAL GOVERNMENT

Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms
http://www.atf.treas.gov/

Drug Enforcement Administration
http://www.usdoj.gov/dea/

Federal Bureau of Investigation
http://www.fbi.gov/

FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin
http://www.fbi.gov/publications/leb/leb.htm -- A monthly publication.

Federal Bureau of Prisons
http://www.bop.gov/

Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/caserulc.htm

Federal Sentencing Guidelines
http://www.ussc.gov/guidelin.htm

Financial Crimes Enforcement Network
http://www.fincen.gov/

National Institute of Justice (The Research & Development Branch of the U.S. Department of Justice)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/nij/

Uniform Code of Military Justice
http://caselaw.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/uscodes/10/subtitles/a/parts/ii/chapters/47/toc.html -- Available through FindLaw.

U.S. Department of Justice
http://www.usdoj.gov/

U.S. Department of Justice United States Attorneys’ Manual
http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/eousa/foia_reading_room/usam/

U.S. Sentencing Commission
http://www.ussc.gov/ -- Has sentencing guidelines.

STATISTICS

Bureau of Justice Statistics (U.S. Department of Justice)
http://www.ojp.usdoj.gov/bjs/

National Archive of Criminal Justice Data
http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/NACJD/

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.org/

Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
http://www.albany.edu/sourcebook/

MISCELLANEOUS

Buffalo criminal law center
http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/ -- Sponsored by the State University of New York at Buffalo School of Law.

Court TV Online
http://www.courttv.com/ -- The television program, Court TV is also accessible on the Web. Features include Verdicts, Current Court TV Trials, Cases in the News, Famous Cases, Legal Documents, and excellent links to other law related pages.

Criminal Justice Links
http://www.criminology.fsu.edu/cjlinks/ -- Prepared and maintained by Florida State University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice.

Criminal Law Links on the Internet
http://wings.buffalo.edu/law/bclc/resource.htm -- Maintained by the Buffalo Criminal Law Center.

Federal Rules of Evidence (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/overview.html

National Criminal Justice Reference Service
http://www.ncjrs.org/

New Mexico State University Library Law & Criminal Justice
http://lib.nmsu.edu/subject/crime/crime.html -- Excellent links to other criminal justice sites.

United Nations Crime and Justice Information Network
http://www.uncjin.org/

Web of Justice (Pinellas County Department of Justice Coordination)
http://www.co.pinellas.fl.us/bcc/juscoord/exploremain.htm -- Lists links to criminal justice web sites.

TOPICAL - CYBERSPACE LAW

Canadian Internet Law Resource Page (Professor Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa Law School)
http://aix1.uottawa.ca/~geist/cilrp.html

The Center for Democracy and Technology
http://www.cdt.org/

Cybercrimes
http://www.cybercrimes.net/ -- Web site from the University of Dayton School of Law.

Cyberlaw Encyclopedia
http://www.gahtan.com/cyberlaw/ -- Index to over 50 topics related to the Internet and Cyberspace law.

Cyber-Liberties (American Civil Liberties Union)
http://www.aclu.org/issues/cyber/hmcl.html

Cyberspace Bar Association
http://www.eff.org/

Electronic Privacy Information Center
http://www.epic.org/

Federal Communications Commission
http://www.fcc.gov/

Federal Trade Commission
http://www.ftc.gov/

Glossary of Internet Terms
http://www.matisse.net/files/glossary.html

Hieros Gamos Technology and Cyber Law links
http://www.hg.org/tech.html

Internet Case Digest
http://www.perkinscoie.com/casedigest/default.cfm -- Private law firm case digest.

LegalEthics.com
http://www.legalethics.com/ -- Ethics and Internet legal services.

The UCLA Online Institute for Cyberspace Law and Policy
http://www.gseis.ucla.edu/iclp/hp.html -- Includes cases, legislation and other information.

U.S. National Information Infrastructure Virtual Library
http://nii.nist.gov/

TOPICAL - EMPLOYMENT & LABOR LAW

PRIMARY SOURCES

EEOC Regulations
http://www.eeoc.gov/

Title 29 of U.S. Code (Cornell Law Library)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/29/

Statutes and Executive Orders (U.S. Department of Labor)
http://www.dol.gov/cgi-bin/consolid.pl?regs+statutes

U.S. Department of Labor Regulations (U.S. DOL Home Page)
http://www.dol.gov/dol/regs/cfr/main.htm

U.S. Department of Labor Federal Register Documents (U.S. DOL Home Page)
http://www.dol.gov/dol/regs/fedreg/main.htm -- Includes final and proposed rules and notices.

U.S. Department of Labor Unified Agenda of Federal Regulations (U.S. DOL Home Page)
http://www.dol.gov/dol/regs/agenda.htm

U.S. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR

U.S. Department of Labor Home Page
http://www.dol.gov/

Bureau of Labor Statistics
http://www.bls.gov/

Elaws - U.S. Department of Labor Employment Laws Assistance for Workers & Small Businesses
http://www.dol.gov/elaws/ -- A series of individual Advisors (such as Family and Medical Leave Act Advisor) designed to help employers and employees understand their rights and responsibilities.

Employment Standards Administration
http://www.dol.gov/esa/welcome.html -- Includes legislation, executive orders, and proposed and final regulations.

Employment Standards Administration, Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs
http://www.dol.gov/esa/ofccp/index.htm

Employment Standards Administration, Wage and Hour Division
http://www.dol.gov/esa/whd/ -- Includes statutes, regulations and executive orders.

Mine Safety and Health Administration
http://www.msha.gov/ -- Includes legislation, proposed and final regulations, program policy manual, program policy letters, and program information bulletins.

Office of Administrative Law Judges
http://www.oalj.dol.gov/ -- Cases arranged by topic, Administrative Procedure Act and Rules of Practice and Procedure, etc.

OSHA Occupational Safety and Health Administration
http://www.osha.gov/ -- Includes regulations, legislation, Federal Register notices, etc.

Pension and Welfare Benefits Administration
http://www.dol.gov/ebsa/ -- Includes final and proposed regulations.

Regulatory and Statutory Information
http://www.dol.gov/dol/regs/main.htm -- Statutes, executive orders, regulations, etc.

OTHER FEDERAL SITES

Equal Employment Opportunity Commission
http://www.eeoc.gov/ -- Includes EEOC enforcement guidance and related documents, proposed regulations, etc.

Federal Labor Relations Authority
http://www.flra.gov/ -- Includes Authority cases since 1994, Office of General Counsel guidance and policies since 1994, and Federal Service Impasses Panel final actions since 1994.

National Labor Relations Board
http://www.nlrb.gov/ -- Full text of recent decisions, rules and regulations, NLRB Casehandling Manual, etc.

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
http://www.oshrc.gov/ -- Includes rules of procedure, procedural guides, commission decisions, ALJ decisions, and the OSHA act.

Office of Disability Employment Policy
http://www.pbgc.gov/ -- Includes final and proposed regulations, policy statements, interest rates, notices, technical updates, opinion letters, forms, etc.

Social Security Online
http://www.ssa.gov/ -- Includes legislation, recent Congressional testimony, final and proposed regulations, and rulings since 1960.

U.S. National Labor Relations Board Decisions and Orders
http://www.aflcio.org/home.htm

Americans with Disabilities Act Home Page (U.S. Department of Justice)
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/ada/adahom1.htm -- New and proposed regulations, settlement agreements, technical assistance letters, .

BenefitsLink
http://www.benefitslink.com/index.shtml

Glossary of Labor and Legal Terminology
http://homepages.uhwo.hawaii.edu/clear/Glossary.html -- Created by the University of Hawaii.

International Labour Organisation
http://www.ilo.org/ -- Includes ILO conventions since 1919, recommendations since 1919, a bibliographic database of national laws on labor, social security and related human rights, .

Labor Unions - U.S. (Institute of Industrial Relations, University of California Berkeley)
http://www.lawresearch.com/v2/practice/ctemploy.htm

The Lectric Law Library Employment and Labor Topic Area
http://www.lectlaw.com/temp.html

Workplace Rights (American Civil Liberties Union)
http://www.aclu.org/issues/worker/hmwr.html

TOPICAL - ENVIRONMENTAL LAW

PRIMARY LAW

Title 40 of the Code of Federal Regulations
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/rules.html#codified

National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, as amended Council on Environmental Quality Home Page
http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/nepa/nepaeqia.htm

Council on Environmental Quality's Regulations for Implementing NEPA Council on Environmental Quality Home Page
http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/regs/ceq/toc_ceq.htm

Department of Energy's NEPA Regulations (10 CFR 1021) (Department of Energy Home Page)
http://tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/nepa/tools/REGULATE/NEPA_REG/1021/nepa1021.htm

Department of Energy's Floodplain and Wetland Regulations (10 CFR 1022) (Department of Energy Home Page)
http://tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/nepa/tools/regulate/nepa_reg/1022/1022.htm

EPA Federal Register Documents (EPA's Home Page)
http://www.epa.gov/fedrgstr/ -- Search documents from October 1994 to the present by date or by keyword.

EPA Major Primary Laws
http://www.epa.gov/epahome/laws.htm

Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970, as amended Occupational Safety and Health Administration Home Page
http://www.osha-slc.gov/OshAct_toc/OshAct_toc_by_sect.html

OSHA Regulations - Title 29 of the Code of Federal Regulations (Occupational Safety and Health Administration Home Page)
http://www.osha-slc.gov/OshStd_toc/OSHA_Std_toc.html

Environmental Law Sources (Cornell Law Library)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/environmental.html -- Includes federal statutes, recent environmental law decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals and state statutes.

FedLaw's Environmental Laws U.S. General Services Administration
http://atsdr1.atsdr.cdc.gov:8080/atsdrhome.html -- includes information such as the HazDat database (Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database) which provides information on the release of hazardous substances from Superfund sites or from emergency events and on the effects of hazardous substances on the health of human populations.

Council on Environmental Quality's NEPAnet
http://ceq.eh.doe.gov/nepa/nepanet.htm -- includes the text of the National Environmental Policy Act as amended and regulations for implementing NEPA.

Department of Energy's NEPA Web Site
http://tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/nepa/ -- includes DOE Floodplain and Wetland Regulations (10 CFR 1022), DOE NEPA Regulations (10 CFR 1021), DOE NEPA guidance documents and DOE NEPA announcements. It also has DOE Environmental Assessments, Environmental Impact Statements, Notices of Intent, Notices of Availability, Supplement Analysis and Mitigation Action Plans.

Department of Energy Office of Environmental Policy & Assistance
http://tis-nt.eh.doe.gov/oepa/ -- includes policy and guidance documents, DOE comments to other agencies on proposed rules and summaries of federal environmental laws.

Department of the Interior's Natural Resources Library Virtual Reading Room
http://www.epa.gov/ -- has Federal Register documents issued by the EPA (notices, meetings, proposed rules and regulations), federal regulations, federal legislation, Envirofacts (an information system that provides access to data from 7 EPA databases) .

EPA National Environmental Publications Information System
http://www.epa.gov/cincl/ -- Contains over 6,000 EPA documents.

EPA National Publications Catalog
http://www.noaa.gov/ -- has legislation, legislative news, testimony and the NOAA Legislative Informer.

Occupational Safety and Health Administration, U.S. Department of Labor
http://www.osha.gov/ -- This site includes regulations, legislation, Federal Register documents (final rules, meetings, notices, proposed rules and Unified Agenda) from 1971 to the present, OSHA standards interpretation and compliance letters from 1973 to the present, review commission decisions from 1981 to the present and directives.

Occupational Safety and Health Review Commission
http://www.oshrc.gov/ -- includes rules of procedure, procedural guides, commission decisions from 1981 to the present, ALJ decisions from 1993 to the present and the OSH Act as amended.

U.S. Geological Survey Environmental Affairs Program
http://h2o.usgs.gov/public/eap/eappage.html -- includes the USGS Guide to Federal Environmental Laws and Regulations, the USGS Procedures for NEPA Implementation and an index of environmental documents received by the USGS from 1994 to the present.

COMPREHENSIVE SITES

Cornell Law Library - Environmental Sources
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/environmental.html -- Includes federal statutes, recent environmental law decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and U.S. Courts of Appeals and state statutes, as well as links to federal agency and other environmental web sites.

Environmental Law Net
http://lawvianet.com/ -- Maintained by a major environmental law firm, the site has numerous links to primary and secondary resources.

http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/13environmental/index.html

Internet Law Library - Environmental, Natural Resource and Energy Sites
http://www.lectlaw.com/inll/101.htm -- Originally built and maintained by the U.S. House.

Yahoo! - Environment and Nature
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/ -- A directory of environmental web sites.

MISCELLANEOUS

Duke Environmental Law & Policy Forum
http://www.law.duke.edu/journals/delpf/

Environmental Law Institute
http://www.eli.org/

Environmental Law Research Guide
http://www.lcv.org/ -- Includes National Environmental Scorecards on members of Congress, letters to Congress and environmental profiles of new members of Congress.

National Library for the Environment
http://www.cnie.org/nle/crs_main.html -- has over 100 reports relating to the environment, agriculture and natural resources prepared for Congress by the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service.

TOPICAL - ESTATE PLANNING

PRIMARY SOURCES

Estate Planning Law Materials (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/estate_planning.html -- Includes the full text of 26 U.S.C., Subtitle B - Federal Estate & Gift Tax, recent U.S. Supreme Court cases with estate and gift tax issues, and the Uniform Probate Code.

Estates and Trusts Law Materials (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/estates_trusts.html -- Includes the full text of 26 U.S.C., Subtitle B - Federal Estate & Gift Tax, recent U.S. Supreme Court cases with estate and gift tax issues, and the Uniform Probate Code.

State Probate Statutes (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/state_statutes3.html#probate

Uniform Probate Code Locator Code
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uniform/probate.html -- by Cornell Law School links to state statutes that correspond to the Uniform Probate Code. It does not include the text of the Uniform Probate Code.

Uniform Law Commissioners - Drafts of Uniform and Model Acts
http://www.law.upenn.edu/library/ulc/ulc.htm -- Includes the Uniform Trust Act and others.

Internal Revenue Service
http://www.irs.gov/ -- Includes the 1996-98 Internal Revenue Bulletins, forms, IRS publications, tax rate tables and news releases.

Social Security Administration
http://www.ssa.gov/ -- Includes forms, legislation and social security rulings and acquiescence rulings from 1960 to the present.

Deloitte & Touche LLP - Tax News & Views
http://www.bnatax.com/ -- Summarizes recent developments in tax news.

MISCELLANEOUS

American Bar Association, Real Property, Probate and Trust Law Section
http://www.abanet.org/rppt/home.html -- Includes the full text of selected articles from the publication Probate Property, including the section Keeping Current

ACTEC (American College of Trust & Estate Counsel)
http://www.actec.org/ -- Includes public and private home pages.  Provides membership information.

Choice in Dying (a nonprofit organization)
http://www.partnershipforcaring.org/ -- Includes summaries of recent legislation and court cases.

The Foundation Center Online (a nonprofit information clearinghouse)
http://fdncenter.org/ -- Includes links to web sites of private foundations, corporate grantmakers, grantmaking public charities, and community foundations.

GuideStar - The Donor's Guide to the Nonprofit Universe
http://www.guidestar.org/ -- Includes reports on individual charities and news articles.

Kansas Elder Law Network (Professors Kim Dayton and Molly Wood of the University of Kansas School of Law and the University of Kansas Elder Law Clinic)
http://www.ink.org/public/keln/ -- A comprehensive site that covers areas of interest to seniors, including estate planning.

The Michigan Probate and Estate Planning Journal
http://www.give.org/ -- Includes charity reports, current news, and standards for charitable solicitation and philanthropy.

Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia: Wills and Estate Planning
http://www.nolo.com/ChunkEp/Ep.index.html

SOHO Consumer: Software for the Estate Planning Law Office (Mark J. Welch, a California attorney)
http://www.abanet.org/child/home.html

ABA Section of Family Law
http://www.abanet.org/family/home.html

Administration for Children and Families (Department of Health and Human Services)
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/ -- Includes proposed rules.

Child Support Home Page
http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/cse/index.html -- The Federal Office of Child Support Enforcement Home Page includes links to related State program Web sites, policy documents, reports and news and announcements.

DivorceNet
http://www.divorcenet.com/

Divorce Source
http://www.divorcesource.com/

Family Law Information
http://adams.patriot.net/~crouch/fln.html -- Hosted by a law firm, this page provides an overview of family law information and links to a variety of family law Internet sites.

Florida Child Support Calculator
http://www.divorcelawinfo.com/states/fla/cal/FLCSC.html -- From the Florida Divorce Law Information page.

Florida Divorce Law Information Page
http://www.divorcelawinfo.com/states/fla/florida.htm

Florida Family Law Rules, Opinions and Forms
http://www.flcourts.org/osca/divisions/family/bin/index.html#toppage

Support Guidelines
http://www.supportguidelines.com/ -- Provides information and resources relating to child support in all fifty states.

Uniform Matrimonial, Family, and Health Laws Locator laws
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uniform/vol9.html -- by Cornell Law School, links to state statutes that correspond to uniform matrimonial, family and health laws. It does not include the text of the uniform law.

Unmarried Couples and the Law
http://www.palimony.com/resources.html -- Arranged in easy to access categories, links to information for those who are living together or have created a domestic partnership.

TOPICAL - HEALTH CARE & MEDICAL NEGLIGENCE

U.S. GOVERNMENT SITES

Agency for Health Care Policy & Research
http://www.ahcpr.gov/

Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) formerly the Health Care financing Administration
http://www.hcfa.gov/ -- The federal agency that administers the Medicare, Medicaid and child health insurance programs. Includes legislation, recent decisions of the Provider Reimbursement Review Board, HCFA's rulings, .

Department of Health and Human Services
http://www.os.dhhs.gov/

Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/

Medicare
http://www.medicare.gov/ -- The official U.S. government site for Medicare information.

National Center for Health Statistics
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs

National Institutes of Health
http://www.nih.gov/ -- Includes health information, scientific information .

Occupational Safety and Health Administration
http://www.osha.gov/ -- Has legislation, regulations, OSHA standards interpretation and compliance letters, compliance directives, compliance guides and OSHA Review Commission decisions.

Social Security Online
http://www.ssa.gov/ -- The official website of the Social Security Administration.

COMPREHENSIVE SITES

Cornell Law Library's Health Law Materials
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/health.html -- Includes the full text of Titles 21, 24 and 42 of the U.S. Code.

FindLaw's Health Law Links
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/19health/index.html

Health Law Hippo
http://hippo.findlaw.com/ -- A collection of health care policy and regulatory materials.

MISCELLANEOUS SITES

American Health Lawyers Association
http://www.healthlawyers.org/

Bazelon Center for Mental Health Law
http://www.bazelon.org/

Kansas Elder Law Network (University of Kansas)
http://www.ink.org/public/keln/

Merck Manual
http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/ -- 17th edition in a searchable format.

National Health Law Program, Inc.
http://www.healthlaw.org/ -- Health care advocates for low-income people.

TOPICAL - IMMIGRATION LAW

PRIMARY SOURCES

Board of Immigration Appeals Precedent Decisions
http://www.usdoj.gov/eoir/efoia/bia/biaindx.htm -- is maintained by the U.S. Department of Justice, Executive Office for Immigration Review. It has BIA Precedent Decisions from October 1996 to the present arranged chronologically.

Immigration and Naturalization Law Materials (Cornell Law Library)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/immigration.html -- has the full text of federal immigration statutes, which are browseable but not searchable. From , you can search (but not browse) Title 8 of the C.F.R. Additionally, the site has recent U.S. Supreme Court cases with immigration issues.

Immigration Collection
http://www.oalj.dol.gov/libina.htm -- is maintained by the U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges. It has the full text of recent Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) en banc decisions; the full text of other recent immigration decisions; immigration statutes; and final, interim and proposed regulations.

INS Laws, Regulations and Guides
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/lawsregs/index.htm -- is part of the Immigration and Naturalization Service Home Page. It has federal statutes, Title 8 of the C.F.R., INS Federal Register publications (notices, corrections, and proposed, interim and final regulations) and BIA interim decisions.

U.S. GOVERNMENT WEB SITES

U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service
http://www.ins.usdoj.gov/graphics/index.htm -- includes INS forms in PDF format. It also has federal statutes, regulations (8 C.F.R.), INS Federal Register publications (notices, corrections, and proposed, interim and final regulations) and BIA interim decisions.

U.S. State Department Home Page
http://www.state.gov/index.cfm

U.S. State Department, Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor Affairs
http://www.state.gov/g/drl/ -- This site includes the annual Country Reports on Human Rights Practices.

U.S. State Department, Bureau of Population, Refugees, and Migration
http://www.state.gov/g/prm/ -- This site has policy documents, press statements and fact sheets.

U.S. State Department, International Adoption Services
http://travel.state.gov/adopt.html -- has information about international adoption by U.S. citizens.

U.S. State Department - U.S. Embassies and Other Diplomatic Missions
http://usembassy.state.gov/ -- This site links to U.S. embassies, consulates and consulates general web sites.

U.S. State Department - Consular Services
http://www.travel.state.gov/index.html

U.S. State Department - Passport Services
http://www.travel.state.gov/passport_services.html

U.S. State Department - Visa Services
http://travel.state.gov/visa_services.html

U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Special Counsel for Immigration-Related Unfair Employment Practices
http://www.usdoj.gov/crt/osc/ -- includes a Charge Form for Unfair Immigration-Related Employment Practices in PDF format, fact sheets and press releases.

Bureau of Labor Statistics Home Page
http://stats.bls.gov/

Occupational Employment Statistics (Bureau of Labor Statistics)
http://www.bls.gov/oes/ -- has 1996 national and state occupational employment and wage data for over 750 occupations.

2002-03 Occupational Outlook Handbook
http://www.bls.gov/oco/ -- The handbook gives information about projected changes in the work force and the qualifications that will be needed. It can be searched by keyword or browsed by using the index.

U.S. Department of Labor, Office of Administrative Law Judges' Immigration Collection
http://www.oalj.dol.gov/libina.htm -- includes the full text of recent Board of Alien Labor Certification Appeals (BALCA) en banc decisions; the full text of other recent immigration decisions; Judges Benchbook: Alien Labor Certification 2d Edition; the Dictionary of Occupational Titles; immigration statutes; final, interim and proposed regulations; and 1995-98 cumulative issues of Immigration Newsletter, which contains summaries of selected labor-related decisions on immigration matters other than permanent alien labor certification.

NEWS

Immigration Communique
http://migration.ucdavis.edu/ -- by the University of California includes the monthly newsletter Migration News and the quarterly newsletter Rural Migration News.

COMPREHENSIVE SITES

American Immigration Resources on the Internet
http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/resource.html

FindLaw's Immigration Links
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/20immigration/index.html -- A listing of immigration web sites.

World Wide Web Virtual Library - Migration and Ethnic Relations (Indiana University School of Law - Bloomington)
http://www.ercomer.org/wwwvl/ -- A listing of web sites dealing with migration and ethnic relations.

Yahoo!: Immigration
http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Immigration_and_Naturalization/ -- A listing of immigration web sites.

MISCELLANEOUS

All of the Embassies of Washington, D.C.
http://www.embassy.org/embassies/index.html -- by TeleDiplomacy, Inc. gives information on each of the embassies in Washington D.C., with links to their web sites.

American Civil Liberties Union - Immigrants' Rights
http://www.aclu.org/issues/immigrant/hmir.html -- This web site includes news articles, the text of the ACLU's briefing paper The Rights of Immigrants and other documents.

American Immigration Resources on the Internet
http://www.wave.net/upg/immigration/resource.html

Immigration Links Page
http://www.immigrationlinks.com/

U.S. Committee for Refugees
http://www.refugees.org/ -- includes information from the annual World Refugee Survey which reports on conditions for refugees and internally displaced persons in 120 countries, a directory of refugee assistance programs and news.

2001 World Factbook
http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html -- This publication is by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency.

TOPICAL - INSURANCE LAW

A.M. Best
http://www.ambest.com/ -- Founded in 1899, A.M. Best provides a wide variety of insurance industry services and information.

Insurance Industry Internet Network
http://iiin.com/ -- Includes links to agents and brokers, insurance law firms, a directory of insurance companies on the Internet and insurance related resources.

National Association of Insurance Commissioners
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/insurance.html -- Includes CFR searchable links, state links and other references.

TOPICAL - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

COPYRIGHT LAW

Association of Research Libraries Copyright and Intellectual Property
http://arl.cni.org/info/frn/copy/copytoc.html -- Includes legislation and other documents.

Copyright & Fair Use Stanford University Libraries
http://fairuse.stanford.edu/ -- Includes full text of statutes, regulations, international conventions and select cases.

Copyright Clearance Center
http://www.copyright.com/default.asp

Copyright, Intellectual Property Rights, and Licensing Issues
http://sunsite.Berkeley.EDU/Copyright/ -- A collection of links from University of California Berkeley.

Copyright Society of the U.S.A.
http://www.csusa.org/

Cornell Law School Copyright Law Materials
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/copyright.html -- Includes federal statutes, regulations, U.S. Supreme Court decisions, and treaties.

FindLaw Copyright Law Links
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/01copyright/index.html

U.S. Copyright Office
http://lcweb.loc.gov/copyright/ -- Includes pending legislation, downloadable registration forms, etc.

Yahoo! Copyright Links
http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Intellectual_Property/Copyrights/

PATENT LAW

Cornell Law School Patent Law Materials
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/patent.html -- Includes federal statutes, U.S. Supreme Court decisions and treaties.

FindLaw Patent Law Links
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/02patent/index.html

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/ -- Has regulations, Manual of Patent Examining Procedures, patent class definitions, Examiner Handbook to the U.S. Patent Classification System, Official Gazette notices, and more.

Yahoo! Patent Law Links
http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Intellectual_Property/Patents/

TRADEMARK LAW

Cornell Law School Trademark Law Materials
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/trademark.html -- Includes federal statutes, U.S. Supreme Court decisions and treaties.

FindLaw Trademark Law Links
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/23intellectprop/03trademark/index.html

U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
http://www.uspto.gov/ -- Contains the Trademark Manual of Examining Procedure, Trademark Acceptable Identification of Goods and Services Manual, Trademark Trial and Appeal Board Manual of Procedure, Official Gazette notices, .

Yahoo! Trademark Law Links
http://www.yahoo.com/Government/Law/Intellectual_Property/Trademarks/

MISCELLANEOUS

American Bar Association Section of Intellectual Property Law
http://www.abanet.org/intelprop/home.html -- Includes the text of current legislation.

American Intellectual Property Law Association
http://www.aipla.org/ -- Includes amicus briefs prepared by the association, AIPLA Guide to Model Patent Jury Instructions, federal bills, etc.

Information Infrastructure Task Force
http://www.intelproplaw.com/

Intellectual Property Mall Franklin Pierce Law Center
http://www.ipmall.fplc.edu/

KuesterLaw - The Technology Law Resource
http://www.kuesterlaw.com/ -- A collection of links to intellectual property information on the web.

MicroPatent
http://www.micropat.com/ -- Commercial site for patent and trademark information.

U.S. National Information Infrastructure Virtual Library
http://nii.nist.gov/

TOPICAL - LAW AND ECONOMICS

Encyclopedia of Law and Economics (University of Ghent)
http://encyclo.findlaw.com/

Law and Economics Resources FindLaw
http://lawecon.findlaw.com/index.html

TOPICAL - LEGAL ETHICS

ABA Center for Professional Responsibility
http://www.abanet.org/cpr/home.html

American Legal Ethics Library (Cornell Law Library)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/ -- Links to state ethics codes and opinions.

Cornell Law School American Legal Ethics Library
http://www.law.cornell.edu/ethics/

FindLaw's Ethics and Professional Responsibility Links
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/14ethics/index.html

Law Office Hornbook (by the Virginia State Bar, the Hawaii State Bar Association, the State Bar of Arizona and the New Mexico State Bar)
http://www.hornbook.com/index.htm -- Includes the quarterly newsletter "Law Office Hornbook Report," the Virginia Code of Professional Responsibility and Ethics Opinions, and Arizona ethics opinions.

Legalethics.com Internet Legal Services
http://www.legalethics.com/ -- This site pulls together links to ethics opinions, rules, articles and other information relating to Internet ethics issues.

National Organization of Bar Counsel
http://nobc.org/

The Texas Center for Legal Ethics and Professionalism
http://www.txethics.org/ -- Includes Texas ethics opinions, the Texas Disciplinary Rules of Professional Conduct, the Texas Rules of Disciplinary Procedure, .

U.S. Office of Government Ethics
http://www.usoge.gov/ -- Includes executive orders, legislation, regulations, OGE informal advisory letters and memoranda and formal opinions, and forms.

TOPICAL - LEGAL HISTORY

Avalon Project (Yale Law School)
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm -- A collection of legal history documents, including charters, treaties and other agreements.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html -- U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates: 1774-1873 Library of Congress.

A Chronology of United States Historical Documents (The University of Oklahoma Law Center)
http://www.law.ou.edu/ushist.html -- Includes the text of historical documents.

Core Documents of U.S. Democracy (GPO Access)
http://www.access.gpo.gov/su_docs/locators/coredocs/index.html

Emory Law Library
http://www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/country/us/docs.html -- United States historical documents, such as the Federalist Papers and the United States Constitution, with amendments never ratified.

Historical Text Archive
http://historicaltextarchive.com/ -- Contains links to historical texts.

The Presidents of the United States of America (White House Home Page)
http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/index.html -- Biographical data on U.S. Presidents.

THOMAS (The Library of Congress)
http://thomas.loc.gov/ -- Includes the Annals of Congress (precursor of the Congressional Record) from 1789-1793 and historical documents, as well as more recent legislative documents.

U. S. Senate Historical Office
http://www.senate.gov/learning/learn_history.html

TOPICAL - NATIVE AMERICAN LAW

Bureau of Indian Affairs (U.S. Department of the Interior)
http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html -- Includes final and proposed regulations, executive orders and proclamations, . Access to this page is temporarily suspended under Court Order (1/4/02).

FindLaw's American Indian Law Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/21indian/index.html

Indian Affairs: Law and Treaties - Vol. II - 1904
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/kappler/

Native American Constitution and Law Digitization Project (The University of Oklahoma Law Library and the National Indian Law Library of the Native American Rights Fund)
http://thorpe.ou.edu/ -- Includes constitutions, charters and codes.

Native American Housing (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
http://www.hud.gov/native.html

National Indian Gaming Association
http://www.indiangaming.org/

Research Links on the World Wide Web: Native American & Aboriginal Law (New England School of Law Library)
http://www.nesl.edu/research/native.cfm

Native Web Resources for Indigenous Cultures
http://www.nativeweb.org/ -- Includes a Law & Legal Issues section.

Senate Committee on Indian Affairs
http://www.senate.gov/~scia/ -- Includes bills beginning with the 103rd Congress.

Treaties between the United States and Native Americans
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/ntreaty/ntreaty.htm -- Full-text from 1778 to 1868.

TOPICAL - PRODUCTS LIABILITY

FDA
http://www.fda.gov/ -- Searchable Internet site.

Breast Implant Litigation
http://www.fjc.gov/BREIMLIT/mdl926.htm -- Information from Multi-district Breast Implant Litigation.

Mega Law Products Liability Law
http://www.megalaw.com/top/products.php3

Products Liability Law (Cornell University)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/products_liability.html

The Safety Forum
http://www.safetyforum.com/ -- A commercial site with information on automobile product safety.

Tobacco Control Resource Center, Inc. & the Tobacco Products Liability Project
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/

U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
http://www.cpsc.gov/ -- Includes information about product recalls.

U.S. Department of Transportation
http://www.dot.gov/

TOPICAL - PUBLIC UTILITIES

American Public Power Association
http://www.appanet.org/

Energy and Utilities Laws (U.S. General Services Administration)

Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
http://www.ferc.fed.us/

Mega Law Public Utilities Law
http://www.megalaw.com/top/pubutil.php3 -- Includes links to Public Utility Commissions in all 50 states as well as links to other resources.

Public Utility Law Project
http://www.pulpny.org/ -- Directed at providing assistance and information to low income and rural customers.

U.S. Department of Energy
http://www.energy.gov/

U.S. Department of Energy's Alternative Fuels Data Center
http://www.afdc.nrel.gov/

U.S. Department of Interior, Minerals Management Service
http://www.mms.gov/ -- Access to this page has been temporarily disabled under a Court Order (1/8/02).

U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission
http://www.nrc.gov/ -- Includes regulations, technical reports, inspection manual, audit reports, administrative letters, bulletins, circulars, etc.

TOPICAL - SCHOOL LAW

PRIMARY SOURCES

Education Law Materials (Cornell Law School)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/education.html -- Includes the full text of 20 U.S.C., dealing with education generally, and 20 U.S.C. § 1400 et seq., dealing with the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act specifically. When you're viewing these statutes, you'll see an "Update" button that will take you to the Library of Congress' THOMAS database to check for any recent amendments to any section of the statute, and a "Notes" button which will show you all the historical information on the statute you are viewing. You will also find recent U.S. Supreme Court and Courts of Appeals decisions on education issues, federal agency regulations from 34 C.F.R. pertaining to education, and other education related materials.

Federal Education Laws (U.S. General Services Administration)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/state_statutes2.html#education -- Does not include every state.

U.S. Department of Education
http://www.ed.gov/ -- includes Title IV School Codes, Disabilities Education Act, education statistics, news releases, and DOE publications and products. It also includes many links to policy statements and student loan information.

NEWS

Education Week on the Web
http://www.edweek.org/ -- Includes full text stories, features, and commentaries on a variety of education issues from both Education Week and Teacher Magazine. It also includes an internal search engine, an archive section, job listings, and special reports.

Chronicle of Higher Education
http://www.chronicle.com/ -- This online version of the print publication makes only short summaries of its articles available to non-subscribers. Online subscription is possible, however. In addition to the articles, subscribers have access to a searchable database of jobs open in institutions of higher education throughout the country.

ASSOCIATION WEB SITES

American Association of School Administrators
http://www.aasa.org/ -- Includes discussions of current legislative activity concerning education, articles and reports on education issues, a marketplace for educational vendors and suppliers, and employment listings for administrators.

American Federation of Teachers
http://www.aft.org/index.html

Council of Chief State School Officers
http://www.ccsso.org/ -- Contains various organization policy statements and position papers as well as transcripts of testimony by CCSSO officials before Congress. There are also links to state education agencies and various links to information about CCSSO.

Education Law Association
http://www.educationlaw.org/ -- Formerly NOLPE.

National Association of College and University Attorneys
http://www.nsba.org/cosa/ -- Contains current news on education related issues before the Supreme Court and the lower federal and state courts and a searchable index of COSA publications. There is a "members only" area closed off to the casual observer.

National Association of State Boards of Education
http://www.nasbe.org/ -- Provides information on legislative updates, organizational activity, and a calendar of training events.

COMPREHENSIVE SITES

FindLaw: Legal Subjects: Education Law
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/37education/index.html -- A listing of education law web sites, including the major categories of government agencies; laws and government documents; journals, newsletters and articles; and e-mail lists & usernet groups.

Hieros Gamos
http://www.hg.org/edu.html -- A listing of legal web sites, including many education law resources.

MISCELLANEOUS

Ed Law and the Ed Law Center
http://www.edlaw.net/frames.html -- Includes a number of relevant Internet links.

Education Policy Analysis Archives (a peer-reviewed journal published by Arizona State University)
http://olam.ed.asu.edu/epaa/ -- contains the full text of articles published in issues going back to volume 1 (1993), as well as abstracts to browse.

Ask ERIC - Educational Information With the Personal Touch
http://ericir.syr.edu/ -- The ERIC database is the world's largest source of education information. ERIC is supported by the National Library of Education, part of  the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Educational Research and Improvement. The ERIC system home page is maintained at the ACCESS ERIC facility. The database contains more than 850,000 abstracts of documents and journal articles on education research and practice. Although only abstracts are online, ordering the full-text articles can be done through the web site. The site also includes topical links and an “Ask an Eric Expert” feature.

ERIC
http://www.eric.ed.gov/ -- Home page for ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) via government web site.

National Library of Education
http://www.ed.gov/NLE/ -- Includes links to other libraries and educational resources. Other links lead to the library's catalog and publications. Some of the publications can be downloaded using Adobe Acrobat.

Special Education Resources on the Internet
http://seriweb.com/ -- A listing of web sites.

U.S. Access Board (Also known as the Architectural & Transportation Barriers Compliance Board)
http://www.access-board.gov/

TOPICAL - SECURITIES LAW

American Stock Exchange (AMEX)
http://www.amex.com/

Cyber Securities Law
http://www.cybersecuritieslaw.com/ -- Published by Glasser Legalworks.

FindLaw's Securities Law Resources
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/34securities/index.html -- A listing of securities law web sites.

Full Universal Currency Exchange
http://www.xe.net/ucc/full.shtml

NASDAQ
http://www.nasdaq.com/

NASD Regulation National Association of Securities Dealers
http://www.nasdr.com/

New York Stock Exchange
http://www.nyse.com/

Securities and Exchange Commission
http://www.sec.gov/

SEC Enforcement Division Recent Enforcement Actions & Investor Alerts
http://www.sec.gov/divisions/enforce.shtml

SEC's EDGAR Database
http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml -- Documents filed with the SEC.

SEC Law
http://www.seclaw.com/Welcome.shtml -- An on-line guide to securities law hosted by a private law firm.

SEC News Digest
http://www.sec.gov/news/digest.shtml -- Issued daily.

Securities Lawyer's Deskbook (The Center for Corporate Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law)
http://www.law.uc.edu/CCL/ -- Text of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Securities and Exchange Act of 1934, and corresponding rules, forms, and regulations.

Securities Class Action Clearinghouse (Robert Crown Law Library, Stanford University School of Law)
http://securities.stanford.edu/

Security Lawyer’s Deskbook
http://www.tdd.lt/slnews/Stock_Exchanges/Stock.Exchanges.html

TOPICAL - TAX LAW

FEDERAL TAX LAW

Title 26, U.S. Code (Cornell Law Library)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/26/index.html

Internal Revenue Service
http://www.irs.gov/ -- Includes the 1996-1998 Internal Revenue Bulletins, forms, IRS publications, tax rate tables, and news releases.

U.S. Tax Code Online
http://www.fourmilab.ch/ustax/ustax.html

U.S. Tax Court
http://www.ustaxcourt.gov/

STATE TAX LAW

Collection of State Tax Forms (Louisiana State University Libraries)
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/govdocs/taxes.html

Federation of Tax Administrators
http://www.taxadmin.org/ -- Includes state tax rates and links to state tax forms.

Florida Department of Revenue
http://sun6.dms.state.fl.us/dor/

Multistate Tax Commission
http://www.mtc.gov/

State Revenue Web Sites 1040.com
http://www.1040.com/StateLinks.htm -- Links to state Department of Revenue web sites.

NEWS

Deloitte & Touche LLP - Tax News & Views
http://www.riahome.com/default.asp -- Includes news articles on estate planning, federal tax, and pension & benefits.

Tax Analysts
http://www.taxhistory.org/ -- Under the Tax Analysts umbrella of information.  This project was established in 1995 to provide information about the history of American taxation.  The project uses a program of web-based documentary publications and original historical research.

Tax Issues
http://www.taxissue.com/

Tax Management Tax News (Bureau of National Affairs)
http://www.findlaw.com/01topics/35tax/index.html

Tax and Accounting Sites Directory (Dennis Schmidt)
http://www.taxsites.com/

Tax Web
http://www.taxweb.com/taxforms.html -- Links to federal and state tax forms as well as links to the states providing tax forms available for electronic download.

World Wide Web Tax
http://www.wwwebtax.com/ -- Self- identified as “the first comprehensive U.S. Tax Directory on the Web.”