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Select Bibliography of Legal Information and Research
Sources on the Internet
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Go to: opinions, commentary, references, constitution
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| Roberts, C.J. (2005) | Scalia, J. (1986) | Kennedy, J. (1987) |
Clough Center for the Study of Constitutional Democracy (Boston College)
The sites listed on this page will take you to research collections and centers whose primary focus is constitutional democracy or constitutionalism more generally.
FedWorld/FLITE Supreme Court Decisions Homepage
This system contains the full text of 7,407 U.S. Supreme Court Decisions from 1937 to 1975. Decisions are available as ASCII text files that can be read on your browser's screen or saved to your hard drive and accessed by using most word processor programs.
FindLaw's searchable database of the Supreme Court decisions since 1937 (U.S. Supreme Court Decisions: US Reports volume 150-, 1893-). Browsable by year and US Reports volume number and searchable by citation, case title and full text. This is a free service.
Historic Supreme Court Decisions (Party Name)
"The cases included in the LII Historic Collection are listed alphabetically. You can scroll down the list or click on one of the following letters to jump directly to that portion of it. Clicking on a case name will retrieve that case. If you are not sure of a case name, you may wish to search the entire collection using a portion of the name or a key word or phrase likely to be used in it."
Available through the SMU homepage library link, if you link to the web through the SMU server, this is a compendium of federal (and state) court decisions, law reviews, legal newsletters, major newspapers and magazines, and assorted other resources useful to this class.
The LII (Legal Information Institute)
"This archive contains all opinions of the court issued since May of 1990. In addition, our collection of over 300 of the most important historical decisions of the Court is available on CD-ROM and (with reduced functionality) over the Net."
"In addition to details about major constitutional cases heard and decided by the Supreme Court of the United States, we provide digital recordings of the Court's proceedings. The Court began to record its public sessions in October 1955. [T]hese recordings … [are drawn] from sources in the National Archives."
Professor Linder teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law. He has put together a truly impressive website. Of particular interest to my students will be his EXPLORING CONSTITUTIONAL LAW and EXPLORING FIRST AMENDMENT LAW pages, but also check out his FAMOUS TRIALS page. All are first rate.
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| Thomas, J. (1991) | Ginsburg, J. (1993) | Breyer (1994) |
Commentary on The Doings of the Supreme Court
LII -- news and references
The BLT-The Blog of Legal Times
How Appealing. Howard J. Bashman's blog on appellate activities in the U.S.
The Jurist Advertised as "the law professors’ network," this site contains commentary on legal and constitutional issues in the U.S. and abroad.
To sign up for email bulletins on Supreme Court cases and decisions:
The liibulletin is a Cornell Law School electronic journal. Its editorial board comprises second- and third-year law students, who are responsible for every aspect of the journal's management, from selecting decisions for commentary to researching, writing, editing, and producing the journal content in HTML. The 2004-05 bulletin will explore cases currently before the US Supreme Court. Bulletin content is available on this site and by (free) email subscription. http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/
UNITED STATES SUPREME COURT NEWS
Willamette Law Online - Willamette University College of Law. To
subscribe, go to
http://www.willamette.edu/wucl/wlo/
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| Alito (2006) | Sotomayor, J. (2009) | Kagan (2010) |
General Sources/References on Constitutional Law
... providing a comprehensive, uniform, and useful compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States, Canada, and Mexico. This site contains additional links to sources of commentary and practice aids that are available without charge (or available at a reasonable charge from governmental and nonprofit providers).
A site run out of the University of Minnesota "Dedicated to publicly accessible information, ideas, and images concerning the First Amendment to the United States Constitution." It's holdings include cases, case materials, historical materials, and primary sources. It also has a link dedicated to First Amendment issues "in the news."
The Reference Room at the 'Lectric Law Library
Funky, in the extreme, but potentially useful: "Like a pack of hungry piranhas stalking the frozen Serengeti tundra's redwood forests for their next feral poodle brunch, our staff of 379 legal information experts -- neutered drones, raised on a diet of Nixon speeches, Perry Mason reruns, Alan Dershkowitz commentaries & Scalia opinions since being snatched from their mothers within minutes of birth and genetically altered to unstintingly obey the benevolent musings and tyranical rants of our universally beloved Head Librarian Ralf -- sit chained to computers 22 hrs a day at our majestic Isles of Langerhans Command Complex, traversing cyberspace, from its lofty, perfumed corridors of power to its dank, fetid dungeons, searching for any legal material the Library's beloved patrons may desire, a sampling of which we are pleased to present below."
Materials on Select Famous Supreme Court Cases
On the Docket Information on upcoming and pending cases.
Paralegal.net's Guide to the Supreme Court. A nice collection of links. (Thanks to Ms. Tabitha Brooks for calling this to my attention.
Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research (Gail Partin)
Researchers around the globe are demanding up-to-the-minute information on
events at the United States Supreme Court. Whether it is for a college or law
school seminar, an appellate brief, or a certiorari petition to the Court
itself, the Internet plays a central role in delivering this information. The
Web is fast, convenient and, for U.S. Supreme Court information, becoming more
comprehensive and reliable every day.
The Web Guide to U.S. Supreme Court Research is intended to facilitate the
convenience and speed that we expect when turning to the Internet for our
research needs. Often, we are unimpressed by the performance of search engines
primarily because of problems with the quantity or relevancy of the results.
This Web Guide attempts to overcome the shortcomings of general web searching by
providing a selection of annotated links to the most reliable, substantive sites
for U.S. Supreme Court research. The sites mentioned here focus predominantly on
information that is freely, or inexpensively, available on the Internet.
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General Sources on the Constitution
Documentary History of the Bill of Rights
The Avalon Project. Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy.
The Federalist Papers. The classics, on line.
(www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/federalist/)
(http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/FEDERAL/frame.html)
(http://lcweb2.loc.gov/const/fed/fedpapers.html)
(http://www.constitution.org/fed/federa00.htm)
