Category «Legal Research»

Top Ten Court Website Awards

From the Justice Served website, this announcement identifies the top ten court websites chosen from among 900 considered. Two court sites in Washington, D.C. were recognized: the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Columbia and the US District Court for the District of Columbia. [Rory Perry’s Weblog]

Subjects: Courts, Internet, Legal Research

Congressional Report Examines Impact of Politics on Scientific Research

From the Politics and Science website, presented by Rep. Henry A. Waxman, Ranking Member, Committee on Government Reform, Minority Office: A new report, August 2003, Politics and Science, (40 pages, pdf) “finds numerous instances where the Administration has manipulated the scientific process and distorted or suppressed scientific findings. Beneficiaries include important supporters of the President, …

Subjects: Congress, Freedom of Information, Government Documents, Legal Research

Web Portal on International Business

From Michigan State University, this free site, globalEdge, provides more than 2,000 business-related data resources on 200 countries, in areas that include “business climate, news, history, political structure, economic landscape, and relevant statistical data.” Users may view information by specific country or region, or via a keyword search. The site offers an extensive library of …

Subjects: Legal Research

New York City Legal Resources

The Center for New York City Law website, “provides information about, and analysis of, the laws and legal processes that govern New York City.” NYC Administrative Decisions. Search the Center’s library of more than 9,000 full text administrative decisions decided by New York City agencies.

Subjects: Legal Research

New Gov’t Portal on Household Products

Health & Safety Information on Household Products Portal: this new database service from the National Library of Medicine is a portal to information on over 4,000 products arranged in seven categories (auto, home inside, pesticides, landscape/yard, personal care, home maintenance, hobbies & crafts). Users are provided with data on brands, manufacturers, health effects, handling/disposal, and …

Subjects: Legal Research

Major Archive of TV News Programs Going Digital

“The Vanderbilt Television News Archive, the world’s most comprehensive collection of television network news programs, marks its 35th anniversary this week by going digital.” [Link] “Since Aug. 5, 1968, archivists at Vanderbilt University have preserved on videotape and indexed nearly 40,000 hours of network news just as they aired on television sets throughout the nation….the …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research, Libraries

Yahoo Expands News Coverage

From SearchDay: “Yahoo News is now incorporating more than 3,500 sources from Moreover’s public metabase of near real-time news content. This is in addition to the full-text coverage provided by dozens of providers, and a wide range of editorially selected coverage.”

Subjects: Legal Research

New Website For Researchers on Nuremberg Trials

From Paul Deschner: The Harvard Law School Library has just launched a new website devoted to analysis and digitization of documents relating to the Nuremberg Trials: “Nuremberg Trials Project: A Digital Document Collection” at http://nuremberg.law.harvard.edu. The Library has approximately one million pages of documents relating to the trial of military and political leaders of Nazi …

Subjects: Legal Research

Legal Research in a Nutshell

From Kent Olson, University of Virginia Law Library: Legal Research in a Nutshell Links provides convenient access to all of the more than three hundred URLs mentioned in the book (Legal Research in a Nutshell, 8th ed., 2003), including appendices. Sites are arranged thematically by chapter and page number, and the list will be updated …

Subjects: Internet, Legal Research