Emory Law: Electronic Resources
The following is a list of subscription-based law related electronic resources and databases with a brief description of each. For a list arranged by subject, go here: Electronic Resources -- By Subject The symbols following most references to online resources indicate the access policies that apply to those databases: = Accessible on Emory campus = Accessible in Law School = Off-campus access via proxy server = Off-campus access requires password = Individual password required = Click to register for BNA e-mail update Licensing Agreements: BNA, CCH, Cambridge Books Online, ElgarOnline, Foreign Law Guide, Hein Online, LexisNexis, LLMC Digital, Oxford University Press, Oxford Scholarly Authorities on International Law, RIA Checkpoint, and Westlaw. American Law Yearbook 2005 . American Law Yearbook 2006 . Asian Journal of Law and Economics (BE Press) . Bloomberg BNA . Bloomberg Law . . Cambridge Books Online . Casemaker X . CCH IntelliConnect . Ch13online.com Chronicle of Higher Education . . . . . . . .
Policy Research on Legislative Issues | Legislative Studies
NCSL conducts policy research in a variety of areas ranging from agriculture and budget and tax issues and education to health care and immigration and transportation. NCSL’s experts are here to answer your questions and give you unbiased, comprehensive information as soon as you need it on issues facing state legislatures. We answer more than 20,000 requests for information a year. Call us anytime or check out our issues list to see what we have online. Our consulting services on policy issues go beyond testifying. We also offer access to 50-state information and other legislative resources, such as weekly session schedules.
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Congress.gov - Congress Legislatiive activity [before July 2016, Thomas]
Emerging global networks for free access to law: WorldLII’s strategies
Graham Greenleaf, Philip Chung and Andrew Mowbray Co-Directors, AustLII & WorldLII* 1. The emerging ‘free access to law’ network 1.1. Legal research increasingly has global dimensions. Commercial legal publishers have responded to these developments in a number of ways. Both the internationalisation of legal research and the decline of local control over legal information call for a response from those who value free access to legal information3, and who consider that free access to essential legal information should be part of a person’s civil rights everywhere. By 'essential legal information' (also called ‘public legal information’) we mean primary legal materials (legislation, case-law, treaties etc) and some secondary (interpretative) materials (law reform reports, travaux préparatoires, investigative commission reports etc). The main goal of the free access to law movement is to spread free access to such legal information to those countries that do not have it6. 1.2. 1.3. 1.4.
Statutes at Large Home Page: U.S. Congressional Documents
The United States Statutes at Large, commonly referred to as the Statutes at Large, is the official source for the laws and resolutions passed by Congress. Publication began in 1845 by the private firm of Little, Brown and Company under authority granted by a joint resolution of Congress. In 1874, Congress transferred the authority to publish the Statutes at Large to the Government Printing Office, which has been responsible for producing the set since that time. Every law, public and private, ever enacted by the Congress is published in the Statutes at Large in order of the date of its passage. United States Law, Law Library of CongressPublic and Private Laws, National Archives and Records AdministrationUnited States Statutes at Large, National Archives and Records AdministrationThe Charters of Freedom, National Archives and Records Administration
Unpublished Opinions in Federal Courts: An Interview with David Cleveland
« Cornell Law Library's InSITE Website Reviews | Main | Google Reaches Tentative Settlement of Book Search Copyright Class Action » October 29, 2008 Unpublished Opinions in Federal Courts: An Interview with David Cleveland David Cleveland is an Assistant Professor of Law at Nova Southeastern University, Shepard Broad Law Center. Q: You have two forthcoming articles now on the issue of unpublished opinions in the federal circuit courts, is the issuance of unpublished opinions a common occurrence? A: Extremely common. Q: What specifically are we talking about when we say “unpublished opinions”? A: “Unpublished opinions” refers to court opinions that the court withholds from formal publication in the official reporter. Q: What was the reasoning behind this rule change? A: The limited publication plans, and the attending lack of citation and precedent accorded unpublished opinions, is, in my opinion, far greater than a mere rule change. A: No, they aren’t. A: Absolutely. A: Unfortunately, no.
Supreme Court of the United States - opinions
Summary judgment in a “Solicitors from Hell” case
This post originally appeared on Media Lawyer, the indispensable subscription service from the Press Association covering all aspects of media law. It is reproduced with permission and thanks. A solicitor who was defamed by an anonymous posting on the Solicitors from Hell website won summary judgment and libel damages of £17,500 from Rick Kordowski, the man who set up and runs the site. Courts rarely grant summary judgment in defamation cases, doing so only when a defendant has no defence to the action. Mr Justice Eady, sitting in the High Court on 11 October 2010, also ordered Mr Kordowski to pay costs of £28,000 to solicitor Megan Phillips, of law firm Bhatt Murphy, and issued an injunction banning him from repeating the allegations. The solicitors from Hell website states on its Home Page: “Name and shame those shady Solicitors. “I didn’t have any idea who could have written anything like this about me. Simon Creighton, the partner at Bhatt Murphy who acted for Ms Phillips, said:
