Law and Legal Resources
(See also Government: United States)
General Websites
- Avalon Project -- Texts of historic legal documents from all centuries, to present
- FindLaw -- Extremely comprehensive searchable collection of links (includes LawCrawler as an advanced search option)
- Guide to Law Online -- Extensively annotated collection of links, covering U.S. federal and state, international, and multinational law; from the Law Library of Congress
- Hieros Gamos: Law and Legal Research Center -- Very rich law information site, covering U.S. federal and state, and international law, and much more
- Law Engine -- Extensive categorized list of links
- Legal Information Institute -- Another extensive categorized list of links, from Cornell University Law School
- Public Law Library -- Extensive new site from California county law libraries
Dictionaries
- Everybody's Legal Dictionary -- Created and maintained by Nolo Press
- American Library Association -- Information and links addressing the Act's impact on libraries
Patriot Act
Federal (U.S.) Laws, Regulations, etc.
- CFR: Code of Federal Regulations -- All executive agency regulations currently in effect
- Federal Register -- Includes published and proposed regulations, notices, public laws, Executive Orders, and other Presidential Documents
- GPO Access -- Government resources from all branches of the government, including Congressional Bills, Congressional Record, Federal Register, etc.
- Oyez -- Supreme Court multimedia information, historical and current
- Supreme Court -- Official site, providing docket, calendar, and current opinions
- Supreme Court -- Links and landmark cases, from FindLaw
- Thomas -- Laws, bills, committee reports, and other Legislative Branch information U.S. Code -- Searchable database of U.S. laws currently in effect
California
- California Ballot Measures & Initiatives Databases (1911-2000) -- From Hastings College of Law
- California Code of Regulations -- California state regulations
- California Codes -- All 29 Codes representing California law
- California Courts Self-Help Center -- Organized by specific need, available in several languages
- California State Constitution -- Full text, searchable
- Current Bills and Legislation -- Full text of Senate & Assembly bills, resolutions, including history, votes, and analyses
Other (All) States
- States and Territories -- Links to departments, legal documents and guides for all U.S. states and territories
- State and Local Government on the Net -- Comprehensive guide to official governmental state, local and city websites
- Topical Index: State Statutes on the Internet -- Over 40 topics, with links to pertinent legislation from all states
Local Government
- City of Santa Cruz -- Official website
- City of Watsonville -- Official website
- County of Santa Cruz -- Official website
- Santa Cruz (City) Municipal Code -- Browsable and searchable text
- Santa Cruz County Code -- Browsable and searchable text
International and Tribal
- International and Multinational -- Legal information links pertaining to laws governing interactions of nations, from the Guide to Law Online, by the Law Library of Congress
- National Indian Law Library -- Annotated directory of links plus the text of the constitutions & codes of various tribes
- Nations of the World -- Links to government branches, legal documents, and general country information, from the Guide to Law Online, by the Law Library of Congress
- Reference Guide to the Geneva Conventions -- Browsable topic index to the Geneva Conventions, including the complete text of all conventions & protocols
