Definitions and explanation, in plain English, of legal terminology...

A collection of peer-reviewed publications including law journals, documents, and case studies...

An extensive collection of materials relating to the law...

A selective list of links that are intended to be a starting point for research...

Contains 400 on the legal systems of various countries, states of the United States and Australia, and provinces of Canada...

Huge collection of full-text databases covering news, business, legal research, and biographical information...

Covers details of American law on free speech, libel, copyright, fair trial, obscenity, etc...

"Concise, convenient summaries of laws around the world...

Links to full text online information and reports on corrections, juvenile crime, courts, drugs and crime, international crime, juvenile justice, law enforcement, victims of crime, and statistics...

This site provides legal information geared toward the consumer...

Contains than 4000 entries which "define and explain the major terms, concepts, processes, and organization of the law...

Indexes articles, books, and documents addressing important political, economic and social issues...

Retrospective database chronicling global public policy and social issues...

Searchable full-text journals covering various years from the 1990s to the present...

A fully searchable online edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing accounts of over 100,000 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court...

Human Rights archive as part of the Avalon project at Yale Law School, including cases and documents...

Provides data and other information supplied by the Institute of Race and Justice, an interdisciplinary research team, at Northeastern University...

"Coverage includes the literature on specific topics from abortion to world systems theory; nine major entries cover each of the major disciplines (political economy, management and business, human geography, politics, sociology; law, psychology; organizational behavior) and the history and development of the social sciences in a broader sense...

Compilation of laws and related legal resources from ancient sources, in the original languages...

Indexes articles, books, manuscripts, and dissertations on the social sciences and humanities, published primarily in Russia, the republics of the former Soviet Union, and countries in Eastern Europe...

A comprehensive science-specific web search engine...

Indexes articles and citations from over 1700 international social sciences journals...

A subset of Lexis-Nexis containing the Internal Revenue Bulletin / Cumulative Bulletin, Internal Revenue Code, Treasury Regulations, Federal and State Tax Cases, and more...

Contains entries on major drug dealers, organizations, smuggling and anti-smuggling strategies, major miscalculations and disasters, legal restraints, famous incidents, and more...

"Provides current information on more than 5,000 legal topics...

WestMate enables access to West's online legal research service and provides quick, easy access to West's vast collection of statutes, case law materials, public records, and other legal resources, along with current news articles and business information...

A closed file database that is no longer (as of June 30, 2006) being updated, which indexes articles, dissertations, and books on political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy...