Legal Topics

Sources

Textbook site

www.prenhall.com/myphlip    (study guide, quizzes, etc)

Writing Assistance

On-line writing labs  (OWL's)     http://owl.english.purdue.edu/internet/owls/writing-labs.html

• Dartmouth's Composition Center   www.dartmouth.edu/~compose/student/index.html
• Georgia Southern's Guide to Writing   www2.gasou.edu/library/using.html
• Purdue's Writing Lab   http://owl.english.purdue.edu/
• UGA's Writer Resource Center   http://parallel.park.uga.edu/~sigalas/writerresources.html
• U of Wisconsin Writing Handbook    http://www.wisc.edu/writing/Handbook/

Evaluating Information on the Internet:

• http://milton.mse.jhe.edu:8001/research/education/net.html    (Johns Hopkins)
• www.uwec.edu/Admin/Library/Guides/tencs.html    (UW Eau Claire)
• Sources:  Use and Acknowledgment   www.dartmouth.edu/~sources/
• GSU Policy on Academic Honesty (plagiarism) in  Section 4.0 of the Student Handbook:   http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwcam/codeindex.html
• University System of Georgia Copyright and Fair Use Policy www.usg.edu/admin/legal/copyright/  
  

General Interest

Libraries:

• Library of Congress    www.loc.gov
• Pullen Library   www.library.gsu.edu
• GALILEO
• GSU Law Library   www.law.gsu.edu/lawlibrary/

Guides to Finding the Law:

•  www.findlaw.com
• http://www.law.cornell.edu/
• www.hg.org/index.html        (guide to on-line US & international legal information)
• www.hg.og/journals.html     (guide to on-line law journals)
• www.law.cornell.edu/journals.html   (links to on-line law journals)

Legal Dictionaries:

•   www.dictionary.lp.findlaw.com     (can search by term)
• www.wwlia.org/diction.htm  

Legal Forms:

• www.forms.lp.findlaw.com
• www.legaldocs.com

Legal News    www.nlj.com     (National Law Journal -- weekly)

Virtual Law Libraries

• www.law.emory.edu/LAW/refdesk/subject   (electronic reference desk of law by subject area)
• www.law.indiana.edu/v-lib/
• www.lib.umich.edu/libhome/Documents.center/index.html

Federal Law

• United States Constitution  (annotated) http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/casecode/constitution/

• U.S. Statutes http://www.paralegals.org/LegalResources/fedlaw.html

• U.S. Code Search http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/

• US Library of Congress  http://thomas.loc.gov    (legislative information)

• United States Supreme Court http://www.supremecourtus.gov/

• US Supreme Court Oral Arguments   http://oyez.nwu.edu

• Findlaw's Supreme Court page    http://supreme.lp.findlaw.com

• Northwestern University's Supreme Court "On the Docket"       www.medill.nwu.edu/docket

• 11^th Circuit, U.S.  Court of Appeals http://www.law.emory.edu/11circuit/ 

• Federal Government Website http://www.firstgov.gov/

• Government Manual

• Code of Federal Regulations

• Federal Register

All States

Search all States laws http://www.romingerlegal.com/

Indexed list of state resources   http://www.law.cornell.edu/states/index.html

State of Georgia

• Georgia Supreme Court http://www2.state.ga.us/Courts/Supreme/

• Official Code of Georgia http://www.ganet.org/services/ocode/ocgsearch.htm

• Georgia Secretary of State http://www.sos.state.ga.us/default1024a.asp

• Georgia Bar Association http://www.gabar.org/

• Georgia Superior Court Clerks http://www2.gsccca.org/

• Georgia Criminal Procedure http://www.fultoncourt.org/justice_overview.htm

• The State of Georgia Index http://www.state.ga.us/index/georgia_index.html

Business Ethics

Ethics Resources  and Centers on the Web

• University of British Columbia http://www.ethics.ubs.ca/reources/business
• BusinessEthics.com http://www.businessethics.com/
• Ethics Resource Center    www.ethics.org
• Josephson Institute of Ethics    www.josephsoninstitute.org
• Bentley's Center for Business Ethics    http://ecampus.bentley.edu/dept/cbe
• Colorado State Business Ethics Center     www.e-businessethics.com
•          (includes the Lockheed-Martin "ethics game")
• Colorado University    carbon.cudenver.edu/%7Ejjuhasz/ethiclinks.html
• DePaul Center for Business Ethics  (ethics code, On-Line Journal of Business Ethics, etc)  www.depaul.edu/ethics
• University of St. Thomas    www.stthom.edu/cbes/resources.html
• US Gov't Office of Ethics     www.usoge.gov/home.html

Links to On-line Codes of Conduct

•   www.csep.lit.edu/codes/business.html
• www.ethics.ubc.ca/resources/business/

Dispute Resolution

• American Arbitration Association http://www.adr.org/

• Civil Procedure http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/civil_procedure.html

• Class Action rules for the 50 states  www.members.aol.com/class50/index.html

Contracts

Cornell Law School on Sales http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/sales.html

Georgetown's business and commercial law site

·          www.ll.georgetown.edu/lr/rs/buscom.html

Business Entities

Georgia Secretary of State's corporations page

·          http://www.sos.state.ga.us/corporations/

Employment Law

Federal Agencies dealing with Employment Law

• http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/01topics/27labor/gov_agencies.html
• www.dol.gov
• www.eeoc.gov
• www.nlrb.gov
• www.osha.gov

Ga. Office of Legal Affairs Employment Law
http://www.usg.edu/admin/legal/lawlinks.html

Consumer Law

• US Consumer Gateway     www.consumer.gov

• Federal Consumer Information Center     www.pueblo.gsa.gov

• HG Consumer Center      www.hg.org/consume.html

• Better Business Bureau         www.bbb.org

• Atlanta legal Aid Society common Legal problems
  • http://www.law.emory.edu/PI/ALAS/community.html
• Clark Howard www.clarkhoward.com
• FTC www.ftc.gov

• FDA www.fda.gov

• Consumer Product Safety commission www.cpsc.gov

• US Consumer Health site           www.healthfinder.gov

• Georgia Consumer Services  from http://www.state.ga.us/index/georgia_index.html

• Georgia Office of Consumer Affairs  www.state.ga.us/GaOCA

• Consumer Alert
• Consumer Corner - Public Service Commission
• File a complaint against a Licensee
• File a complaint against a national or state bank
• Investigate before you invest
• Lemon Law
• Lemon Law complaint form
• Links to Other Consumer Related Sites
• Problems with your insurance?

Consumer Law decisions   http://members.aol.com/judgetad/index.html

Environmental

• EPA www.epa.gov

• Georgia's Department of Natural Resources http://www.ganet.org/dnr/environ/

• Virtual Environmental Law Library
  •  www.joshua.law.pace.edu/env/environ.html

Antitrust

• Findlaw's Antitrust http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/01topics/01antitrust/index.html

• Dept of Justice Antitrust Division www.usdoj.gov/atr

• Federal Trade Commission       www.ftc.gov

Securities

• Securities Exchange Commission www.sec.gov

• Edgar (find financial documents) http://www.sec.gov/edgar.shtml 

Bankruptcy

Findlaw Bankruptcy http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/01topics/03bankruptcy/index.html

Debtor-Creditor

• FTC on Fair Debt Collections http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpajump.htm

• Fair Credit Reporting Act http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fcrajump.htm

• Cornel Law School on Secured Transactions http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/secured_transactions.html

International Law

• United States Treaties in Force http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/tifindex.html

• United Nations Treaties http://untreaty.un.org/English/treaty.asp

• World Trade Organization   http://www.wto.org/

• U.S. Immigration http://www.ins.gov

• North American Free Trade Area http://www.nafta-sec-alena.org/english/index.htm

• Int'l Business Resources on the Web  www.globaledge.msu.edu/ibrd/ibrd.asp

• World Intellectual Property Organization Dispute Resolution http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/index.html

Torts

• A Georgia Plaintiff Attorney's Website with lots of links regarding Georgia tort law  
  http://www.atlantainjurylawyer.com/

• Torts from Cornell's Legal Institute http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/torts.html

• Findlaw's Injury and tort Law List http://guide.lp.findlaw.com/01topics/22tort/index.html

• Current tort cases and a "personal injury" newsletter:  
  www.ljextra.com/practice/negligence/index.html

• Georgetown's consumer law and torts page  
  http://www.ll.georgetown.edu/lr/rs/torts.html

Products Liability and Personal Injury Law pages  

• www.consumerlawpage.com
• www.products.law.com

Intellectual Property

• U.S. Copyright Office http://www.loc.gov/copyright/

• U.S Patent and Trademark Office http://www.uspto.gov

• Gigalaw http://www.gigalaw.com

• Stanford's Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials http://fairuse.stanford.edu/internet/

E-commerce and Cyblerlaw

• ICANN Dispute Resolution Policy http://www.icann.org/udrp/udrp.htm

• Register a Domain name www.register.com

• Uniform Commercial Code 2B http://www.law.uh.edu/ucc2b/

• Domain Name Law Report http://www.dnlr.com/searchindex.html

• Cyber Law Links http://techsection.alsb.mercer.edu/links.htm

Criminal

• US Dept of Justice     www.usdoj.gov
  US Attorney, Northern District, Georgia http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/gan/
  FBI's 10 Most Wanted http://www.fbi.gov/mostwant/topten/fugitives/fugitives.htm

• GBI http://www.ganet.org/gbi/

• Georgia Indigent Defense Counsel  http://www.gidc.com/

• Georgia Criminal Defense Lawyers http://www.gacdl.org/

• Fulton county DA http://www.co.fulton.ga.us/districtattorney/da.html

GSU Legal Studies Faculty Websites

Perry Z. Binder http://www.gsu.edu/~rmipzb
Joan Gabel http://www.gsu.edu/~insjtg/
Martin Grace  http://xeff.gsu.edu