Internet Legal Research

Primary Federal Sources

• Browse Government Publications (FDsys)
• Code of Federal Regulations
• Congressional Record
• Federal Court Resources
• Federal Legislative Resources
• Federal Register
• Federal Rules of Civil Procedure
• Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure
• Federal Rules of Evidence
• GPO's Federal Digital System (FDsys)
• LawGuru Internet Law Library
• The OYEZ Project (U.S. Supreme Ct. Oral Arguments)
• Thomas (Library of Congress-Legislative Information)
• U.S. Code
• U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates: 1774-1875 (Library of Congress)
• United States Constitution
• United States Supreme Court
• The White House

Other Federal Government Sites

• CIA World Factbook
• Forms.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Hub for Federal Forms
• IRS-Forms & Publications
• Public.Resource.Org
• USA.gov: The U.S. Government's Official Web Portal
• U.S. Department of Justice
• U.S. Government Documents Ready Reference Collection (Columbia Univ.)
• U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO)
• U.S. House of Representatives
• U.S. Senate
• Yahoo's Government Directory

Ohio Sources

• CASEMAKER (from Ohio State Bar Ass'n) -- Student membership is free. Students who are OSBA members simply enter their last name and member number
• Office of the Governor
• Ohio Administrative Code
• Ohio Capitol Connection
• Ohio Constitution
• Ohio General Assembly
• Ohio Revised Code
• Ohio Rules of Court
• Ohio Supreme Court
• Legislative Service Commission
• Register of Ohio
• State of Ohio

Other State Sources

• Cornell LII Law by State
• FindLaw State Resources Index
• National Center for State Courts
• NCSL 50-State Legislative Tracking Web Resources
• State and Local Government on the Net (Piper Info.)
• State Constitutions Project (Univ. of Maryland)
• State Legal Sources on the Web (Univ. of Michigan)
• State Legislative History Guides on the Web (Indiana Univ.)

Legal Meta Sites

• FindLaw
• FindLaw's Lawyer Directory
• Google Scholar (search legal opinions and journals)
• Hieros Gamos
• Internet Legal Resource Guide
• Jurist
• Justia
• Law Guru
• Law Library of Congress: Guide to Law Online
• Legal Ethics
• Legal Information Institute (Cornell Univ.)
• Martindale Hubbell
• ShareLaw Catalog
• WashLaw: Legal Research on the Web (Washburn Univ.)
• The WWW Virtual Library - Law
• Yahoo's Law Directory
• Zimmerman's Research Guide

Dictionaries

Legal

• Bouvier's Law Dictionary (6th ed. 1856)
• Duhaime's Law Dictionary
• Legal Glossary (Nolo)
• Legal Lexicon's Lyceum

Other

• Dictionary.com
• OneLook Dictionaries

Forms

• FindLaw Forms
• ILRG Legal Forms Archive
• Lectric Law Library Forms
• lexisONE Forms

Miscellaneous

• The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (Univ. of Houston)
• The Civil Rights Ligitation Clearinghouse (Univ. of Michigan)
• 50States.com Newspaper Database
• Internet Archive
• Internet Public Library Reference Collection
• Legal Newsletters (WashLaw)
• MedlinePlus
• Richmond Journal of Law and Technology: Legal Research Links
• University Law Review Project
• US Postal Service Zip Codes