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State constitutions are distinctive documents—in the rights they confer, the governmental structures they establish, and the ways they change over time. They are not miniature federal constitutions, and they should be studied on their own terms. 50 Constitutions aims to make state constitutions more accessible.
Click on any state of the map below to access the full current text of any state constitution. Or use the search tool to perform full-text searches across all 50 state constitutions. For shaded states, the website provides access to full constitutional histories, allowing users to explore additional features that highlight how each state’s constitution has evolved over time. These additional features will be added for additional states on a rolling basis.
Starting in 2025, AALS content will move to an online platform called AALS LENS (an acronym for Legal Education News and Stories). This website will feature a rolling stream of original articles, contributor stories, organizational updates, news highlights, and more.
The new online-only format will allow us to share relevant and interesting content more frequently and without the delays inherent in traditional print publishing. In addition to all the content traditionally included in the newsletter, we also look forward to bringing you stories in a wider variety of digital formats. LENS will be the single source for anything and everything related to AALS and to legal education.
The Big Ten Open Books collections offer an insightful journey into crucial themes shaping our world. Exploring gender and sexuality, the evolution of norms, Indigenous North American history, and the experiences of African, Asian, and Hispanic Americans, these collections invite readers to rethink roles, spirituality, migration, and cultural dynamics. They also examine humanity's environmental impact through conservation and sustainability, address health disparities and different abilities, illuminating societal impacts on adversity, inequality, and overall well-being.
Together, these five collections foster thoughtful scholarship and knowledge sharing from the collaboration of the Big Ten Academic Alliance university presses and affiliated libraries.
Published Collections
Gender and Sexuality Studies (2023)
This collection explores the complexities of gender and sexuality, examining cultural, historical, and social influences that shape identity and expression. Through interdisciplinary and intersectional perspectives, the books explore themes like power dynamics, reproductive rights, body politics, and the evolution of sexual norms. By highlighting personal narratives and societal changes, the collection provides a nuanced understanding of the challenges and triumphs in gender and sexuality. It invites readers to engage with transformative ideas and reimagine traditional roles and relationships.
Indigenous North Americans (2025)
This collection explores Indigenous North American history, culture, and literature, from the 15th century to today. It examines historical encounters, the interplay between Native spirituality and culture, colonial religion, and land dispossession. Key events such as the evolution of Indigenous law, diplomacy, and education are examined. The voices of Indigenous poets and authors illuminate literary traditions, while themes of resistance and adaptation are showcased through treaty negotiations and verbal arts, capturing enduring contributions to North American history.
Please note: The books in this collection were published a number of years ago. They may include outdated representations of Indigenous culture and society.
Explore over 5,000 meticulously annotated historical and contemporary articles on law librarianship, crafted by expert editors over three decades.
The Data Rescue Tracker is a collaborative tool built to catalog existing public data rescue efforts so that we can coordinate better across initiatives. At this stage, you can use the tool to help reduce duplication of rescue efforts. The Data Rescue Tracker aims to provide a consolidated overview of who is backing up which dataset from which government websites.
Search 3.6 million U.S. judicial opinions using case facts or legal concepts in either English or Spanish. Find relevant case law from state and federal courts, with results available in both standard and simplified English and Spanish.
As AI evolves, tracking global policies and regulations is more important than ever. Governments respond in various ways by adapting laws, creating new rules, and managing the risks and opportunities associated with AI. GAIIN gives a global overview of what is being done worldwide by providing a central resource of public AI policies and initiatives. It is a vital tool for policymakers to collaborate, help identify key trends, and inform decision-making across countries and organizations.
Grant Watch is a project to track the termination of grants of scientific research agencies under the Trump administration in 2025. We currently are tracking terminations of grants from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF).
Our data on terminated NIH and NSF grants are collected from submissions from affected researchers as well as government websites and databases. We encourage researchers, program officers, and grant administrators to submit information via the forms here (NIH) and here (NSF) to help us keep our data up to date.
Grant Watch is a project of Noam Ross, Scott Delaney, Anthony Barente, and Emma Mairson, with input and support from additional volunteers.
Internet Archive is a non-profit library of millions of free texts, movies, software, music, websites, and more.
LLMC is a nonprofit library consortium which provides access to global historic and legal documents through our database. As a nonprofit organization, we focus on the preservation and digitization of at-risk materials, ensuring their longevity and accessibility. Our collection spans jurisdictions, historical periods, and legal systems, offering a rich collection and resources for historians, researchers, attorneys, and scholars.
ManyBooks was established in 2004 with the vision to provide an extensive library of books in digital format for free on the Internet. Many of the early eBooks are from the Project Gutenberg archives, which means you will be able to find a lot of classics on the site.
Over a decade later, we are still going strong in our mission to provide a valuable service to our readers. ManyBooks has grown into a platform where self-publishing authors have the opportunity to introduce their work to our community and new books are uploaded to our site daily - provided they comply to our quality standards.
In our daily newsletter, we keep our rapidly growing list of active subscribers up to date on the latest free and discounted eBooks that are available online. We always love to hear from our visitors, so if you have any questions or feedback, don't hesitate to contact our editor lisa.clifford@manybooks.net.
The Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources digital collection represents the authentic partnerships that were formed in 2019 between the Navajo Nation Department of Water Resources (NNDWR) and the University of Arizona’s Daniel F. Cracchiolo Law Library, the Agnese Nelms Haury Program in Environment and Social Justice, and James E. Rogers College of Law; and, beginning in 2022, the Law Library Microform Consortium (LLMC). In response to the Navajo Nation’s formal directive and priorities for their NNDWR Library, these dedicated partners have collaborated to ensure that the rich history and vibrant stories of the Navajo Nation are preserved for and made available to current and future generations of Indigenous and non-indigenous people, communities, groups, educational institutions, agencies, and organizations.
Digitization is ongoing and this collection will continue to grow. Resources will span the years 1938-2009 and comprise portions of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah in the southwestern United States. The specified segment includes reports, serials, government documents, research, data, policies, assessments, histories, and fold-out maps.
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The creators of these works include NNDWR, members of the Navajo Nation, state and federal agencies, consultants, engineers, universities, researchers, hydrologists, and conservationists.
This project is supported by a Digitizing Hidden Collections grant from the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). The grant program is made possible by funding from the Mellon Foundation.
One web page for every book ever published. It's a lofty but achievable goal.
To build Open Library, we need hundreds of millions of book records, a wiki interface, and lots of people who are willing to contribute their time and effort to building the site.
To date, we have gathered over 20 million records from a variety of large catalogs as well as single contributions, with more on the way.
Open Library is an open project: the software is open, the data are open, the documentation is open, and we welcome your contribution. Whether you fix a typo, add a book, or write a widget--it's all welcome. We have a small team of fantastic programmers who have accomplished a lot, but we can't do it alone!
Open Library is a project of the non-profit Internet Archive, and has been funded in part by a grant from the California State Library and the Kahle/Austin Foundation.
Containing publications of the Organization of American States, the world's oldest regional organization, whose membership consists of 34 independent countries of the Americas and is headquartered in Washington, D.C.
Project Gutenberg is a library of over 75,000 free eBooks
Choose among free epub and Kindle eBooks, download them or read them online. You will find the world's great literature here, with focus on older works for which U.S. copyright has expired. Thousands of volunteers digitized and diligently proofread the eBooks, for you to enjoy.
The Tracking Gov Info Project is a crowdsourcing effort to track removed and modified government information and resources. Although the news media have widely reported the current U.S. administration’s removal and modification of federal websites and information, it can be challenging to understand and analyze the scope of the problem without a central list tracking what has disappeared. The goal of the Tracking Gov Info Project is to compile a comprehensive list of government websites, documents, articles, reports, etc. that have been removed or modified by the current administration. Anyone who encounters a missing resource can enter it using our submission form. Entries can be viewed publicly on the spreadsheet.
The news media has widely reported the current U.S. administration's removal and modification of federal websites and information. As academic librarians, we have also heard from faculty and researchers about their work being removed without notice, and received many questions from academics and the public about how widespread this phenomena is
Librarians, data experts, and others have launched many excellent projects to preserve missing information and data. In particular, we take inspiration from projects including the long-standing End of Term Archive, the newer Data Rescue Project, and many others. While removed or threatened data has been well-tracked by various data rescue groups, we hope to supplement these efforts by focusing on tracking non-data materials and information that have been impacted.
This project is an attempt to track removed and modified government information and resources, to help the public see the scope of what has been removed or modified, and to point to where preserved copies can be found, if possible. Below you will see a link to a form, where anyone can add entries for missing gov information, as well as to a spreadsheet, which is a publicly viewable list of all the entries we have received. We will make edits on the backend of the spreadsheet to tidy it up as needed.
U.S. State Commitments with Foreign Governments is an online collection of the full text of the commitments that we obtained. The contents are searchable by keyword, title, state and foreign parties, subject, and date. The topics range from archaeology to human rights and transportation. There is considerable variation, moreover, in commitment design, as measured by the extent to which the instruments bind the parties, restrict termination or amendment, establish mechanisms to facilitate implementation, provide for judicial enforcement or other means of dispute resolution, address international law, and align with federal law and policy. Some of the commitments operate indefinitely, while others are term-limited. Some exhibit sophistication and formality, while others seem quite casual. Publishing them together significantly improves the transparency of modern practice. A curated collection of roughly one-quarter of them is available in hard copy under the same title.
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