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This collection features publications by and about the Administrative Conference of the United States, an independent federal agency within the executive branch that recommends ways to improve the efficiency, adequacy, and fairness of rulemaking, adjudication, and other administrative processes.
The APWA is an open access archive. We encourage use of the writings for research, course planning, and projects engaged in examination of the criminal legal system. Reproduction of essays in their entirety infringes on author copyright without their explicit consent from the writers. Please contact us if you plan to reproduce entire essays; we will do our best to put you in contact with the authors for consent, and their compensation for any project that is profit making.
This Library holds a collection of open-access articles and books, websites, and YouTube videos on Indigenous and anti-colonial research methodologies. If you are looking for practical examples from different parts of the world and want to know more about these research methodologies, start here!
Welcome to the Arizona Appellate Courts. This portal allows access to a variety of information, including active cases, decisions issued by the courts, and the calendar of cases being considered by the courts either at conference or oral argument.
This is your place to discover tools! Our toolkit includes satellite and mapping services, tools for verifying photos and videos, websites to archive web pages, and much more. Most of the tools that we include can be used for free.
The COAL Citation Guide originated with two primary drivers: the belief that we could create a citation guide that will better meet the needs of Canadian legal writers and researchers and the goal of creating a citation guide that will be accessible to everyone, via an open access publishing model.
We had a forerunner that provided the nucleus of this guide, the University of British Columbia Law Library Legal Citation Guide, which paved the way for the creation of this guide and demonstrated the feasibility of a potentially huge project. Thank you.
What will you find on CanLII
Legal Decisions
The CanLII.org website provides access to court judgments from all Canadian courts, including the Supreme Court of Canada, federal courts, and the courts in all Canada’s provinces and territories. CanLII.org also contains decisions from many federal and provincial administrative tribunals.
When CanLII was established in 2001, it started by publishing current cases, which courts and tribunals sent us as they were written. For most Canadian courts and tribunals, our collection is generally complete for cases decided after 2001.
We have also completed several projects to add historical cases, that is pre-2001 cases, with the goal of offering a comprehensive resource for jurisprudence for access to Canadian law. See this page to learn about recent additions of historical cases.
For a list of our databases with details of their scope, please see this page.
Legislation
CanLII provides access to consolidated statutes and regulations as well as annual statutes for all jurisdictions in Canada. Each jurisdiction has a dedicated page detailing the specific coverage available for it.
Commentary
CanLII provides access to various types of secondary law materials, from law books, journals, articles, reports, and other resources. These materials are available electronically in CanLII.org’s Commentary section. Click here to browse this material.
Finally, our companion website, CanLII Connects, hosts a database of case commentary and case summaries by the legal community. This commentary is linked to and based on the caselaw on CanLII.org.
This website is a portal to the records collected under the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Collection Act of 2018. These records are only a portion of the total case files held by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). The National Archives, the Civil Rights Cold Case Records Review Board, the Department of Justice, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and other federal agencies continue to work to identify cases and implement the Act.
The review and release of this material is a collaborative process involving multiple stages, including notifying the victim's next of kin, before posting material to the National Archives Catalog and to this site.
NARA and other agencies collect, digitize, and review records in response to requests from the Board. If you are interested in a specific incident that does not appear here, please contact the Board at info@coldcaserecords.gov.
Work on this project is ongoing, and additional records will become accessible through this site as digitization, review, and notification are complete.
Explore thousands of online articles and images from popular magazines, scholarly journals, current newspapers and other reference works.
DOAB is a community-driven discovery service that indexes and provides access to scholarly, peer-reviewed open access books and helps users to find trusted open access book publishers. All DOAB services are free of charge and all data is freely available.
Global Plastic Laws is an extensive database and resource library focused on plastic legislation that has been passed around the world.
Search the full text of books.
Find the perfect book for your purposes and discover new ones that interest you.
Book Search works just like web search. Try a search on Google Books or on Google.com. When we find a book with content that contains a match for your search terms, we'll link to it in your search results.
If the book is out of copyright, or the publisher has given us permission, you'll be able to see a preview of the book, and in some cases the entire text. If it's in the public domain, you're free to download a PDF copy.
If you find a book you like, click on the "Buy this book" and "Borrow this book" links to see where you can buy or borrow the print book. You can now also buy the ebook from the Google Play Store.
GovInfo is more than a website.
In addition to providing an advanced, metadata-powered search experience, GovInfo also includes a content management system and a standards-compliant preservation repository.
These three components comprise GPO’s world-class system for the comprehensive management of electronic information:
In the HathiTrust Digital Library collection, you can find titles on everything from African History, Economics, and French Literature to Solar Energy, Public Health, and materials published in more than 400 languages. The digital library of 18+ million digitized items brings together the collections of more than 60 academic and research libraries from across North America and other countries. Users from around the world use the digital library for their undergraduate and graduate studies, personal research, genealogy, and professional purposes such as law and journalism.
The I-Portal: Indigenous Studies Portal was launched in 2006 at the University of Saskatchewan as a tool for faculty, students, researchers, and members of the community to access digital Indigenous studies resources. Its primary focus is on Indigenous peoples of Canada with a secondary focus on Indigenous peoples of the United States, Australia, Aotearoa – New Zealand, and other areas of the world.
Launched in September 2012, the free Indigenous Governance Database (IGD) features online educational and informational resources on tribal self-governance and tribal policy reform that:
The IGD was first developed by the Native Nations Institute at the University of Arizona, with support from the Bush Foundation, and was primarily designed with Native nation leaders, key decision-makers, employees, citizens, and scholars in mind. IGD account holders can customize a personal resource library and share resources with colleagues.
The IGD includes the Constitutions Resource Center (CRC) that brings together research on Indigenous constitutions, examples of tribal constitutional reform, and videos of Native leaders and other governance experts discussing constitutional change. The CRC provides Native nations with access to a comprehensive set of tools and examples that can be helpful in the process of Indigenous constitutional reform.
IGD video, text, and audio resources document effective tribal governance, reform, and development practices and provide tribal decision-makers and citizens with rigorous analyses they can use in their efforts to strengthen Indigenous governance.
Lexsitus is an open access online platform for learning and working with legal sources in international criminal law. Users can create reading lists and take notes while working on legal documents. It is developed by the Center for International Law Research and Policy (CILRAP) in partnership with the International Nuremberg Principles Academy, HELM Studio, and Mithya Labs in 2018. Lexsitus offers access to a variety of resources, including lectures, case law, commentary, and digests. The platform is structured around the International Criminal Court's (ICC) Rome Statute, Rules of Procedure and Evidence, and Elements of Crimes. Lexsitus's design is based on the ICC's legal practice, making it useful for both beginners and advanced users.
Access online collections: view maps & photographs; read letters, diaries & newspapers; hear personal accounts of events; listen to sound recordings & watch historic films.
The Library of Congress E-Resources Online Catalog (EROC) includes e-books, journal articles, and citations searchable via many subscription and openly available databases and websites. Some of the EROC's contents are available only to researchers on-site at the Library of Congress.
The National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) acquires, preserves, and makes available for research the records of enduring value that were created or received by organizations of the executive, legislative, and judicial branches of the Federal Government. Records in the custody of the National Archives date from pre-federal times to the present. Most of the records are textual, but they can come in a wide variety of media, such as microfilm, maps and charts, architectural and engineering plans, aerial photographs, motion picture reels, video recordings, sound recordings, computer data sets, or still pictures.
NIBSDA includes digital surrogates and associated metadata of records - regardless of format - of Federal, Tribal, state, or Church boarding school institution operators as well as records of private parties and other documents of historical significance related to the U.S. Indian boarding school era.
NIBSDA Collections are arranged by a variety of groupings based on Source Repository or Aggregation Contributor. In other instances, these can be groupings of record entries that provide more contextual information to the institutions, people, and Tribal Nations who are commonly associated with the historic record such as the various Name Authority Files which augment the relationality of the catalog records.
Continued survey - the process of proactively inventorying and accounting for collections - of boarding school era relevant manuscripts, records, and documentation is a key function of NIBSDA. Collections will continue to be made available on an ongoing basis.
THE MISSION OF THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS is to provide comprehensive information on exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in order to prevent future false convictions by learning from past errors.
What we do: The Registry collects, analyzes and disseminates information about all known exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in the United States, from 1989 to the present. We publish their stories and we provide accessible, searchable online statistical data about their cases. We also conduct empirical studies of the process of exoneration and of factors that lead to the underlying wrongful convictions.
We study false convictions—their frequency, distribution, causes, costs and consequences—in order to educate policy makers and the general public about convictions of innocent defendants. We focus on exonerations because the only false convictions that we know about are those that end in exoneration.
We aim to be accurate, objective, transparent and accessible.
We rely entirely on publicly available information. We do not practice law or investigate cases of possible innocence. We do not collect, maintain or use confidential information of any sort, or work on behalf of any individuals. We do not make our own judgments about the guilt or innocence of convicted defendants. Our criteria for classifying cases as exonerations are based on official actions by courts and other government agencies.
Our primary goal is to reform the criminal justice system and reduce if not eliminate these tragic errors in the future. We also aim to make police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges more sensitive to the problem of wrongful convictions and more willing to reconsider the guilt of defendants who have already been convicted when new evidence of innocence comes to light.
Welcome to the Groups Registry. It was launched in October 2020, and existing cases are still being added. You can tell us about cases that should be included on this Registry by emailing us at info@exonerationlist.org
This is our third registry. It joins our main archive and our pre-1989 archive of individual exonerations. This new registry focuses on groups of defendants tied together by a common pattern of systematic official misconduct in the investigation and prosecution of these cases that undermined confidence in the defendants' convictions.
THE MISSION OF THE NATIONAL REGISTRY OF EXONERATIONS is to provide comprehensive information on exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in order to prevent future false convictions by learning from past errors.
What we do: The Registry collects, analyzes and disseminates information about all known exonerations of innocent criminal defendants in the United States, from 1989 to the present. We publish their stories and we provide accessible, searchable online statistical data about their cases. We also conduct empirical studies of the process of exoneration and of factors that lead to the underlying wrongful convictions.
We study false convictions—their frequency, distribution, causes, costs and consequences—in order to educate policy makers and the general public about convictions of innocent defendants. We focus on exonerations because the only false convictions that we know about are those that end in exoneration.
We aim to be accurate, objective, transparent and accessible.
We rely entirely on publicly available information. We do not practice law or investigate cases of possible innocence. We do not collect, maintain or use confidential information of any sort, or work on behalf of any individuals. We do not make our own judgments about the guilt or innocence of convicted defendants. Our criteria for classifying cases as exonerations are based on official actions by courts and other government agencies.
Our primary goal is to reform the criminal justice system and reduce if not eliminate these tragic errors in the future. We also aim to make police officers, prosecutors, defense attorneys and judges more sensitive to the problem of wrongful convictions and more willing to reconsider the guilt of defendants who have already been convicted when new evidence of innocence comes to light.
Our pre-1989 database is different from the Registry itself in two important respects: (i) The list of cases is less complete and less representative of all exonerations in its time period than our list of 2,180 exonerations since 1989, and (ii) We have less information on exonerations before 1989. Both differences reflect the difficulty of studying cases that are more than 30 years old.
The White House Correspondents' Association (WHCA) was founded in 1914 to promote excellence in journalism, robust reporting on the U. S. presidency, and support democracy through a free press. The White House Press Corps is made up of journalists credentialed by WHCA. This press pool provides reporting on the President's daily activities and events
This collection is comprised of email pool reports created while covering the U.S. President and Vice-President from June 27, 2020 through January 31, 2021. At the request of WHCA, these reports have been lightly redacted to remove personal information. Redacted elements include email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. Social media handles and addresses have been retained. Born-digital pool reports, disseminated as emails, continue to be collected and are added periodically. The most recent batch is called the Insurrection Files, as they cover the period of November 1, 2020 through January 31, 2021.
Reading Arizona is a selection of nonfiction and fiction eBooks and Audiobooks for all ages interested in Arizona topics and themes. Content is provided through the Boundless app.
New titles are added each month, so visit us often to find your next great read.
The Sovereignty Symposium is the premier annual national legal conference focusing on aspects of tribal sovereignty and government and was founded in 1988 by Oklahoma Supreme Court Justice Yvonne Kauger. The production of the Symposium transitioned to Oklahoma City University and Oklahoma City University School of Law in 2023. This collection includes papers and other materials written by the panelists (faculty) of each year's Symposium and artwork created for each year's Symposium.
USAspending is the official open data source of federal spending information, including information about federal awards such as contracts, grants, and loans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) partners with others to support vaccine safety. Vaccination laws improve vaccine safety by providing vaccination rules for certain age groups and populations. The Public Health Law Program offers resources about state vaccination laws for health workers and their legal advisors.