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Law Library Electronic Resources
 

Lexis-Nexis

www.lexisnexis.com

Extensive collection of full-text legal, news, reference, and business sources. Contains primary legal resources (cases, statutes, regulations, etc.) and secondary materials (journal articles, worldwide news, business sources, etc.).

For assistance with passwords, please contact your Lexis-Nexis representative for time and location to receive your passwords. Passwords are issued to authorized Southern Law School users only.

 

Westlaw

www.lawschool.westlaw.com

Extensive collection of full-text legal, news, reference, and business sources. Contains primary legal resources (cases, statutes, regulations, etc.) and secondary materials (journal articles, worldwide news, business sources, etc.).

For assistance with passwords, please contact your Westlaw representative for time and location to receive your passwords. Passwords are issued to authorized Southern Law School users only.

 

Other Internet law Sites

Louisiana Legislation

http://www.legis.state.la.us

Louisiana Administrative Law

http://www.state.la.us/osr/lac/lac.htm

Louisiana Supreme Court

http://www.lasc.org

Louisiana Department of Civil Service

http://www.dscs.state.la.us

Louisiana Department of Revenue

http://www.rev.state.la.us

Louisiana State Bar Assoc

http://www.lsba.org

 

 

GPO Access

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

Full-text executive and legislative materials, including the Federal Register, Congressional Record, US Code, CFR, Public Laws, and more.

Law. Com

http://www.law.com/index.shtml

Legal Information and News

 

Internet Legal Resource Guide

http://www.ilrg.com/

Up-to-date legal resources

 

Find The Law

http://www.findlaw.com/

Law Library Of Congress

http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html

Guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information.

Hieros Gamos

http://hg.org/index.html

Legal Research Center

 

LegalTrac

http://infotrac.galegroup/itweb/south_law

 

Dictionaries and Encyclopedias

Merriam-Webster Online

Complete Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law

Keyword search for legal definitions.

Nolo’s Law Dictionary

Legal definitions in plain English for more than one thousand legal terms .

Government Documents

http://www.sulc.edu/libraryonlinedocs.html

Southern University Law Library is located in the 6th Congressional District. It was designated as a selective federal depository in 1979. As a selective depository library for the U.S. Government, the law library receives free federal public documents, selected from all items listed in the "Basic Collection" and a majority of the items listed in the "Suggested Core Collection: Academic Law Library." This program is outlined in Title 44 of the United States Code and is administered by the United States Government Printing Office. The law library selects approximately 11 percent of available publications mainly in areas supporting the educational and research needs of the Law Center as well as the needs of the community-at-large and the legal community of the 6th Congressional District of the U.S. Congress.

 

Hein’s On-line

 

Read the News

 

The Advocate

http://www.theadvocate.com/

The Times Picayune

http://www.nola.com/

USA Today

http://www.usatoday.com/

The Wall Street Journal

http://online.wsj.com/public/us

The New York Times

http://www.nytimes.com/

The Los Angeles Times

http://www.latimes.com/

The Washington Post

http://www.washingtonpost.com/

The Chicago Tribune

http://www.chicagotribune.com/

   

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