WWW-Site Maintained by

The Legal Information Institute
Cornell Law School

This WWW-server integrates both the Gopher-based and the WWW-based offerings of the Legal Information Institute (LII), Cornell Law School. All Internet hypertext (HTML) publications of the LII are mounted here, with links to other relevant legal materials on the LII's Gopher server and elsewhere on the Internet.

This server offers the LII's hypertext front-end to recent Supreme Court decisions (which are distributed on the day of decision under project Hermes) and its growing collection of historic decisions, the LII's collection of recent opinions of the New York Court of Appeals and the liibulletin-ny (which provides analysis of selected decisions), the LII's hypertext version of the full U.S. Code and many other important legal documents. It holds the LII's e-mail address directory of faculty and staff at U.S. law schools, and is host to the Cornell Law Review. It provides full information aboutCello, the LII's Internet browser, and about LII published hypertext law materials on disk. It also offers information about Cornell Law School and the Cornell Law Library.
[Tour of Additional Site Highlights for Newcomers] [Shortcut to Heavily Used Sources for Regulars]

• Items of Special Current Interest
• Main Menus (Legal Topics, Sources, Organizations, People)
  
• About This Site and the LII
• Additional WWW Sources (Law and Other)

Items of Special Current Interest Available via the LII Server Include:

• New or Newsworthy
• LII's Eye on the Courts - Newsworthy Decisions on the Net
• What LII's BigEar Has Heard on Law-Related Lists
• Decisions of the International Court of Justice
• New From the LII
• Immediate Downloading of LII Course Materials
  [LII Disk Publications Now Available in Both Hypertext and Word-Processor Formats For Immediate Purchase and Download]
• What Do Law Students With Laptops and Electronic Casebooks Do? (P. Martin 1996) - The Latest Addition to the LII Collection of Occasional Papers
• Digital Technology, Access to Legal Information, and Dispute Resolution - Viewed from a Developing Country (P. Martin 1996)
• Digital Law: Some Speculations on the Future of Legal Information Technology (P. Martin 1995)
• A Set of Forms Enabling Update Searches of U.S. Code Provisions
• A New and Expanded Listing of State Statutes on the Net with Companion Topical Index
• Searchable Index of All U.S. Circuit Court Decisions on the Internet (including retrieval by citation)
• A Hypertext Version of Law-Related Discussion and Listserv Archives
• An LII Focus on:
• Commercial Internet Law Sites
• Staying Current on the U.S. Supreme Court and NY Court of Appeals Via E-Mail
• The Institute's Disk-Based Legal Publications for the 96-97 Academic Year
• Supreme Court's 1994-95 Term
• State Statutes on the Net
• Impact of Information Technology on Law
• A Federal Court Statistics Service
• Court Rules (Including the Supreme Court's New Rules and the Federal Rules of Evidence)
• Lawyers on the Internet
• Internet Access to the Work of Congress

Main Menus:

• Legal Material Organized by Topic (Constitutional Law, Copyright ...)
• Legal Material Organized by Type and Source (Treaty, Legislation, Judicial Opinions ..., Internation, Federal, State ...)
• Finding and Finding Out About Legal Organizations and People

About This Site and the Legal Information Institute

• What is the LII?
• LII: Report on 95-96 and Future Plans
• LII Disk Publications and E-Mail Law Bulletins
• The LII's Policy on Linking to Commercial Sites
• LII Working Paper Describing Its Process For Porting From FOLIO Views to HTML
• The LII's Evolving WWW Standard

Other Sites to Visit If You Don't Find It Here

• WWW Virtual Library - Law
• Internet Law Library - House of Representatives
• AltaVista Index
• EINet Information Galaxy (Searchable Index), EINet Search for "Law"
• Harvest Index of WWW Home Pages
• The Lycos Catalog of the WWW
• Nolo Press
• Canadian Resource List
• General Information about the World Wide Web and Links to Servers in many fields are provided by The W3 Consortium and NCSA. The latter includes the useful "A Beginner's Guide to HTML".
• Finally, you may want to consult all the Gophers in the world.

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