South Seattle Community College Library

The Law and the World Wide Web

Randy Nelson

March 9, 2010

Getting Started

Core Documents of Democracy – what all of us should know.

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

Part of the very deep GPO Access http://www.gpoaccess.gov/index.html

USA.gov

http://www.usa.gov/ USA,gov is an official US Government website that allows you to search for information from local, state, and federal government websites.

Books and Media on the Law in Academic Libraries

LC Classification – K

Dewey Decimal Classification - 340

LC Subject Headings: Law

University of Washington Gallagher Law Library

• http://lib.law.washington.edu/

The Law Library is open to the public. Reference Office: 206.543.6794

• http://lib.law.washington.edu/research/research.html

Excellent place to start looking for Washington State and United States law. Links to statutes, cases, regulations, and administrative decisions.

• http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/pro-se.htm

A guide to Using the Gallagher Law Library for Members of the Public.

• http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/legalinfo.html

Sources of Free Legal Information on Washington State Law

Commercial Websites

FindLaw

http://www.findlaw.com/

Nolo

http://www.nolopress.com/

Self-help commercial legal publisher. Web site includes a legal encyclopedia, legal dictionary, and overviews of a variety of topics.

Jurisdictions

Washington State

• http://find-it.wa.gov
• http://access.wa.gov/

· http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/Default.aspx

· http://www.sos.wa.gov/library/Default.aspx

• Legislature, RCW, WAC
• Executive agencies
• Follow Government link to Local Government, to specific cities and towns
• Comparison of bills, laws and regulations for Washington State and the U.S. government

King County

• King County Metro Home Page

http://www.kingcounty.gov/

• King County Code

City of Seattle

• City of Seattle Home Page

http://www.seattle.gov/

• Municipal Code

http://clerk.ci.seattle.wa.us/~public/code1.htm

International Law

• Researching Foreign Law

http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/intguide/foreign.htm

• United Nations

http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/intguide/un.htm

• International Legal Research

http://lib.law.washington.edu/ref/intlegal.html

Copyright

Stanford University Library’s Copyright & Fair Use Center

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

• United States Copyright Office

http://www.copyright.gov/

• American Library Asssociation http://www.ala.org

· Association of American Publishers

http://www.publishers.org