South Seattle Community College Library

The Law and the World Wide Web

Randy Nelson

 May 4^th 2005

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

FindLaw

http://www.findlaw.com/

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

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.

Washington State

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

• 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.metrokc.gov/

• King County Code

http://www.metrokc.gov/mkcc/Code/index.htm

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

Organizations Concerned with the Law

• American Civil Liberties Union

http://www.aclu.org/

• Amnesty International

http://www.amnesty.org/

• Librarians’ Index to the Internet

http://lii.org/search/file/govlaw

Copyright

• North Seattle Community College Copyright Information and Resources

http://northonline.sccd.ctc.edu/tlc/forfaculty_copyright.htm

· Indiana University’s Copyright Management Center

http://www.copyright.iupui.edu/

· Stanford University Library’s Copyright & Fair Use Center

http://fairuse.stanford.edu/

· United States Copyright Office

http://www.copyright.gov/