Law Resources
Open Access resources in the field of law including open government information
U.S. Legal information resources:
Congress.gov a beta site for U.S. Federal legislation, replacing the former website Thomas by 2014
Court Listener free legal search engine and alert system for U.S. court decisions
eRegulations Insights "explore federal regulatory data through real-time visualizations, using open data retrieved directly from Regulations.gov and powered by Splunk."
FBI - The Vault an electronic reading room of 6,700 documents from the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Digital System U.S. Government Printing Office; search for U.S. government publications
Federal Register the new face of the daily journal of the United States government; search in new and meaningful ways to find the federal regulations that may impact your area
Free Law Project provides links to open access law sites and research tools
Legal Information Institute U.S. federal and state law maintained by Cornell's Law School
National Criminal Justice Reference Service provides access to the many criminal justice related U.S. federal agencies and their publications
Public.Resource.Org a non-profit providing free access to the full text of federal, state, and local laws; including bulk data
regulations.gov U.S. federal regulations search and current awareness site
U.S. Code from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel
Search for articles:
Law Commons search over 183,000 full text articles
Law Review Commons search over 75,000 articles from open access law reviews
NELLCO Legal Scholarship Repository
SSRN Social Science Research Network; includes pre-prints of many law review articles
Laws from countries of the world:
African Legal Information Institute
AsianLII Asian Legal Information Institute
Australasian Legal Information Institute
British and Irish Legal Information Institute
CanLII Canadian Legal Information Institute
Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
CommonLII Commonwealth Legal Information Institute, covering British Commonwealth countries
Cyprus CyLaw
FALM list of members of the Free Access to Law Movement
Hong Kong Legal Information Institute
India Legal Information Institute of India
Institute of Advance Legal Studies University of London
Irish Legal Information Institute
Liberia Legal Information Institute
Micronesia Legal Information System of the Federated States of Micronesia
New Zealand Legal Information Institute
Pacific Islands Legal Information Institute
Philippine Laws and Jurisprudence Databank The LawPhil Project
Samoa Legal Information Institute
Sierra Leone Legal Information Institute
Southern African Legal Information Institute
Swaziland Legal Information Institute
Ugandan Legal Information Institute
World Legal Information Institute
Open Access Journals
European Journal of Law and Technology
Other legal information resources
Copyright Catalog searchable database of registered copyrights from 1978 to the present, from the U.S. Copyright Office
Free Government Information a blog that continually informs the reader of new free government information (U.S.)
GovTrack.us tracking the U.S. Congress; easily follow your representative's voting record
Intellectual Property Watch a current awareness news source
Law.com legal news page from ALM, publisher of the National Law Journal, American Lawyer, and other publications
Lexis Web free online legal research; searches for legal materials available for free on the web
A New Nation Votes American election returns 1787-1825
openlaws easier access to legal information; see discussion in VoxpopuLII (June 16, 2014)
Public Domain Calculator find works in 30 countries that are no longer under copyright
Public Domain Sherpa a guide for finding works that are no longer under copyright
Scout track government and legal information using this search tool from the Sunlight Foundation
Sunlight Foundation Tools discover government information from the tools created by the Sunlight Foundation
VolxpopuLII blog from Cornell's Law School
The WATCH File Writers, Artists and Their Copyright Holders; search a database of copyright contacts for authors and writers
Research articles
Dragon Kill Points: A Summary Whitepaper by Edward Castronova and Joshua Fairfield (January, 2007). Available on SSRN or via DOI
Enhancing the Teaching of Lawyering Skills and Perspectives Through Virtual World Engagement by Andrea M. Seielstad (2012). University of Mass. Law Review, v. 7 no. 1 (2012). Full text available here.
Getting the Goods on Virtual Items: A Fresh Look at Transactions in Multi-User Online Environments, by Justin A. Kwong (2011). William Mitchell Law Review: Vol. 37: Iss. 4. Full text available here.
It's not A Game Anymore, Or Is It?: Virtual Worlds, Virtual Lives, and the Modern (Mis)Statement of the Virtual Law Imperative, by Marc Andrew Spooner. Vol. 10 U. St. Thomas L.J. 533 (2012). Full text available here
Mixed Reality: How the Laws of Virtual Worlds Govern Everyday Life, by Joshua Fairfield. Vol. 27 Berkeley Tech. L.J. (2014). Full text available [ http://scholarship.law.berkeley.edu/btlj/vol27/iss1/3 here].
Multiplayer games: tax, copyright, consumers, and the video game industry by Daithi Mac Sithigh. Vol. 5 no. 3 European Journal of Law and Technology, 2014. Full text available here.
Personal Jurisdiction over Offenses Committed in Virtual Worlds, by Zachary Schaengold. Vol. 81 U. Cin. L. Rev. (2013) Full text available here.
The Play's the Thing: A Theory of Taxing Virtual Worlds by Bryan Camp. Hastings Law Journal, Vol. 59, No. 1, 2007. Available on SSRN or via DOI
A Practical Look at Virtual Property, by Allen Chein (2006). St. John's Law Review Vol. 80 Iss. 3 (2006). Full text available here.
'Stranger than Fiction': Taxing Virtual Worlds by Leandra Lederman. New York University Law Review, Vol. 82, 2007; Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 76. Available on SSRN
Teaching Employment Discrimination Law, Virtually by Miriam A. Cherry (2013). St. Louis University Law Journal, Vol. 58, p. 83, 2013; Saint Louis U. Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2013-31. Available on SSRN
Technical rules and legal rules in online virtual worlds by Vytautas Čyras and Friedrich Lachmayer. Vol. 1 No. 3 European Journal of Law and Technology, 2010. Full text available here.
Tracing Bias through Virtual Spaces, by Adam Chodorow. Vol. 95 Cornell L. Rev. (2010). Full text available at here.
Virtual Property. Boston University Law Review, by Joshua Fairfield Vol. 85, page 1047, 2005; Indiana Legal Studies Research Paper No. 35. Available on SSRN
Virtual Property, Virtual Rights: Why Contract Law, Not Property Law, Must Be the Governing Paradigm in the Law of Virtual Worlds Cifrino, Christopher (April 14, 2013). Boston College Law Review, Forthcoming. Available on SSRN
Books
Intellectual Property: law and the information society by James Boyle and Jennifer Jenkins. Duke Open Coursebooks, Aug. 2014; a creative commons open coursebook available for download at http://www.thepublicdomain.org/2014/08/26/open-coursebook-in-intellectual-property/
Law and Order in Virtual Worlds : exploring avatars, their ownership and rights by Angela Adrian. Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, 2010.
The Law of Virtual Worlds and Internet Social Networks by Andrew Peter Sparrow. Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Gower Pub., 2010.
Open Government Data: the Book by Joshua Tauberer. Second Edition: 2014. This is a creative commons book.
The Public Domain: enclosing the commons of the mind by James Boyle. Yale University Press, 2010. Download the creative commons copy of the printed book at http://www.thepublicdomain.org/
Virtual Law: navigating the legal landscape of virtual worlds by Benjamin Tyson Duranske. Chicago : American Bar Association, 2008.
MOOCS
CopyrightX an open course on copyright has been made available to the public
