Social Studies Curriculum Links

Law Resources

General Resources

• BigEar: Current Legal Resources on the Net
• Civil Rights Division, U.S. Department of Justice
• Department of Justice Kids Page
• Eye on the Courts: Newsworthy Decisions Available on the Net
• Federal Justice Statistics Resource Center  Access to the Federal Justice Statistics Program (FJSP) database, which contains comprehensive information about suspects and defendants processed in each stage of the Federal criminal justice system in a given year (1994-96).
• FLITE - Supreme Court Decisions Homepage
• FindLaw: Internet Legal Resources
• Foreign and International Law Resources on the Internet--Cornell Law Library
• Historic Background on Judges
• The Information Law Web
• Law Research - Internet Law Library
• Legal Information Institute - Supreme Court Decisons Database  A database containing most of the major decions of the Supreme Court.
• Nolo's Legal Encyclopedia
• Oyez, Oyez, Oyez A U.S. Supreme Court Database Need simple summaries of the major cases that high school students can understand? This is the place to go. Also includes bigraphies of Justices and a virtual tour.
• Picturing Justice Provides insightful commentaries on the portrayal of law, lawyers and legal issues in television and movies.
• Supreme Court Opinions 1937-Present
• Thomas: Legislative Information on the Internet
• United States Code

Legal Organizations

• Alliance for Justice
• American Bar Association
• ACLU Freedom Network
• Citizenship Law-Related Education Program, Maryland
• Civnet (published by CIVITAS)
• Constitutional Rights Foundation
• FindLaw-Law Crawler
• Freedom Forum First Amendment Center
• Human Rights USA
• National Center for Juvenile Justice
• National Institute of Justice
• National Criminal Justice Reference Service
• Street Law, Inc.
• Student Press Law Center

• Court TV