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(Last updated: 08 August 2008 )
- JURIST: The Legal Education Network - Columbia Edition. A basic legal education portal; the Columbia edition contains lots of local links, including some for research, employment, and community affairs.
- Hein Online. Back issues of most major law reviews, in PDF format. Requires a Columbia connection or proxy.
- Legal Theory Blog. Weblog of Lawrence Solum, professor of law at University of Illinois Law School. Reports and comments on recent scholarship in jurisprudence, law and philosophy, law and economic theory, and theoretical work in particular substantive areas of law including constitutional law, cyberlaw, and contracts. Like any blog, its coverage is shaped by the particular interests of its editor, and I don't endorse everything he says, but it's the best site on current legal scholarship. See especially his Legal Theory Lexicon, which is aimed at an audience of 1L's and which.presents explanations of various basic concepts in legal theory.
Contracts links:
- National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws. At the University of Pennsylvania Law School's Biddle Law Library. Contains in-process drafts of Uniform and Model Acts, including proposed revisions to UCC Articles 1 and 2.
- American Law Institute. Co-sponsor of the UCC, sponsor of the Restatements of the Law and other studies and projects.
- Unidroit - International Institute for the Unification of Private Law. The transnational analogue to the American Law Institute. Contains the UNIDROIT Principles of International Commercial Contracts -- the transnational analogue to the Restatement of Contracts
Business and economics links:
- How Much Is That? From Economic History Net. Calculate relative purchasing power, exchange rates, and other variables between the past and today. Useful when reading old cases to get a sense of the importance of the economic stakes of a contract or a dispute.
General links:
- FindLaw: The main non-academic legal information portal.
- Legal Information Institute. At Cornell Law School.
- The New York Public Library. For those of you new to town, this is a tremendous resource. You can have any item in the system shipped to you for pickup at the local Morningside Heights branch. See also their Best of the Web.
- The American HeritageŽ Book of English Usage. An up-to-date guide to grammar, style, and diction; useful in improving your legal and professional writing. Online and searchable at Bartleby.com.