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The Public Law Center (TPLC) has operated since January 1988 as a clinical legal education program, teaching courses in legislative process and administrative rule making to second and third year law students at both Tulane Law School and Loyola University New Orleans School of Law.
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Legislative Resources
STATE OF LOUISIANA
- Louisiana State Legislature. The official web site of the Louisiana Legislature. Provides legislation tracking services and information about the operation of the legislature. http://www.legis.state.la.us/
- Office of the State Register (OSR). This official government site provides access to Emergency Rules, Executive Orders, the Louisiana Administrative Code, the Louisiana Register, the Administrative Procedures Act, and other useful information on state administrative rules and legislation. http://www.doa.la.gov/osr/
FEDERAL
- United States Code. This site provides information about the United States Code and allows you to search the content of the code and download titles. http://uscode.house.gov/
- United States Code of Federal Regulations. This site provides information about the United States Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) and allows you to search and download regulations. http://www.access.gpo.gov/nara/cfr/cfr-table-search.html
- Federal Register. The Federal Register is the official daily publication for rules, proposed rules, and notices of Federal agencies and organizations, as well as executive orders and other presidential documents. http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html
- Thomas -The Library of Congress. This is the official web site of The Library of Congress of the United States. The site allows you to track federal legislation and access congressional records, treaties, committee reports and other legislative and governmental information. http://thomas.loc.gov/
- United States House of Representatives. Provides information about the House of Representatives, committees and schedules of the House, and links to other governmental resources. http://www.house.gov/house/govsites.shtml
- United States Senate. Provides information about the Senate, Senate Committees, the floor schedule of the Senate, and other information. http://www.senate.gov/
- The Internet Law Library. This site was originally provided to the public courtesy of the U.S. House of Representatives. The site provides links to a large number of legal resources relating to American and foreign laws including hypertext links to many popular statutes that are listed alphabetically by name as well as links to statutes of individual states, international treaties, and federal court decisions. http://lawguru.com/ilawlib/index.html.
INTERNATIONAL
- European Association of Legislation. The EAL is a charitable association whose main purpose is to improve legislation in the states, their constituent parts and their dependencies. http://www.eal.eu/index.htm
- The Law Library: Laws of other Nations. Contains the full text of selected documents that include constitutions, treaties, laws, and law related publications for over 70 countries. http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/52.htm
- The Law Library: Treaties and International Law. This site contains selected international treaties. http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/89.htm
- Law Library of Congress: The Guide to Law Online. Contains links to International Law Resources, the laws of nations, as well as links to access laws of the U.S. and its territories. http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/index.html
- WashLaw Legal research on the web. Site contains links to primary foreign and international resources, national resources, research aids, and other sites useful in conducting research online. http://washlaw.edu/
- Political Database of the Americas. This site contains documentary and statistical political information on Latin America, including constitutions, electoral laws, legislative and executive branch information and election data. http://pdba.georgetown.edu/
- Tarlton Law Library of the University of Texas: Foreign and International Websites. Site provides links to foreign laws by country and by subject matter as well as International Law Associations, International Law Journals, and links to other resources. http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/vlibrary/online/internet/foreign/websites.html
- Cornell Law Library: Foreign & International Law Resources. This site provides links to texts of laws and court decisions, international documents, directories, trade information and statistics. http://library.lawschool.cornell.edu/RESOURCES/International_Resources/
- Law and Policy Institutions Guide. Site contains resources on U.S. and International law including legislation, treaties, case law, articles, and so on. Links are provided for country specific information. http://www.lpig.org/
DRAFTING RESOURCES
- The Internet Law Library: Drafting, Legislative and Legal Resources. Provides links to search United States state and territorial laws, laws of other nations, Treaties and international law, attorney and legal profession directories, law school library catalogues and services, citation styles and the Centre for Plain Legal Language. http://www.lawguru.com/ilawlib/98.htm
- Clarity - An international association promoting plain legal language. CLARITY is a worldwide group of lawyers and interested lay people advocating for the use of good, clear language by the legal profession. http://www.clarity-international.net/
- PlainLanguage.gov. This service is a United States government site intended to improve communications from the federal government to the public. It includes links to federal government documents and other resources on using plain language. http://www.plainlanguage.gov/
- The Plain Language Association International. This site provides additional articles, guides, and resources promoting the use of plain language in legal drafting. http://www.plainlanguagenetwork.org/
- Uniform Law Conference of Canada. This site provides access to the work of the Uniform Law Conference of Canada, which makes recommendations for changes to legislation based on identified deficiencies, defects or gaps in the existing law, or problems created by judicial interpretation of existing law.http://www.ulcc.ca/en/home/
- Legislationline. Legislationline is an internet-based free-of-charge legislative database published and maintained by the OSCE ( The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe) Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights. Its purpose is to assist lawmakers in OSCE participating States by providing them with sample domestic legislation and international standards on selected human dimension issues.http://www.legislationline.org/
Government Resources
STATE
- Office of the Governor of Louisiana. This official site provides information about the Governor’s office, the Executive branch, news, and efforts of the Governor. http://www.gov.state.la.us/
- Louisiana Secretary of Stat. This site provides links to many useful statewide resources and provides information about elections and voting, state publications, executive orders, pardons, corporate licensing, and many other state regulatory matters. http://www.sos.louisiana.gov/
- National Conference of State Legislatures. This site provides information about state legislatures and links to their web pages. http://www.ncsl.org/
FEDERAL
- FirstGov. This site is the official gateway to all government information for citizens, businesses and state governments. This site allows you to search millions of web pages from federal and state governments, the District of Columbia and U.S. territories. http://www.firstgov.gov/
- United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Useful resource for information about federally funded housing. http://www.hud.gov/
- Hudclips. This information service offers HUD clients FREE access to HUD's official repository of policies, procedures, announcements, and other materials. www.hudclips.org
- Federal Citizen Information Center. This site provides links to a wide variety of resources provided by the federal government, such as the federal telephone directories and the federal yellow pages. http://www.info.gov/
Legal Resources
Other Resources for Research
LOCAL – NEW ORLEANS
NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL
- Brookings Institution. http://www.brook.edu/
- Kaiser Family Foundation: State health facts. Offers health policy information on a broad range of issues state-by-state or by category. www.statehealthfacts.kff.org
- The Economist. Pick a country from among those listed to see articles from The Economist, background profiles, statistics, news and headlines. www.economist.com/countries/
- The World Wide Web Virtual Library for Russian & East European Studies. Listing countries from Albania to Uzbekistan, this site offers a treasure trove of information about Russia, the newly independent states, and Central and Eastern Europe. www.ucis.pitt.edu/reesweb
- Virtual Reference Desk. To find database resources (listed by subject matter) check out the Virtual Reference Desk Ask A+ Locator at this site. www.vrd.org/locator/subject.shtml
- foreignwire.com. Find out what's happening around the globe with breaking stories from all the major news services. www.foreignwire.com
- Federation of International Trade Associations (FITA). Useful links for International information: http://www.fita.org/
- The Virtual Chase. Legal Research Guide. Contains links to additional internet resources and research strategies. http://www.virtualchase.com/resources/
- Altavista Babel Fish Translation. This site provides free translation of text online. http://world.altavista.com/
- Free Translation. Provides free translation of text online. http://www.freetranslation.com/
- Avalon Project of the Yale Law School. This site provides access to primary source materials in the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government. http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/
- Dictionary.com. This site provides access to online word resources including dictionaries, Roget’s Thesaurus, and Bartlett’s Quotations. www.dictionary.com
- The International Law Dictionary and Directory. This site provides links to electronic law dictionaries as well as other legal resources. http://august1.com/pubs/dict/index.shtml
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THE PUBLIC LAW CENTER
6329 Freret Street, Suite 130
New Orleans, LA 70118
United States of America
Phone: 1-504-862-8850
FAX: 1-504-862-8851
e-mail: tplc@law.tulane.edu
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