 
Site
Map
 offers
a selected number of resources in each of the legal and business
categories.
NEWS
NEWS
ON POLITICS AND GOVERNMENT NEW
Selected Legal
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USA-FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
 U.S.
GOVERNMENT
Official
US Executive Branch Web Sites
House
of Representatives
Library
of Congress
Federal
Legal Materials
U.S.
Tax Information and Forms (IRS)
U.S.
Securities and Exchange Commission (Access to Edgar
database)
U.S.
Code and other databases
Senate
GPO
(at Purdue Univ. School of Law)
USA-AGENCIES
Unified
Web Site NEW
USA-FEDERAL COURTS
U.S.
Supreme Court (Current and recent past)
U.S. Supreme Court (Historic decisions)
The Curiae Project (Supreme
Court, selected decisions, court records and briefs from the
Yale Lillian Goldman Law Library)
NEW
Guide to U.S. Supreme
Court
Federal
Forms NEW
Federal and State Forms
(Alternative)
Federal
Courts Finder
(U.S. Circuit Courts, from Emory
Law School)
Federal
Court Locator
Another
Locator (from the U.S. District
Court for the Southern District of Florida) NEW
U.S. Court of Appeals for
the District of Columbia Circuit
Directory
of Electronic Public Access Services to Automated Information
to U.S. Federal Courts
U.S.
Courts
Federal
Judiciary Center (U.S. Courts,
including such information as judicial biographies)
USA-STATES
Resources
for States of the United States (includes
portal for state statutory and decisional law )
State
Court Locator (from Villanova
University School of Law)
State
Court Web Sites NEW
State
Sites
(E-law Central) NEW
Other Sites
(See below under U.S. law schools)
Secretaries
of State (in all U.S. States)
USA-STATES -- California
California Codes NEW
USA-STATES -- Massachusetts
Corporate
and business filings
NEW
Massachusetts Trial Court
Law Libraries NEW
USA-STATES -- New York
New
York State Government
NEW
New York Corporate and business
filings (Department of State, New York) NEW
New York
Department of Environmental Conservation, DER (Spill incident database) NEW
New York State Unified
Court System
E-Law
(Free Search for New York Civil
Cases; also modest fee for e-mail reports) NEW
New York Courts and Decisions
(New York Law Journal, subscription
after a 30 day trial) NEW
New York Calendars (Judge's calendars and dispositions) NEW
New York State Bills
and Statutes
NEW
New
York City Home Page (Portal
for NYC agencies)
New
York City Department of Finance (NYC
tax and business forms)
New
York City Department of Finance (Real
Estate tax information, Property Address Search)
New
York City Department of Finance (ACRIS,
Automated City Register Information System)
New
York City (Zoning information
and Maps) NEW
USA-LAW SCHOOLS
U.S.
Law Schools, Databases
Tables
of Contents of Law Reviews and other scholarly Journals (From Tulane Law Library, University of Texas)
NEW
UK
United
Kingdom, Gov't links
British
and Irish Public Legal Information NEW
Her Majesty's
Stationery Office (Full
texts of legislation from 1988. The Electronic Communications
Act 2000 with explanatory notes is available on this site) NEW
Daily Law Notes (Royal Courts
of Justice, London)
Lexicon
(legal information for the courts on line, United
Kingdom) NEW
UK Judgments
(does not include decisions. Synopses of decisions can be found
at an English law firm site, Swarbrick
and Co., Solicitors
University
of Cambridge, Law Faculty NEW
UK
E-Commerce Strategy (Guide to the Electronic Communications Act
2000)
Other
Sites
AUSTRALIA,
NEW ZEALAND
Australia
Intellectual Property
Australia
Legislative and Court links
NZ
Government
Other
Sites
CANADA
Canada,
Government links
Canadian
Resource Page
Other
Sites
EUROPEAN UNION
Europa
GO
TO General Law Site
INTERNATIONAL
Global
Legal Information Network
Another
database for global
law (From CataLaw)
Another
database for global
law (From Jurist)
National
Parliaments
Another
database (From Yale Law School)
Public
International Law (From University of Western Australia,
Associate Professor Francis Auburn)
International
Trade/Import and Export Law
International
Court of Justice (decisions)
International
Resources
International
Governmental Organizations
Intellectual
Property Rights Government Sites
World
Law Guide NEW
Other Sites
INDIA
Global
Law Review (Law Office of Sandeep Dave, Mumbai, India)
AREAS OF LAW
Practice Areas
Miscellaneous
American
Arbitration Ass'n
International
Bar Association
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NAVIGATION OUTSIDE THIS
SITE
Internet Search Engines
AltaVista -- Alltheweb -- Dogpile
Google -- Soople--Excite
-- HotBot -- Infoseek
-- LookSmart
-- Lycos
Miningco--Northern
Light--Queryster
Yahoo! -- Switchboard
--Teoma
Real
Estate (New York)
Quick Guides
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UDRP COMMENTARIES AND
ANNOTATIONS
(NEW)
DOMAIN NAMES:
URLS OF USEFUL WEB SITES
1. INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION FOR ASSIGNED
NAMES AND NUMBERS (ICANN)
Home page, <http://www.icann.org>
Uniform Domain Name Resolution Policy (UDRP), <http://www.icann.org/udrp/>
Rules, <http://www.icann.org/dndr/udrp/uniform-rules.htm>
Historical Documents, <http://www.icann.org/udrp/historical.html>
Memorandum of Understanding and other documents,
<http://www.icann.org/general/agreements.htm>
ICANN News and Commentary
<Icannwatch.org>
<Icannfocus.org>
UDRP
Database (Cornell Univ. LLI)
2. NATIONAL ARBITRATION FORUM
Home page, <http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/UDRP/index.asp>
Decisions, <http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/decisions.asp>
Supplemental Rules, <http://www.arb-forum.com/domains/UDRP/rules.asp>
3. WEB PAGES, Historical Information
<http://www.archive.org>)
4. WORLD INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY ORGANIZATION
Home page, <http://www.wipo.int/>
Decisions, <http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/decisions/index-gtld.html>
Supplemental Rules,<http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/rules/supplemental/index.html>
Filing Fee, <http://arbiter.wipo.int/domains/fees/index.html>
Final Report of the First Report, <http://arbiter.wipo.int/processes/process1/report/index.html>
Second Report, <http://arbiter.wipo.int/processes/process2/report/html/report.html>
WIPO
Overview of Panel Views on Selected UDRP Questions.
Internet Sources for Intellectual Property Case Law (NEW)
5. Alternative Search
Programs
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society
at Harvard Law School <http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/icann/search/udrp.asp>
6. TRADEMARK DATABASES
<US Trademarks
Database>
<UK
Trademarks Database>
<AU
Trademarks Database>
7. WHOIS DIRECTORIES
WHOIS directories maintained by registrars include:
<http://www.networksolutions.com/>.
<http://www.register.com/whois_lookup.cgi>
<http://registrar.verisign-grs.com/whois/>
Other service providers:
<http://www.completewhois.com/>
<http://www.whois.sc/>
8. INTERNET AND DOMAIN NAME INFORMATION,
NEWS AND BLOGS
<blog.lextext.com>
Circle ID<CircleID
>
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse <http://www.chillingeffects.org/about>
<Icannfocus.org>
<Internetnews.com>
BNA's Internet Law News (ILN)
<http://ecommercecenter.bna.com>
9. INTERNET INFORMATION, INFORMATION AND DATABASE
UDRPinfo.com <http://www.udrpinfo.com/>
(maintained by Professor Michael Geist)
Domain Name News
<http://domainnamewire.com/category/policy-law/>
Internetnews.com <Internetnews.com>
BNA's Internet Law News (ILN)
<http://ecommercecenter.bna.com>
10. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY NEWS AND BLOGS
<Bob
Parson:Blog>
<IPKat weblog>
<Mark
V. B. Partridge>
<http://www.guidingrights.com/pages/4/index.htm>
<http://www.publicknowledge.org/>
<http://trademark.blog.us/blog/>
<http://www.ipinfoblog.com/>
Links to sites for cultural events, accommodations, tourist attractions,
etc.
LondonTheatresLondon Travel
New York
U.S.
Cities
Other
Cities, U.S. and Canada |
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 Sites
Portals
Selected sites featuring
comprehensive range of hyperlinks to law related subjects (Statutes,
Codes, Rules and Regulations, cases, etc. See also Selected Legal Resources, below on the left side of the page):
AdminNet (France) NEW
American Law Sources on
Line (U.S., Canada and Mexico)
NEW
Cabinet Chaillot (France)
NEW
CataLaw
Copyright Clearance
Center NEW
Federal Legal Materials
(U.S.)
FindLaw
FITA
(Legal Resources for International Business)
Georgia State
Law School
Harvard
Law School Library (International)
Indiana Univ. School
of Law Library
Internet Legal Resource Guide
Intellectual Property Law
Server
IPFlashNews (Germany) NEW
International Bar
Association (Global
Competition Forum; libary of competition laws) NEW
Law Schools
The Law Engine
The Legal Research Center
(emanating from Switzerland, includes links to European legislative
and law reference sites) NEW
National Women's Law Center NEW
Strategic
Road (French Portal to legal material) NEW
The World Law Guide NEW
U.S. Library
of Congress
Yale Law School-Lillian Goldman Law Library
(interior page also portal for International law) NEW
Law Firm, selected sites
Anti-Trust
(McMillan Binch, Canada)
Bankruptcy LawFinder
(Law Office of Swiggert & Agin, LLC)
DutyLaw (International
Trade, Import/ExportLaw)
Global Law Review (Law
Office of Sandeep Dave, Mumbai, India. In addition to links around
the world, has a page devoted to India law)
Intellectual Property (Beck
& Tysver, Minneapolis, MN)
Internet
related law (Perkins Coie)
The Law Engine (Goldberger
& Associates)
Lawguru (The Law Offices
of Eslamboly & Barlavi)
Law of,
relating to and concerning the Internet (Phillips Nizer Benjamin
Krim & Ballon, LLP, compiled by Martin H. Samson, New York,
NY)
NOTEWORTHY
SITES for Areas of Law -- created by government, associations,
institutes, educational institutions, law firms and businesses:
Click here for
Prior Featured Sites
Associations
Intellectual Property Owners
Association NEW
Business
Cargo rates
(fm CargoSphere)
CEOExpress (Mega
site for business information)NEW
Legal
Resources for International Business
Securities (SEC)
NEW
Cyberspace Law and
Issues
Computer Law Society (Gateway to
Internet Law and IT around the world)
NEW
Domain name disputes: Internet Corporation
for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); The Uniform Domain-Name
Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) has been adopted by ICANN-accredited
registrars in all gTLDs (.aero, .biz, .com, .coop, .info, .museum,
.name, .net, .org, .pro). Dispute proceedings arising from alleged
abusive registrations of domain names (for example, cybersquatting)
may be initiated by a holder of trademark rights. The UDRP is
a policy between a registrar and its customer and is included
in registration agreements for all ICANN-accredited registrars.
For information on UDRP Policy and Rules, go to http://www.icann.org/udrp/.
For decsions, go to: World
Intellectual Property Organization, National
Arbitration Forum and WorldLII
(UDRP decisions from more Centers but only through November 2002.
NEW
Links for encryption
and electronic privacy issues can be found at site opened by
U.S. Dept of Justice Cyberspace
Law (from UCLA Cyberspace Online Institute for Law and Policy)
NEW
Domain Name Information
News, Blogs, etc. NEW
UDRPlaw.net;
Icannwatch.org;
IcannFocus.org
blog.lextext.com
Archive.org (retrieve
earlier versions of the web site)
CircleID
Icannfocus.org
Internetnews.com
<http://ipkitten.blogspot.com/>
<http://guidingrights.blogcollective.com/>
<http://www.guidingrights.com/pages/4/index.htm>
<http://www.publicknowledge.org/>
<http://trademark.blog.us/blog/>
Encyclopedias and Research
1upinfo
Institutes
Legal Information Institutes: Australasian
Legal Information Institute; British
and Irish Legal Information Institute;
Canadian Legal Information Institute;
Hong Kong Legal Information Institute;
Legal Information Institute
(Cornell);
Pacific Islands Legal Information
Institute; NEW
Intellectual Property
Research Institute of Australia (IPRIA)
Internet
services and registration
Internet domain name database (Thomson & Thomson)
Internic (Network Solutions)
includes database and registration
Network Solutions
Register.com
CompleteWHOIS
NetNames (Global domain name
registration, management, consultancy)
International
law.com
(International resources)
Investigative
Freedom
of Information Links (The Lawcheck Bulletin)
Asset Searches (A1-Trace)
Legal News
Jurist (the law
professors' network)
American Abritration Association
Intellectual
Property Rights (Countries of the European Community)
Portals
Internet Legal
Resource Guide
The Law Engine NEW
See immediately below Research and under "Noteworthy",
resources on Law Firm sites under the heading Law Firms.
Strategic
Road (French Portal to legal material)
Tenant-Net (Landlord
and Tenant in New York City and around the World)
Internet Legal Resource Guide
NEW
Tax and Accounting
Directory NEW
Public law
Mental health (Judge
David L. Bazelon Center for Mental Health)
Consumer fraud (National
Consumer Law Center, affiliated with Boston College Law School)
Practice Areas, Go To
Research
Environmental
databases (Florida State Univ. Journal of Land Use and Environmental
Law).
America's Law*Links
Law
Journals (Tables of Contents)
Forms for all legal occasions
from FindForm.com
Medical research (Library
of medical information) NEW
Trademark search
Thomson & Thomson
Treaties (Public Databases)
United Nations
US
Senate
House of Representatives
European Union
International IP Conventions,
Laws and Treaties
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Click
here for Prior and Other Featured Sites
PRACTICES
(Alternative to Noteworthy)
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FOR INFORMATION ON THE ANNUAL
CONFERENCE; PROGRAM, FACULTY AND SPONSORS GO TO FORDHAM IP CONFERENCE
SITE
Papers from the Annual Conferences
are published by Juris Publishing, Inc.
The conference is given over a two-day
period. In it regulators, jurists and practioners analyze international
developments in copyright, patent and trademark law with regard
to European Union, Asia, United States, World Intellectual Property
Organization ("WIPO"), WTO, and the Global Information
Infrastructure. The faculty is comprised of speakers from the
judiciary, WIPO, European Commission, U.S. government, academia
and U.S. and international bars.
Congratulations to Hugh C. Hansen, Brace
Lecturerer 2000, an
an annual honor sponsored by the Copright Society of the USA.
Hugh delivered his hugely delightful, witty and provocative lecture
at
Fordham University School of Law on November 16, 2000.
Intellectual
Property Rights Government Sites
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Site
Map
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counsel. We invite you to try it out and return to it. It is
completely free. The purpose is to provide a one stop hyperlinked
bibliography of legal and business sites in the United States,
Canada, Europe and around the World.
Why have we gone to the trouble? Well, the Internet contains
a confusing and often chaotic mass of legal and business information
that needs to be sorted out. That is what this site attempts
to do.
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(Lawyer
locator from Martindale-Hubbell)
Zip
Code Finder (United States)
Research tips:
International
organizations (WTO, WIPO for example,
but through this portal
you have access to all world sites)
U.S. Government: Legislation,
Congressional Record and Statutes;
Alternative
to Statutes, by way of Cornell LII; See
also, Federal Legal Materials
U.S.
Federal court decisions, (U.S. Supreme
Court, U.S. Courts
(official web site of Federal Judiciary, also Federal
Judiciary Center), U.S.
Circuits, selected
U.S. Bankruptcy
and District courts),
U.S. Federal and
State Court Forms, Bankruptcy
Forms. The
preceding "Bankruptcy" link is to a site set up by
the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida;
it contains links to all federal district and bankruptcy courts
Alternate
for bankruptcy, go to The Bankruptcy Lawfinder (Swiggert &
Agin, LLC
See also PRACTICE
AREAS
States'
court decisions, statutes, selected rules, regulations either
through court sites or accessed through State governments
-- also see Villanova Locators), etc. are generally available
without fee from court, government, organization and university
databases. Cornel
University Law School library is particularly good as a portal
for U.S. and International law, but there
are several other first class sites.
Portal
to Tax Sites, also from Villanova University School of Law
Intellectual Property Resources;
Public Knowledge;
Trademark Blog For
Europe, see, Queen
Mary Intellectual Property Institute, University of London; also
other sites;
Global Competition
Forum (from the International Bar Association); Cabinet
Chaillot (French Agency of Industrial
Property Attornies; portal to patent and industrial design documentation
and case law)
Domain name disputes:
Internet
Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN); Archive.org
(Go Back to earlier representations of the website). The
Uniform Domain-Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP) has been
adopted by ICANN-accredited registrars in all gTLDs (.aero, .biz,
.com, .coop, .info, .museum, .name, .net, .org, .pro). Dispute
proceedings arising from alleged abusive registrations of domain
names (for example, cybersquatting) may be initiated by a holder
of trademark rights. The UDRP is a policy between a registrar
and its customer and is included in registration agreements for
all ICANN-accredited registrars. For information on UDRP Policy
and Rules, go to http://www.icann.org/udrp/.
For decisions, go to: World
Intellectual Property Organization, National
Arbitration Forum and WorldLII
(UDRP decisions from more Centers but only through November 2002.
WHOIS data bases
Domain Name
Information, News, Blogs NEW
Directory of Issues UDRP In Preparation
-- call or e-mail
Legal Information
Institutes: Australasian
Legal Information Institute; British
and Irish Legal Information Institute;
Canadian Legal Information Institute;
Hong Kong Legal Information Institute;
Legal Information Institute
(Cornell);
Pacific Islands Legal Information
Institute;
Constitutional
and legal information concerning European
Union, Canada,
Australia, New Zealand, U.K.,
Germany,
France,
Switzerland,
India
and other Countries around the world are equally accessible through
sites maintained by governments, organizations, law firms and
universities. Foreign
governments, laws and treaties, University of Michigan, Document
Center.
NATIONAL
PARLIAMENTS
Practice areas
(U.S. and International Law)
Legal Related Forms
American
Bar Association, Center for professional Responsibility
(Links to Legal Ethics and Prof. Responsibility, States and Other)
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