Featured Website
The Oyez Project remains true to its initial objective: to make the work of the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone through text, images, audio, and video.
True story! The Oyez Project began in the friendly confines of Wrigley Field in the late 1980s as the Chicago Cubs continued to break the hearts of its many diehard fans. It was during one such game that the idea of creating a multimedia-based Supreme Court experience took root. The "Hitchhiker's Guide to the U.S. Supreme Court" demonstrated the power of multimedia integration with serious academic content. Many students worked on various versions before the development of a web-based application. The development of a web-based version of the project stems from the foresight of Richard Barone and Joe Germuska of Northwestern's then nascent Learning Technologies Group.
Additional Websites
-
The American Society of International Law Home PageASIL is a nonprofit, nonpartisan, educational membership organization founded in 1906 and chartered by Congress in 1950. ASIL holds Category II Consultative Status to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations and is a constituent society of the American Council of Learned Societies. The Society is headquartered at Tillar House in Washington, D.C.
-
Guide to Law Online This link opens in a new windowAn annotated guide to sources of information on government and law available online. It includes selected links to useful and reliable sites for legal information, prepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division.
-
Nations of the World (Law Library of Congress) This link opens in a new windowLinks to many fully reliable, complete and officially certified texts of primary legal materials of foreign countries prepared by the Law Library of Congress Public Services Division.
-
New York State LegislatureLocate current NYS laws and statutes. Also useful for checking the status of pending legislation.
-
Oyez ProjectDevoted to the U.S. Supreme Court
Media files of oral arguments, court calendar, updates on rulings -
Thomas (Library of Congress)-full-text federal law and legislation
-Congressional Record and full-text of legislation available from 1989 (101st Congress) to the present
-a century's worth of congressional proceedings, statues, and other information