Free Legal Research

The Law Students Guide to Free Legal Research On the Internet – This guide is meant to help law students navigate the confusing world of Internet legal resources.

Included are links to federal and state cases, codes, regulations,  and law reviews, forms, dictionaries, and encyclopedias.  All resources listed can be considered reliable and accurate.

PublicLegal is a categorized index of more than 4000 select web sites in 238 nations, islands, and territories, as well as thousands of locally stored web pages, legal forms, and downloadable files.

Designed for everyone, lay persons and legal scholars alike, it is quality controlled to include only the most substantive legal resources online.

The World Legal Information Institute (WorldLII) is a free, independent and non-profit global legal research facility developed collaboratively by the following Legal Information Institutes and other organisations.

WorldLII also includes as part of this searchable collection its own databases not found on other LIIs. These include databases of decisions of international Courts and Tribunals, databases from a number of Asian countries, and databases from South Africa (provided by Wits Law School).