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Portals to legal resources

Non-commercial resources

Cornell Legal Information Institute (http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/education.html)
The Cornell site is a comprehensive source of both primary and secondary legal materials. There are many different ways to access the materials.

Library of Congress Guide to Law Online (http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/)
The Library of Congress makes available an annotated guide to government and legal information resources. One useful feature of this site is its list of law reviews available online - http://www.loc.gov/law/guide/lawreviews.html

FirstGov
(http://www.firstgov.gov/)
FirstGov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information. It provides access to 47,000,000 pages of federal government documents and includes links to state and local government sites as well.

GPOAccess
(http://www.gpoaccess.gov)
GPOAccess is another federal website that provides access to exclusively federal government information.

MyTexasBar
(http://www.mytexasbar.com/)
Available to all members of the State Bar of Texas, MyTexasBar allows attorneys to access information customized to their individual needs. MyTexasBar provides access to the Texas constitution, Texas statutes and rules, and makes available Texas cases from 1949 forward.

Hieros Gamos: The Comprehensive Law and Government Portal
(http://www.hg.org)
This legal portal includes a special section on Education Law that is fairly comprehensive and even includes links to education law in some foreign countries. Categories of materials linked include: case law, regulations, agencies and programs, state education law (alphabetical by state), a number of discussion groups, and more than 20 links to associations involved with education law.

Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas
(http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu)

Georgetown University Law Library
(http://www.ll.georgetown.edu)
The Edward Bennett Williams Law Library of Georgetown University Law Center has created a portal that sets forth an extensive series of links to a variety of materials. Go to the "By topic" category, click on "Education Law." There are links to a number of gateways, e.g., CataLaw: Legal Topics: Education Law.

Commercial portals and resources

Findlaw
(http://www.findlaw.com)
Findlaw, owned by Westlaw, provides links to primary and secondary authorities, and to other law-related websites. Findlaw also has subject-specific pages, such as:

LexisOne
(http://www.lexisone.com)
Lexis also offers a free service that makes available certain (usually otherwise publicly available) primary sources. Users can, however, scan the Lexis databases and choose to obtain other materials on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Lexis-Nexis
(http://www.lexis.com)
Choose "Area of Law" then "By Topic" to find education law. There are multi-source groupings, including "Cases and Court Rules," "Statutes and Legislative Materials," "Administrative Materials and Regulations," "Law Reviews and Journals," and "Treatises." In addition, the news files on Lexis-Nexis are particularly valuable for researching current issues in education law.

Westlaw
(http://www.westlaw.com)
Use "Topical Materials" by area of practice. Under education, see federal cases, statutes, and administrative materials, as well as state cases, daily reports and current developments, and news.

Loislaw
(http://www.loislaw.com)
Loislaw consists of statutes, appellate level court opinions, and regulations from the federal government and all 50 states. Loislaw is owned by Aspen Publishers and also makes available several practitioner-oriented online databases that include many Aspen treatises. Loislaw also makes available GlobalCite, a citation service. Loislaw offers a "clipping" service and Loislaw NewsFeeds.

Versuslaw
(http://www.versuslaw.com)
Versuslaw has only court opinions and a few other publications at present, but it is an extremely low cost alternative.

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