Quick Reference

Quick Reference

Government & Law

Government

University of Michigan Government Documents Web Site
Current, comprehensive set of links to government information at all levels from U.S. states to other countries and international bodies.

Town of Brunswick
Brunswick’s official web site. Includes sections on schools, municipal offices and codes, town council meetings and minutes, etc.

State of Maine
Maine’s official web site. Provides information on Maine government agencies, laws, business climate, tourist attractions, history and weather.

United States of America

Web sites for the three federal branches of government: executive, legislative and judicial.

GPO Access
Fulltext publications of “core” documents of democracy from the Congress, the President and the Supreme Court.

FirstGov.gov
U.S. Government’s official web portal, especially designed for citizen access.

United Nations
 Official web site of the United Nations. Available in six languages. Offers information about the UN and its bodies with official proceedings, reports, conferences, news and live webcasts.

AccessUN
Documents from the six main bodies of the United Nations - General Assembly, Security Council, Economic and Social Council, Trusteeship Council, Secretariat and International Court of Justice - are indexed. Full-text resolutions from the General Assembly, Security Council and the Economic and Social Council are appended to their respective bibliographic citations.

Law

LexisNexis Academic
Provides the full text of state and federal caselaw, law journal articles, the U.S. Code and some international law sources.

The Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
“The LII is known internationally as a leading “law-not-com” provider of public legal information… Provide[s] brief summaries of law topics with links to key primary source material, other Internet resources, and useful offnet references.”

Findlaw
A commercial site offering cases and codes, publicly available contracts and forms, legal news but not law reviews.

Constitutional Law Course Guide (Bowdoin)
Covers background for legal research, law reporters, indexes and databases,
reference books, selected web sites.