• Books in the Harcum Library
• Computer Databases
• Journal Holdings

Internet Resources

• Legal Studies Associations
• General Reference
• Law Libraries (Find Laws Here)
• Court System
• Philadelphia Law Institutions
• Human Rights/Civil Liberties

(For access at home, please see a Librarian in the library or email us for a password.)

Books

To find a book try the Edith, our on-line catalog. See side bar for access to Edith off-campus.

Computer Databases

Criminal Justice Periodicals: In Database, choose "Social Sciences - Criminal Justice Periodicals"

EbscoHost: EbscoHost is a general database containing both indexing and some full-text for many popular magazines. EbscoHost indexes most of our general magazines.

Sirs Researcher: Sirs Researcher is a general, scholarly database that contains the full-text of many academic journals and includes many government resources.

Journal Holdings

Web Sites

Legal Studies Associations

• American Bar Association (ABA)

General Reference

• Center for Law and Social Policy
• Discovery Resources (Electronic Evidence)
• Dumb Laws
• Jurist: Legal News and Research
• Law Guru
• Law Links
• Law News Network
• Legal Information Institute
• Lexis ONE
• Paper Chase: Legal News RSS feed
• Rule of Law
• Washburn University School of Law: WashLaw Web

Law Libraries (Find Laws Here)

• LII: Legal Information Institute (Cornell)
• FindLaw
• Lectric Law Library
• WWW Virtual Law Library (Indiana University School of Law)
• Crime Spider: a crime and justice search engine

The Court System

• U.S. Court System
• U.S. Supreme Court online
• U.S. Courts of Appeal
• U.S. District Courts
• U.S. Bankruptcy Courts
• National Center for State Courts
• State Court Web Sites

Philadelphia Law Institutions

• Philadelphia Bar Association

Federal Courts

• Third Judicial Circuit (Court of Appeals)
• Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania
• U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania Courts

• Pennsylvania Unified Judicial System
• Pennsylvania Supreme Court
• Superior Court of Pennsylvania
• Commonwealth Court of Pennsylvania

County Court of Common Pleas

• Philadelphia Courts, 1st Judicial District of Pennsylvania
• Bucks County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, 7th Judicial District
• Chester County, Pennysylvania Court of Common Pleas, 15th Judicial District
• Delaware County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, 32nd Judicial District
• Montgomery County, Pennsylvania Court of Common Pleas, 38th Judicial District

Human Rights/Civil Liberties

Civil Liberties

• Alger Hiss Story
• American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)
• Brennan Center for Justice
• Civil Liberties Monitoring Project
• Data Collection Resource Center (Racial Profiling)
• Freedom of Information Center

Human Rights

• Amnesty International
• Concise Guide to Human Rights on the Internet
• F.E.A.R. Forfeiture Endangers American Rights
• Human Rights Internet (HRI)
• Human Rights Watch
• International Centre for the Legal Protection of Human Rights
• One World
• Peace Brigades International
• United Nations Human Rights Website
• University of Minnesota Human Rights Library

Minority Human Rights

• Jump, Jim Crow or, What Difference Did Emancipation Make?
• Minority Rights Group International
• Voice of the Shuttle: Minority Studies Page

Rights of Refugees

• CBC: Anatomy of a Refugee Camp
• Forced Migration Review
• UNHCR: UN Refugee Agency

Womens' Human Rights

• Women's Human Rights Database Group
• Women's Legal History Biography Project