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Website of the Week features websites of potential interest to law faculty, students, and other users of the Gallagher Law Library website. New postings will be added on Monday when University of Washington School of Law classes are in session.

Readers are encouraged to submit recommendations for Website of the Week. Please include the name of the site, its URL, and a description of how the website may be used for legal or law-related research. Also include your name if you would like credit. Submit your suggestions via this form.

The UW Law School's Center for Law, Commerce & Technology also reviews selected websites.

2007-08 Fall Winter Spring  
2006-07 Fall Winter Spring  
2005-2006 Fall Winter Spring  
2004-2005 Fall Winter Spring  
2003-2004 Fall Winter Spring  
2002-2003 Fall Winter Spring  
2001-2002 Fall Winter Spring Summer
2000-2001 Fall Winter Spring Summer
1999-2000 Spring-Summer

Websites of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2008

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2008

  • March 3, Zimmerman's Research Guide
  • Feb. 25, National Conference of State Legislatures
  • Feb. 18, European Judicial Network in Civil and Commercial Matters
  • Feb. 4, Religion and Law International Documents Database
  • Jan. 28, The Empirical Legal Studies Bibliography
  • Jan. 21, ABA Legal Technology Resource Center
  • Jan. 14, U.S. Electoral College
  • Jan. 7, GlobaLex

Websites of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2007

  • May 28, American Bar Association, National Pro Bono Opportunities Guide
  • May 21, Washington State Legislature, Advanced Search (with House and Senate Journals, 1993-date)
  • May 7, VictimLaw
  • April 30, Child Welfare Information Gateway
  • April 23, Women in Congress
  • April 16, Stanford University Libraries, Copyright Renewal Database
  • April 9, St. Louis Circuit Courts: Freedom Suits Case Files, 1814-1860
  • April 2, U.S. Supreme Court Justices Database
  • March 26, PollingReport.com

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2007

  • March 5, Daylight Saving Time
  • Feb 26, University of Minnesota Law School Library, Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International Instruments
  • Feb. 19, Justia, Federal District Court Filings & Dockets Beta
  • Feb. 12, Law Library of Congress, Multinational Collections Database
  • Feb. 5, Project Safe Childhood
  • Jan. 29, Historical Publications of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
  • Jan. 22, USA.gov
  • Jan. 15, UN Development Programme, 2006 Human Development Report
  • Jan. 8, Google Patent Search

Websites of the Week for Fall Quarter, 2006

  • Dec. 4, Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project
  • Nov. 27, Voices on Genocide Prevention
  • Nov. 20, Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse
  • Nov. 13, Federal Historic Courthouses
  • Nov. 6, Servicemembers.gov
  • Oct. 30, Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
  • Oct. 23, Conversations on the Constitution
  • Oct. 16, Electronic Evidence Case Digest
  • Oct. 9, Gallagher Law Library
  • Oct. 2, Preview of United States Supreme Court Cases
  • Sept. 25, DisabilityInfo

Websites of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2006

  • June 5, Podcasting Legal Guide
  • May 29, The State of the World's Refugees 2006
  • May 22, Law Library of Congress, Global Legal Monitor
  • May 15, Federation of American Scientists, Biosecurity and Biodefense Resource
  • May 8, US Food and Drug Administration, Centennial
  • May 1, Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, Immigration
  • April 24, ArchiveGrid
  • April 17, National Crime Victims' Rights Week
  • April 10, Tom Regan Animal Rights Archive
  • April 3, National Library Week
  • March 27, Institute for Global Ethics

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2006

  • March 13, U.S. Department of Justice, Enron Trial Exhibits and Releases
  • March 6, Law School Survey of Student Engagement
  • Feb. 27, National Library of Medicine, Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body
  • Feb. 20, Trial of Saddam Hussein
  • Feb. 13, Amnesty International USA
  • Feb.6, The Section 108 Study Group
  • Jan. 30, U.S. Congress Votes Database
  • Jan. 23, History of the U.S. Supreme Court
  • Jan. 16, Human Trafficking Search
  • Jan. 9, American Bar Association Standing Committee on the Federal Judiciary

Websites of the Week for Fall Quarter, 2005

  • Dec. 5, National Tribal Justice Resource Center
  • Nov. 28, Institute for Women's Policy Research
  • Nov. 21, Cornell Law School, Legal Information Institute, Wex
  • Nov. 14, Duke University School of Law, International Legal Research Tutorial
  • Nov. 7, Leiter's Law School Rankings
  • Oct. 31, Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Interpretation of the Constitution
  • Oct. 24, In Cold Blood: A Legacy
  • Oct. 17, Electronic Frontier Foundation, Legal Guide for Bloggers
  • Oct. 3, Supreme Court of the United States

Websites of of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2005

  • May 31, WA Superior Court Case Search
  • May 23, Administrative Decisions & Other Actions (U.S.)
  • May 16, Findlaw U.S. Supreme Court Center
  • May 9, History of Federal Judgeships
  • May 2, The American Presidency Project
  • April 25, GovTrack
  • April 18, The James Madison Papers
  • April 11, Bill Tracking on the Washington Legislature Website
  • April 4, WhiteHouseTapes.org
  • March 28, Center for Health Services Research and Policy

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2005

  • March 7, lawforWA.org
  • Feb. 28, National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges
  • Feb. 21, Center for Corporate Policy
  • Feb. 14, Washington Judicial Discipline Database
  • Feb. 7, The Encyclopedia of World History
  • Jan. 31, The False Claims Act Legal Action Center
  • Jan. 17, The Alger Hiss Story: Search for the Truth
  • Jan. 10, Unrepresented Nations and Peoples Organization
  • Jan. 3, Global Health Council

Websites of the Week for Fall Quarter, 2004

  • Dec. 6, Center for Immigration Studies
  • Nov. 29, Watching Justice
  • Nov. 22, The Clinton Presidential Center
  • Nov. 15, The Best Places to Work in the Federal Government
  • Nov. 8, WashingtonLawHelp
  • Nov. 1, King County Elections
  • Oct. 25, Election Law Websites
  • Oct. 18, Washington State Digital Archives
  • Oct. 11, Electronic Information System for International Law
  • Oct. 4, the Blawg Republic
  • Sept. 27, Gallagher Law Library

Websites of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2004

  • June 7, American President
  • May 31, National World War II Memorial
  • May 24, Librarians' Index to the Internet for the State of Washington
  • May 17, National Memorial Institute for the Prevention of Terrorism
  • May 10, United States Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website
  • May 3, Pew Research Center, Internet & American Life
  • April 26, Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs, Washington State Sex Offender Information Center
  • April 19, Brown v. Board of Education: Websites Commemorating the 50th Anniversary
  • April 12: Lawrence Lessig, Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity
  • March 29, U.S. Dep't of Justice, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, Statistical Briefing Book

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2004

  • March 15, National Center for Charitable Statistics
  • March 8, First Amendment Center
  • March 1, Washington Votes
  • Feb. 23, EUR-Lex, the Portal to European Union Law
  • Feb. 16, University of Michigan Library, Brown v. Board of Education Digital Archive
  • Feb. 9, University of Michigan Documents Center, Elections 2004
  • Feb. 2, CDC, Environmental Health
  • Jan. 26, National Environmental Directory
  • Jan. 19, Washington Office of Public Defense, Brief Bank
  • Jan. 12, The Blogbook: A Guide to Legal Blogging
  • Jan. 5, LawHaHa

Websites of the Week for Fall Quarter, 2003

Websites of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2003

  • June 9, Gallagher Law Library
  • June 2, World Environment Day
  • May 27, Supreme Court Historical Society
  • May 19, League of Nations Photo Archive
  • May 12, McCarthy Hearing Transcripts
  • May 5, Deep Throat Uncovered
  • April 28, Cases and Materials on American Federalism
  • April 21, Search Systems, Public Record Locator
  • April 14, Armed Force in Iraq
  • April 7, Project on International Courts and Tribunals
  • March 31, beSpacific

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2003

  • March 17, History News Service
  • March 10, U.S. EPA, Toxics Release Inventory Program
  • March 3, Baseball Library
  • Feb. 24, National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education
  • Feb. 17, UCLA Center for Communication Policy
  • Feb. 10, ArabNet
  • Feb. 3, Institute of Global Law
  • Jan. 27, Regulations.gov
  • Jan. 20, Goldstein Howe, SCOTUSblog
  • Jan. 13, Freedom, A History of US
  • Jan. 6, Seattle Municipal Archives

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Websites of the Week for Fall Quarter, 2002

  • Dec. 16, Washington Bankruptcy Law
  • Dec. 9, Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum
  • Dec. 2, World Legal Information Institute
  • Nov. 25, Most-Cited American Legal Periodicals
  • Nov. 12, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
  • Nov. 4, National NAGPRA
  • Oct. 29, Center on Sustainability and the Global Environment
  • Oct. 14, University of Virginia, Center on Religion and Democracy
  • Oct. 7, WA Rules for Enforcement of Lawyer Conduct
  • Sept. 30, International Journal of Digital Evidence

Summer Fun Websites, 2002

  • Sept. 23, 1L Dictionary
  • Sept. 9, Roadside America
  • Sept. 2, ALA, Libraries and the Patriot Legislation
  • Aug. 26, Coffee Science Information Centre
  • August 19, The Carabella Game
  • August 12, Women's Law Initiative
  • August 5, Free Expression Network Clearinghouse
  • July 29, ABA, Market Research Department, Statistical Sources
  • July 22, How Stuff Works
  • July 15, Best of History Web Sites
  • July 8, The Booklist Center
  • July 1, Internet Movie Database
  • June 24, PapaInk, the International Children's Art Archive
  • June 17, U.S. Census Bureau, Centennial Celebration

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Websites of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2002

  • June 10, Public Comments on United States v. Microsoft Corporation Settlement
  • June 3, Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
  • May 28 Library of Congress, Portals to the World
  • May 20, Taxpedia
  • May 13, Metropolitan Museum of Art's Timeline of Art History
  • May 6, 1st Headlines, Top Breaking News Headlines
  • April 29, Stephanie J. Burke, The Collapse of Enron: A Bibliography of Online, Legal, Government and Legislative Resources
  • April 22, PBS, Battle for the Holy Land
  • April 15, The Tax History Project
  • April 8, CyberCemetery
  • April 1, Council on Foreign Relations

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2002

  • March 11, Women's Human Rights Resources
  • March 4, Directory of Development Organizations
  • Feb. 25, National Academy Press, Scientific and Medical Aspects of Human Reproductive Cloning
  • Feb. 18, The New Economy of Water
  • Feb. 11, Legacy Tobacco Documents Library
  • Feb. 4, Tolerance.org
  • Jan. 21, Internet Archive Way Back Machine
  • Jan. 14, Stateline
  • Jan. 7, The Constitution Project

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Websites of the Week for Fall Quarter, 2001

  • Dec. 17, Natural Resources Web Links
  • Dec. 10, League of Nations Statistical and Disarmament Documents
  • Dec. 3, Toolkit to End Violence Against Women
  • Nov. 26, Human Genome Project Information
  • Nov. 19, Smithsonian, National Museum of American History, A More Perfect Union: Japanese Americans & the U.S. Constitution
  • Nov. 12, Capitol Spotlight
  • Nov. 5, International Religious Freedom Report for 2001
  • Oct. 29, Coalition for the Prevention of Economic Crime
  • Oct. 22, Almanac of American Politics, 2002
  • Oct. 15, SEC, Investment Adviser Public Disclosure
  • Oct. 8, National Security Archive, Terrorism and U.S. Policy
  • Oct. 1, The First Day of Law School

Summer Fun Websites for Summer, 2001

  • Aug. 13, Cheesenet
  • Aug. 6, North American Vexillological Association
  • July 30, Journal of Criminal Justice and Popular Culture
  • July 23, The Library Cat Society
  • July 16, Picturing Justice
  • July 9, Bartleby.com
  • July 2, LegalLite
  • June 25, The Dictionary of Difficult Words

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Websites of the Week for Spring Quarter, 2001

  • May 29, Washington State Trial Lawyers Association
  • May 21, Stanford Securities Class Action Clearinghouse
  • May 14, Northwest Justice Project
  • May 7, Edward S. Curtis's The North American Indian
  • April 30, Women's Legal History Biography Project
  • April 23, National Crime Victims Rights Week
  • April 16, Law Library Resource Xchange
  • April 9, American Bar Association Network
  • April 2, National Library Week
  • March 26, Hoaxbusters

Websites of the Week for Winter Quarter, 2001

  • March 5, Earthquake Information Shakedown
  • Feb. 26, City of Seattle
  • Feb. 20, Presidential Pardons
  • Feb. 12, Oklahoma Supreme Court Network
  • Feb. 5, Refugee Caselaw Site
  • Jan. 29, Clinton Presidential Materials Project
  • Jan. 22, The Dred Scott Case
  • Jan. 15, The Real Thirteen Days
  • Jan. 8, Holocaust.org
  • Jan. 2, Association of American Law Schools

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Websites of the Week for Fall Quarter, 2000

  • Dec. 11, ECOLEX
  • Dec. 4, Find-It! Consumer
  • Nov. 27, Commission on Online Child Protection
  • Nov. 20, Mt. Rainier
  • Nov. 13, U.S. Court of International Trade
  • Nov. 6, Internet Guide for International Fisheries Law
  • Oct. 30, Nuremberg War Crimes Trials - Avalon Project
  • Oct. 23, FirstGov
  • Oct. 16, European Electronic Commerce Website
  • Oct. 9, PortiaLaw.com, the Website for American's Women Lawyers
  • Oct. 2, Famous Trials
  • Sept. 25, FirstMonday 2000

Websites of the Week for Spring & Summer Quarters, 2000

  • Sept. 18, On Our Own Terms, Moyers on Dying
  • August 28, disAbility.gov
  • August 22, The Founders' Constitution
  • August 7, Legal and Law-Related Websites for Kids and Youth
  • July 3, lexisone
  • June 12, The Justice Project
  • June 5, Kappler's Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties
  • May 22, Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
  • May 15, International Court of Justice Unpublished Pleadings
  • May 8, Washington State Bar Association
  • April 24, America's Story from America's Library
  • April 17, Native American Rights Fund (NARF)
  • April 10, Trademark Electronic Search System (TESS)
  • April 3, The US-China Business Council
  • March 27, The Redesigned Gallagher Law Library Website

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