Legal Research Resources

• Alberta Civil Trial Lawyers Association
• Alberta Law Reform Institute
• Alberta Securities Commission
• American Bar Association
• Association des juristes d’expression francaise d’Alberta
• Association of Family and Conciliation Courts
• Canadian Association of Drug Treatment Court professionals
• Canadian Bar Association
• Canadian Bar Association Alberta Branch
• Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education (CPLED)
• Canadian Forum on Civil Justice
• Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
• Centre for Constitutional Studies – U of A
• Center for Public Legal Education Alberta (CPLEA)
• Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia (CLEBC)
• Hague Conference on Private International Law
• Health Law Institute – U of A
• Indigenous Bar Association
• International Association of Treatment Court Professionals
• International Bar Association
• LESA – Legal Education Society of Alberta
• All Rise (Previously NADCP National Association of Drug Court Professionals)

• Ablawg – University of Calgary Faculty of Law
• The Court – debate and data on the SCC
• Court Technology Bulletin
• Legal views
• Michael Geist’s Blog – copyright, digital media and other related issues in Canada.
• Slaw.ca – Canadian weblog on legal research, info, technology, etc.
• 3 Geeks and a Law Blog – run by Greg Lambert, Lisa Salazar and Toby Brown
• CultureLibre.ca – Olivier Charbonneau leading Francophone law blogger in Canada
• NSRLP – Representing yourself Canada by the National Self Represented litigants project
• Real Lawyers have Blogs – U.S.

• Canadian Citation Committee
• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
• Introduction to Basic (American) Legal Citation
• Legal Citation Guides and Abbreviation Lists – Harvard Law School
• Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions – Canadian Citation Committee

• Supreme Court of Canada
• Federal Court of Canada
• Federal Court of Appeal
• Tax Court of Canada
• Council of Canadian Administrative Tribunals
• Canadian Industrial Relations Tribunal
• Canadian International Trade Tribunal
• Competition Tribunal

• Bilingual Lexicon of Legislative Terms – Ontario Legislative Counsel
• Black’s Law Dictionary
• Canadian Online Legal Dictionary (Irwin Law)
• Emond Glossary of Legal Terms
• Language Portal of Canada – French and English including Juridictionnaire -Termium Plus & Language Navigator
• Law.com Dictionary
• Latin Legal terms
• Nolo’s Legal Dictionary

• ADR Institute of Alberta – find a mediator/arbitrator
• Canadian Law List
• Canadian Legal Lexpert directory
• Government staff directory (Alberta)
• Lawyers directory (Canada)
• Law Society of Alberta Membership Directory
• HG.org Worldwide Legal Directories
• Martindale-Hubbell
• Canadian Process Serving
• Association of Translators and Interpreters of Alberta

• Avalon Project – Yale University
• Early Canadiana Online
• Canadian Constitutional Documents: a Legal History
• Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsheets collected by the Harvard Law School Library
• Famous Trials UMKC School of Law
• Gallop Portal – one-stop access point to government publications
• Law and Order – Provincial Archives
• Legal Archives Society of Alberta
• Library and Archives Canada

For historical legislation, see ALL’s Legislation Table

• American Judges Association
• Canadian Association of Provincial Court Judges
• Canadian Judicial Council
• Commissioner for Federal Judicial Affairs
• International Association of Judges
• International Association of Women Judges
• Judicial Compensation & Benefits Commission
• Judicial Educators’ Network – National Judicial Institute (NJI)
• National Judicial Institute

Legal Book Publishers

• Wolters Kluwer
• Alberta King’s Printer
• Éditions Yvon Blais
• Emond
• Irwin Law
• Juriliber
• LexisNexis
• Self-Counsel Press
• Thomson Reuters