Last revised May 2023
Associations & Professional Organizations
- 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 Courts
- 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 Drug Treatment Courts
- International Bar Association
- LESA – Legal Education Society of Alberta
- National Association of Drug Court Professionals
Blogs
- Ablawg – University of Calgary Faculty of Law
- Canadian Law Blogs List
- 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.
Citation Guides & Abbreviations
- Canadian Citation Committee
- Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
- Citing Cases – Alberta Law Libraries research guide
- ICLL Periodicals List – Westlaw® Canada
- Introduction to Basic (American) Legal Citation
- Legal Citation – McGill’s Guide in brief (Queen’s University)
- Legal Citation Guides and Abbreviation Lists – Harvard Law School
- Preparation, Citation and Distribution of Canadian Decisions – Canadian Citation Committee
Courts Boards and Tribunals
Dictionaries
- Bilingual Lexicon of Legislative Terms – Ontario Legislative Counsel
- Blacks Law Dictionary
- Canadian Online Legal Dictionary (Irwin Law)
- Emond Glossary of Legal Terms
- Juridictionnaire – French legal expressions (TERMIUM Plus)
- Law Dictionaries – French and English (Language Portal of Canada)
- Law.com Dictionary
- Latin Legal terms
- Nolo’s Legal Dictionary
Directories
- ADR Institute of Alberta – find a mediator/arbitrator
- Canadian Law List
- Canadian Legal Lexpert directory
- 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
Historical Sites
- 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
For historical legislation, see ALL’s Legislation Table
Journals Online
Full text
- Jurist – All Legal News
- The Lawyer (UK)
- The Lawyers Daily
- LLRX.com – Law & technology resources for legal professionals
Indexes and Portals to Law Journals
- Database of Law Journals – Bora Laskin Law Library
- Database of Law Journals – Supreme Court of Canada Library service which helps locate journal sources, and in some cases links directly to journals
Judicial Organizations
- 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
Law Schools
- University of Alberta Faculty of Law
- University of British Columbia Faculty of Law
- University of Calgary Faculty of Law
- Carleton University Department of Law
- Dalhousie University Schulich School of Law
- Université Laval Faculté de droit
- Laurentian University Department of Law and Justice
- University of Manitoba, Robson Hall Faculty of Law
- McGill Faculty of Law
- Université de Moncton, Faculté de droit
- Université de Montréal Faculté de droit
- University of New Brunswick Faculty of Law
- Université d’Ottawa, Faculté de droit – Section de droit civil
- University of Ottawa, Faculty of Law – Common Law Section
- Université du Québec à Montréal – Départment des sciences juridiques
- Queen’s University Faculty of Law
- University of Saskatchewan College of Law
- Université de Sherbrooke Faculté de droit
- University of Toronto Faculty of Law
- University of Victoria Faculty of Law
- University of Western Ontario Faculty of Law
- University of Windsor Faculty of Law
- York University, Osgoode Hall Law School
Law Societies
Law Libraries
Canada
Alberta
- Alberta Legislature Library
- University of Alberta – John A. Weir Memorial Law Library
- University of Calgary – Bennett Jones Law Library
British Columbia
- Courthouse Libraries BC
University of British Columbia Law Library
University of Victoria – Diana M. Priestly Law Library
Manitoba
- University of Manitoba – E.K. Williams Law Library
New Brunswick
- University of New Brunswick – Gerard V. La Forest Law Library
Nunavut
Ontario
- Law Society of Ontario – Great Library
- University of Toronto – Bora Laskin Law Library
- University of Western Ontario – John & Dotsa Bitove Family Law Library
- York University – Osgoode Hall Law Library
Québec
- CAIJ – Centre D’Accès à l’Information Juridique – library network serving the Quebec Barreau & Judiciary
- McGill University – Nahum Gelber Law Library
Saskatchewan
Yukon
Other Libraries
Legal Research
- Canadian Legal Research & Writing Guide
- Deep Web Research
- Legal Research & Writing – Ted Tjaden
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases – NYU
- Guide to Law Online – Law Library of Congress
- Principles of Legal Research – University of Ottawa
- Research Guides – Harvard Law School Library
Legal Sites
Topical
- Canadian Institute of Resources Law
- David Asper Centre for Constitutional Rights – advocacy, research and education – hosted by the University of Toronto
- Environmental Law Centre (Alberta)
- National Association of Drug Court Professionals
- Nathanson Centre on Transnational Human Rights, Crime and Security – York University
- Centre for Justice and Reconciliation
- Uniform Law Conference of Canada
International
- Droit francophone – Legal materials from Francophone countries
- The American Society of International Law
- Europa: Gateway to European Union
- Free Access to Law Movement – access to law from various jurisdictions
- GlobaLex – Hauser Global Law School, NYU
- Guide to Foreign and International Legal Databases – New York University
- International Labour Organization – United Nations
- Nations of the World – Law Library of Congress
- WorldLII – World Legal Information Institute
Canada
- LawCentral Canada – Canadian public legal organizations
- LawCentral Alberta – Access to Justice Network
- Our Legal Knowledge Base – Courthouse Libraries BC
- CanLII – Canadian Legal Information Institute
- Clicklaw – British Columbia
- CPLEA – Center for Public Legal Education – Alberta
- Department of Justice Canada
- Legaltree.ca – Canada’s Collaborative Legal Resource
- People’s Law School – British Columbia
- Steps to Justice – Ontario
- Les principaux signets Internet du juriste québécois – Quebec law
- Centre d’access a la information juridique (CAIJ)
Australia
United States
- HG.org – formerly Hieros Gamos
- LII – Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
- USA.gov
Publishers
Search Engines
Legal
- Cornell Legal Research Engine
- Public Legal – Internet Legal Resource Group
- FindLaw (US)
- LII – Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
Specialized Search Engines
- Google Scholar
- Way Back Machine – Internet Archive