Legal Research Resources

• 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 Forum on Civil Justice
• Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice
• Centre for Constitutional Studies – U of A
• CLEBC – Continuing Legal Education Society of British Columbia
• CPLED – Canadian Centre for Professional Legal Education
• Hague Conference on Private International Law
• Health Law Institute – U of A
• Indigenous Bar Association
• International Association of Drug Treatment Courts
• International Bar Association
• Lawyers’ Rights Watch Canada
• LESA – Legal Education Society of Alberta
  
• National Association of Drug Court Professionals

• Ablawg – University of Calgary Faculty of Law
• Blawg Directory – ABA Journal / U.S. & International
• Canadian Law Blogs List
• The Court – debate and data on the SCC
• Court Technology Bulletin
• Legal views
• Michael Geist’s Blog – essential reading for those interested in copyright, digital media and other related issues in Canada.
• Slaw.ca – cooperative Canadian weblog on legal research, info, technology, etc.
• 3 Geeks and a Law Blog – blog run by Greg Lambert, Lisa Salazar and Toby Brown
• CultureLibre.ca – Olivier Charbonneau is one of the leading Francophone law bloggers in Canada
• NSRLP – Representing yourself Canada by the National Self Represented litigants project
• Real Lawyers have Blogs – U.S.
• VoxPopuLII – Cornell University

• Canadian Citation Committee
• CanLII Citation
• Cardiff Index to Legal Abbreviations
• Citing Cases – Alberta Law Libraries research guide
• How to Cite Canadian Court Cases – Legaltree.ca
• ICLL Periodicals List – WestlawNext® 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
• U.S. Abbreviation Archives –  U.S. Publications, Courts and Terms

National Directory of Courts in Canada

• 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

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

• Jurispedia – international academic law encyclopedia
• Law on Wikipedia
• Zimmerman’s Research Guide – An Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers (U.S.)

• 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 also Legislation Table

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
• Journal Titles (A-Z) – Supreme Court of Canada Library service which helps locate journal sources, and in some cases links directly to journals

• 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
• Judges Counselling Program – confidential assistance for judges and their families
• Judicial Compensation & Benefits Commission
• Judicial Educators’ Network – National Judicial Institute (NJI)
• National Judicial Institute

• 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
• Université Laurentienne, Departément de Droit et 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

• Federation of Law Societies of Canada
• Law Society of Alberta
• Law Society of British Columbia
• Law Society of Manitoba
• Law Society of New Brunswick
• Law Society of Newfoundland & Labrador
• Law Society of the Northwest Territories
• Nova Scotia Barristers’ Society
• Law Society of Nunavut
• Law Society of Ontario
• Law Society of PEI
• Barreau du Quebec
• Law Society of Saskatchewan
• Law Society of Yukon

Canada

• Supreme Court of Canada Library

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

• Nunavut Court of Justice Law Library
• Nunavut Legislative Library and Information Services

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
  
• Université Laval

Saskatchewan

• Law Society of Saskatchewan Library
• University of Saskatchewan

Yukon

• Yukon Public Law Library

Other Libraries

• Law Library of Congress

Global Library Catalogues

• TALonline – Alberta
• Voila – Canada
• WorldCat

• 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

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
• University of Calgary – Bennett Jones Law Library – Research guides

Canada

• LawCentral Canada – Canadian public legal organizations 
• LawCentral Alberta – Access to Justice Network
  
• Asked and Answered – Courthouse Libraries BC
  
• CanLII – Canadian Legal Information Institute
• Clicklaw – British Columbia
• CPLEA – Center for Public Legal Education – Alberta
• Department of Justice Canada – Useful links
• Legaltree.ca – Canada’s Collabrative Legal Resource
  
• Steps to Justice – Ontario
• Les principaux signets Internet du juriste québécois – Quebec law
• Centre d’access a la information juridique (CAIJ)

International

• ASIL Guide to Electronic Resources for International Law – American Society for International Law
• 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

Australia

• Law & Justice Foundation of New South Wales

United States

• American Law Sources On-Line – (U.S., Canada, Mexico)
• HG.org – formerly Hieros Gamos
• LII – Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
  
• USA.gov

Legal Book Publishers

• Alberta Queen’s Printer
• Éditions Yvon Blais
• Emond Montgomery
• Irwin Law
• Juriliber
• Lexis-Nexis
• LegalPubs.ca – The Latest Canadian Legal Publications
• Self-Counsel Press
• Thomson Reuters
• Wolters Kluwer

Legal

• Cornell Legal Research Engine
• Public Legal – Internet Legal Resource Group
  
• LawCrawler
  
• LII – Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
  

Specialized Search Engines

• Google Scholar
• Way Back Machine – Internet Archive