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The Law Teacher is the Institute for Law School Teaching's semi-annual newsletter. It contains brief articles that provide practical tips and innovative ideas on law teaching. The Institute distributes The Law Teacher free of charge to all full-time faculty in the United States at ABA-accredited law schools and to all faculties of law in Canada.

Religion Clause is a web blog which tracks current legal and political developments relating to freedom of religion and separation of church and state. Maintained by Howard M. Friedman, distinguished University professor of Law Emeritus at the University of Toledo College of Law, Religion Clause features news items on judicial, legislative and administrative developments and on new scholarship in the field. Religion Clause tracks developments in the United States and follows parallel issues from other nations. Each posting attempts to link not only to a news story, but also to the relevant primary source documents that are available online. The blog also contains permanent links to resources, academic centers, advocacy organizations, journals and listservs that deal with free exercise and establishment clause issues.

The Activist Scholarship is a listserv for academics dedicated to putting their scholarly work at the service of progressive movements, including anti-racist, feminist, environmental justice, economic justice, disability rights, anti-globalization and immigrant rights movements. The listserv is unmoderated. Postings on the roles, dilemmas, costs, pedagogies and methodologies of activist scholarship are welcomed.

LLRX.com is a unique, free Web journal dedicated to providing legal, library, IT/IS, marketing and administrative professionals with the most up-to-date information on a wide range of Internet research and technology-related issues, applications, resources and tools, since 1996.

Law Professor Blogs is a network of web logs ("blogs") by law professors for law professors designed from the ground up to assist law professors in their scholarship and teaching. Each site focuses on a particular area of law and combines both regularly-updated permanent resources and links, and daily news and information of interest to law professors. The editors are leading scholars and teachers who are committed to providing the web as the destination for law professors in their fields. Their goal is for law faculty to visit the Law Professor Blog in their area (or areas) as part of their daily routine.

American Rhetoric:  The Power of Oratory in the United States: Communications scholar Michael Eidenmuller's web site provides extraordinary online access to speeches.  There is an index to a growing database of 5000+ full text, audio and video (streaming) versions of public speeches, sermons, legal proceedings, lectures, debates, interviews, other recorded media events, and a declaration or two. There is a searchable database of the100 most significant American political speeches.  There is even a full text, audio and video database of some 80 Hollywood movie speeches, as selected by audiences of American Rhetoric.

Grants.gov allows organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is a single access point for over 900 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies. The US Department of Health and Human Services is the managing partner for Grants.gov.

The American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolution web site lists upcoming ADR events, conferences and symposiums. The site also has featured resources such as articles, books published by the section, CRInfo Resources, Dispute Resolution Magazine and much more.

The Ohio Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (OACDL), founded in 1986, is a professional association with over 525 members around the state. OACDL is an advocate of progressive criminal laws and policies that are consistent with constitutional principles, limited government intrusion into the lives of Americans, and a free society.  There is a list of OACDL sponsored seminars on their web site.

The International Association of Law Libraries International Calendar lists events hosted by law library associations, bar associations, law schools, legal technology institutes, library organizations, publishers, etc.of interest to legal and information professionals worldwide.

Washington & Lee Law School Most-Cited Legal Periodicals:  The "most-cited" legal periodical site at has been enhanced with the addition of an article submissions process. This allows authors to sort the journal list in citation-rank order, to select down to a limited list of journals, to submit an article, and then to have the site produce a page with a link to the journals that accept e-mail submissions, or otherwise a list of editorial addresses. Currently the data is only about a third complete, but that's still a substantial number of journals (roughly 300). To date there are 128 journals that could simultaneously be emailed.

The Salmon P. Chase College of Law of Northern Kentucky University hosts the Law Review Electronic Submissions web site. The site lists law reviews which accept submissions via email.

Subscribe to the American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education listserv by sending the following message to listserv@abanet.org subscribe cle-calendar Your Name.  You will be added to the distribution list for announcements of the American Bar Association Continuing Legal Education offerings.

FirstGov ™ is an official United States Government web site consolidating some 20,000 separate Federal web sites FirstGov provides the public with easy, one-stop access to all online U.S. Federal Government resources. FirstGov is a Project of the President's Management Council and is managed by the FirstGov Team. For more information contact: FirstGov c/o GSA, 1800 F Street, N.W. Room 5240, Washington, D.C. 20405-0002

The U.S. Supreme Court web site features biographies of the justices, information about the court's rules and procedures, and opinions from the current term.

The ABA's Supreme Court Preview draws upon expert writers and the official briefs filed with the Court to provide an accurate, plain English explanation of the issues, facts, background and significance of every case before oral argument.

The National Center For State Courts provides links to state court, federal court, and international court web sites. The NCSC Publications Catalog is also listed on its web site.

The University Law Review Project offers full-text searching of law journals on the Internet.

The National Institute for Trial Advocacy’s (NITA) mission is to provide training in legal advocacy skills and techniques for resolving legal disputes and to foster professionally responsible behavior emphasizing ethics, candor, civility, and judicial economy. To achieve its mission, NITA uses various teaching methods, programs, faculty, and materials. They have a web site listing CLE courses they offer and a listing of the types of reference books, case files, and audio/video materials they have available, as well, as information about NITA.

The American Association of Law Schools is a non-profit association of 164 law schools. The purpose of the association is "the improvement of the legal profession through legal education." It serves as the learned society for law teachers and is legal education's principal representative to the federal government and to other national higher education organizations and learned societies. The AALS holds an Annual Meeting every year in January and five or six workshops and conferences throughout the year. The AALS publishes a Directory of Law Teachers and a quarterly newsletter, as well as other publications. Much of the learned society activities are done by the 78 AALS Sections, which plan programs at the Annual Meetings and publish newsletters throughout the year.

The American Bar Association’s Events and Education web site lists a calendar of National Institutes, Satellite Seminars, TeleConferences, and On-Line Seminars and a full range of continuing legal education programs, including live conference-style programs, telephone seminars, national telecasts, online seminars, videotapes, audiotapes, and course materials.

The American Law Institute-American Bar Association Committee on Continuing Professional Education, ALI-ABA, have been providers of continuing legal education in the United States since 1947. It offers members of the profession a comprehensive curriculum of post-admission legal education -- live courses, course materials, video and audio tapes, satellite broadcasts, books, computer disks, and magazines, etc.

The Ohio CLE Institute, a non-profit organization, was created as a tripartite entity in 1960 by The Ohio State University, the Ohio State Bar Association and the Ohio State Bar Foundation "in furthering a joint program of legal research and continuing legal education with the College of Law." The mission statement for the Institute includes: to provide quality educational programs and services to Ohio attorneys, judges and related professionals at the lowest practical cost.

JURIST is an authoritative legal news and real-time legal research web site powered by a team of over 20 law student reporters, editors and web developers led by law professor Bernard Hibbitts at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.  JURIST is produced for the legal education of its readers and law student staffers, and uses the latest Internet technology to track important legal news and materials and present them rapidly, objectively and intelligibly in an accessible, ad-free format.

Prepared by Leslie A. Pardo, Circulation & Faculty Services Librarian, Cleveland-Marshall College of Law Library, Cleveland State University.  Please contact me know if you have questions, comments, or suggestions.