Legal Studies Research Guide

Oyez, a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Chicago-Kent College of Law and Justia.com, is a multimedia archive devoted to making the Supreme Court of the United States accessible to everyone. It is a complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full text Supreme Court opinions. Oyez also provides detailed information on every justice throughout the Court’s history and offers a panoramic tour of the Supreme Court building, including the chambers of several justices.

Justia is an American website specializing in legal information retrieval. It was founded in 2003 by Tim Stanley, formerly of FindLaw, and is one of the largest online databases of legal cases. Justia’s primary mission is to make legal materials and resources free and easy to find on the Internet. The Justia legal portal provides users with free case law, codes, regulations, consumer-friendly legal articles and question-answer forums, and a US Lawyer Directory. Justia also works with educational, public interest and other socially focused organizations to bring free legal and consumer information to the online legal community.

Official website of the Federal Court system. Can be used to find cases, judges, forms, etc.