Chapter 1

Legal Research Exercises on the Web



Activity 1-1: Legal Perspective—Internet Sources of Law
URLs:
http://www.findlaw.com
http://www.law.cornell.edu

The FindLaw Web site is probably the most comprehensive source of free legal information on the Internet. Go to the first URL listed above, and you will be at the main FindLaw home page. The FindLaw Web site includes links, by subject, to major sources of law in the United States, law schools, professional development, legal organizations, law firms and lawyers, cases and codes, federal government legal resources, state law resources, foreign and international law resources, legal news and reference materials, and legal practice materials.

Go to the second URL listed above, which will take you to the Web site of the Legal Information Institute (LII) at Cornell Law School. The LII was created to discover new ways to distribute legal information and commentary, all in electronic form. This Web site offers extensive information about the Supreme Court and U.S. law.

Activity 1-2: Management Perspective—Online Assistance from Government Agencies
URL:
http://www.firstgov.gov

As you will read throughout this text, government agencies regulate many areas of business activity. Fortunately for managers today, most government agencies have detailed Web sites designed to keep the public informed. Go to the URL above to find a gateway to the Web sites of government departments and agencies.

Activity 1-3: Social Perspective—The Case of the Speluncean Explorers
URL:
http://www.nullapoena.de/stud/explorers.html

Lon Fuller, a professor of law at Harvard University, devised a hypothetical court case entitled The Case of the Speluncean Explorers to illustrate how different legal philosophies might affect judicial decisions.

Go to the URL given above and read the "facts" of this hypothetical case, then answer the following questions:


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