Abortion Law Home Page -- "This page is being constructed to help people, regardless of their political bent, understand the background and state of abortion law in America, and access related legal material--especially that which is less available and less well known. The presentation will be as accurate and objective as I can make it, so that readers may decide how to weigh the documents and materials." American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) The American Society of International Law (ASIL) Animal Rights Law (Rutgers Law Project) Anarchist Resistance Legal Defense Fund California Anti-SLAPP Project CERJ (Campaign for Equity-Restorative Justice) Canadian Legal Resources Center for Constitutional Rights Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL) (Washington, D.C. and Geneva) Center for Restorative Justice & Mediation (University of Minnesota School of Social Work) -- "Committed to the development of community-based restorative responses to crime and violence which strengthen community safety and social harmony." Chicago Kent College of Law ClassAction: The Class Action Clearinghouse -- "a central repository for class action information." Coalition for International Justice (CIJ) -- "is an international, non-profit organization working to support the international war crimes tribunals for Rwanda and the former Yugoslavia. CIJ provides support through advocacy, fundraising, working with other Non-Governmental Organizations (NGO's), and by providing technical legal assistance. CIJ has offices in Washington, D.C. and The Hague, Netherlands." Cornell Law School Courts and Alternative Dispute Resolution -- links. D.C. Justice and Solidarity Collective Death Penalty Information Center (Washington, D.C.) Earth Law Institute (Washington, D.C.) European Environmental Law Home Page -- "Here you can find full text cases, legislation and other materials related to European Environmental Law. Apart from these primary sources, several dossiers and articles offer a more in depth view on specific issues." Farmers' Legal Action Group, Inc. (FLAG) -- "is a nonprofit law center dedicated to providing legal services to family farmers and their rural communities in order to help keep family farmers on the land." FindLaw -- Law, Lawyers and Legal Resources HEED: The International Law Center for Human, Economic, and Environmental Defense -- "is an arm of the National Lawyers Guild in Los Angeles dedicated to using international law to protect the fundamental rights of present and future generations of human beings and the biosphere. HEED believes that fundamental rights have been too narrowly defined by many lawyers and activists. We focus broadly and simultaneously on human, economic and environmental rights, which we believe are inextricably intertwined." Impact of a Criminal Record Homepage Indiana University School of Law Virtual Library Information Law Alert International Association of Democratic Lawyers (Belgium) International Human Rights Law Group (Washington, D.C.) -- "is a non-profit organization of human rights and legal professionals from over 20 countries engaged in advocacy, strategic human rights lawyering and training around the world. Our mission is to empower local advocates to expand the scope of human rights protections and to promote broad participation in building human rights standards and procedures at the national, regional and international levels. Our challenge is to find the most effective ways to support human rights movements, and the individuals who comprise them, in their efforts to make human rights a reality in their countries and daily lives." International Law (UN) JURIST: The Legal Education Network (University of Pittsburgh) The Just Law Collective (Oakland, California) - "A mobile legal team that provides support to activists at every stage of nonviolent political resistance." Juvienation - "is written and published by Mark Sorkin, a journalist living in Brooklyn, New York. It is a news site covering developments in juvenile justice, a forum for exploring ideas on how to reform the system, and a resource for anyone interested in or curious about the subject. Along with regularly updated blog posts, Juvienation is also a repository of links to relevant articles, policy papers, websites and books." Law Project for Psychiatric Rights -- "has a mission to bring fairness and reason into the administration of legal aspects of the mental health system. The public mental health system is creating a huge class of chronic mental patients through forcing them to take ineffective, yet extremely harmful drugs. The purpose of the Law Project for Psychiatric rights is to promote and implement a legal campaign in support of psychiatric rights akin to what Thurgood Marshall and the NAACP mounted in the 40's and 50's on behalf of African American civil rights on behalf of psychiatric rights." Lawyers Committee for Human Rights Legal Services for Prisoners with Children (LSPC) (San Francisco) Libertas Legal Collective (Montreal) Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute (MCLI) -- "advocates for human rights and peace law by using existing laws of the United States and the United Nations and by reporting on violations." Mexican American Legal Defense and Information Fund Michael Ratner: International Human Rights Lawyer Midnight Special Law Collective (Oakland) - "is an independent non-profit organization dedicated to providing legal trainings and accessible, relevant, democratic and accountable legal support to a wide range of activists participating in the struggle for social change." Mutual Aid Legal Fund - "A small group of Seattle activists have formed a not-for-profit group to raise funds towards the legal support of anarchists and similar radical activists who are facing trials for politically motivated acts." National Asian Pacific American Bar Association (NAPABA) The National Association for the Advanced of Colored People (NAACP) National Coalition to Protect Political Freedom (Washington, D.C.) The National Journal of Sexual Orientation Law -- "the first on-line law journal in the country and the second devoted exclusively to legal issues affecting lesbians, gay men and bisexuals." The National Lawyers Guild -- "is an association dedicated to the need for basic change in the structure of our political and economic system. We seek to unite the lawyers, law students, legal workers and jailhouse lawyers of America in an organization that shall function as an effective political and social force in the service of the people, to the end that human rights shall be more sacred than property interests." Their Web site has an excellent set of links to other progressive and useful legal Web sites. National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights The National Organization of Legal Services Workers (NOLSW) Native American Rights Fund Native Web Resources: Law and Legal Issues (NativeWeb) NYC People's Law Collective Prison Law Page Prison Legal News -- "is an independent 40-page monthly publication that reports, reviews and analyzes court rulings and news related to prisoner rights and prison issues. PLN has a national (U.S.) focus on both state and federal prison issues, with international coverage as well. " Progressive Law Student Web Page r2klegal.org - DEFEND THE RNC 420 Restorative Justice Online -- "Restorative justice can be defined as a response to crime that focuses on restoring the losses suffered by victims, holding offenders accountable for the harm they have caused, and building peace within communities." Restorative Justice/Real Justice Conferencing Save Our Civil Liberties -- formed after the November 2003 FTAA Protests in Miami Self Help Law Center Social Activist Law Student Association (S.A.L.S.A.) (Halifax, Nova Scotia) TalkLeft: The Politics of Crime - "the on-line source for liberal coverage of crime-related political and injustice news." Trial Lawyers for Public Justice/The TLPJ Foundation -- "is a national public interest law firm that marshals the skills and resources of trial lawyers to create a more just society. TLPJ uses creative litigation to protect people and the environment, hold accountable those who abuse power, challenge and remedy wrongdoing, guard access to the courts, combat threats to our judicial system, and inspire lawyers to serve the public interest." U.S. Federal Court's Home Page U.S. Supreme Court Decisions (Cornell Legal Information Institute) The Victim-Offender Reconciliation Program (VORP) Information and Resource Center -- "bring offenders face-to-face with the victims of their crimes with the assistance of a trained mediator, usually a community volunteer. Crime is personalized as offenders learn the human consequences of their actions, and victims (who are largely ignored by the criminal justice system) have the opportunity to speak their minds and their feelings to the one who most ought to hear them, contributing to the healing process of the victim." Western States Legal Foundation (WSLF) -- "is a non-profit, public interest organization founded in 1982, which monitors and analyzes U.S. nuclear weapons programs and policies and related high technology energy and weapons programs, with a focus on the national nuclear weapons laboratories." WestLaw The Youth Law Center (San Francisco) - "is a public interest law firm that works to protect children in the nation's foster care and juvenile justice systems from abuse and neglect, and to ensure that they receive the necessary support and services to become healthy and productive adults."