C-Span Video Archive

C-Span has made its entire video archive available for free here. It offers over 20 years of political history, and is searchable by keyword and browseable by program. It includes tabs for most recent, most watched, and most shared videos. It also features Supreme Court oral arguments, including Citizens United. A search for Pace University Law School retrieves videos with President Stephen Friedman, Professor Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., and Professor Nicholas Robinson.

The UK Supreme Court Launched a New Blog

Via SCOTUSBlog, New United Kingdom Supreme Court Launched, the UKSCblog is dedicated to the UK Supreme Court.

The UK Supreme Court is the UK's highest court; its judgments bind lower courts and thus shape the development of English Law. Since 1399, the Law Lords, the judges of the most senior court in the country, have sat within Parliament. From October 2009, however, they have moved to an independent court in the Middlesex Guildhall. To mark this historic development, this blog has been set up to provide commentary on the UK Supreme Court and its judgments.

The Supreme Court is to be made up of 12 Justices. The first Justices will be the Law Lords who made up the Appellate Committee of the House of Lords as at July 2009. The Justices will be housed in the Supreme Court and are disqualified from sitting or voting in the House of Lords. The current Justices are Lord Phillips, Lord Hope, Lord Saville of Newdigate, Lord Rodger, Lord Walker, Lady Hale, Lord Brown, Lord Mance, Lord Collins, Lord Kerr and Lord Clarke.

The UKSC's blog also links to the Archive, information About the blog, information About the UK Supreme Court, and many useful links such are the House of Lords Judgments, the BAILII Court of Appeals decisions, or the Court of Appeals listing calendar.

New York City Bar New Exhibit

The New York City Bar announced the opening of a new exhibit titled "Before Mad Men" Advertising in 19th Century New York.

The New York City Bar has an extensive collection of business directories from the 19th century. Many of these books contain vintage advertisements that open a window to a city that was on the verge of greatness. This nostalgic tour takes a look at how small businesses and innovative entrepreneurs shaped the landscape of New York and built the foundation for the city to become the economic capital of the world.

Some of the other featured exhibits include:
The Ultimate Penalty
Crimes of Passion
Women and the Law
Slavery in the Courts
Hail to the Chiefs

Legal Blawgs Archive

The Law Library of Congress has launched a Legal Blawgs Archive. It began harvesting legal blawgs in 2007. The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics. The following are some of the legal topics: Antitrust, Business, Commercial & Corporate Law, Civil Procedure, Constitutional law, Courts, Criminal Law and Procedure, Family Law, Government, Administrative Law and Politics, Intellectual Property, International & Comparative Law, Law Review, Legal Ethics, Miscellaneous, Taxation, and Technology & Law.

Public.Resource.Org

Public.Resource.Org is a project that makes the government information more accessible to the public. Check it out yourself and see how you can find it helpful. It provides agency directory, archived materials, codes, court materials, and materials about copyright, gao, gpo, irs, patent, Smithsonian images, and trademark. It also has a feature to recycle used PACER documents.

FedFlix was a joint venture with the National Technical Information Service (NTIS). Each month they send us government videotapes. We upload them to the Internet Archive and YouTube, then send the government back their videotapes and a digital copy for their files. No cost to them, more data for all of us. Enjoy!

One can also subscribe via RSS feed to government documents such are Congressional hearings, congressional bills, presidential papers, federal register, house journal, and others.

LIFE Photo Archive Hosted By Google

Google hosts the LIFE photo archive; organized by year and going back to 1750. The millions of photographs can also be searched by various subjects: people, places, events, sports, and culture.

Search millions of photographs from the LIFE photo archive, stretching from the 1750s to today. Most were never published and are now available for the first time through the joint work of LIFE and Google.

The Way Back Machine

The Internet Archive, also known as the Way Back Machine allows users to search digital archival information. The advanced search option is also useful.

The Internet Archive is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that was founded to build an Internet library, with the purpose of offering permanent access for researchers, historians, and scholars to historical collections that exist in digital format. Founded in 1996 and located in the Presidio of San Francisco, the Archive Archive has been receiving data donations from Alexa Internet and others. In late 1999, the organization started to grow to include more well-rounded collections. Now the Internet Archive includes texts, audio, moving images, and software, as well as archived web pages in our collections.