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Ethics Codes: The Illinois Institute of Technology's Center for the Study of Ethics in the Professions has placed professional ethics codes online. The professions range from Agriculture to Travel and Transportation and include Law and Legal in between. The codes can be accessed by keyword or subject or alphabetically. The Institute also provides guidance on how to write a code of ethics...(Ethics Codes)

CALI DVDs Available: The Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction (CALI) has delivered DVDs of its CALI interactive tutorials to the law school. Each DVD contains 720 lessons on a vast array of subjects. Although the lessons are also available online, the DVD allows students to access the lessons on their computer without internet connectivity. The CALI DVDs are available at the Law Library Reference Desk. Students can also access the lessons from the website...(CALI)

Constitutional Sources Project: The Constitutional Sources Project contains founding-era documents to the United States Constitution. It was publicly launched in September 2007 and has more than 11,000 historical documents relating to the Constitution and its amendments. Each document is in searchable digital form but the project also contains a scanned copy of the original document so it can be viewed in that manner as well. Many of these documents are referenced in the Supreme Court's "gun control" opinion: District of Columbia v. Heller...(Constitutional Sources-)

InSITE: Cornell Law Library's Current Awareness Service: The terrific law librarians at Cornell Law Library periodically review and evaluate law related Web Sites. These descriptions are compiled in InSITE, Cornell Law Library's free current awareness service. You can receive issues of InSITE via e-mail, and also search the vast database of past issues...(InSITE)

Olympics News and Video: The folks at Search Engine Land have pulled together a list of sources for Olympics scores, medal awards, breaking news, and video clips...(Olympic News)

Washington State Legal Research Blog: With legal research tips, legislative updates, technology news, and posts about new podcasts, King County Law Library's new blog KCCL Klues: Washington State Legal Research is a terrific new resource for Washington legal research and information...(KCCL Klues)