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BUS 250A -- Business Law I: Useful Internet Resources

Resources for Business Law

  • FindLaw
    Looking for legal information? In legal trouble? Learn About the Law is your starting place for help understanding the law. A legal resource for up to date online legal information about popular legal topics such as will preparation, divorce and child custody; And specific legal issues like legal credit repair and street legal pocket bikes While this is free it does have some advertising. You should not consider information as definitively legal. It is a good starting point to gather quick legal information.
  • LawInfo
    Established in 1994, LawInfo is recognized nationwide as a leader within the legal community, providing public access to pre-qualified, pre-screened attorneys, and to free legal resources.  Has some commercial links as well as specific business section.  [Dated information-Last revised 2002]
  • LII/Legal Information Institute
    A not-for-profit organization that believes everyone should be able to read and understand the laws that govern them, without cost. Collaborators include publishers, legal scholars, computer scientists, government agencies, and other groups and individuals that promote open access to law, worldwide.
  • Economic Report of the President
    Annual report written by the Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers. It overviews the nation's economic progress using text and extensive data appendices
  • Economagic
    This page is meant to be a comprehensive site of free, easily available economic time series data useful for economic research, in particular economic forecasting. This site (set of web pages) was started in 1996 to help students in an Applied Forecasting class. The idea was to give students easy access to large amounts of data, and to be able to quickly get charts of that data.
  • SBA.GOV Site -- Business Guide
    Government guide to navigating through the complexities of setting up a business, managing and launching it, and much more.

Resources for Business Law

  • Environmental Protection Agency
    The mission of EPA is to protect human health and to safeguard the natural environment -- air, water and land -- upon which life depends. EPA's Strategic Plan identifies the measurable environmental and human health outcomes the public can expect from EPA and describes how we intend to achieve those results.
  • Federal Reserve System
    The Federal Reserve's Duties fall into four general areas:- conducting the nation’s monetary policy by influencing the monetary and credit conditions in the economy in pursuit of maximum employment, stable prices, and moderate long-term interest rates- supervising and regulating banking institutions to ensure the safety and soundness of the nation’s banking and financial system and to protect the credit rights of consumers- maintaining the stability of the financial system and containing systemic risk that may arise in financial markets- providing financial services to depository institutions, the U.S. government, and foreign official institutions, including playing a major role in operating the nation’s payments system
  • Financial Forecast Center
    The Financial Forecast Center is a site that specializes in the creation of forecasts related to money: investments, loans, finance, economics and employment.
  • International Monetary Fund
  • The International Monetary Fund (IMF) is an organization of 186 countries, working to foster global monetary cooperation, secure financial stability, facilitate international trade, promote high employment and sustainable economic growth, and reduce poverty around the world.
  • National Agricultural Statistics Service
    The National Agricultural Statistics Service provides timely, accurate, and useful statistics in service to U.S. agriculture.
  • LTRC: Legal Technology Resource Center
    This free search engine searches the free full-text of over 400 online law reviews and law journals, as well as document repositories hosting academic papers and related publications such as Congressional Research Service reports. Several of the law reviews and legal journals (such as the Stanford Technology Law Review), working papers, and reports are available online only.