Tag: Legal Aids

  • Cooperative Agreement

    Cooperative Agreement A “cooperative agreement” is a type of grant that involves modest oversight, such as approval of work plans, key personnel, and quarterly reports. Cooperative agreements are often used to support programs implemented by U.S. nonprofit organizations and universities. Simple “grant agreements,” allowing for even more limited agency oversight, tend to be used to…

  • Cooperative Agreement

    Cooperative Agreement A “cooperative agreement” is a type of grant that involves modest oversight, such as approval of work plans, key personnel, and quarterly reports. Cooperative agreements are often used to support programs implemented by U.S. nonprofit organizations and universities. Simple “grant agreements,” allowing for even more limited agency oversight, tend to be used to…

  • Rule of Law Reform

    Rule of Law Reform Principal U.S. Government Agencies Supporting International Rule of Law Reform As the scope of activities that constitute rule of law programming has expanded, so too has the number of organizations supporting these programs. The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce are the main government…

  • Rule of Law Reform

    Rule of Law Reform Principal U.S. Government Agencies Supporting International Rule of Law Reform As the scope of activities that constitute rule of law programming has expanded, so too has the number of organizations supporting these programs. The U.S. Agency for International Development and the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce are the main government…

  • Legal Research Information

    Legal Research Information in the United States Electronic Legal Research This section provides a brief overview of legal resources in electronic format. Electronic legal resources play an increasingly important role in legal research. What is meant by electronic legal resources are those […]

  • Indexes of the Encyclopedias of Law

    Indexes of the Encyclopedias of Law in the United States A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | I | J | K | L | M | N | O | P | Q | R | S | T| U | V | W |…

  • Legal Research Guides

    Legal Research Guides in the United States After the Cohen and Berring’s How to Find the Law, the standard print legal research guides are Kent Olson’s Principles of Legal Research (successor to How to Find the Law) and Barkan, Mersky and Dunn’s Fundamentals of Legal Research (formerly by […]