Human Services: Legal Issues

This site provides a subject directory of legal topics of interest to social workers, including adoption, child custody, criminal law, divorce & separation, elder law & aging, family law, healthcare, and nursing home abuse.

The LII is known internationally as a leading ‘law-not-com’ provider of public legal information. We offer all opinions of the United States Supreme Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions selected for their historic importance, over a decade of opinions of the New York Court of Appeals, and the full United States Code. We also publish important secondary sources: libraries in two important areas (legal ethics and social security) and a series of ‘topical’ pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law.

Developed by the National Center for Victims of Crime, VictimLaw has been designed as a comprehensive, user-friendly, on-line database of victims' rights statutes, tribal laws, constitutional amendments, court rules, administrative code provisions, and case summaries of related court decisions that meets the needs of a wide variety of users with different levels of substantive and technological expertise. Such ready access to information can advance the cause of crime victims' rights by facilitating the exercise, implementation, and enforcement of those rights.