CanLII vs Legal Information Institute

CanLII is a nonprofit service offering free online access to Canadian judicial decisions and legislative documents. Its collections include court judgments, decisions from many federal and provincial administrative tribunals, consolidated statutes and regulations, and annual statutes across Canadian jurisdictions. Search supports full text, title, citation and note-up queries, with filters, facets and sorting. RefLex links cited decisions and legislation available on CanLII. The Commentary collection includes secondary legal materials such as books, journals, articles and reports, while CanLII Connects hosts community case commentary and summaries. Registered myCanLII users can save and organize research in folders and set alerts. Search+ accepts natural-language research questions and returns results with contextual extracts and relevance indicators; it requires a free myCanLII account and has a daily usage limit. CanLII serves legal professionals and the general public. Its terms prohibit systematic downloading of published documents, including through crawlers, plug-ins, extensions and connectors. CanLII says personal information is kept in a secure computer environment with restricted access and that it strives to store it in Canada. Search+ queries and interactions are stored locally in the browser for history and are not retained in CanLII's systems.

Legal Information Institute (LII) is a free web resource publishing legal information and explanatory material for the public. Its collections include the U.S. Constitution, U.S. Code, Code of Federal Regulations, state regulations, Supreme Court opinions, and federal rules. LII enriches government-published data by identifying, extracting, annotating, indexing, and presenting its features. Explanatory offerings include Wex, Supreme Court Bulletin previews, and case summaries in the Gender Justice Collection. Users can search case law and statutes and regulations, read commentary, and use citation tools. Read It Online accepts a formal case citation and returns links to free and paid judicial-opinion resources. Introduction to Basic Legal Citation is a free Bluebook alternative maintained by co-founder Peter Martin. Regulations from all 50 states and Washington, DC receive enhanced functionality. Coverage includes U.S. federal law, all states, and selected world law. The Free access plan costs nothing. LII does not provide legal advice or personalized research help.