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• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Final Report (aka the Meese Commission report; 2 volumes; 1986), by United States Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyberporn, Protecting Our Children from the Back Alleys of the Internet: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Basic Research and the Subcommittee on Technology of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, July 26, 1995 (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States House Subcommittee on Basic Research and United States House Subcommittee on Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Final Report (aka the Meese Commission report; 2 volumes; 1986), by United States Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comic Books, Municipal Control of Sale and Distribution: A Preliminary Study (report #124; Washington: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1948), by Charles S. Rhyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jurgen and the Law: A Statement, With Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: R. McBride, 1923), ed. by Guy Holt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Computer Pornograph and Child Exploitation Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1305 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams, contrib. by Michael Taussig, Nadine Strossen, Brett Gary, Tim Miller, Jyoti Puri, Laura Kipnis, Mikita Brottman, David Sterritt, and John Durham Peters (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), ed. by Ralf Grüttemeier, contrib. by Gisèle Sapiro, Anton Kirchhofer, Ted Laros, K. Beekman, Claudia Lieb, Sylvia Sasse, Katharina Hupe, Peter D. McDonald, and Martin A. Kayman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)

• Jurgen and the Law: A Statement, With Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: R. McBride, 1923), ed. by Guy Holt (page images at HathiTrust)

• People of the State of New York Against Guy Holt, Robert N. McBride and Company, and Robert N. McBride: Brief for Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office, ca. 1922), by Garrard Glenn, William U. Goodbody, and William L. Glenn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Study the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (1962), by New York State Joint Legislative Committee Studying the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (page images at HathiTrust; US access onny)
• "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press (1911), by Theodore Schroeder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)
• Music Lyrics and Commerce: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 11 and May 5, 1994 (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States House. Committee on Energy and Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comic Books, Municipal Control of Sale and Distribution: A Preliminary Study (report #124; Washington: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1948), by Charles S. Rhyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America: Compiled, Revised, and Published in Accordance with the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1891 (Washington: GPO, 1893), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Practical, Sharp, Eccentric and Humorous Prison-Life Thoughts! (Philadelphia: Landis publishing society, 1872), by Simon M. Landis (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Every Citizen has a Right to Know: A Report of the Georgia Literature Commission (1954), by James Pickett Wesberry and Georgia State Literature Commission (page images at HathiTrust)
• My Secret Life (11 volumes, 1888) (HTML with commentary at Wayback Machine)
• Reconcilable Differences: Confronting Beauty, Pornography, and the Future of Feminism (Berkeley: University of California Press, c1998), by Lynn S. Chancer (frame-dependent HTML with commentary at UC Press)
• Report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Study the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (1962), by New York State Joint Legislative Committee Studying the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (page images at HathiTrust; US access onny)
• Pernicious Literature: Debate in the House of Commons; Trial and Conviction for Sale of Zola's novels; With Opinions of the Press (London: National Vigilance Assoc., 1889), by National Vigilance Association (Great Britain) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Private Case: An Annotated Bibliography of the Private Case Erotica Collection in the British (Museum) Library (London: J. Landesman, 1981), by Patrick J. Kearney, contrib. by G. Legman (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Sexual Liberals and the Attack on Feminism (New York et al.: Pergamon Press, 1990), ed. by Dorchen Leidholdt and Janice G. Raymond (PDF at janiceraymond.com)

• Computer Pornograph and Child Exploitation Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1305 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Refining Child Pornography Law: Crime, Language, and Social Consequences (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2016), ed. by Carissa Byrne Hessick
  • PDF with commentary at oapen.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at JSTOR
• Child Pornography and Sex Rings (reprinted from the FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin; 1984), by Kenneth V. Lanning and Ann Wolbert Burgess (page images at HathiTrust)

• Youth, Pornography and the Internet, ed. by Dick Thornburgh and Herbert Lin (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Controlling Vice: Regulating Brothel Prostitution in St. Paul, 1865-1883 (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1998), by Joel Best (PDF at Ohio State)

• Future Medicine: Ethical Dilemmas, Regulatory Challenges, and Therapeutic Pathways to Health Care and Healing in Human Transformation (Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, c2003), by Michael H. Cohen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Criminal Abortion: Its Nature, Its Evidence, and Its Law (Boston: Little, Brown, and Co., 1868), by Horatio Robinson Storer and Franklin Fiske Heard (page images at HathiTrust)

• How Free Are the Skyways? (1945), by Blair Bolles
  • illustrated HTML at historians.org
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• O Direito Aereo (in Portuguese; Porto: Typ. Artes e Letras, 1920), by Adriano Anthero (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Guidelines for Laws Affecting Civic Organizations (second edition, 2004), by Leon E. Irish, Robert Kushen, and Karla W. Simon (PDF with commentary at soros.org)

• Information Technologies for the Control of Money Laundering (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• People, Plants, and Patents: The Impact of Intellectual Property on Trade, Plant Biodiversity, and Rural Society, by Crucible Group (PDF and HTML at idrc.ca)

• Game-Day Gangsters: Crime and Deviance in Canadian Football (Edmonton: AU Press, c2013), by Curtis Fogel (PDF with commentary at AU Press)

• Electronic Evidence (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2017), ed. by Stephen Mason and Daniel Seng (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Rights and Responsibilities of Participants in Networked Communities (1994), ed. by Dorothy Elizabeth Robling Denning and Herbert Lin (HTML with commentary at NAP)

• Lessons From the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society (2009), ed. by Ian Kerr, Valerie M. Steeves, and Carole Lucock (PDF files with commentary at idtrail.org)

• Interfaces on Trial 2.0 (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2011), by Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh (PDF with commentary at MIT Press)
• Interfaces on Trial: Intellectual Property and Interoperability in the Global Software Industry (c1995), by Jonathan Band and Masanobu Katoh (PDF at Google Docs)

• Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (second edition, 2006; with link to wiki updates of 1999 edition), by Lawrence Lessig (PDF with commentary at codev2.cc)

• Electronic Signatures in Law (fourth edition; London: Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, 2016), by Stephen Mason (PDF with commentary at Humanities Digital Library)

• Lessons From the Identity Trail: Anonymity, Privacy and Identity in a Networked Society (2009), ed. by Ian Kerr, Valerie M. Steeves, and Carole Lucock (PDF files with commentary at idtrail.org)
• Privacy and Human Rights, by Privacy International and Electronic Privacy Information Center (full serial archives)

• International Study on the Impact of Copyright Law on Digital Preservation (updated version, September 2008), by National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program (U.S.), Joint Information Systems Committee, OAK Law Project, and Stichting SURF (PDF at digitalpreservation.gov)

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