Popular Names (U.S. Code)

The United States Code has a useful finding aid for Public Laws called the "Acts Cited by Popular Name." In print, this resource is located after Title 50. The Acts are listed alphabetically and the Statutes at Large citation is given after each one as well as the date that the Act became law, which allows you to find the full text of the law. Further details that are provided with some but not all of the Acts are the Public Law number and a U.S. Code citation (if an entry is classified mainly to a discrete part of the Code such as a chapter or subchapter).

Electronically, Westlaw offers the database USCA Popular Name Table (USCA-POP). You can also access the Popular Name Table when you go through the "Table of Contents" tab, then the "United States Code Annotated" tab, then the "Popular Name Table" tab. Westlaw provides an alphabetical index of the Acts. Once you select an Act, the Public Law number is provided along with the date it was approved and links to the sections where it is codified.

A free online source is the Popular Names of Acts in the U.S. Code, available through Cornell University Law School's Legal Information Institute. Entries are listed alphabetically, and for some of the Popular Names, LII links to the Public Law through Thomas as well as to the relevant section of the U.S. Code on the LII website. However, LII has not done this for all of the Acts.