Legal Sources

Electronic Books from the Gale Libraries -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only

• Law and Legal Information Directory
• Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law

Molokai Lighthouse, Kalaupapa National Historical Park, Hawaii; National Park Service.

Web Sites -- Table of Contents

• Department of the Interior
• Presidential Documents
• Case Law
• Bills, Hearings, Statutes and Regulations
• Administrative Decisions
• Public Records
• Research Tools

Law at the Department of the Interior

Electronic Resources from HeinOnline -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only

• U.S. Department of the Interior Collection

Laws and Regulations

• Bureau of Reclamation
• Fish and Wildlife Service
• Minerals Management Service
• National Park Service
• Office of Surface Mining
• U.S. Geological Survey

Decisions

• IBIA Decisions
  This site contains decisions issued by the Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA) from its inception in 1970, and includes some decisions of the Interior Board of Land Appeals, volumes 125-173, and Indian Self-Determination Act Decisions
• Solicitor's Opinions

Policies

• ELIPS: Electronic Library of Interior Policies
  This source contains links to Secretary's Orders, Departmental Manual chapters, and Bulletins/Memoranda

Federal Register Notices

• Fish and Wildlife Service

Minerals Management Service

• Offshore Leasing and Operations
• Minerals Revenue Management

• Office of Surface Mining

Presidential Documents

• Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders
  From April 13, 1945, through January 20, 1989
• Executive Orders 
  Disposition Tables, January 8, 1937 to the present (Office of Federal Register)
• Office of Management and Budget 
  with links to Bulletins, Circulars, and Memoranda
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
• Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents 
  via GPO Access

Case Law

U.S. Courts

• Findlaw Cases and Codes
• Federal Court Links
• Federal Court Finder

Supreme Court

• Supreme Court Official Web Site
• Constitution of the United States 
  GPO Access
• The Oyez Project
  Multimedia
• FindLaw Supreme Court Center
• Supreme Court Decisions, 1990 to the present 
  Cornell Law School

U.S. Courts of Appeals

• Findlaw Cases and Codes 
  Excellent source for the 13 judicial circuits

State Courts

• Findlaw State Law
• National Center for State Courts: Court Web Sites

Bills, Hearings, Statutes and Regulations

Federal Laws and Regulations

• Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation 
  Congressional journals, hearings, debates, 1774-1873
• Code of Federal Regulations 
  GPO Access
• Code of Federal Regulations, List of Sections Affected 
  GPO Access
• Congressional Bibliographies 
  Lists and describes meetings held by Congressional committees since 1985, including those for which printed transcripts are issued, and those that remain unprinted; produced by North Carolina State University Libraries.
• Congressional Bills 
  GPO Access
• Congressional Record, 1994 to the present 
  GPO Access
• Congressional Record Index 
  GPO Access
• Congressional Research Service Reports on Congressional Procedures and the Budget Process 
  Maintained by the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives
• Federal Laws and Regulations
• Federal Register 
  GPO Access
• History of Bills 
  GPO Access; lists legislative actions on bills that are reported in the Congressional Record
• Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet 
  Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
• Public and Private Laws 
  From the 104th Congress to the present; GPO Access
• Regulations.gov 
  An electronic rulemaking repository, enabling Departments and Agencies to post all rulemaking documents for public access and comment
• Statutes at Large 
  GPO Access
• THOMAS 
  Bill tracking, legislative histories, 1973 to the present
• United States Code 
  GPO Access; the codification of laws

State Laws and Regulations

• The Administrative Codes and Registers (ACR) Section of the National Association of Secretaries of State
• Findlaw Cases and Codes US State Laws - Cases, Codes, Statutes and Regulations
• State and Local Government on the Net
• State Law, Government and Legislative Information WashLaw WEB, produced by Washburn University School of Law
• State Statutes and Legislation produced by Prairienet

Local Laws and Regulations

• Municipal Code Online Library 
  Produced by the Municipal Code Corporation
• Cities on the World Wide Web 
  Produced by MultiState Associates

Administrative Decisions

• Administrative Decisions & Other Actions - By Agency 
  Produced by the University of Virginia Law Library, this site provides access to administrative actions which are outside the scope of the Code of Federal Regulations or the Federal Register. What is available via the Internet varies from agency to agency. Because Electronic FOIA Reading Rooms often contain administrative information this page links to the primary E-FOIA Reading Room for each agency covered.

Public Records

• Pacific Information Resources 
  Public records links by state

Research Tools

• Catalaw 
  "CataLaw is the catalog of catalogs of worldwide law on the Internet."
• Findlaw.com 
  Cases, codes, law schools, journals, CLE, etc.
• Guide to Law Online: United States 
  Law Library of Congress
• Hieros Gamos 
  Worldwide legal directories
• Jurist 
  legal news and research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• Justia 
  Provides free case law, codes, regulations, legal articles and legal blog databases, as well as community resources.
• Law.com 
  Legal news and information
• Lawsource.com 
  Provides a compilation of links to freely accessible on-line sources of law for the United States and Canada.
• Legal Information Institute 
  Constitutions, codes, court opinions, from the Cornell Law School
  
• Legal Journals 
  List of links compiled by the University of Southern California Law Library staff
• Martindale-Hubbell
• Virtual Chase
  "Teaching legal professionals how to do research."
• Wex 
  A collaboratively-created, public-access law dictionary and encyclopedia; sponsored and hosted by the Legal Information Institute at the Cornell Law School.