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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.
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