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
• 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, Regulations, Policies and Decisions

• ELIPS: Electronic Library of Interior Policies
  This source contains links to Secretary's Orders, Departmental Manual chapters, and Bulletins/Memoranda
• Bureau of Land Management
• Bureau of Reclamation
• Minerals Management Service
• Legal and Regulatory References
• Manuals
• National Park Service
• Laws and Legislative Information
• Office of Policy
• Office of Surface Mining
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Digest of Federal Resource Laws
• Directives
• Centralized Library of Servicewide Policies
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Office of Hearings and Appeals
  

  The office provides access to these decisions:

  A and M Decisions
  Copps Mineral and Public Land Laws (1881, 1890)
  Digest of Grazing Decisions (1993-2001)
  Director's Decisions (1996 to the present)
  Hearings Division (Selected, 2000 to the present)
  IBIA Decisions (1970 to the present)
  IBLA Decisions (1970 to the present)
  Land Decisions (181-1929) and Interior Decisions (1930-1994)
  Solicitor's Decisions (1993 to the present)
• Board of Indian Appeals
• Board of Land Appeals
• Cumulative chronological list of decisions issued by the Board of Indian Appeals
• Solicitor's Opinions
• Indian Claims Commission Decisions
  Digitized by the Oklahoma State University Library, and produced in cooperation with the University of Tulsa Law Library and the National Indian Law Library.

Federal Register Notices

• Fish and Wildlife Service
• MMS Offshore Leasing and Operations
• MMS 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
• Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents 
  formerly the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

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
• SCOTUSBlog
• 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
• Congressional Calendars
• Congressional Record, 1994 to the present
• Congressional Record Index 
  GPO Access
• Congressional Committee Prints
• Congressional Documents
• Congressional Hearings
• Congressional Reports
• Congressional Hearings and Reports Listed by Committee
• Congressional Research Service Reports on Congressional Procedures and the Budget Process 
  Maintained by the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives
• Federal Register
• 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
• 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

• 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
• Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet

Local Laws and Regulations

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

Research Tools

Blawgs

• Blawg.com 
  
• Law Library of Congress 
  Legal Blawgs by Topic

Resources, Guides and Directories

• Environmental Law Net
• Findlaw.com 
  Cases, codes, law schools, journals, CLE, etc.
• Frequently-Cited Treaties and Other International Instruments 
  Provided by the University of Minnesota Law Library
• Global Legal Information Network 
  Provided by the Law Library of congress, the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
• 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
• Legislative Sourcebook
  Produced by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
• Martindale-Hubbell
• State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web
  Provided by the Law Library at the Indiana University School of Law Library—Bloomington