General Interest Subject Guide

Law and Legislation

 

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Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)

JK 416 .A3 (Ref)
The major codification of administrative law at the federal level. Includes all the general and permanent rules first published in the Federal Register by the Executive Department and agencies of the federal government. There are also a CFR index and finding aids for the set.

Constitution of the United States: Analysis and Intepretation

Contains the text of the Constitution as well as annotations of Supreme Court cases through 2002. Supplements provide updates.

Federal Register

This U.S. federal government source includes all the Executive rules, proposed rules, and regulations published on a given day. The Unified Agenda (Semiannual Regulatory Agenda) is available as a separate database. Coverage: 1994-present. Updated daily.

LexisNexis Academic restricted

Indexes thousands of domestic and foreign newspapers, as well as journals, and other publications in News, Business company reports and articles, Legal Research, Medical and Reference. The legal research category includes law reviews, law news, federal and state laws and cases. Mostly full text. Includes Hoover's full text. Coverage dates vary.

Public & Private Laws

A database of laws enacted since the 104th Congress (1995-96). Prepared and published by the Office of the Federal Register (OFR), National Archives and Records Administration, each law is first published as a slip law and then later compiled into a volume of the Statutes at Large. The Public Laws database contains the text of each law enacted, and is updated irregularly as the publication of a slip law is authorized by the OFR.

Supreme Court of the United States

Contains information on recent decisions, docket, arguments, briefs, rules, and opinions of the court.

United States Code

The United States Code in contains the general and permanent laws of the United States. These are searchable and browsable. 1994 through 2000 plus Supplements.

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Last updated: August 2009