List of sources of law in the United States
Encyclopedia
Statutes
- List of United States federal legislation
- Acts listed by popular name, via Cornell University
- United States Statutes at LargeUnited States Statutes at LargeThe United States Statutes at Large, commonly referred to as the Statutes at Large and abbreviated Stat., are the official source for the laws and concurrent resolutions passed by the United States Congress...
- Volumes 1 through 18, 1789-1875, via Library of Congress
- Public LawPublic lawPublic law is a theory of law governing the relationship between individuals and the state. Under this theory, constitutional law, administrative law and criminal law are sub-divisions of public law...
s (PL)- Current Congress only, via the U.S. Government Printing Office
- 104th Congress through current Congress, via the U.S. Government Printing Office
- United States CodeUnited States CodeThe Code of Laws of the United States of America is a compilation and codification of the general and permanent federal laws of the United States...
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Administrative regulations
- Code of Federal RegulationsCode of Federal RegulationsThe Code of Federal Regulations is the codification of the general and permanent rules and regulations published in the Federal Register by the executive departments and agencies of the Federal Government of the United States.The CFR is published by the Office of the Federal Register, an agency...
(CFR) - List of United States federal executive orders (EO)
Court precedents
- Findlaw Cases and Codes
- United States ReportsUnited States ReportsThe United States Reports are the official record of the rulings, orders, case tables, and other proceedings of the Supreme Court of the United States. Opinions of the court in each case, prepended with a headnote prepared by the Reporter of Decisions, and any concurring or dissenting opinions are...
- Supreme Court cases- Lists of United States Supreme Court cases
- Federal ReporterFederal ReporterThe Federal Reporter is a case law reporter in the United States that is published by West Publishing. It begins with cases decided in 1880. It was preceded by Federal Cases...
- Courts of Appeals and Federal Claims cases - Federal SupplementFederal SupplementThe Federal Supplement is a case law reporter published by West Publishing in the United States that includes select opinions of the United States district courts. Though West is a private company that does not have a legal monopoly over the court opinions it publishes, it has so dominated the...
- District Courts cases - Federal AppendixFederal AppendixThe Federal Appendix is a case law reporter published by West Publishing. It publishes judicial opinions of the United States courts of appeals that have been not been selected for publication. Such "unpublished" cases are ostensibly without value as precedent. However, the Supreme Court made a...
- "UnpublishedNon-publicationNon-publication of opinions, or Unpublished opinions, are those decisions of courts that are not available for citation as precedent because the judges making the opinion deem the case as having less precedential value....
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Court precedents
Regulations
Local Codes and Ordinances
- American Legal Publishing's Code Library
- E-Codes from the General Code Corporation
- Municipal Code Corporation's Online Library
Secondary sources
- List of Uniform Acts (United States)
- American JurisprudenceAmerican JurisprudenceAmerican Jurisprudence is an encyclopedia of United States law, published by West. It was originated by Lawyers Cooperative Publishing, which was subsequently acquired by the Thomson Corporation. The series is now in its second edition, launched in 1962...
- Corpus Juris SecundumCorpus Juris SecundumCorpus Juris Secundum is an encyclopedia of U.S. law . Its full title is Corpus Juris Secundum: Complete Restatement Of The Entire American Law As Developed By All Reported Cases It contains an alphabetical arrangement of legal topics as developed by U.S...
- Restatements of the LawRestatement of the LawIn American jurisprudence, the Restatements of the Law are a set of treatises on legal subjects that seek to inform judges and lawyers about general principles of common law...
- CasebookCasebookA casebook is a type of textbook used primarily by students in law schools. Rather than simply laying out the legal doctrine in a particular area of study, a casebook contains excerpts from legal cases in which the law of that area was applied. It is then up to the student to analyze the language...
s - Law reviewLaw reviewA law review is a scholarly journal focusing on legal issues, normally published by an organization of students at a law school or through a bar association...
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See also
- United States law
- List of legal abbreviations
- Legal researchLegal researchLegal research is "the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the application and...
- Legal Research in the United StatesLegal research in the United States-What is legal research?:"Legal research is the process of identifying and retrieving information necessary to support legal decision-making. In its broadest sense, legal research includes each step of a course of action that begins with an analysis of the facts of a problem and concludes with the...
- For more information on official, unofficial, and authenticated online state laws and regulations, see Matthews & Baish, State-by-State Authentication of Online Legal Resources, American Association of Law LibrariesAmerican Association of Law LibrariesThe American Association of Law Libraries "is a nonprofit educational organization with over 5,000 members nationwide. AALL's mission is to promote and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities, to foster the profession of law librarianship, and to provide leadership in...
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