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U.S. Law Resources
- Constitution of the United States
- Declaration of Independence.
- Constitution of the United States of America: Analysis and Interpretation. Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United
States to June 29, 1992. This site also provides links to supplements published on a semi-annual basis.
- Code of Federal Regulations from GPO Access
- Executive Orders
- CIS Index to Presidential Executive Orders & Proclamations. Government Publications Reference KF70
.A55 1987. An index to presidential executive orders from Washington to Reagan. The companion microfiche collection, Presidential
Executive Orders and Proclamations, is available in the CU Law Library.
- Executive Orders Disposition Tables 1937 – present Although the citations do not always contain the full text of the order, each citation includes the
complete Federal Register citation and status of the order (whether or not the order was revoked or amended by a subsequent order and the number of the order which changed the status).
- Guide to Locating Executive Orders and Proclamations Although
some of the information is specific to the the University of Florida College of Law Library, the guide provides useful
information on locating current and older executive orders and determining the status of executive orders.
- Presidential Executive Orders (John F. Kennedy)
- Lexis Nexis Congressional CU Full text service which provides access to Congressional bills and bill
status, legislative histories, hearings, Congressional Record, congressional reports and documents, biographical , financial and voting record information,
laws, proposed and existing regulations, searchable full-text journals and other information.
- Meta-Index for U.S. Legal Research one-stop shopping for court opinions, codes,
journals and other legal search tools.
- Public and Private Laws, 104th Congress - Present
- Statutes At Large. Lexis Nexis Congressional CU contains the complete Statutes at Large from
1789 to the most recent compilation. Choose the Bills, Laws and Regulations menu. Searches the name and synopsis of the law.
- United States Code from GPO Access. Search or browse the code and its supplements.
- United States Code from the Office of the Law Revision Counsel
- United States Code from Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School
- Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation This collection from American Memory contains resources
such as Journals of the Contintential Congress, Eliot's Debates, Statutes, Journals, and Debates of Congress.
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Foreign and International Law
- Access to Justice (Canada) Law and legislative materials, case law, and more.
- A Complete Research Guide to the Laws of the People's Republic of China (PRC) a guide to the legal systems and laws of the PRC (based on civil law) and of the Hong Kong (based on English common law) and Macao (based on Portuguese law ) Special Administrative Regions. (Taiwan, with its own legal system, is not included.) The guide lists English and Chinese print and nonprint resources, arranged by topic, language, and format. Created by law librarians Wei Luo of Washington University and Joan Liu of New York University.
- Constitution Finder "This index offers constitutions, charters, amendments, and other related documents."
- European Journal of International Law with its distinctive combination of theoretical and practical approaches to the issues of international law, this journal offers readers the latest developments in this rapidly evolving area. Each issue of the EJIL provides a forum for the exploration of the conceptual and theoretical dimensions of international law as well as for up-to-date analysis of topical issues. Additionally, it provides systematic coverage of the relationship between international law and the law of the European Union and its member states.
- Foreign and International Law Links from the Law Library, University of Colorado at Boulder.
- Global Legal Information Network "The Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) provides a database of national laws from contributing countries around the world accessed from a World Wide Web server of the U.S. Library of Congress. The database consists of searchable legal abstracts in English and some full texts of laws in the language of the contributing country. It provides information on national legislation from more than 35 countries, with other countries being added on a continuing basis."
- Government Gazettes Online provides a collection of links to foreign legal gazettes on the web. The gazettes are listed by country. Annotations include the title, URL, price, language, frequency, time coverage, and contents.
- World Court Decisions, 1946- and information about the International Court of Justice (World Court).
- World Court Digest "The World Court Digest represents a reproduction, in a systematic arrangement, of the views on questions of international law which are expressed in the judgements, advisory opinions and orders of the International Court of Justice as well as in the separate opinions of individual judges." Currently covers 1986-1995.
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General Law Sources
- Cornell Law Legal Information Institute
- Cornell Law Library provides guides to legal research in foreign and international law.
- The Congressional Research Service (CRS), the research arm of Congress, prepares reports
(usually under 20 pages long) on topics of interest to members of Congress. Search these CRS Reports CU
through LexisNexis. Enter "administrative law and procedure", "judicial reform", "law", "law suits", "lawyers", "legal education", or "legal ethics" as search terms.
- ECOLEX--a gateway to international environmental law. "Users can search using subject
area, keyword, country, or date. The list of subjects includes, for example: climate/atmosphere; fresh water; marine environment;
soils; forests; biodiversity; energy; protected areas; hazardous substances; and wastes. ECOLEX includes information on
multilateral treaties; national legislation; European Union instruments; international 'soft law' and related documents; law
and policy literature; and judicial decisions."
- Environmental Treaties and Resource Indicators (ENTRI) , from the Consortium for International Earth Science Information Network. Allows online browsing and searching of full text, summaries, and status of treaties and other international agreements related to global environmental change.
- FindLaw, a web portal that focuses on law and government. Features cases and codes,
business and consumer information, web links, legal overviews, and other information.
- Heiros Gamos a portal to legal and government information.
- Internet Legal Resources (from CU Law)
- LawOffice.Com from West Legal Directory provides a searchable directory of
lawyers, a dictionary of legal terms, and an overviews of legal issues and other information.
- Lawyers.Com from Martindale-Hubbell provides a searchable directory of lawyers,
overview of legal issues, and other information.
- State Codes
- FindLaw State Cases and Codes
- LexisNexis State Capital CU provides access to bills, statutes and
constitutions, digests of state law, proposed and final regulations, legislative directories, and news. Although the
service covers all fifty states, some types of information are not available for all states. For example, proposed regulations
for the State of Colorado are available online, but the final regulations are not available because of copyright
restrictions.
- Virtual Law Library
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