Find Laws and Regulations
The resources available to find legal authority (i.e., laws and
regulations) are vast and include different legislative bodies on the
federal, state, and international level. Examples include statutes,
regulations, court orders, and court decisions. These are generated by
legislatures, courts, and administrative agencies. The Internet is
developing as a serious source of legal information and the UC Berkeley
Library also subscribes to a number of resources that offer access to
current and historical law and regulations.
Initially many researchers turn to tools that provide summaries of a
particular area of the law. Some examples are legal encyclopedias, law
reviews and legal periodical articles provide interpretation of the law as
well as detailed articles on particular legal topics.
Some of the web sources on this page are freely available to all.
Searching OskiCat (UC Berkeley) and Melvyl (all UC campuses)
can yield sources not hosted on the Web.
Web Sources
CQ Electronic Library (UCB access only)
Reference resource for research in American government, politics, history,
public policy, and current affairs. Includes links to the CQ Congress Collection and
the CQ Supreme Court Collection
and other full text Congressional Quarterly publications. These resources
provide current as well as historical analysis of legislative and judicial
issues.
FindLaw
Excellent legal web site that brings together many of the major legal
resources.
GPO
Access
Service of the U.S. Government Printing Office that provides free
electronic access to a information products produced by the Federal
Government. Included are congressional hearings, committee print and
directory information, federal regulations, public laws, the Congressional
Record and many more titles.
Legal Information Institute via Cornell University Law
School
LII is known internationally as a leading "law-not-com" provider of public
legal information. Provides all opinions of the United States Supreme
Court handed down since 1992, together with over 600 earlier decisions
selected for their historic importance, the Code of Federal Regulations
and United States Code along with state constitutions and codes. Includes
a series of "topical" pages that serve as concise explanatory guides and
Internet resource listings for roughly 100 areas of law.
LexisNexis Congressional (UCB
access only)
Provides bill tracking services back to 1989, indexing and abstracts of
congressional publications back to 1789, a 'hot topics' section, and full
text of many congressional committee reports and testimony since 1994,
regulations in the Code of Federal Regulations and Federal Register, the
Congressional Record, and the National Journal. Includes with the Laws section
the full text of Public laws, Statutes at Large and the United States Code
Service.
Thomas:
Legislative Information on the Internet
Provides access to a wide range of legislative information on the
Congress, including the full text of the Congressional Record and bills
from the 101st Congress (1989) to the present, as well as a directory of
congressional committees and members of Congress. Excellent resource for
finding quick, online legislative histories and the full-text of
Congressional Committee reports.
Find Electronic Resources: Law and Legal Studies
Via a librarian-selected list of databases.
Subject Specific Laws and Regulations Listed on UC Berkeley Library Web Pages
Doe Library Government Information Basic Sources in International Law
Doe Library Government Information
California Legislative & Regulatory Sources
Doe Library Government Information Congress / Legislative Branch
Doe Library Government Information Federal Regulations
Doe Library Government Information The Supreme Court / Judiciary
Environmental Design Library Building Codes & Regulatory Resources
Law Library Online Research
Sheldon Margen Public Health Library Legislative and Regulatory Resources
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