U.S. Legal Resources

For more resources, visit the American Law tab of our Comparative Law research guide.

Resources that are freely available (websites members of the public can use) are marked with an asterisk (*).

Cases

• Lexis+ (law students only)
  • Non-law students: use the campus-wide version of Quicklaw
  • Change the search box jurisdiction to American
• Westlaw Edge (law students only)
  • Click the International tab
• Early American Case Law (via HeinOnline) (contains coverage of cases from the late 1700s through the 1920s)
• U.S. Supreme Court Library (via HeinOnline) (includes complete coverage of the U.S. Reports (1754–2013), preliminary prints, slip opinions, and books and periodicals related to the U.S. Supreme Court)
• Supreme Court of the United States*
• The Legal Information Institute* (LII) (contains Supreme Court cases only)
• Google Scholar*
• State Court Websites* (provides links to various state judiciary and court websites)
• The Supreme Court Database* (contains over two hundred pieces of information about each case decided by the Court between 1791–2020)
• LLMC-Digital (contains historical state and federal case law)
• United States Reports* (via Library of Congress) (full-text of the official reports of decisions of the United States Supreme Court)
• State Online Legal Information* (provides state-level legislation and case law) (via AALL)

Legislation

• Lexis+ (law students only)
  • Non-law students: use the campus-wide version of Quicklaw
  • Change the search box jurisdiction to American
• Westlaw Edge (law students only)
  • Click the International tab
• U.S. Code* (official)
• The Legal Information Institute* (LII)
• Congress.gov* (public laws and congressional bills from 103rd Congress forward and bill status and summary information from 93rd Congress forward)
• A Century of Lawmaking (congressional documents from 1774–1875)
• United States Statutes at Large (1789-2014) (via HeinOnline)
• State Online Legal Information* (provides state-level legislation and case law) (via AALL)
• Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation* (records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, including the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1873–75)
• GovInfo* (full-text access to bills beginning with the 103rd Congress, the Congressional Record from 1873–present, selected House and Senate hearings from the 99th Congress forward, and more)

Government Documents

• Congress.gov (House and Senate reports from 104th Congress forward, the Congressional Record from 104th Congress forward, and more)
  • House of Representatives*
  • Senate*
• GovInfo* (full-text access to bills beginning with the 103rd Congress, the Congressional Record from 1873–present, selected House and Senate hearings from the 99th Congress forward, and more)