Legal Sources

Electronic Books available from the Gale Directory Library -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only

• Law and Legal Information Directory

and the Gale Virtual Reference Library -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only

• Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. History: Government and Politics
• West's Encyclopedia of American Law

Web Sites -- Table of Contents

• Department of the Interior
• Presidential Documents
• Case Law
• Bills, Hearings, Statutes and Regulations
• General Current Information and Research Tools

Law at the Department of the Interior

Electronic Resources from HeinOnline -- Accessible from DOI Locations Only

• U.S. Department of the Interior Collection

Laws, Regulations, Policies and Decisions

• ELIPS: Electronic Library of Interior Policies
  This source contains links to Secretary's Orders, Departmental Manual chapters, and Bulletins/Memoranda
• Bureau of Land Management
• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement
• Legal and Regulatory References
• Manuals
• Bureau of Reclamation
• National Park Service
• Laws and Legislative Information
• Office of Policy
• Office of Surface Mining, Reclamation and Enforcement
• U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
• Digest of Federal Resource Laws
• Directives
• Centralized Library of Servicewide Policies
• U.S. Geological Survey
• Office of Hearings and Appeals
  

  The office provides access to these decisions:

  A and M Decisions (1920-1970)
  Copps Mineral and Public Land Laws (1881, 1890)
  Digest of Grazing Decisions (1993-2001)
  Director's Decisions (1996 to the present)
  Hearings Division (Selected, 2000 to the present)
  IBIA Decisions (1970 to the present)
  IBLA Decisions (1970 to the present)
  Land Decisions (1881-1929) and Interior Decisions (1930-1994)
  Solicitor's Opinions (1993 to the present)
• Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA)
• Cumulative chronological list of decisions issued by the Interior Board of Indian Appeals (IBIA)
• Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA)
• Cumulative chronological list of decisions issued by the Interior Board of Land Appeals (IBLA)
• Solicitor's Opinions
• Indian Claims Commission Decisions
  Digitized by the Oklahoma State University Library, and produced in cooperation with the University of Tulsa Law Library and the National Indian Law Library.

Federal Register Notices

• Bureau of Land Management
  1995 through 2007 only
• Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement
• Fish and Wildlife Service
• National NAGPRA Notices, National Park Service
• Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement

Presidential Documents

• Codification of Presidential Proclamations and Executive Orders
  From April 13, 1945, through January 20, 1989
• Executive Orders 
  Disposition Tables, January 8, 1937 to the present (Office of Federal Register)
• Office of Management and Budget 
  with links to Bulletins, Circulars, and Memoranda
• Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States
• Daily Compilation of Presidential Documents 
  formerly the Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents

Case Law

• Constitution of the United States 
  GPO Access
• Federal Court Links
• Federal Law Materials - Judicial Opinions
  Legal Information Institute, Cornell University
• Findlaw Cases and Codes
• Justia: Federal District Courts
• LexisOne Community 
  Search free case law-- search the last ten years of state and Federal courts and U.S. Supreme Court from 1781 to the present.
• National Center for State Courts: Court Web Sites
• The Oyez Project
  Multimedia, devoted to the Supreme Court
• Supreme Court Official Web Site
• SCOTUSBlog
• Supreme Court Decisions, 1990 to the present

Bills, Hearings, Statutes and Regulations

Federal Laws and Regulations

• Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation 
  Congressional journals, hearings, debates, 1774-1873
• Code of Federal Regulations (Annual edition)
• Code of Federal Regulations, List of Sections Affected
• Congressional Bills
• Congressional Calendars
• Congressional Record, 1994 to the present
• Congressional Record Index
• Congressional Committee Prints
• Congressional Documents
• Congressional Hearings
• Congressional Reports
• Congressional Hearings and Reports Listed by Committee
• Congressional Research Service Reports on Congressional Procedures and the Budget Process 
  Maintained by the Rules Committee of the House of Representatives
• Federal Register
• History of Bills 
  Lists legislative actions on bills that are reported in the Congressional Record; 98th Congress to the present.
• Legislative Histories 
  Compiled and provided by the U.S. Department of Justice Library
• Legislative Histories of Selected U.S. Laws on the Internet 
  Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
• Public and Private Laws 
  From the 104th Congress to the present
• Regulations.gov 
  An electronic rulemaking repository, enabling Departments and Agencies to post all rulemaking documents for public access and comment
• Statutes at Large
• THOMAS 
  Bill tracking and legislative histories, covering 1973 to the present; produced by the Library of Congress.
• United States Code
• United States Code 
  Legal Information Institute, Cornell University

State Laws and Regulations

• Findlaw Cases and Codes 
  US State Laws - Cases, Codes, Statutes and Regulations
• State and Local Government on the Net
• State Law, Government and Legislative Information 
  WashLaw WEB, produced by Washburn University School of Law
• Full-text State Statutes and Legislation on the Internet

Local Laws and Regulations

• Municipal Code Online Library 
  Produced by the Municipal Code Corporation
• Cities on the World Wide Web 
  Produced by MultiState Associates

General Current Information and Research Tools

Blawgs and News

• Blawg.com 
  
• Legal Blawgs by Topic 
  The Law Library of Congress began harvesting legal blawgs in 2007. The collection has grown to more than one hundred items covering a broad cross section of legal topics.
• Legal Times

Resources, Guides and Directories

• Environmental Law Net
• Findlaw.com 
  Cases, codes, law schools, journals, CLE, etc.
• Global Legal Information Network 
  Provided by the Law Library of congress, the Global Legal Information Network (GLIN) is a public database of official texts of laws, regulations, judicial decisions, and other complementary legal sources contributed by governmental agencies and international organizations.
• Guide to Law Online: United States 
  Law Library of Congress
• Jurist 
  Legal news and research from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law
• Justia 
  Provides free case law, codes, regulations, legal articles and legal blog databases, as well as community resources.
• Law.com 
  Legal news and information
• Legal Information Institute 
  Constitutions, codes, court opinions, from the Cornell Law School
• Legislative Sourcebook
  Produced by the Law Librarians' Society of Washington, D.C.
• Martindale-Hubbell
• Public Library of Law
• State Legislative History Research Guides on the Web
  Provided by the Law Library at the Indiana University School of Law Library—Bloomington
• World Treaty Index 
  Originally developed at the University of Washington, the electronic index is now maintained at the University of Michigan.