The digital offerings of the Law Library include U.S federal laws and regulations, decisions of the U.S. Supreme Court, and historical legal texts.
U.S. Law
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CollectionCode of Federal Regulations The Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) is "the codification of the general and permanent rules by the department and agencies of the Federal Government." This is a historical collection of the Code of Federal Regulations dating from 1938 - 1995. To access the Code of Regulations from 1996 – present, please visit the Government Publishing Office site, GovInfo.- Date: 1938
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CollectionFederal Register The Federal Register is the official daily publication for Presidential Documents, Executive Orders, proposed, interim, and final rules and regulations, and notices by Federal Agencies, as well as notices of hearings, decisions, investigations, and committee meetings. The Federal Register has been published by the National Archives and Records Administration since 1936 and consists of several distinct parts.Collection Items: View 14,589 Items
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CollectionJohn Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial of 1770 As noted in the 2008 HBO mini-series chronicling the life and career of John Adams (1735-1826), as a young lawyer the future president served as counsel for the defense in the trial of eight British soldiers accused of murder during a riot in Boston on March 5, 1770. William Wemms, James Hartegan, William McCauley, Hugh White, Matthew Killroy, William Warren, John Carrol, and Hugh…Collection Items: View 5 Items
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CollectionLegal Reports (Publications of the Law Library of Congress) This collection features research reports and other publications on a wide range of legal topics prepared by the Law Library of Congress in response to requests or recurring interest from Congress and other federal government entities on issues concerning foreign, comparative, and international law (FCIL).
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CollectionLincoln and the Law Lincoln’s effort to restore the Union and his contributions to American political thought and its ideals of freedom often obscure the fact that he had been a successful attorney. Lincoln himself admitted his ambition lay in politics and not in the law, stating “my forte is as a Statesman, rather than a Prosecutor.” Even if the law was Lincoln’s “secondary” avocation, it was indelibly…Collection Items: View 24 Items
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CollectionMilitary Legal Resources This collection includes material from the William Winthrop Memorial Library at the U.S. Army Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center and School External in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Judge Advocate General’s Corps (JAG) External is the legal arm of the United States Army, established on July 29, 1775 External by General George Washington. Selections of their physical library collection have been digitized and made available to…Collection Items: View 2,278 Items
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CollectionNational Transportation Safety Board Orders, Petitions, and Decisions The Law Library of Congress has digitized a collection of National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) decisions, orders, and petitions. NTSB conducts independent accident investigations and decides pilots' and mariners' certification appeals. The documents included in this collection are selected documents, not included in the Library's bound collection of NTSB decisions and not previously available online. The years of the decisions span from 1973-1982, with…Collection Items: View 1,269 Items
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CollectionSlavery and the Judiciary, 1740 to 1860 This collection consists of 105 library books and manuscripts, totalling approximately 8,700 pages drawn principally from the Law Library and the Rare Book and Special Collections Division of the Library of Congress, with a few from the General Collections. The selection was guided in large part by the entries in Slavery in the Courtroom: An Annotated Bibliography of American Cases by Paul Finkelman (Washington,…- Contributor: Library of Congress. National Digital Library Program - Library of Congress. Law Library - Library of Congress. Rare Book and Special Collections Division
- Date: 2002
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CollectionU.S. Code The United States Code-- is a compilation of federal statutory law arranged by subject by the House Office of Law Revision Council. Each title in the United States Code corresponds to a subject. For example, title 18 concerns crimes and criminal procedure. 18 U.S.C. § 1 is an example a citation in the Code. 18 indicates the title, U.S.C. is an abbreviation for the…
Collection Items: View 55,147 Items
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CollectionUnited States Congressional Serial Set (Bound House and Senate Documents and Reports) The U.S. Congressional Serial Set, commonly known as the Serial Set, is a compilation of journals, reports, and documents from House and Senate proceedings as well as documents from executive departments and independent agencies. Documents cover a wide variety of topics and may include reports of executive departments and independent organizations, reports of special investigations made for Congress, and annual reports of non-governmental organizations.…Collection Items: View 24,209 Items
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CollectionUnited States Reports (Official opinions of the U.S. Supreme Court) The United States Reports is a series of bound case reporters that are the official reports of decisions for the Supreme Court of the United States. A citation to a U. S. Supreme Court decision includes several elements that are needed to retrieve the case. For example, Chevron U.S.A., Inc. v. Natural Resources Defense Council, Inc., 467 U.S. 837 (1984). In this example, the…
Collection Items: View 36,622 Items
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CollectionUnited States Statutes at Large The United States Statutes at Large is the collection of every law, public and private, ever enacted by the Congress, published in order of the date of its passage. These laws are codified every six years in the United States Code, but the Statutes at Large remains the official source of legislation. Until 1948, all treaties and international agreements approved by the Senate were…
- Contributor: United States. Department of State - United States - United States. Office of the Federal Register
- Date: 1937
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CollectionUnited States Treaties and Other International Agreements The United States Treaties collection includes the Treaties and Other International Agreements of the United States of America, 1776-1949, compiled by Charles I. Bevans (commonly called Bevans) and United States Treaties and Other International Agreements (U.S.T.) (1950-1984). This collection includes treaties to which the United States is or was a party in the agreement, between 1776-1984.
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