Legal Resources: Find Primary Sources

Includes Public Law numbers, Statutes at Large numbers, and United States Code sections. You can use it to find where in the United States Code a particular Statute at Large or Public Law was codified. The earliest statutes don't have Public Law numbers in this table - Public Law numbers were not introduced until around 1901.

Identifies CFR part and section numbers changed or added since the last CFR revision date, together with the Federal Register page numbers where the changes were published.

List of popular and statutory names of acts of Congress, together with the Statutes at Large citation and sometimes the United States Code citation.

Department of Interior's list of Public Land Orders with corresponding Federal Register citations.

Links to key resources for research of federal law including court opinions, statutes, regulations, and court rules.

Offers Supreme Court opinions since 1991. Check Findlaw for earlier opinions.

Federal Court Rules for all federal courts are published here. Look for local federal court rules and opinions on individual federal court websites. Use the Court Locator (left side of home page) to navigate to those sites.

From the website: "contains resources and links for both state and federal laws. This includes resources pertaining to constitutions, statutes, cases and more." This is one of the best sources for U.S. Supreme Court opinions; it contains opinions from 1893 to present.

Publishes the United States Constitution, United States Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Supreme Court Opinions (1990-present), Federal Court Rules and more.

Includes federal bills and resolutions (Indexed to 1973, full text from 1989-present), the Congressional Record (full text from 1995-present), Committee Reports (full text from 1995-present), and Treaties (1975-present, with some coverage back to 1967).

Describes the sources of law in Alaska, including the Alaska Statutes, the Alaska Administrative Code, case law, court rules, pattern jury instructions, Alaska’s constitution, executive orders, attorney general opinions and municipal codes. Both print and internet resources are covered, and links to internet resources are provided.

Contains the Alaska Constitution, Alaska Statutes (1993+), Executive Orders, the current Alaska Administrative Code, Bills and Resolutions (1993+), House and Senate Journals (1987+), Committee Minutes (1982+) and Session Laws (1981+).

Contains bills, House and Senate Journals, Committee Minutes and Session Laws from 1993 to present. You'll also find a link to some earlier legislative history materials in the Infobases.

Includes Attorney General Opinions, Drafting Manual for Administrative Regulations, and more.

Opinions of the Alaska Supreme Court and Alaska Court of Appeals from 1960 forward.

Includes "final agency decisions reached after administrative hearings."

Portal to state, federal and international sources of law. Also links to some commentary and government websites.

Begun by the Law Library of Congress, the Indigenous Law Portal is now available through LLMC Digital. It includes access to Alaska-specific information.

Links to a variety of sources for treaties and information about treaties, including the Department of State's Treaties in Force. Also links to a number of research guides designed to help people research treaties.

Want to do some comparative legal research? Cornell's Legal Information Institute has compiled links to state statutes by topic. The categories are pretty broad (for example, marriage, fish and game, criminal code).

Offers a link and index to tribal law materials by state, along with guidance on researching tribal law.

From the website: "seven volume compilation of U.S. treaties, laws and executive orders pertaining to Native American Indian tribes. The volumes cover U.S. Government treaties with Native Americans from 1778-1883 (Volume II) and U.S. laws and executive orders concerning Native Americans from 1871-1970 (Volumes I, III-VII). The work was first published in 1903-04 by the U.S. Government Printing Office. Enhanced by the editors' use of margin notations and a comprehensive index, the information contained in Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties is in high demand by Native peoples, researchers, journalists, attorneys, legislators, teachers and others of both Native and non-Native origins."

From the website: "The Serial Set is a compilation of U.S. Congressional publications published by the U.S. Senate and the U.S. House of Representatives about the bills and resolutions involved in lawmaking. It also includes reports of executive departments, government-funded institutions, and other independent organizations. Documents in the Serial Set are arranged in numeric series chronologically (not topically). This collection offers detailed contemporaneous documentation of political, military, and governmental activities related to indigenous peoples of the continental United States and Alaskan territory during the 19th century."

Includes Federal and state cases, statutes, administrative codes, briefs, journals and law reviews, American Jurisprudence legal encyclopedia and forms, jury verdicts and more. Anyone can use Westlaw at one of the law library's public access computers at 16 locations throughout Alaska.