United States Law
The Legal History of United States Law
This section provides an overview of United States Law.
United States Law Sources
U.S. law sources. The Langdell reference department has collected links to sources of United States federal and state law. We have arranged the links using the broad categories: constitutional, legislative, executive, judicial and, for state local law, municipal:
- U.S. Federal Law Sources—Constitutional
- U.S. Federal Law Sources—Legislative
- U.S. Federal Law Sources—Executive & Administrative
- U.S. Federal Law Sources—Judicial
- U.S. State Law Sources
In U.S. State Law Sources:
International law sources. Locate international, comparative and non-U.S. jurisdiction law sources using the listing of Foreign & International Law Resources compiled by the HLS International Legal Studies librarians.
Locating additional law sources. Researchers may wish to consult the following for additional law sources useful to their research:
- Electronic Resources. Selective listings of electronic resources useful for legal, academic, historical and newspaper research.
- Data Resources. Selective listing of data resources useful for empirical legal research organized into six broad topical areas.
- Foreign & International Law Resources. Selective listing of international, comparative and non-U.S. jurisdiction law sources compiled by the HLS International Legal Studies librarians.
- Research Guides. Research guides prepared by HLS librarians on a variety of topics. Most guides include references to web, online and print law sources.
- E-Research @ Harvard Libraries. Comprehensive listing of electronic resources subscribed to by the Harvard University Library and available to the Harvard University community including dictionaries, encyclopedias, e-books, indexes, journal collections and other databases. Consult the Getting Started guide for an overview of E-Research services and features.
- Find E-Resources. Use to locate resources by title, by keyword, by subject and type or by browsing an alphabetical listing.
- Find E-Journals. Use to locate journals by title, by keyword or by ISSN. Includes individually licensed journals as well as journals available through a database.
- Citation Linker. Use to locate the full-text of an article by its citation or an electronic journal by its title.
Resources
See Also
- Legal Biography
- Legal Traditions
- Historical Laws
- History of Law
Further Reading
- United States Law in the Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Political and Legal History (Oxford University Press)
- United States Law in the Dictionary of Concepts in History, by Harry Ritter
- A Short History of Western Legal Theory, by John Kelly
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