Primary sources are laws, orders, decisions, rules or regulations issued by a governmental entity or official from one of the branches of government. The entity or official may be a court, legislature, executive agency, president or a state governor. Primary sources include constitutions, statutes, cases and regulations. This list of federal primary sources provides links to the Law Library's catalog record for a publication's print edition and access to the publication's digital formats for Law Library patrons.
| Publication Title | Call Number of Print | Digital Access for Georgetown Law |
|---|---|---|
| United States Code (U.S.C.) (official code) | KF62 2018 Reading Room, Area 3 on map | HeinOnline, Bloomberg Law, Westlaw (unannotated), Office of the Law Revision Counsel (including Popular Name Tool), GovInfo |
| United States Code Annotated (U.S.C.A.) (unofficial code) | KF62 1927 .A3 Reading Room, Area 4 on map | Westlaw (including Index and Popular Name Table) |
| United States Code Service (U.S.C.S.) (unofficial code) | KF62 1972 .U5 Reading Room, Area 5 on map | Lexis (including Index and Popular Name Table) |
| United States Statutes at Large (Stat.) (official session laws) | KF50 .U5 Reading Room, Area 8 on map | Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, ProQuest Congressional, HeinOnline, LLMC Digital, GovInfo |
| United States Code Congressional and Administrative News (U.S.C.C.A.N.) (unofficial session laws) | KF48 .U54 Reading Room, Area 7 on map | Westlaw |
| Public Law (Pub. L.) | Congress.gov, GovInfo Also printed in the United States Statutes at Large (Stat.) |
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| Congressional Record: Proceedings and Debates of the Congress (Cong. Rec.) | KF35 .A26 Micro Media 1st Fl, Micro Row B, Cabinets 16-19 (1873-2003); KF35 .A26 Mezzanine (1873-2012) | Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, ProQuest Congressional, HeinOnline, LLMC Digital, Congress.gov, GovInfo |
| Publication Title | Call Number of Print | Digital Access for Georgetown Law |
|---|---|---|
| United States Reports: Cases Adjudged in the Supreme Court (U.S.) | KF101 .A2 Reading Room (10 year delay from decision to bound print), Area 6 on map | HeinOnline, Supreme Court website, Library of Congress website, Caselaw Access Project, Court Listener |
| West's Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.) | KF101 .A32 Reading Room, Area 6 on map | Westlaw, Caselaw Access Project, Court Listener |
| United States Supreme Court Reports, Lawyer's Edition (L. Ed., L. Ed. 2d) | KF101 .A312 Reading Room, Area 6 on map | Lexis, Caselaw Access Project (L. Ed. 2d), Court Listener (L. Ed. 2d), Court Listener (L. Ed.) |
| The United States Law Week (U.S.L.W., ceased in print Aug. 2018) | KF105 .U6 Reading Room, Area 2 on map | Bloomberg Law, Court Listener |
| West's Federal Reporter (F.3d, F.2d, F.) | KF105 .F42 3d (last updated at Law Library in 2012), KF105 .F42 2d, KF105 .F4 Reading Room, Area 6 on map | Westlaw, Caselaw Access Project (F.3d), Caselaw Access Project (F.2d), Caselaw Access Project (F.), Court Listener (F.3d), Court Listener (F.2d), Court Listener (F.) |
| West's Federal Supplement, 2014- (F. Supp. 3d), West's Federal Supplement, 1988-2014 (F. Supp. 2d), Federal Supplement, 1933-1988 (F. Supp.) | KF105 .F44 (F. Supp. 2d last updated at Law Library in 2012) Reading Room, Area 2 on map | Westlaw, Caselaw Access Project (F. Supp. 3d), Caselaw Access Project (F. Supp. 2d), Caselaw Access Project (F. Supp. 1839-1998), Court Listener (F. Supp. 3d), Court Listener (F. Supp. 2d), Court Listener (F. Supp.) |
| West's Federal Appendix (F. App'x, ceased in print ~2021) | KF105 .F423 (last updated at Law Library in 2012) Reading Room | Cases are reported in Westlaw's Court of Appeals content set, Caselaw Access Project, Court Listener |
| Federal Cases, 1789-1880 (F. Cas.) | KF105 .F2 Reading Room, Area 6 on map | HeinOnline, Caselaw Access Project, Court Listener |
| Federal Rules Service (Fed. R. Serv. 3d (West), Fed. R. Serv. 2d (Callaghan), Fed. R. Serv. (Callaghan)) | KF8830 .F6 (last updated at Law Library in 2018) Stacks | Cases, but not headnotes keyed to Federal Rules, are reported throughout Westlaw's federal case databases. Court Listener (Fed. R. Serv. 3d), Court Listener (Fed. R. Serv. 2d), Court Listener (Fed. R. Serv.) |
| West's Federal Rules Decisions, 1988- ; Federal Rules Decisions, 1938-1988 (F.R.D.) | KF8830 .F5 Closed Stacks South | Westlaw, Caselaw Access Project, Court Listener |
| Publication Title | Call Number of Print | Digital Access for Georgetown Law |
|---|---|---|
| Code of Federal Regulations (C.F.R.) | K70 .A3, Current edition in Reading Room, Area 6 on map; superseded print vols. in Closed Stacks (ask for assistance at the Circulation Desk) K70 .A3 Micro Media 1st Fl, Row B, Cabinets 12-13 (1938-2004) |
Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, ProQuest Regulatory Insight, HeinOnline, govinfo, e-CFR |
| Federal Register (F.R.) | KF70 .A2 Micro Media 1st Fl, Row B, Cabinets 14-15 (1936-2004) | Westlaw, Lexis, Bloomberg Law, ProQuest Regulatory Insight, HeinOnline, govinfo, FederalRegister.gov |
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