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 our catalog record for a publication's print edition and access to the publication's digital formats for our library patrons.
| Publication Title | Call Number of Print | Digital Access for Georgetown Law |
|---|---|---|
| United States Code (U.S.C.) (official code) | KF62 2012 .A2 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 |
For publication sources of state statutes, see our individual state research guides. For more on researching statutes, look at our Statutes Research Guide. For free or low cost alternatives to the Law Library's digital access to statutes, see our Free and Low Cost Legal Research Guide. Also, for publications of subject specific statutes, see our individual topical research guides.
| 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 (cancelled in 2012), Area 6 on map | HeinOnline, Supreme Court website, Caselaw Access Project |
| West's Supreme Court Reporter (S. Ct.) | KF101 .A32 Reading Room, Area 6 on map | Westlaw, Caselaw Access Project |
| 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 |
| The United States Law Week (U.S.L.W.) | KF105 .U6 Reading Room (print publication ceased in Aug. 2018), Area 2 on map | Bloomberg Law |
| West's Federal Reporter (F.3d, F.2d, F.) | KF105 .F42 3d (cancelled 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.) |
| 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 cancelled 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) |
| West's Federal Appendix (F. App'x) | KF105 .F423 (cancelled in 2012) Reading Room | Cases are reported in Westlaw's Court of Appeals content set, Caselaw Access Project |
| Federal Cases, 1789-1880 (F. Cas.) | KF105 .F2 Reading Room, Area 6 on map | HeinOnline, Caselaw Access Project |
| Federal Rules Service (Fed. R. Serv. 3d (West), Fed. R. Serv. 2d (Callaghan), Fed. R. Serv. (Callaghan)) | KF8830 .F6 (cancelled in 2018) Stacks | Cases, but not headnotes keyed to Federal Rules, are reported throughout Westlaw's federal case databases. |
| West's Federal Rules Decisions, 1988- ; Federal Rules Decisions, 1938-1988 (F.R.D.) | KF8830 .F5 Closed Stacks South | Westlaw, Caselaw Access Project |
See Special Courts & Topical Case Sources table for tax, bankruptcy, international trade, veterans appeals, military and other topical federal case reporters. For primary legal documents, e.g. court records and briefs, see Briefs, Oral Arguments and Other Court Documents Research Guide. For publications of state case law sources, see our individual state research guides. For more on researching case law, look at our Case Law Research Guide. For free or low cost alternatives to our databases, see our Free and Low Cost Legal Research Guide. Also, for more subject specific case reporters, see our individual topical research guides.
| 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 (see 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 |
For state regulations, see our individual state research guides. For more on researching regulations, look at our Administrative Law Research Guide. For free or low cost alternatives to our databases, see our Free and Low Cost Legal Research Guide. Also, for more subject specific regulations, see our individual topical research guides.
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