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 |
| 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 (L. Ed. 2d) |
| The United States Law Week (U.S.L.W., ceased in print Aug. 2018) | KF105 .U6 Reading Room, Area 2 on map | Bloomberg Law |
| 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.) |
| 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) |
| 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 |
| 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 (last updated at Law Library 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 |
| 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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