Free and Low-Cost Legal Research: U.S. Secondary and Primary Sources: Home

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This guide provides links and suggestions for searching in resources that are freely available (or available for a low cost) when conducting legal research.

The guide is organized by primary sources and secondary sources, then further subdivided within each section as follows:

1. Secondary Sources

• Law reviews, journals, and other scholarly secondary sources
• Other research guides

2. Primary Sources

• Judicial sources (cases, dockets, rules of court)
• Legislative sources (statutes/laws/codes, ordinances, constitutions)
• Administrative sources (regulations, proposed rules, agency decisions)

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