University of Oregon
JOHN E. JAQUA LAW LIBRARY

FINDING LAW ON THE WORLD WIDE WEB

This guide provides Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) for accessing available Federal and Oregon primary law on the World Wide Web. For more law-related Internet resources, see links under "Web Resources" at http://lawlibrary.uoregon.edu/main.html. Internet resources vary widely as to accuracy and completeness of information. Law-related Internet resources are not intended to take the place of traditional legal research tools.

Federal Law

The Constitution

U.S. Constitution & Bill of Rights:

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDERAL/usconst.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.overview.html

Treaties

U.S. Treaties in Force:

http://www.state.gov/www/global/legal_affairs/tifindex.html

Statutes

Public Laws, Bills, Congressional Record:

http://thomas.loc.gov/home/thomas2.html

U.S. Code (USC):

http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.shtml

Administrative Agency Regulations and Decisions

Code of Federal Regulations (CFR):

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html

Federal Register:

http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/index.html

Administrative Decisions & Information:

http://www.washlaw.edu/doclaw/executive5m.html

Judicial Opinions

U.S. Supreme Court Decisions:

http://Supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/

Other Federal Courts:

http://www.uscourts.gov/links.html

http://www.law.cornell.edu/federal/opinions.html

http://www.law.emory.edu/FEDCTS/

State Law

Oregon Constitution

Oregon Constitution:

http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/home.htm

Oregon Statutes

Bills includes status current session:

http://www.leg.state.or.us/bills_laws/home.htm

Oregon Revised Statutes (ORS), ORCP not included:

http://www.leg.state.or.us/ors/

Legislative History 1991 to present, includes Comm. Minutes:

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/banners/legis.htm

Oregon Administrative Agency Regulations and Decisions

Oregon Administrative Rules (OAR) and Bulletin:

http://arcweb.sos.state.or.us/banners/rules.htm

State Agency Internet Sites:

http://oregon.gov/a_to_z_listing.shtml

Oregon Judicial Opinions

Slip opinions only:

http://www.publications.ojd.state.or.us/

Other States' Laws

http://www.washlaw.edu/

http://www.statelocalgov.net/index.cfm

More Places to Find Law

Some URLs are "megasites" through which more specific sites may be accessed:

http://www.washlaw.edu

http://www.law.cornell.edu/

http://www.findlaw.com