Emory Law School Website
State & Local Resources
Multi-state sources
Although it varies by state, most states have current codes and administrative codes on the web, and sometimes recent appellate court opinions.
- The Public Library of Law
Claims to be the largest, free, online U.S. caselaw database. It includes all Supreme Court cases, U.S. Courts of Appeals cases since 1950 and U.S. state case law from 1997 for all 50 states. It also links to the codes and statutes, constitutions and regulations for the Federal Government and all 50 states. - PreCYdent
A new legal search engine that contains cases and statutes that are in the public domain. Includes more than 900,000 U.S. Supreme Court cases (since 1759), U.S. Courts of Appeals cases (from 1950) and States Court cases. It features a Google-like search box that ranks results by authority. - State constitutions and statutes
Cornell LII
Links to state statutes, as well as links to uniform and model codes.
Topical index to state statutes. - State Legislative History Research Guides On The Web
Indiana University School of Law Library Bloomington
Legislative history sources for almost all of the states.
See also Compiling State Legislative Histories. - Ready Reference
Links to useful state law and government pages. - Administrative Code and Registers Section
National Association of Secretaries of State
Links to state regulations in codes, registers, and manuals. - Municipal Code Corporation
Codes of local ordinances of counties and cities.
Links by state from a map of the United States. - BRB's Free Resource Center
A comprehensive and searchable list of free public record sites along with additional tools to locate sources for civil records, criminal records, driving records, real estate records, public record vendors, record retrievers, legislation and more. - Screencast for BRB Public Record Research System
Part of The Virtual Chase Research Training Series, this 8-minute video illustrates how to use BRB Publication's Public Record Research System, an important tool for public records researchers. Allow the video to load completely, and you'll be able to use a table of contents feature that will give you easy access to any of the video's several chapters. - FindLaw
Links by state to primary materials and to other legal resources.
Search tip
To locate any United States, state home page, please use the following form:
www.state.statezipcode.us
Substitute any state's two-letter zip code for statezipcode in the above URL.
For example, to locate Georgia's state home page, the URL would look like this:
www.state.ga.us