Unlike commercial online sources that group statutes, regulations, cases, etc. together in one neat place, searching the Internet for information on one subject can be time consuming and frustrating if you don’t know where to begin. This guide will help identify the types of information most readily available on the Internet and illuminate starting points for subject searching.

If you know the common Public Law name or the U.S. Code title...

U.S. Code Table of Popular Names through Cornell

U.S. Code Titles

• Title 1 - Title 50 and an option to search within each title.
  

If you know the agency or regulation...

Code of Federal Regulations through Cornell

Federal Administrative Decisions and Other Actions

• Links to other administrative actions which are outside the scope of the CFR or the FR. What is available via the Internet varies from agency to agency. Maintained by UVA School of Law.
  

If you know the subject...

Cornell's Legal Information Institute - Law About... 

• LII provides an alphabetical listing of legal topics.  Within each topic is an overview of the subject, a hypertext listing of U.S. Code titles and chapters, hypertext links to the CFR, and other references, such as links to relevant case law or agency web sites.

Law Scout - Internet Hotlist of Law Guides

• This list is designed to link to legal research guides and pathfinders from various American law libraries. Maintained by the University of Akron Law Library.

Internet Legal Resource Guide

• Topical index of legal resources with the source in parenthesis. 

LawRunner: A Legal Research Tool 

• Use LawRunner to limit searches to a particular jurisdiction, or to web sites with a particular domain suffix (.gov, .edu, etc.). Search results can be prioritized to display matches with "LAW" or "LEGAL" in the URL Title or Keyword Index. 

Legal Research by Topic

• An alphabetical list of legal research guides. Maintained by the Georgetown E. B. Williams Law Library.

Zimmerman's A-Z Legal Research Guide

• An Online Encyclopedia for Legal Researchers by Andrew Zimmerman