This official set contains the codified laws of the United States.
What is the United States Code?
100
This official publication contains the codified regulations of the federal administrative agencies.
What is the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR)?
100
A source in which you would find
scholarly articles on recent legal topics most likely on a narrow issue of law.
What is a law review or journal?
100
The short numbered paragraphs, highlighting the points of law in an opinion, written by West editors and found at the beginning of cases in West reporters in print and on Westlaw.
What are headnotes?
200
Used in online searching for locating terms within the same sentence.
What is /s?
200
This official set contains the text of federal statutes, as passed, in chronological order (by session of Congress).
What is the United States Statutes at Large?
200
This official publication contains proposed and final regulations of federal administrative agencies in chronological order.
What is the Federal Register?
200
A source where you could find .pdf typeset page images of law review articles.
What is HeinOnline?
200
Chicago is located within this federal appeals court's jurisdiction.
What is the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit?
300
Feature available in Westlaw that helps researchers locate legally binding definitions from cases that have interpreted or defined a term or phrase.
What is "Words and Phrases"?
300
These two unofficial sets contain the laws as found in the U.S. Code, PLUS case summaries and citations to secondary sources.
What are the U.S. Code Annotated (USCA) and the U.S. Code Service (USCS)?
300
Legislation that defines the scope of an agency's mission and empowers it to perform its functions.
What is enabling legislation or an enabling act?
300
Published in eight series, this source contains articles called "annotations" that provide summaries of cases from a variety of jurisdictions.
What is "American Law Reports"?
300
When a federal statute becomes law, it is first published individually in this form.
What is a slip law or public law?
400
Names of the citators for Westlaw, Lexis, and Bloomberg Law.
What are KeyCite, Shepard's, and BCite?
400
Tool used to locate a statute if you only have its name (e.g., Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act).
What is the "Popular Name Table"?
400
A currently updated WWW unofficial version of the Code of Federal Regulations.
What is the e-CFR?
400
The paper supplement which fits in the back cover of a legal publication and updates that volume.
What is a pocket part?
400
The type of authority of a Michigan Supreme Court decision in the Illinois Supreme Court.
What is persuasive authority?
500
Illinois and Indiana opinions are included in this West case reporter.
What is the North Eastern Reporter?
500
The 212th law passed by the 108th Congress.
What is Pub. L. 108-212?
500
A website where members of the public may post comments on proposed federal agency regulations.