This official code organizes (codifies) the laws contained in the United States Statutes at Large into 50 categories called Titles.
What is the United States Code (U.S.C.)?
100
After a case is decided, it is published in print in this format first.
What is a slip opinion?
100
Two great places to get FREE New Jersey case law.
What is Google Scholar (includes New Jersey case law from 1950 forward) and the NEW JERSEY COURTS SEARCH PAGE (RUTGERS-CAMDEN Law Library).
100
This source, published by West, provides you with sample forms and procedural guidance for practicing law in New Jersey.
What is New Jersey Practice?
100
This database provides full-text PDFs of the full-run of law reviews and many bar journals.
What is HeinOnline?
200
This type of code provides references to both primary and secondary sources in addition to the text of statutes.
What is an annotated code?
200
This is a series of books which collects the published cases within a given jurisdiction.
What is a reporter?
200
A database of unannotated New Jersey statutes maintained by the New Jersey Legislature.
What is the New Jersey Permanent Statutes Database?
200
This publication offers "annotations" that provide detailed analyses of various legal topics, and also include references to cases and statutes from all American jurisdictions. They generally provide even greater in-depth discussion of specific legal issues than treatises.
What is ALR or American Law Reports?
200
The highest appellate court in New York State.
What is the Court of Appeals?
300
This publication includes proposed and final Federal regulations.
What is the Federal Register?
300
This type of authority may come in the form of a case from another jurisdiction. It is used in court memoranda often when the legal issue at hand is one of first impression, and the court may want to look to other jurisdictions for guidance.
What is persuasive authority?
300
Includes court directory information and substantial explanatory material on the court system and the judicial process.
This type of source, available in binders or electronically, contains a goldmine of information including cases, administrative decisions, analysis, and legal news. Some consider them a mini-library of a specific area of law.
What is a loose-leaf service (i.e. BNA)?
300
The two areas of law that the US PTO governs?
What are patent & trademarks?
400
This web site, operated by Cornell Law school, provides access to federal statutes, state statutes, regulations, court rules, uniform laws, and a legal encyclopedia at no cost to the user.
What is the Legal Information Institute?
400
This system devised by West categorizes all American legal doctrine into topic, subtopics, and numbers. It has be designed to help researchers find cases on their topic with greater ease.
What is West Key Number System?
400
Freely accessible from this site powered by Lexis-Nexis is the New Jersey Administrative Code and the New Jersey Register.
What is Michie's Legal Resources?
400
This source, published by the American Law Institute, provides concise, standard articulations of the black-letter laws of a particular topic.
What are the Restatements?
400
This is the term given to legislation that empowers an agency to regulate a certain area of the law.
What is enabling legislation or statutory authority?
500
This finding aid helps you find where an act is codified in the code.
What is a popular name table?
500
This type of publication organizes case summaries by key number topic.
What is a digest?
500
This law library has a Supreme Court of N.J. Oral Arguments Archive.
What is Rutgers-Newark Law Library?
500
This source, available in print and on Lexis, is an excellent source for looking up abbreviations.
What is Bieber's?
500
This is the name of a free, government-run database that helps you find medical literature.