Our US print collection is located on the second floor of the library starting in bookstack 18 and all have a classmark starting with S.
We hold many texts including American Law: and introduction by Friedman, American Law and Legal Systems by Calvi, Introduction to the Law and Legal System of the United States by Burnham and many journals including the Yale Law Journal, Harvard Law Review, Michigan Law Review, and the Stanford Law Review.
Contact the Squire Enquiry Desk for access.
We have an extensive comparative and multi-jurisdictional law print collection held on the third floor which may be useful to your research. Books and journal classmarks begin with the letter H.
Proceedings and debates of the US Congress
Current
56th Congress (1899-1901) to current
Historical
1st Congress (1789-1791) to 43rd Congress (1873-75)
House of Representatives Journal
Globalex - Guide to the US Federal Legal System Web-based Public Accessible Sources
Globalex - Guide to Fee-based US Legal Research Databases
LII - Cornell Law School
The Harvard Law School (in conjunction with Ravel Law) digitised over 40 million pages of US court decisions. The represents a dataset of over 6.7 million cases - the oldest case is from 1658. More information about the project can be found on the Library Innovation Lab webpage.
To browse the dataset go to https://case.law/caselaw/.
Library of Congress: US Code: A beginner's guide
Lexis (subscription only)
HeinOnline (subscription only)
Hein (subscription only)
The Restatements and Principles are held within the American Law Institute Library.
Lexis+ (subscription only)
Held in the US Secondary Materials section of Lexis+. Login to Lexis first. Then this link should take you to the material published by the American Law Institute.
Westlaw (subscription only)
Held in the WestlawUS database, under secondary sources. Login to WestlawUK first. Then click on WestlawUS in the More Resources section on the right of the screen. Once WestlawUS has opened, click on Secondary Resources. Restatements & Principles of the Law is in the middle of the top section.
