Research Guides: PLS 2000: Introduction to Legal Research & Writing: Home

Top Legal Resources for this Class

Nexis Uni This link opens in a new window
This is the new interface and design for LexisNexis Academic. The primary source for current and historical court cases and for State and United States' statutes, codes, and regulations. Also includes law review articles, legal reference sources, Shepards citations, as well as national news and company information.

Legal Information Institute at Cornell Law School
The Legal Information Institute at Cornell University's Law School is a useful compendium of legal resources including the Wex Legal Encyclopedia, historical Supreme Court Cases, Annotated Constitution, Congressional information, U.S. Code, and more.

CRS Reports
The Congressional Research Service is a nonpartisan agency that produces research reports and briefs on major policy issues and any topic requested by a member of Congress. This official site is publicly available and includes recent reports. SLU database ProQuest Congressional includes historical reports.

Congress.gov This link opens in a new window
Congress.gov is the official site for federal legislative information from the U.S. Congress and related agencies.
Google Scholar @ SLU This link opens in a new window
Searches scholarly resources such as abstracts, journal articles, and reprints from many publishers, professional societies, preprint repositories and other sources from a wide variety of disciplines. Links to resources available to current SLU students, faculty, and staff display next to the references when on campus.
GovInfo This link opens in a new window
Provides free online access to more than a million official publications from all three branches of the Federal Government, including the Congressional Record, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations and much more. Coverage years vary by title. Govinfo is the replacement system for FDSys, which will no longer be available as of December 2018.
HeinOnline This link opens in a new window
This is a comprehensive collection in pdf format of U.S. law journals and other legal materials that are completely searchable. Collections available are listed on the "landing page" of the database. Courtesy of the Courtesy of the Immel Law Library.

Missouri Courts
Portal providing information to the public on all aspects of the Judicial Branch of the Missouri State Government including links to state courts, Supreme Court Rules, Casenet, forms, and how to represent oneself.
Missouri General Assembly
Freely available website of the Missouri General Assembly. Provides links to both houses of the Missouri legislature as well as bill searching and tracking.
National Council of State Legislatures (NCSL)
This bipartisan organization that serves the legislators and staffs of the nation's 50 states, its commonwealths and territories. NCSL provides research, technical assistance and opportunities for policymakers to exchange ideas on the most pressing state issues. Use this source to help track laws on an issue across multiple states.