Finding resources on the UM Law Library Website
The Law Library's website contains many resources that can help you with your legal research, whether you're here on campus or anywhere else in the world.
Reference Resources Pages
Our own highly trained law librarians have prepared research guides and other materials to help you navigate your way through all kinds of legal research tasks.
Research Guides: These guides cover topics such as U.S. legislative history, foreign legal research, legal history, British statutes, and more.
Library Workshop Materials: Our reference librarians often visit your law school classes to give presentations on various legal research topics. If you've ever attended one of these presentations, it's likely that there is an online supplement to it on the Workshop Materials page. Recent topics include the European Union, Comparative Constitutional Law, Cyperspace Law, and American Legal History.
"How do I...?" Pages: These short guides provide tutorials on more specific research tasks, such as how to use the CCH Research Network, the Congressional Record, or how to find State Digest Materials.
Electronic Resources Pages
Our librarians have put together lists of links to electronic legal research sources. These lists include both free resources, and other resources that the library subscribes to--you can log in to these through our proxy server from wherever you are by using your uniqname and password.
Main Electronic Resources Page
Electronic Resources for Michigan
Electronic Resources for States Other Than Michigan
Electronic Resources: Alphabetical by Subject
Library Services
"Ask a Law Librarian" Service: We welcome your reference questions during the summer months whether or not you are able to come to the reference desk. Just email your questions to askalawlibrarian@umich.edu or fill in our online form.
Expedited Photocopy Service: For quick access to print materials at the University of Michigan Law Library, you can request them through our Expedited Photocopy Service. For fees and details, see the link above.
Electronic Resources by State
Many students will be working in other states this summer, or doing research involving other states. For information on state-specific legal research, check out the sites collected in this section. This section is under construction.
A C D F G H I K L M N O P R S T U V W
Alabama
Alabama Judicial System Online
Alalinc: Alabama's Legal Information Center
Law Library of the State of Alabama
Law Library of the University of Alabama School of Law
Alaska
Alaska Legislative Library Catalog
Alaska Legislature's "Infobases"
Alaska SLED (Statewide Library Electronic Doorway): Alaska Government and Law
Alaska State Court Law Library
Arizona
Arizona Research Page from the University of Arizona College of Law Library -- Includes 8 Research Guides for Arizona law topics
Arizona State Library, Law and Research Library Division
Law Library of the Arizona State University College of Law
Law Library of the University of Arizona College of Law
Arkansas
ARLI (Arkansas Legal Index) from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock/Pulaski County Law Library
Law Library of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and Pulaski County
Law Library of the University of Arkansas School of Law
Arkansas Supreme Court Library
California
Law Library of the Stanford Law School
Law Library of the University of California -- Berkeley
Official California Legislative Information
UC -- Berkeley Law Library Research Guides for California
Colorado
Colorado Supreme Court Library
Law Library of the University of Colorado at Boulder
Law Library of the University of Denver Sturm College of Law
University of Denver Law Library Research Guides for Colorado
Connecticut
Connecticut Legal Resources from the Connecticut Judicial Branch Libraries
Law Library of the Quinnipiac University School of Law
State of Connecticut General Assembly
State of Connecticut Judicial Branch
Delaware
Delaware Research Resources (Georgetown Law Library)
Delaware State Bar Association
Delaware Research Sources from Widener Law Library
District of Columbia
Council of the District of Columbia
District of Columbia Government
Law Library of the George Washington University Law School
Florida
Florida House of Representatives
University of Miami Law Library Research Guides
Georgia
Georgia Law Resources from Emory Law Library
Hawaii
University of Hawaii Law Library
Idaho
Idaho State Bar and Idaho Law Foundation
University of Idaho Law Library
Illinois
Illinois Legal Research Sources from the University of Chicago Law Library
Illinois State Bar Association
Illinois Supreme Court Library
Indiana
Iowa
University of Iowa Law Library
Kansas
University of Kansas Law Library
Kentucky
Kentucky Legislative Reference Library
Louisiana
Louisiana State Bar Association
Maine
University of Maine Law Library
Maryland
Maryland State Bar Association
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Minnesota State Bar Association
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nebraska State Bar Association
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jerseyo
New Jersey State Bar Association
New Mexico
New York
New York State Bar Association
North Carolina
North Dakota
State Bar Association of North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
Washington State Bar Association