Law Resources

Getting Started
If you're new to researching law, start here!

• What is case law?
• How to read a legal citation/How to cite a case
• Finding U.S. Supreme Court and other U.S. federal cases
• Reading a Supreme Court case in Westlaw
• Finding Connecticut state cases

Legislative Law: Statutes

• What is statutory law?
• How to read a legal citation/How to cite a statute
• Finding United States statutes
• Finding Connecticut statutes

Administrative Law: Regulations and Rulings

• What is administrative law?
• How to read a legal citation/How to cite a regulation
• Finding federal agency regulations
• Finding Connecticut agency regulations
• Finding federal administrative rulings
• Finding Connecticut administrative rulings

• Education law reference resources
Finding background information, analyses, summaries, etc.
• Finding journal, magazine, & newspaper articles, & briefs
• Finding books using CONSULS
• Finding dictionaries, encyclopedias, and other reference sources
• Law libraries open to the public
• A chart and brief description of the 3 kinds of law