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External Legal Resources

Case Law & Opinions

Caselaw Access Project

All U.S. official published case law 1658–2018 (Harvard Law).

CourtListener

Free searchable case law, RECAP dockets, and alerts.

Google Scholar

Case law search across federal and state courts.

Justia

Case law, statutes, regulations, and legal guides.

FindLaw

Case law, summaries, statutes, and legal news.

Cornell LII

U.S. Code, Constitution, CFR, and Supreme Court syllabi.

Open Jurist

Free federal case law and opinions.

Oyez

Supreme Court cases with audio and plain summaries.

SCOTUSblog

Supreme Court case analysis and live coverage.

Statutes, Codes & Regulations

Congress.gov

Federal legislation, statutes, and legislative history.

GovInfo.gov

Official U.S. Code, Federal Register, and CFR.

Federal Register

Daily federal agency rules, proposed and final.

eCFR

Current Electronic Code of Federal Regulations.

Courts & Dockets

PACER

Federal docket and case information (free tier).

RECAP Archive

Free mirror of federal court filings from PACER.

U.S. Courts

Official federal court links and information.

Supreme Court of the U.S.

Official SCOTUS opinions, orders, and docket.

Legal Directories & Guides

Guide to Law Online

Annotated portal from the Law Library of Congress.

PublicLegal (ILRG)

Categorized index of legal websites and forms.

ABA Blawg Directory

Top law blogs ranked by the ABA Journal.

Harvard Free Legal Research

Curated free U.S. federal & state legal materials.

Georgetown Free & Low-Cost

Free case law and legal research guide.

Scalia Law Free Research

George Mason's free legal research directory.

Open-Source Tools & Data

Free Law Project

Open-source legal data, tools, and datasets.

Eyecite (GitHub)

Open-source legal citation extractor.

Case Law Datasets

Bulk legal data — case law, judges, reporters, courts.

USA.gov Laws

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