Principles of Legal Research (4th ed. 2025)

Chapter 5. Statutory Research

§ 5.2  Statutory Research Methods

(b) Finding Older Versions of Statutes

• Google Books [page 100]
• HathiTrust [page 100]
• Internet Archive [page 100]
• Law Library Index (The Advancing Genealogist) [page 100, note 9]
• Iowa Code Archive [page 100, note 9]
• Minnesota Statutes Archive [page 100, note 9]

§ 5.3 Statutory Interpretation

• Valerie C. Brannon, Congressional Research Service, R45153, Statutory Interpretation: Theories, Tools, and Trends [page 106, note 11]

§ 5.4 Sources for Federal Statutes

(a) Slip Laws and Statutes at Large

• Congress.gov [page 107]
• United States Statutes at Large (Govinfo) [page 108]
• Public and Private Laws (Govinfo) [page 108]
• Statutes at Large, 1789-1950 (Library of Congress) [page 108]

(b) Codification of Federal Statutes

• Revised Statutes (1878 2d ed., Library of Congress) [page 111]
• Parallel Reference Table (OLRC) [page 111]
• United States Code (OLRC) [page 114]
• United States Code (Govinfo) [page 115]
• United States Code Classification Tables (OLRC) [page 115]
• United States Code (1926-1988, Library of Congress) [page 115, note 31]

§ 5.5 Sources for State Statutes

(c) Multistate Research: Uniform Laws and Model Acts

• Uniform Law Commission [page 125]
• Copy, Paste, Legislate, Center for Public Integrity [page 126, note 53]
  • Permalink: https://perma.cc/ZD6W-5HAS (last updated Mar. 23, 2020)
• Model Bills: A Tool to Track Across States, National Press Foundation [page 126, note 53]
  • Permalink: https://perma.cc/YL5W-GNTR (last updated Apr. 18, 2022)

(e) Interstate Compacts

• National Center for Interstate Compacts [page 128]