Cost Effective Legal Research: Federal Executive Sources

Federal Register from 1994, Code of Federal Regulation from 1996, Compilation of Presidential Documents from 1992

Search for proposed rules, final rules, and Federal Register notices. Submit comments on regulations.

Images of serial publication. Code of Federal register is searchable by citation or by title, part & section. Federal Register is listed by volume and the index is listed alphabetically by agency.

Listed alphabetically. Also lists state, local, and tribal agencies. All available in PDF format.

Includes information on presidential action, legislation, weekly addresses, speeches, remarks, press briefings, statements & releases for current administration.

Presidential signing statements from Hoover through Obama. Also includes State of the Union and Inaugural Addresses, Executive Orders and Proclamation, and many other video, audio, and text documents.

The Foreign Relations of the United States series is the official documentary historical record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions that have been declassified and edited for publication. Browse by year or search full text.

Browse by volume, administration or title or search within the volumes by keyword.

Official website. Can search site by topic, country, speaker, date and publication.

Includes Attorney General News and Speeches and Selected Publications of the Department of Justice.

Browse by branch of government, date of agency expiration and agency name. Search by keyword.

This lesson will introduce you to the process of researching federal agency decisions. You should expect to encounter: overview of agency regulatory powers; types of agency decisions; how to find them; how to update them; and their precedential value.

This 30-45 minute exercise begins with some general background questions to help students place administrative agencies within the greater Constitutional scheme.

This 2-3 hour lesson will teach law students and practitioners how to research and efficiently locate the rules and regulations promulgated by federal administrative agencies.

This 30-minute lesson will introduce you to methods of finding and updating federal executive orders.

This 55-minute exercise will introduce you to the quasi-legislative process known as rulemaking.