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Federal Legal Resources for Community Patrons: Additional Resources for Patrons with Access to the Law Library

U.S. Constitution

The United States Constitution is published at the start of all versions of the United States Code and in each state code. Sources include:

Federal Regulations

ProQuest Regulatory Insight contains thousands of compiled federal administrative law (regulatory) histories. 

All University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff can login to these databases with their HawkIDs.  Visitors can access this database on public workstations in the University of Iowa's libraries.

Federal Cases

Nexis Uni is a versatile database that provides access to various legal resources. 

ProQuest Supreme Court Insight provides access to U.S. Supreme Court opinions, dockets, oral arguments, merit and amicus briefs, and joint appendices from the 1933/34 Term up to the present. 

All University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff can login to this database with their HawkIDs.  Visitors can access this database on public workstations in the University of Iowa's libraries.

Iowa Federal Materials

Legislative History

Nexis Uni is a versatile database that provides access to various legal resources. 

ProQuest Legislative Insight includes over 27,000 compiled federal legislative histories, ranging from the 1st Congress (1789 - 1791) to the current 114th Congress (2015 - 2016).

ProQuest Congressional is a searchable, extensive collection of U.S. federal government publications, mostly in PDF.

All University of Iowa students, faculty, and staff can login to these databases with their HawkIDs.  Visitors can access these database on public workstations in the University of Iowa's libraries.

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