J. Drake Edens Library: Criminal Justice: Websites About CJ

Quality Websites

Some credible and helpful websites to search: these can help you find sources and information when you are struggling to find what you need!

FDSys (Federal Digital System)
Free online access to the official, authenticated United States Constitution, Code, Code of Federal Regulations, Federal Register, and other government documents.
Regulations.gov
US Government Regulations and comments page. Search for proposed and final rules, comment on proposed rules, and sign up for e-mail alerts and RSS feeds to track pending regulations.
U.S. Code: U.S. House: Office of the Law Revision Counsel
The U.S. House of Representatives publishes the current U.S. Code. This website includes a Popular Name Table and tables to determine code sections by Public Law number. It also allows researchers to retrieve code section by citation or search by keyword.

Cornell's Legal Information Institute
50 states' statutes and constitutions, as well as cases and other legal material in an easily navigable format.
Findlaw
State and federal laws, as well as cases and regulations
South Carolina Legislature
South Carolina Constitution, Code, regulations, and other legal information

Justia Federal District Court Case Law
Database of U.S. Federal District Court cases by state and by year.
Public Library of Law
Searchable database of cases from the US Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.
Supreme Court of the United States
Case information, oral argument transcripts and audio, briefs, court opinions (including bound volumes of U.S. Reports), and Supreme Court Rules.

Cornell's Legal Information Institute
50 states' statutes and constitutions, as well as cases and other legal material in an easily navigable format.
Google Scholar
Choose "Legal documents" to search case law for individual states or all states. Offers full-text searching of state and federal court opinions. Search U.S. Supreme Court opinions, federal courts by circuit, all federal circuits combined, individual states or state court opinions combined.
South Carolina Judicial Department
Light brown box contains links to searchable opinions from the South Carolina Appeals and Supreme Courts