Federal Electronic Resources

Subscription Databases Index

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These databases are intended only for the use of Notre Dame Law School faculty and students.

Congressional Staff Directory password icon
Contains biographies and photographs of the members of Congress. Lists names, titles and contact information of staff members, with biographies for key staff personnel. Provides jurisdictional information on all committees, subcommittees and caucuses. Includes detailed information on each congressional district.

Federal Staff Directory password icon
Contains more than 2600 biographies of federal executives and staff members. Find names, titles and contact information for those in White House offices, executive branch and independent agencies, presidential advisory organizations, independent agencies, and quasi-official international and non-government organizations.

Government Information on the Internet
Provides descriptions, evaluations and links to nearly 5000 selected federal, state, local, international and intergovernmental Web sites.

HeinOnline Federal Register Library

HeinOnline Legal Classics Library

HeinOnline U.S. Supreme Court Library

Judicial Staff Directory password icon
Contains more than 2800 biographies of state and federal judges. Find names, titles, and contact information for court staff. Also provides a listing of state counties and their corresponding federal judicial circuits and districts.

LexisNexis Congressional
Bills, hearings, reports, committee prints, debates and public laws of the US Congress from 1789-present are indexed by subject, title, personal names, document numbers, and more. Full text of all documents indexed can be found in the law library’s microform collection, and electronic full text may be available for post-1984 documents.

LLMC Digital
Full text, searchable database of legal publications. Includes the following collections: U.S. Federal; U.S. States; U.S. Territories; Anglo-American Collections; Foreign Jurisdictions; International Law and Organizations; and Multi-Jurisdictional Subject Collections. All collections provide exact page images and enable the researcher to view all pages as they originally appeared in hard copy

U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1870-1980
Reports, documents and journals of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives, originally published in approximately 13,800 bound volumes.

U.S. Law Week
Summarizes the most significant cases and key legislative, regulatory, and pre-decisional developments, across the country, across all areas of the law. Contains all issues published since June 24, 1997.

U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
Includes nearly 11 million pages of records and briefs brought before the U.S. Supreme Court during the final years of Chief Justice John Marshall’s Court through the first ten years of the Warren Court. It contains scanned images, so documents appear just as they do in the printed sources. Full-text searching is available.

Your Nation’s Courts Online password icon
Provides the comprehensive federal/state/county court listings of the print directories: Want’s Federal-State Court Directory andDirectory of State Court Clerks & County Courthouses. It also includes information on federal court nominations and confirmations.