Law and Legal Research

The research guides and website below were created and kept up-to-date by renowned and reliable law libraries and organizations. These guides provide details and information about basic legal research.

American Association of Law Libraries

How to Research a Legal Problem:  A Guide for Non-Lawyers

This guide is intended to help a person with a legal problem find legal rules that can resolve or prevent conflict. It is most useful to work through the steps and sources in the order given. This guide is intended to help a person with a legal problem find legal rules that can resolve  or prevent conflict. It is most useful to work through the steps and  sources in the order given.

Law Library of Congress

Guide to Law Online: U.S. Massachusetts

This guide, prepared by the Law Library of Congress, includes links to free online legal resources regarding Massachusetts, focusing on its constitution; executive, legislative, and judicial branches; legal guides; and general sources.

The Law Library of Congress research guides provide a starting point for researching legal topics and recommend relevant materials in the Law Library's collections and online. The Law Library creates research guides that range from animal and landlord-tenant law to instructions for compiling a federal legislative history. Established by Congress in 1832, the Law Library has a collection of over 2.9 million volumes spanning all systems and periods of law and covering all the nations of the world. View all of their law related research guides here.

New York Law Institute

Legal Research for Beginners

The New York Law Institute is a full information services organization, striving to offer our members materials in various formats, including 24/7 availability of electronic databases.