LibGuides: Legal Studies: Understanding the Law

Understanding the Law

How Federal Laws are Made
Foundations to the Law

Please note, while the information about the making of laws is accurate, some of the databases may be specific to the University of Georgia and therefore inaccessible to UIS patrons.

Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis and Interpretation: Analysis of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States Provides access to the 2002 and 1992 editions with supplements from 1996, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006, and 2008.
Explaining the Constitution: The Federalist Papers Excerpt from the U.S. Department of State publication, Outline of U.S. Government.
Federal Judicial Center The Federal Judicial Center is the research and education agency for the federal courts.
Oyez Project Oyez, a free law project from Cornell’s Legal Information Institute (LII), Chicago-Kent College of Law and Justia.com, is a multimedia archive. It is a complete and authoritative source for all of the Court’s audio since the installation of a recording system in October 1955. Oyez offers transcript-synchronized and searchable audio, plain-English case summaries, illustrated decision information, and full text Supreme Court opinions.