Online Resources

Bloomberg Law provides a wide variety of primary and secondary sources for legal research. Bloomberg Law access is restricted to students, staff, and faculty of the Gould School of Law. To sign up, click on "Register Academic Account" and register using your USC Gould email address.

Casetext leverages artificial intelligence and data science to provide efficient and intuitive legal research tools. It includes both federal and state primary law, briefs, legal analysis and more. Current students, staff, and faculty have free and unlimited access.

A lower-cost legal research database with state and federal primary law. Our educational license is limited to USC Gould School of Law affiliated faculty, staff and students and does not include secondary sources.

Free web resources for Federal legal research.

Full text access to digitized content of major legal periodicals, the Federal Register, and other law-related materials.

LexisNexis provides a wide range of legal and news sources on its Lexis+ research platform. Lexis access is restricted to students, staff, and faculty of the Gould School of Law. Email reference@law.usc.edu for the authorization code to set up an individual user account.

Collection of historical and current government and legal documents from the US and foreign jurisdictions. Internet Explorer is the preferred browser for LLMC Digital.

PLI PLUS is an online library and research platform providing practice-focused expert legal analysis.

Congressional publications, including hearings (testimony), committee prints, reports, documents, and full text of bills and public laws, and the U.S. Statutes at Large from 1789 to the present

A source for compiled federal legislative histories.

A complete collection of Supreme Court documents, including opinions, dockets, petitions, oral arguments, joint appendices, and amicus briefs from 1975-1986.

A database with data from many Federal agencies and offices. Some content can only be accessed in the USC Law building.

Historical records and briefs of the US Supreme Court.

VitalLaw (formerly Cheetah) has a variety of law, business, tax, securities, and healthcare tools.

Westlaw provides a wide range of legal primary and secondary sources on its research platform. Westlaw access is restricted to students, staff, and faculty of the Gould School of Law. Email reference@law.usc.edu for the authorization code to set up an individual user account.