Georgia Government Publications is a free database available from the Digital Library of Georgia containing a wide variety of state agency documents made available to the public.
Over five million pages of in-depth surveys, reports, and research from more than six hundred North American cities and urban agencies.
Register with your GSU email address to track topics and take advantage of other custom tools.
The Law Library also has a print research guide for every state in the country. These print guides often include information not available in other sources, such as sources for historical information. For more information, stop by the Reference Desk.
Local Ordinances
Local ordinances are generally available online through the company that publishes them. Although Municode is the largest, it is not the only publisher of local ordinances.
Municode publishes a wide variety of local codes, including codes for Atlanta, Fulton County, Dekalb County, and a number of other counties and cities in Georgia. All of these codes are available in full text online.
American Legal Publishing publishes a few Georgia codes, as well as a number of local codes from around the country. As with Municode, you can view and search the full text of these codes online through their website.
50-State Surveys
A 50-State Survey is, at minimum, a listing of the laws on a particular topic in all states. Some surveys are only a list of the different state code sections, while others can contain detailed information on the content of the law, sometimes organized into charts that allow you to compare the laws of different states easily.
The Issues and Research section contains many surveys of state laws; how much information about each law is given varies widely. The NCSL website also contains a bill tracking information and reports for a number of areas.
Source for information on foreign law, current sources of codes, and basic legislation in jurisdictions of the world. Approximately 190 jurisdictions are covered. Includes complete bibliographic citations to legislation, English translations, and selected references to secondary sources.
Global-Regulation provides English-language searching of more than 800,000 laws and regulations from 30 countries and 77 data sources, including China, Japan, Germany, Mexico, Denmark, Finland, and more, with links to machine-translations of the official full-text sources.
Access is currently limited to the College of Law building.
Includes status and full text of all multilateral treaties deposited with the United Nations - even those that have not been published yet. The UNTC also has bilateral and multilateral treaties registered with and published by the UN.
The United Nations Treaty Collection provides access to the current status of the Multilateral Treaties deposited with the Secretary-General, the United Nations Treaty Series (full text of UN treaties), the text of recently deposited multilateral treaties, the League of Nations Treaties Series, the Treaty Handbook, and other treaty resources such as indexes and photographs of treaty signings.
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