Research Guide

Legislative Broadcast Services

• Massachusetts House and Senate - streaming and archived video of the legislature at work (from 2006)

Bill Tracking

• Instatrac - Massachusetts Legislative Bill Tracking Service (remote access limited to current students and faculty).

Laws and Regulations

• General Laws of Massachusetts- web version of Massachusetts General Laws can be browsed or searched
• Massachusetts General Laws Popular Name Table- by Massachusetts Trial Courts Library
• Massachusetts Guide to Evidence 2008-2009
• Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly Rules Service- Court rules of Massacusetts state and federal courts - see reference librarian for access
• The General Court (Legislature home page)- includes session laws, 1997 - 2004, and bill histories
• Massachusetts State Legislature - streaming and archived video from the Senate and House of Representatives
• State Library of Massachusetts
  Includes session laws, 1960-1996

  Massachusetts Constitution- full text with hypertext links to specific sections

  State House News Service- press releases, news stories, legislative documents, bill-tracking for Massachusetts government. (See reference librarian for password).

  State Library of Massachusetts Legislative History Resouces

  Board of Building Regs & Standards Information about the Building Code

  Massachusetts State Building Code Online
• Executive Orders- index and lists of Mass. Governors' executive orders from 1941 - present

Code of Massachusetts Regulations

via Social Law Library [Please note alumni do not have remote access to this database]

Code of Massachusetts Regulations

via Massachusetts Trial Courts [includes only portions published on the web]

Online municipal codes

Government agencies

Lists Massachusetts agencies, with links to those with home pages.

Department of Industrial Accidents

Division of Dispute Resolution, Review Board decisions

Division of Administrative Law Appeals

Social Law Library's Online Databases

Available only in the library [includes C.M.R., Board of Bar Overseers Decisions, Agency Decisions, Housing Appeals decisions, & State Ethics Comm. decisions.]

Secretary of State

Mass. Corporation Search

Attorney General

Probate Court Register

unofficial site of the Suffolk County Probate and Family Court Registry, with domestic & probate forms]

Registry of Deeds for Suffolk County

Massachusetts Archives

Massachusetts Bar Association

A link to the Massachusetts Bar Association page, including a link to search Massachusetts Ethics Committee opinions from 1973

Mass. Board of Bar Examiners

Mass. Board of Bar Overseers

Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly

Boston Bar Association

The Boston Bar Association, with links to current documents, including the new Rules of Professional Conduct

City and Local Government

City of Boston

Official site.

Massachusetts cities and towns

a profile for every town in the state, via boston.com

Municipal Codes for selected Mass. cities - Suffolk Law school collection

Federal Legislature