Research Guides: Law Research Guide: Administrative Law

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Nexis Uni
Worldwide newspapers, magazines, newswires, and trade journals. Archives of state and federal case law, statutes and regulations. Dates of Coverage: varies-Present.
Westlaw
A Web-based legal research tool. Contains laws and statutes of the federal government and all 50 states as published in United States Code Annotated. Also includes: federal and state court cases; federal regulations published in the Federal Register and the Code of Federal Regulations; American Law Reports, a research tool that collects and analyzes every court case decided on a particular point of law; an encylopedia of state and federal law; articles from law reviews and journals; and European Union law sources. Dates of Coverage: varies-Present.

Title	Years	Format	Location	Notes
Code of Maine Rules	2002-present	online	Westlaw	Choose: State Materials > Maine > Maine Regulations.
	current version	online	Nexis Uni	Choose: Menu > "All Sources" > "Search Within Sources" > "Code of Maine Rules" > [click on drop down menu next to "ME - Code of Maine Rules"] > "Add source as a search filter".
	current version	online	Maine Department of the Secretary of State
Maine Government Register	1996-present	online	Nexis Uni	Choose: Menu > "All Sources" > "Search Within Sources" > "Maine Government Register" > [click on drop down menu next to "ME - Maine Government Register"] > "Add source as a search filter".

	Laws (enacted by Maine legislature)	Rules/regulations (from the Executive branch)
Organized in chronological order	Laws of the State of Maine	Maine Government Register
In force at a given time, organized by subject matter	Maine Revised Statutes or Maine Revised Statutes Annotated	Code of Maine Rules