RESEARCH GUIDES

• Delaware Legal Resources
  A guide to legal publications and research in published by the Widener University School of Law.
• Delaware Legal Information: A Research Guide (University of Delaware)
• Selective Annotated Bibliography of Delaware State Documents and other Resources Used in Delaware Legal Research, KFD1 .E38 2008

STATUTES & LEGISLATION

Constitution

• State Constitution
• 1776 State Constitution (from Yale's Avalon project)
• 1701 Charter of Delaware

Statutes/Code

• Print: Delaware Code Annotated (official) KFD30 1953 .A24
• Electronic:
  • Westlaw: DE-ST-ANN
  • Lexis: DEL;DECODE
  • Internet: Delaware Code

Legislative History

• Session Laws: HeinOnline, 1941-
• Compiling a Delaware Legislative History (from Widener University School of Law)

Legislature

• State Legislature Homepage
• Legislative Information System

REGULATIONS & AGENCIES

Regulations

• Print: Code of Delaware Regulations KFD35 .A2 1996 (Subscription cancelled. Last updated in 2008)
• Electronic:
  • Westlaw: DE-ADC (this publication is not available to academic subscribers )
  • Lexis: DEL;DEADTC (online version of the Code of Delaware Regulations table of contents)
  • Internet:
    • Delaware's Administrative Code
    • Register of Regulations, July 1997 -
      

Agencies

• Governor's Office
  • Executive Orders
• Attorney General's Office
  • Attorney General's Opinions (1995-present), also on HeinOnline
    
• State Agencies

CASES & COURTS

Cases

• Print: Atlantic Reporter (1st & 2nd series) KF135 .A712
• Electronic:
  • Westlaw: DE-CS (state cases) & DE-CS-ALL (state and federal cases)
  • Lexis: DEL;DECTS (state cases) & MEGA;DEMEGA (state and federal cases)
  • Internet:
    • Delaware Supreme Court Opinions (2000 - present)
    • Delaware Supreme Court Opinions, October 1998 - (from FindLaw)

    Note that Delaware does not have its own state digest; to find cases using printed materials, you must use the Atlantic Digest .

Courts

• Delaware Courts (opinions from the Supreme Court, Court of Chancery, Superior Court & Court of Common Pleas)
• Delaware Court System Overview
• Court Rules and Forms

LOCAL GOVERNMENT

• Local Governments
• Delaware Counties

STATE LAW REVIEWS & BAR JOURNALS

• Widener Law Review
  
  • Journal Home Page
  • Electronic Version (Available from Hein Online )
  • Print version in GULLiver

ETHICS

• State Bar
• Ethics Opinions (1978 - present)
• Ethics Rules
• Westlaw: Not available
• Lexis:
  • DEJETH (1985 - present)

GENERAL

• Internet:
  • Delaware State Bar Association
  • Tax Forms
  • Delaware Facts
  • Del-AWARE: The Digital Library of the First State
  • Internet Law Library: Delaware
  • Findlaw: Delaware
  • Law Library of Congress - Delaware

Last Updated 07/12 (MK)