Subject Guides & Tutorials: Legal Resources: Law -- Primary Sources

Changing Authentication

As of July 2025, the University of Wyoming requires individual users of its shared databases to authenticate with their own library cards, even if you are in your own library. When prompted, enter your public or school library card in order to proceed to those resources. Higher education users should not be affected.

A list of unaffected databases provided by the State Library can be found here: WSL Funded Resources.

Law Primary Sources

Archives Unbound
Legal history collections include: The Making of Modern Law : Primary Sources; Legal Treatises 1800-1926; Trials 1600-1926; and Supreme Court Decisions.
Library of Congress - Government, Law, & Politics
Collections from the Library of Congress including: Records and acts of Congress from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress, 1774-1875 (A Century of Lawmaking), Voices from the Days of Slavery, Civil War Maps, Documents from the Continental Congress, and more. Browse all collections at The Library of Congress
Gale Primary Sources
Find Making of Modern Law and Gale OneFile: Criminal Justice within this resource

For more information, please refer to the Wyoming State Law Library

https://www.courts.state.wy.us/state-law-library/