Law Library

The State Library has a comprehensive collection of New Jersey and federal legal materials and offers extensive reference assistance to government employees.

For guidance on finding legal resources, contact the Law Library. Reference assistance cannot be provided in a way that requires librarians to interpret any law and/or facts offered by a patron or provide legal advice.

NJ Legislative Histories

A legislative history is a compilation of the documents which express the purpose or intent behind the passage of a particular law.  The State Library compiles histories on all New Jersey laws which are general and permanent. Appropriations, temporary and executed, and repealer acts are excluded.

Many legislative histories are digitized and available in our Legislative Histories archive. Digitization is ongoing; contact us for legislative histories not yet available online.

NJ Judiciary

NJ Legislature

NJ Executive and Administrative Law

NJ Constitutions and Colonial Law

Other Types of Law

Legal Research Tools & Reference Materials