Massachusetts Legal Research

Massachusetts Agency Opinions

• Dates: Varies by database
• Access: Law School only
• Description: Opinions of the Board of Bar Overseers, Board of Registration in Medicine, Department of Environmental Protection, Labor Relations Commission, Massachusetts Commission Against Discrimination, State Ethics Commission, and more from the Social Law Library.

Massachusetts State Agency Websites

• Dates: Current
• Description: Branches of government, Constitutional offices, and the departments under them with links to the web sites.

• Dates: Current
• Access: Password required for LexisNexis, WESTLAW. Law School only for Social Law Library.
• Description: The Massachusetts Administrative Code available as searchable full text from LexisNexis (short file name: MASS;MAADMIN), Social Law Library, WESTLAW (database name MA-ADC). Massachusetts Trial Courts link to limited number of CMR sections on the free web.

• Dates: From issue 765, May 19, 1995, to current
• Access: Password required
• Description: The biweekly update to the Code of Massachusetts Regulations available from LexisNexis (short file name MASS;MARGST). Also contains emergency regulations not incorporated into the CMR.

Massachusetts Executive Orders

• Dates: 1941 to date
• Description: Index to all Executive Orders and links to those available on the web provided by the Massachusetts Trial Court Libraries.