Although there are many instances when you will look to federal law for guidance (e.g. federal securities, federal tax, bankruptcy), much of the day-to-day operations of a business is governed by state law. Here are some of the Pennsylvania statutory titles that relate to business law:
Pennsylvania statutory research is unusual because Pennsylvania has two co-existing law codes, the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes and Purdon's Pennsylvania Statutes. For more detail, see our Pennsylvania Statutory Research Libguide. Both codes are available for free at this Thomson Reuters website.
The LRC possesses a print copy of the Pennsylvania statutory codes, which are also available on Westlaw and Lexis.
