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- A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation - United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873.
memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
- American Legal History - Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html
- Ancient Law - Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, civil law, and more.
www.socsci.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maine/anclaw
- Aztec and Mayan Law - A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec.htm
- Bracton's De legibus et consuetudines Angliae - The Laws and Customs of England, attributed to Henry of Bratton, c. 1210-1268. The first substantial treatise of English law, written in the time of Henry III. This is an electronic full-text version of Samuel Thorne's translationof George Woodbine's collation of the Latin manuscripts, first published in four volumes, 1968-1977.
bracton.law.cornell.edu/bracton/Common/index.html
- Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project - Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/hammenu.htm
- Famous American Trials - Accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to famous American trials. Assembled by Professor Douglas Linder, UMKC School of Law.
www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm
- H-Law Discussion Network - List covering teaching and research in the history of all legal traditions, although participants generally focus on common-law and other Western systems. Site includes information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book reviews and a substantial selection of well-annotated links.
www2.h-net.msu.edu/~law
- History on Trial - Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from HistoryChannel.com.
www.historychannel.com/trial
- John McCaffary and the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Wisconsin - Transcripts, images and links to primary and secondary sources addressing the state's experience with the death penalty and why it has eschewed capital punishment longer than any other.
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/McCaffreyFrame1Source1.htm
- LawBuzz - Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights.
www.lawbuzz.com
- Legal History - Timetable of world legal history.
www.wwlia.org/hist.htm
- Legal History Teachers in U.K. Universities - A list of academicians, including affiliation and special interests. Provided by the Institute of Historical Research.
www.ihrinfo.ac.uk/publications/teachers/a1801.html
- LII Supreme Court Collection: Decisions by Justice - United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them.
supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/judges.htm
- Lynette's Legal History page - British legal history links.
www.lgu.ac.uk/lawlinks/history.htm
- The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents in law, history and diplomacy.
www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
- The Women's Legal History Project - Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.
www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP
- Western Legal Tradition - Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England.
gurukul.ucc.american.edu/dgolash/wltlink1.htm
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