Web Links: Legal History
A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates 1774-1873
- This website gives online access to the records and acts from the Continental Congress and Constitutional Convention through the 43rd Congress. It includes the first three volumes of the Congressional Record, 1878 -75.
Bracton Online
- A reproduction of the Latin text of Bracton: De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae (Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England attributed to Henry of Bratton, c. 1210-1268) and an English translation.
Connections (by Bernard Hibbitts)
- This website contains links to American legal history, ancient law, and English legal history.
Documents for American Legal History (Robert Palmer, University of Houston Law Center)
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website contains links to documents on American legal history based on the research of Robert C. Palmer.
Early Canadiana Online
- This website includes over 650,000 pages images representing approximately 3,500 volumes of Canadian primary source materials focusing on books and pamphlets published or printed before 1900 in the subject areas of English Canadian Literature, Canadian Women's History, Native Studies, History of French Canada, 19th Century Quebec monographs.
Famous Trials (Douglas Linder, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Law)
- This website provides links to the world's famous trials from 399 B. C. to date.
Selected Web Resources for Legal History (Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas)
- a selective guide to legal history resources on the World Wide Web, with special emphasis on archives and rare book collections that are relevant to legal history
H-Law
- a Humanities & Social Sciences Online discussion network sponsored by the American Society for Legal History. H-LAW solicits discussion on issues relating to teaching and research in the history various legal systems. It features book reviews on constitutional and legal history.
History of the Federal Judiciary (Federal Judicial Center)
-This website provides basic reference information about the history of the federal courts and the judges who have served on the federal courts since 1789.
Illuminating the Law
- This is a collection of legal manuscripts with images featuring medieval canon and civil law at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England.
Legal History (Jurist:The Law Professor's Network)
- This is a subject guide to legal history featuring news, books, periodicals and resource pages.
Medieval English Legal History: The Year Books (Boston University School of Law)
-This is a searchable database of Year Books 1268-1535, including citation, year, court, names of parties, justices and lawyers, statutes, cross-references, paraphrases of text.
National Archives (UK)
- The is website contains over 1,000 years of history in the form of articles and documents.
Roman Law Resources
- This website provides information on Roman law sources and lterature, teaching of Roman law and the persons who study it. Materials are available in both English and German.
Selden Society
-The Selden Society website provides an annotated list of its online publications (available to York university faculty and students).
Studies in Scarlet Project: Marriage, Women, and the Law, 1815-1914 (Harvard Law School Library)
- Study in Scarlet presents the images of over 420 published trial narratives from the Harvard Law School Library's comprehensive collections. This includes American, British and Irish cases (1815-1914) involving domestic violence, bigamy, seduction, breach of promise to marry, custody of children, murder and rape.
The Ames Foundation
- The Ames Foundation supports and funds research and publication in legal history. This website provides links to the list of their publication and other relevant links.
The Anglo-American Legal Tradition (University of Houston)
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This is a digital archive of documents from medieval and early modern England from the National Archives, London.
The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
- This is a digital archive of documents in law, history and diplomacy. It features materials from the Nuremburg Trials Collection.
The Bentham Project
- This project features the works of Jeremy Bentham,
it provides a detailed catalogue of his papers held at the library of the University College London.
Women's Legal History Biography Project (Stanford Law School)
- This is a resource on women lawyers in the United States, it features the Women Lawyers Index.
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