Directory of Legal History Resources

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Information on ancient and modern legal history, from around the world.

Subcategories

• Black, Hugo Lafayette
• Blackmun, Harry A.
• Blackstone, William
• Brandeis, Louis D.
• Cardozo, Benjamin N.
• Chase, Salmon Portland
• Darrow, Clarence
• Dershowitz, Alan
• Hand, Learned
• Harlan, John Marshall
• Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr.
• Jay, John
• Marshall, Thurgood
• Organizations
• Roman Law
• SCOTUS Justices
• Stevens, John Paul
• White, Byron

Resources in This Category

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
  United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873.

• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation

  http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/index.html
  U.S. Congressional documents and debates from 1774 - 1875.

• Ancient Law

  http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maine/anclaw/index.html
  Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law.

• Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project

  http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/hammenu.asp
  Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.

• Famous American Trials

  http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
  Accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to famous American trials. Assembled by Professor Douglas Linder, UMKC School of Law.

• H-Law Discussion Network

  http://www.h-net.org/~law/
  List covering teaching and research in the history of all legal traditions, although participants generally focus on common-law and other Western systems. Information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book reviews and a substantial selection of well-annotated links.

• History of Law

  http://www.historyoflaw.info/
  Overview of the development of law in various nations and time periods.

• John McCaffary and the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Wisconsin

  http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sewis/mccaffary.htm
  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.

• LONANG Library

  http://www.lonang.com/
  Presenting historical writings in the natural law tradition.

• The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox

  http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/448622.html
  Excerpts from the memoir of a Supreme Court clerk who served the notorious Justice James C. McReynolds during the year that FDR threatened to pack the Court.

• The Legal History Project

  http://www.legalhistory.com/
  Promoting an understanding of legal history.

• The Women's Legal History Project

  http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/
  Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.

• Western Legal Tradition

  http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/dgolash/wltlink1.htm
  Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England.

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