Legal Information -> Legal History

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

Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.

Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.

Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England.

United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them.

Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law.

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 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 coll

United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873.

Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from HistoryChannel.com.

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