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Topia!: Society: Law: Legal Information: Legal History (120)
See Also:
Legal History - Timetable of world legal history. Ancient Law - Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law. LawBuzz - Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights. Aztec and Mayan Law - A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library. The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents in law, history and diplomacy. A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation - United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873. Lynette's Legal History page - British legal history links. 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. Western Legal Tradition - Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England. History on Trial - Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from HistoryChannel.com. 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. Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project - Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary. The Women's Legal History Project - Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges. 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. LII Supreme Court Collection: Decisions by Justice - United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them. 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. English Legal History Materials - Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston. Connections - Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox - 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.
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