- American Legal History - http://vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html
Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
- LawBuzz - http://www.lawbuzz.com/
Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights.
- 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.
- 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.
- History on Trial - http://www.historychannel.com/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 - http://bracton.law.cornell.edu/bracton/Common/index.html
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.
- Connections - http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/connect.htm
Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
- 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.
- 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.
- Medieval Law - http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/law.html
Introduction to medievel legal history.
- 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. Site includes information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book reviews and a substantial selection of well-annotated links.
- British Library - Magna Carta - http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magnatranslation.html
Translation of the Magna Carta into modern English, intended to convey the sense rather than the precise wording of the original Latin.
- Aztec and Mayan Law - http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec.html
A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
- LONANG Library - http://www.lonang.com/
Presenting historical writings in the natural law tradition.
- History of Law - http://www.historyoflaw.info/
Overview of the development of law in various nations and time periods.
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