Web Directory

» A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
   U.S. Congressional documents and debates from 1774 - 1875.
   http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/index.html

» American Legal History
   Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
   http://vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html

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

» Aztec and Mayan Law
   A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
   http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec.html

» Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project
   Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.
   http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/hammenu.asp

» Connections
   Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
   http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/connect.htm

» English Legal History Materials
   Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.
   http://vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/elhmat.html

» 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.
   http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm

» 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. Information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book reviews and a
   http://www.h-net.org/~law/

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

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

» LII Supreme Court Collection: Decisions by Justice
   United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them.
   http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/judges.htm

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

» LawBuzz
   Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights.
   http://www.lawbuzz.com/

» 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.
   http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/448622.html

» The Legal History Project
   Promoting an understanding of legal history.
   http://www.legalhistory.com/

» The Women's Legal History Project
   Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.
   http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/

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