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LAW 8308: History of Anglo-American Legal Institutions: Digitized Historical Legal Materials

Prepared for Professor Joshua Tate's History of Anglo-American Legal Institutions course

Digitized Historical Collections: HeinOnline, Treatises, Primary Sources, Congressional Publications

HeinOnline
HeinOnline can be a treasure trove for the legal historian. It includes journals, usually back to their initial volume; historical U.S. federal and state statutes; treaty materials; the English Reports (1280-1867); Statutes of the Realm (1235-1713); Year Books (earliest law reports in England); 19th and early 20th century legal treatises; Selden Society publications; and much more.

Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (MoML) This link opens in a new window
Books on U.S. & British law
Primary Sources, 1620-1970 (MoML) This link opens in a new window
Documents in American legal history
Congressional Publications This link opens in a new window
Congressional hearings, documents & more from 1789-2010

Legal History Primary Source Documents on the Web

Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy. Yale's Avalon Project provides digital documents "relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government." English-language translations are available where the original documents were in another language.

Subject Guide

Greg Ivy