Historical Laws : Overview

Access state and territorial codes, municipal codes, city charters, documents relating to constitutional conventions, and other resources in American legal history. Includes digitized sources from holdings of the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University, the Harvard Law School Library, and the Law Library of Congress.

Provides legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching provides access to legal history, including casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more. SMU owns rights to text mine via physical hard drive.

Searchable database which includes publications from the American Society of International Law and yearbooks and serials from around the world, as well as the Hague Permanent Court of International Justice series. Also includes U.S. law digests, international tribunals and judicial decisions and other significant works relating to foreign and international law.

International and foreign law, including monographs on the laws of foreign jurisdictions. The collection includes primarily nineteenth and early twentieth century documents, but also several hundred classics in European international law since the seventeenth century.

Features books on statutes and codes of European jurisdictions, as well as southern Latin America, Canada, Australia, India, and more. This database brings together international titles from the Harvard Law School Library, the Yale Law Library, and George Washington University's Jacob Burns Law Library.

Presents exact reproductions of major United Nations legal publications, including the complete collection of the United Nations treaty series.