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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.

The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
Documents in law, history and diplomacy.

A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873.

Lynette's Legal History page
http://www.lgu.ac.uk/lawlinks/history.htm
British legal history links.

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.

Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/hammenu.htm
Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.

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

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

John McCaffary and the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Wisconsin
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/McCaffreyFrame1Source1.htm
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
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/elhmat.html
Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.

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.

Capital Crime and Federal Justice in Western Missouri
http://www.geocities.com/mike_donnelly_umkc/main.html
An examination of four high profile capital cases, between 1854 and 1956.

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.

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

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

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