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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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. Information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book reviews and a substantial selection of well-annotated links.

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

History on Trial - http://www.history.com/exhibits/trial/index.html Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from History.com.

http://www.lawbuzz.com/ - 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.

John McCaffary and the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Wisconsin - http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.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.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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