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• The Legal History Project - Promoting an understanding of legal history.
  
• Aztec and Mayan Law - A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
  
• Ancient Law - Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law.
  
• 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.
  
• American Legal History - Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
  
• Connections - Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
  
• Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project - Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.
  
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation - U.S. Congressional documents and debates from 1774 - 1875.
  
• LONANG Library - Presenting historical writings in the natural law tradition.
  
• 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.
  
• LII Supreme Court Collection: Decisions by Justice - United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them.
  
• History of Law - Overview of the development of law in various nations and time periods.
  
• The Women's Legal History Project - Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.
  
• Western Legal Tradition - Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England.
  
• 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
  
• Capital Crime and Federal Justice in Western Missouri - An examination of four high profile capital cases, between 1854 and 1956.
  
• History on Trial - Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from History.com.
  
• LawBuzz - 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 - 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 - Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.
  
  

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