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Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project: Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary. (Legal History) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/hammenu.htm Medieval Law Medieval Law: Introduction to medievel legal history. (Legal History) http://www.ku.edu/kansas/medieval/108/lectures/law.html LawBuzz LawBuzz: Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights. (Legal History) http://www.lawbuzz.com/ History on Trial History on Trial: Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from HistoryChannel.com. (Legal History) http://www.historychannel.com/trial The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox 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. (Legal History) http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/448622.html The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in law, history and diplomacy. (Legal History) http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm Bracton's De legibus et consuetudines Angliae Bracton's De legibus et consuetudines Angliae: The Laws and Customs of England, attributed to Henry of Bratton, c. 1210-1268. The first substantial treatise of English law, written in the time of Henry III. This is an electronic full-text version of Samuel Thorne's translationof George Woodbine's coll (Legal History) http://bracton.law.cornell.edu/bracton/Common/index.html John McCaffary and the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Wisconsin 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. (Legal History) http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~sewis/McCaffreyFrame1Source1.htm English Legal History Materials English Legal History Materials: Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston. (Legal History) http://vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/elhmat.html The Women's Legal History Project The Women's Legal History Project: Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges. (Legal History) http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/ A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873. (Legal History) http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html Capital Crime and Federal Justice in Western Missouri Capital Crime and Federal Justice in Western Missouri: An examination of four high profile capital cases, between 1854 and 1956. (Legal History) http://www.geocities.com/mike_donnelly_umkc/main.html LII Supreme Court Collection: Decisions by Justice LII Supreme Court Collection: Decisions by Justice: United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them. (Legal History) http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/judges.htm American Legal History American Legal History: Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration. (Legal History) http://vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html Aztec and Mayan Law Aztec and Mayan Law: A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library. (Legal History) http://www.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec.html Famous American Trials 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. (Legal History) http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/FTrials/ftrials.htm H-Law Discussion Network 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. Site includes information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book (Legal History) http://www.h-net.org/~law/ Ancient Law Ancient Law: Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law. (Legal History) http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maine/anclaw/index.html British Library - Magna Carta British Library - Magna Carta: Translation of the Magna Carta into modern English, intended to convey the sense rather than the precise wording of the original Latin. (Legal History) http://www.bl.uk/collections/treasures/magnatranslation.html Lynette's Legal History page Lynette's Legal History page: British legal history links. (Legal History) http://www.lgu.ac.uk/lawlinks/history.htm Western Legal Tradition Western Legal Tradition: Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England. (Legal History) http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/dgolash/wltlink1.htm Connections Connections: Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law. (Legal History) http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/connect.htm