Wednesday, January 25, 2012

Legal History Databases

Are you interested in legal history or trying to track down a classic work in a particular are of law for your paper? The library subscribes to a database with several modules called the Making of Modern Law (MOML). These are available remotely to current SCOL students, faculty and staff. Other patrons may access these databases from the public access terminals on Level 2 & Level 3 of the Law Library.


For researchers of American legal history, Primary Sources is a fully searchable digital archive of the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.


Provides digital images of every page of 22,000 legal treatises on US and British law published from 1800 through 1926. Full-text searching on more than 10 million pages provides researchers access to critical legal history in ways not previously possible.


Historical trial accounts and official documents covering famous cases as well as everyday events in U.S & British courts. Primary source material also includes some legislative and administrative proceedings.


U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs contains the world's most comprehensive online collection of records and briefs brought before the nation's highest court by leading legal practitioners. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements and other official papers of the most-studied and talked-about cases, including many that resulted in landmark decisions.

Written by Patty
Wellinger, Reference Services Coordinator