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• - Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Promoting an understanding of legal history.
  
• - Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
  
• - Documents in law, history and diplomacy.
  
• - 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
  
• - Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.
  
• - United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873.
  
• - 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.
  
• - Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
  
• - An examination of four high profile capital cases, between 1854 and 1956.
  
• - 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
  
• - British legal history links.
  
• - Translation of the Magna Carta into modern English, intended to convey the sense rather than the precise wording of the original Latin.
  
• - Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from HistoryChannel.com.
  
• - A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
  
• - Accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to famous American trials. Assembled by Professor Douglas Linder, UMKC School of Law.
  
• - Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England.
  
• - Presenting historical writings in the natural law tradition.
  
• - United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them.
  
• - Introduction to medievel legal history.
  
• - Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.
  
• - Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law.
  
• - Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights.