American Legal History Research Guide -
University of Chicago and Chicago Area
Libraries and Archives (PDF)

General guides

• Legal History pages created by U.S. Law Professors
• History Resources at Regenstein Library
• University of Chicago Law School Legal History Page

Full-text Archives

• Full text history journals available at U of C
• The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School - Documents in Law, History, and Diplomacy
• The National Archives
• Illinois Labor History Society
• The Federalist Papers and Chronology of U.S. Historical Documentsat Oklahoma
• TheFederalist Papers in hypertext, along with the Constitution and other historic documents atEmory
• A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation: U.S. Congressional Documents and Debates, 1774-1873. American Memory Project, Library of Congress - full text and images of the Annals of Congress, Serial Set, Statutes at Large, Congressional Globe, and other records of Congress
• Bracton on the Laws and Customs of England
• Law Museum - from Duhaime & Co. - timetable of world history, full text of historic English and American legal documents
• Canadian Legal History - from Duhaime & Co.

Roman Law

• Roman Law Home page at Uni Saarbrücken -- the home page for IusRomanum, the Roman Law mailing list, introductory information on Roman Law (in German), Justinian's Digest in hypertext form, and links to other roman law sites.
• Roman Law Resources edited by Ernest Metzger, University of Aberdeen, Scotland. The site includes a Directory of Historians of Ancient law, a listing of second-hand bookshops that carry Roman law titles, links to the full text of sources and literature, and corrections to the 1985 English translation of Justinian's Digest (users are also invited to submit corrections if they wish)
• Internet Sites of Interest to Classicists
• The Internet Classics Archive