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.
Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.
Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
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.
An examination of four high profile capital cases, between 1854 and 1956.
Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law.
Introduction to medievel legal history.
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 reviews and a substantial selection of well-annotated links.
Translation of the Magna Carta into modern English, intended to convey the sense rather than the precise wording of the original Latin.
A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
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