B-5 LEGAL HISTORY FROM THE REFERENCE DESK CONNECTING THE PAST TO TODAY’S INFORMATION NEEDS.pdf

B-5: LEGAL HISTORY FROM THE REFERENCE DESK: CONNECTING THE PAST TO TODAY’S INFORMATION NEEDS AALL 2002 ANNUAL MEETING JULY 21, 2002 I. WEB SITES The Selden Society (in the U.K. http://www.selden-society.qmw.ac.uk ; in the U.S. /programs/selden_society/main.html) and the Ames Foundation /programs/ames_foundation/main.html both reprint early source materials with translations, commentary, indexes, and other useful tools. The web sites list publications and ordering information. The Lawbook Exchange sells antiquarian law books and also reprints legal classics. The Avalon Project at the Yale Law School: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy /lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm includes texts of classics such as Blackstone’s Commentaries. The Constitution Society (click on “Liberty Library of Constitutional Classics”) includes classic works including Bouvier’s Law Dictionary (1856 edition). Early English Books Online /eebo is a digitization of the UMI microform set and contains facsimiles of many titles listed in bibliographies such as the STC (1475-1640); texts can be enlarged more than 400%. Guide to Legal History Resources on the Web /rare/legalhis.htm from the Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library. H-LAW, a site sponsored by the American Society for Legal History, includes links to English legal history materials /~law/websites.htm#English. Legal History and Rare Books SIS /sis/lhrb includes links to legal history web sites. Medieval Legal History /halsall/sbook-law.html is part of the Internet History Source Book Project /halsall. Several English universities have web pages with links to legal history documents including British Legal History: Selected Links on the Web