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  The Women's Legal History Project http://www.stanford.edu/group/WLHP/
Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.
  H-Law Discussion Network http://www.h-net.org/~law/
List covering teaching and research in the history of all legal traditions, although participants generally focus on common-law and other Western systems. Information about the American Society for Legal History, an archive of postings, book reviews and a substantial selection of well-annotated links.
  Code of Hammurabi - The Avalon Project http://avalon.law.yale.edu/subject_menus/hammenu.asp
Translation of the Code of Hammurabi, with commentary.
  Famous American Trials http://www.law.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/ftrials.htm
Accounts, maps, photos, transcript excerpts and other materials relating to famous American trials. Assembled by Professor Douglas Linder, UMKC School of Law.
  Aztec and Mayan Law http://tarlton.law.utexas.edu/rare/aztec.html
A bibliography, with summaries, from the Tarlton Law Library.
  English Legal History Materials http://vi.uh.edu/pages/bob/elhone/elhmat.html
Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.
  Western Legal Tradition http://gurukul.ucc.american.edu/dgolash/wltlink1.htm
Web links to resources on Western law, from ancient Mesopotamia and Egypt through 17th century England.
  The Legal History Project http://www.legalhistory.com/
Promoting an understanding of legal history.
  American Legal History http://vi.uh.edu/pages/alh.html
Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
  Connections http://www.law.pitt.edu/hibbitts/connect.htm
Unannotated links with an emphasis on ancient law, from Bernard J. Hibbitts, University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
  The Forgotten Memoir of John Knox http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/448622.html
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.
  LII Supreme Court Collection: Decisions by Justice http://supct.law.cornell.edu/supct/cases/judges.htm
United States Supreme Court decisions, categorized by the Justice who authored them.
  http://www.lawbuzz.com/ http://www.lawbuzz.com/
Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights.
  LONANG Library http://www.lonang.com/
Presenting historical writings in the natural law tradition.
  John McCaffary and the Abolition of Capital Punishment in Wisconsin http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sewis/McCaffreyFrame1Source1.htm
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.
  History of Law http://www.historyoflaw.info/
Overview of the development of law in various nations and time periods.
  A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/lawhome.html
United States Congressional documents and debates from 1774-1873.
  Ancient Law http://socserv.mcmaster.ca/~econ/ugcm/3ll3/maine/anclaw/index.html
Henry Sumner Maine's 1861 compilation of ancient laws dealing with property, inheritance, crime, and civil law.
  A Century of Lawmaking for a New Nation http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/amlaw/index.html
U.S. Congressional documents and debates from 1774 - 1875.
  History on Trial http://www.history.com/exhibits/trial/index.html
Information and discussion about some of the most famous and controversial trials in American history, from History.com.

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