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- Lynette's Legal History page - British legal history links.
- The Legal History Project - Promoting an understanding of legal history.
- H-Law Discussion Network - 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.
- American Legal History - Documents from American legal history, with commentary and questions for your consideration.
- LawBuzz - Stories of famous (and infamous) trials and legal events, with commentary, political cartoons, and information about legal history and legal rights.
- Gender and Legal History in America Papers - Large collection of papers on the subject of the legal history of gender from the founding days of the U.S. through the 1970s. Copies of unpublished papers are available to any faculty member of a college, university or other educational institution interested in the legal history of gender in America. Site includes paper indexes and the procedue for obtaining papers.
- University of Pennsylvania Legal History Consortium - Promotes interdisciplinary research, scholarship and education in law and history, with a focus on the American legal past. Conference and speakers series information, paper submission guidelines, affiliated faculty, and research resources available.
- English Legal History Materials - Materials for a history course presented at the University of Houston.
- Legal History and Philosophy - Quotes from important persons, texts and documents, in the area of legal history and philosophy.
- The Women's Legal History Project - Detailed biographies of over 100 early women lawyers and judges.
Wikipedia Articles
- Legal history - Legal history or the history of law is the study of how law has evolved and why it changed. Legal history is closely connected to the development of civilizations and is set in the wider context of social history.
- Legal history of marijuana in the United States - The legal history of marijuana in the United States mainly involves the 20th and 21st centuries. In the 1800s, marijuana (also referred to as cannabis) was legal in most states, as hemp to make items such as rope, sails, and clothes, and was used for medicinal purposes; however, after the ...
- Kermit L. Hall - Kermit Lance Hall (August 31, 1944 – August 13, 2006) was a noted legal history scholar. He is the author of American Legal History and The Magic Mirror, both his books on legal history.
- Malaysian legal history - Malaysian legal history has been determined by events spanning a period of some six hundred years. Of these, three major periods were largely responsible for shaping the current Malaysian system.
- Women's Legal History Biography Project - The Stanford Law School Robert Crown Library Staff in collaboration with Professor Barbara Babcock and her students have created a Women's Legal History Biography Project website as a resource for all who are interested in the subject of women lawyers in the United States. Its main tool is biography, a study of the lives of the individual women lawyers, and the movements and philosophies that inspired and sustained them.