Primary Sources

Collection of Congressional materials, including hearings, documents, reports, committee prints, with coverage primarily from 1824 to present. Also contains the Serial Set and maps from 1789 to present.

This collection contains the records and briefs brought before the US Supreme Court by leading legal practitioners. It includes transcripts, applications for review, motions, petitions, supplements, and other official papers.

This collection includes regulations, session laws, journals, and codes and commentaries. Topics focus on the administration of justice, civil procedure, commercial law, criminal law and procedure, customary law, forestry and agricultural law, maritime law and military law, among others.

This collection features books that compare more than one legal system, with focus on common law and civil law systems as well as Talmudic, Islamic, and indigenous legal systems, plus Roman and canon law in various languages. Topics cover various legal fields, including civil, commercial, constitutional, contract, criminal, and tort law, as well as issues in jurisprudence and procedure and legal diplomacy.

This archive covers nearly every aspect of American and British law, encompassing an array of the analytical, theoretical, and practical literature for research in U.S. and British legal history. It features casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other works from the most influential writers and legal thinkers of the time.

Covers a vast range of legal history from the beginnings of the modern period to the early 20th century, with a comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American trials. Users will find published trial transcripts; popular printed accounts of sensational trials for murder, adultery, and other scandalous crimes; unofficially published accounts of trials, briefs, arguments, and more.