Legal History
Websites
Avalon Project at Yale
Law School
This is a huge legal history website covering pre 18th century documents to the
present day in the fields of law, history and diplomacy. Documents are listed
alphabetically within chronological sequence, but may be searched by author, title,
subject, collection or keyword.
British Legal History
Hosted at Cambridge University this is an excellent chronologically ordered site
of web pages and fulltext documents tracing the history of the common law from
Anglo Saxon times to the 19th century.
Macquarie Projects
Decisions of the Superior Courts
of New South Wales, 1788-1899
The site presently documents over 1,000 cases culled primarily from newspaper
reports, and is searched by case index in blocks of years and a subject index
broken down into 2 periods of the early Chief Justices - Forbes and Dowling. A
separate collection of Aboriginal cases is also available. The site is also available
on Austlii and there benefits from keyword
searching.
Decisions of the Ninetheenth Century
Tasmanian Superior Courts
Created by Stefan Petrow and Bruce Kercher, this site contains Tasmania superior
court cases from 1824 with case and subject indexes, similar to its sister site
- Decisions of the Superior Courts of the New South Wales.
Journals
Australian journal of legal history
Journal of legal history
Law and history review
Other publications
Selden Society publications
Founded in 1887 by Frederic William Maitland the Selden Society is the only society
and publisher devoted entirely to English legal history. The Law Library holds
all the works of the Selden Society (listed and catalogued) in Stack 41 (Lower
ground floor).
Australian legal history
Law and history in Australia v.1-5 (selected papers from the Law in History
Conference)
Law Books KL416 L415
Bennett & Castles. A source book of Australian legal history : source materials
from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries (1979)
Law Books KL416 B471s
Castles. Annotated bibliography of printed materials on Australian law, 1788-1900
(1994)
Law books KL416 B471s
Castles. An Australian legal history (1982)
Law Books KL416 C353a
Castles. An introduction to Australian legal history (1971)
Law Books KL416 C353i
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