The Making of Modern Law, Online Collection Now Available
The Making of Modern Law, Legal Treatises 1800-1926
Making of Modern Law, a new e-resource, invaluable to all students and scholars of legal history, was just launched. This database of 19th and 20th century legal treatises was compiled largely from Harvard Law School Library’s own Special Collections. Texts were selected by consulting a number of bibliographies, and a few advisors, including David Ferris, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts.
Making of Modern Law comprises over 21,000 fully searchable works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law, with 14,900 titles from the nineteenth century and 7,100 titles from the years 1900 to 1926. It covers nearly every aspect of law, encompassing a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature, some very rare. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.
The new database offers a fully searchable, digital version of many of HLS Special Collections’ Anglo-American treatises from the 19th and 20th centuries. Other contributing libraries included Yale, York University in Toronto, and Columbia University.
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