United States Law

The Law Library has an extensive collection of US Federal, State and local law, dating from the earliest surviving law from British North America, The capitall lawes of New England (1643). The collection is especially rich in editions of colonial law, early laws from the western states, and nineteenth and early twentieth century municipal laws, in particular from New England.

Among the collection is one of the three surviving copies of the first edition of the Utah State constitution, the Constitution of the state of Deseret (1849), a copy of the first edition of the California constitution (1849), and laws of the kingdom of Hawaii.