New Database: The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926

Monday, February 7, 2011 @ 2:07 pm

Posted by Janis Fusaris

The library now subscribes to The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620-1926.

This database is a fully searchable digital archive of over 1,300 titles sourced primarily from the Lillian Goldman Law Library at Yale University. It includes:

  • a comprehensive collection of early codes and code-like compilations from all the states

  • state constitutional conventions and compilations, including reports, journals, proceedings, and debates, as well as supplementary documents such as manuals and rules of order

  • texts of enacted and proposed city charters, along with opinions of legal city officers

  • all major American law dictionaries, with coverage up to 1926

  • the published records of the American colonies

You can access the database here.

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