Legal Research Guides by Course - American Legal History
Course Description
This course is designed to acquaint the student with the historical development of American Law. This course blends topical and chronological approaches. For the most part, the emphases are placed on the evolution of the meaning of property, contract, and torts within the American environment and, in particular, as these discrete subjects were influenced by the Industrial Revolution. (2 credits) Paper
Subject Covered Presently in Collection by:
Print Collection
KF350-KF374 History
Legal Research Databases
- Proquest Congressional
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises
- FDSys
- Westlaw and Lexis
- HeinOnline
- Documents of American Legal History
- American Society for Legal History
- American Legal History (michaelariens.com)
- Web Resources for American Legal History
- American Journal of Legal History (current issue)
- Legal History Blog
- American Legal History Online Resources (U. Chicago Law Library)
- The Most Important Cases, Speeches, Laws & Documents in American History
Gumberg Databases
DCLI Webpage Links
- Primary Legal Research: Statutory Law, Administrative Law, Constitutions (contains quick links to our statutes, our administrative codes and our constitutions)
- Legal Research Guides: Legislative History (Federal)
9/13/2012
Patricia Horvath