American Legal History
Resources
College of Law Research Center Workshop
Spring 2009
by
Jon Lutz
Florida State University College of Law Research Center
Databases
Florida State University College of Law Research Center
The Making of Modern Law
To access, go to the law library web page click on Research Resources ,
click on Complete List of Law and Law-Related Databases, choose the
Making of Modern Law
Florida State University College of Law Research Center
MOML
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Fully searchable
10.6 million pages
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Available 24/7
99 Separate subject areas
comprehensive full-text collection of
British, Commonwealth and American legal
treatises from 1800 - 1926
Florida State University College of Law Research Center
The Making of Modern Law
Legal-Treatises 1800-1926
Legal Treatises comprises over 21,000 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 collection is of
interest to scholars and patrons interested in domestic and international
law, legal history, business and economics, politics and government,
national defense, criminology, religion, education, labor and social
welfare, and military justice.
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Content
• Covers all aspects of American and British
Commonwealth Law
• Includes: procedural law, commercial law,
constitutional law, real property, biography,
criminal law, family law, taxation and public
finance, administration of justice and
administration law, politics and government, and
general studies in the law
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MOML
• Basic Search
• Keyword, Subject, Author, Title, Full Text
• Advanced Search
• Subject, Author, Title, Full Text, Person as
Subject, Geographical Subject, Front Matter, Main
Text, Indexes, Publisher, Place of publication,
Number of Pages, Illustrations
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• W4 = word within four words in order
• N4 = word within four words regardless of order
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(ECCO)
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online is based on The English Short Title
Catalogue, a machine-readable union list of the holdings of the British
Library, as well as those from more than 1,500 university, private and
public libraries worldwide. This includes over 150,000 English-language
titles and editions published between 1701-1800. This online collection is
divided into seven subject areas: history and geography; social science and
fine arts; medicine, science and technology; literature and language;
religion and philosophy; law; and reference.
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ECCO
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(ECCO)
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ECCO and MOML
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Eighteenth Century Collections Online
(ECCO)
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U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs,
1832-1978
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U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
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HeinOnline Legal Classics Library
http://heinonline.org/
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Heinonline – Legal Classics
Library
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Law Library Microform
Consortium
• LLMC is a non-profit cooperative serving member libraries' needs for
preservation, space recovery, and collection development on film and online. In its first 27 years of operation, it filmed over 7,500 titles, some
90,000 volumes, of interest to researchers in law and history. Its
backfile comprises the world's largest collection of
legal literature and government documents in
microform. That backfile, and future filming of some 10,000 volumes
per year, are being made available for on-line access on this web site.
http://www.llmcdigital.org/
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Law Library Microform Consortium
http://www.llmcdigital.org/Default.aspx
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LLMCdigital
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LLMC Digital
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LLMCdigital
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Early American Imprints, Series I
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Printing
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Early American Imprints, Series II
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U.S. Congressional Serial Set
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Subject Areas
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Congressional Serial Set – Annual Report
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Google Books
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Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text and
Retrospective
• Covers the most important English language legal information,
with international coverage and access to scholarly articles,
symposia, jurisdictional surveys, court decisions, legislation,
books, book reviews, and more. Coverage dates: Indexing
1908+, Abstracting 1990+, select Full Text 1995+
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Index to Legal Periodicals Full Text and
Retrospective
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HeinOnline: Law Journal Library
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JSTOR
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United States Supreme Court Digest, 1754
to Date
• KF101.1.U5
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American State Trials
• An index to the American state trials
KF220.L3 Index
• American state trials KF220.L3 1914a
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U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs
• In the Research Center Micromaterials Room
Mif 30
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Lexis and Westlaw Federal Cases
• Lexis - Federal Cases before 1945
• Westlaw – all Federal and State cases before
1945.
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Statutes at Large and more
• http://www.gpoaccess.gov/legislative.html
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Legislative History
• Heinonline
• Lexis
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Prestatehood Legal Materials
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Prestatehood Legal Materials
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