There is an enormous and growing number of digital resources that support research and teaching in legal history. We welcome suggestions for links to include at this page. To recommend a resource or to report a broken link, please contact us.
General
Legal History Project
The Legal History Project, created by Peter Hansen, includes directories of societies, programs, and online resources related to legal history.
Legal History on the Web
Legal History on the Web is an annotated overview of online legal history resources in English, from all historical periods and regions of the world. It is maintained by the Triangle Legal History Seminar at Duke University.
Historical Societies
Irish Legal History Society
The Irish Legal History Society’s mission is to encourage the study and advance the knowledge of the history of Irish law, especially by the publication of original documents and scholarly works relating to the history of Irish law, including its institutions, doctrines and personalities, and the reprinting or editing of works of sufficient rarity or importance.
Welsh Legal History Society
The Welsh Legal History Society exists to spread knowledge of, and promote research into, the rich history of law in Wales.
Southern African Society of Legal Historians
The Southern African Society of Legal Historians brings together academics who share an interest in legal history generally, and in particular in the legal history of South Africa.
Stair Society
The Stair Society is Scotland’s leading legal history society.
Selden Society
The Selden Society is the leading learned society and publisher devoted to English legal history.
Osgoode Society
The Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History publishes books on Canadian legal history, and creates and maintains an oral history archive.
United States Supreme Court Historical Society
The United States Supreme Court Historical Society supports historical research into the U.S. Supreme Court and conducts educational programs and programs of interest to legal practitioners, scholars, and the general public. A number of other U.S. federal courts also maintain active historical societies.
Institutional Centers
Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
The Max Planck Institute for European Legal History is a research hub for scholarship on legal history in Europe and beyond.