The Making of Modern Law:

Legal Treatises 1800-1926

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The Making of Modern Law is a fully searchable database of approximately 10 million pages and more than 21,000 works from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law for research in British and United States legal history. The works, derived primarily from the special collections at Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and York University in Toronto, cover every aspect of law and encompass a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature, with many being quite rare and generally unavailable at USC or anywhere in the southern California. The types of works included are classic treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and others.

The content is divided into 99 separate areas, allowing researchers to focus their search on keywords or phrases, full text, author, title, date, subject, source library, and more. The records can also be navigated by entering a specific page number or by using a list on the side of the screen to navigate between pages with matches for a specific search term.