Full-Text Sources

• The Avalon Project, Yale Law School: "Digital documents relevant to the fields of Law, History, Economics, Politics, Diplomacy and Government," ranging from the Code of Hammurabi to Magna Carta, the Articles of Confederation, the Treaty of Guadalupe-Hidalgo, and the Nuremberg War Crimes Trials. All documents transcribed and/or translated in modern English.
• The Constitution of the United States of America, Analysis and Interpretation: Annotations of Cases Decided by the Supreme Court of the United States to June 29, 1992: provided by the Library of Congress' Congressional Research Service, in cooperation with the U.S. Senate and Government Printing Office (GPO). The volume is both searchable and browsable, and contains annotated references to Supreme Court decisions in their constitutional context. It is arranged by article and amendment and is available in both plain-text and Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) formats.
• History of Economic Thought, McMasters University: Includes the full text of selected works by such prominent legal scholars as Cesare Beccaria, Jeremy Bentham, Matthew Hale, Henry Sumner Maine, Frederic Maitland, and Paul Vinogradoff.
• Oyez Oyez Oyez: digitized audio recordings of U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments, from 1955 onward; updated regularly.
• Roman Law: An experimental site, containing two extracts from the Corpus Iuris Iustiniani with hypertext links to the corresponding glosses of Accursius. Also present are biographical sketches of a few major Roman law writers. Maintained by Thomas Rufner, University of Tuebingen.
• Supreme Court Decisions, 1937-1975: full text of decisions, searchable, at the Government Printing Office's web site. "The database is made available to the public as a finding aid to the 'official' version in the United States Reports, therefore, GPO does not guarantee the authenticity or completeness of the data."
• Supreme Court Opinions, 1937-Present: Cases are browsable by volume number or year; searchable by citation, title and full text of the opinions; and also include hypertext links. On the Findlaw site, maintained by the Northern California Assn. of Law Librarians.
• The World Wide Legal Information Association, History of Law Section offers the full text of the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the 1689 English Bill of Rights (as of 20 Nov. 1996). Also available are a legal history time line and a "LAW Hall of Fame." All material on the WWLIA site is prepared by lawyers.