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New - The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises
We are very excited to introduce The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, an essential electronic database containing over 21,000 individual titles.
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926, or MOML for short, is the premier full text digital collection of British and American legal treatises from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a period that saw an explosion in legal literature. For example, in 1810, only eighteen volumes of American reports had been published. By mid-century, there were 800, and by 1900 about 8,000.
In response, lawyers and law professors increased their output of treatises (writings about the law) in order to gain an overview of the law and to cope with its complexity and rapid change. MOML brings these writings to you. The major works of all of the key legal thinkers of the era may be found in the collection, including Blackstone, Blake, Brandeis, Chitty, Hale, Holmes, Lawson, Locke, Palgrave, Phillipps, Pound, Saunders, Selden, Story, Wharton and dozens more.
Digitized Images of Every Page of Every Work
Every page of every work is provided as an image of the original document. Over 10.6 million pages have been digitized and made available through The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises. The majority of the Nineteenth Century works are from Harvard University, with additional titles provided by Yale University, York University and Columbia University. Harvard and Yale provided most of the Twentieth Century Legal Treaties, but 21 other institutions in the United States and Britain contributed small numbers of titles.
Works include treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, speeches and more. Nearly every aspect of American and British law is included in MOML. Subjects covered include business, constitutional law, copyrights, patents and trademarks, family law, natural resourses, labor and social welfare, legal education, military justice, real property and much more.
Individual pages may be printed from within the browser or as PDFs. You can also print or download up to 50 pages at a time as PDFs.
Full-Text Searching
Not only does The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises enable researchers to access never-before-available materials, but its state-of-the-art keyword search capabilities make research far more convenient and generates comprehensive, fast full-text results.
Full boolean searching (and, or, not) is available from the default basic search and made easy through the advanced search page. Advanced search also allows you to limit your search to specific indexed fields (author, title, subject, geographic subject, etc.), as well as by date, topic, language or to illustrations.
You may browse the collection by authors or works. Plus, you can search within an individual work.
Off-Campus Access
The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises is available from on-campus to all, and from off-campus to Lewis & Clark Law School students, faculty and staff using their L&C e-mail usernames and passwords. Just use the links in this spotlight, or use the off-campus link for Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises on our Databases page.
Law school alums, members of the College and Graduate School, and all library visitors will find full access to The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises at the legal research stations available in the Boley Law Library.
MOML may also be searched through our 360 Search service, and direct links to all titles will shortlly be available in the library catalog.
Give The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 a try and search the most comprehensive full-text digital collection of American, British and Commonwealth legal treatises of the Nineteenth and early Twentieth Centuries.
