Links for students of comparative legal history | Timothy Lubin
Religious Conceptions of Law
General / Comparative
Religious Legal Systems: A Brief Guide to Research and Its Role in Comparative Law (Marylin Johnson Raisch, NYU)
Jewish Law
An Interactive
Page of Talmud
Jewish Law: Examining Halacha,
Jewish Issues and Secular Law
The Soncino Babylonian
Talmud (translated into English)
Jewish
Law - Medieval Sourcebook and Project Genesis (Paul
Halsall, Fordham University)
Canon Law
Code of Canon Law
(Vatican)
"Canon Law" in the
Catholic Encyclopedia
CanonLaw.info (Edward Peters, lay canon
lawyer and seminarian)
Canon Law in the Anglican Communion
On the Trial of Jeanne d'Arc:
The Trial of
Jeanne d'Arc - Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham
University)
Joan of Arc:
Primary Sources Series (Historical Academy for Joan of Arc Studies)
Joan of
Arc Archive, with
Bibliography
Joan of Arc Trial Transcripts (Gavel2Gavel.com)
Islamic Law (Shari'ah)
Islamic Law
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
Compendium of Muslim Texts
(University of Southern California), including:
Islamic Law
Sunnah and
Hadith
Sources of Islamic
Law - Wikipedia
Islamic Banking -
Wikipedia
Hindu Law (Dharmaśāstra)
Bibliography of
Hindu Law & Dharmaśāstra
Dharmashastra (Alois
Payer [in German])
Hindu Law - Wikipedia
Images of the S. Indian choultry and its offshoots:
The choultry of South India (image
1) (image
2)
The kerta of
Bali, Indonesia
The ambalama of Sri Lanka
Modern Indian Law
India: A
Legal Research Guide (U. Wisc.)
Constitution of India
Constituent Assembly
Constituent
Assembly Debates
(1946-50)
Parliament of India
India Code (Acts of Parliament since 1836)
Judgments of the Courts
Legislative Bodies in India
Buddhist Law
Pali
Buddhist Monastic Code [Vinaya] (Access to Insight)
Vinaya Texts
Translated from the Pali, Pt. I |
Pt. II |
Pt. III by T. W. Rhys Davids and Hermann Oldenberg (Sacred-Texts.com)
Discipline and Conventions of
Theravada Buddhist Renunciate Communities: A Guide for the Western Sangha (a
summary of the code)
Sparks' Code of Burmese Law (Henry M Lütter, 1887)
Publications of Andrew
Huxley (SOAS, Law)
Asian Human Rights Commission statement on improper defrocking of a
Cambodian monk
Legal Conceptions of Religion
Databases of Decisions and Codes
AltLaw (beta): A
free, full-text searchable database of Supreme Court and Federal Appellate case
reports and the U. S. Code
LII - Legal Information Institute
(Cornell Law School): Similar, and also free.
LexisNexis: not free (WLU affiliates can log in on the University account
via the
Leyburn Library page or
Law Library research page)
WestLaw: not free (WLU Law School
affiliates can log in on the University account via the
Law Library research page)
'Exploring Constitutional Conflicts' pages (Doug Linder,
UMKC):
Introduction to the Establishment Clause
Free Exercise of Religion
Prayer in the Public Schools
Financial Aid to Religious Schools
Theocracy Issues: Looking for Secular Purposes
Religious Symbols in Public Places
Student-Initiated Religious Speech
Laws Burdening Religiously-Motivated Conduct
History of Law
Ancient and Medieval Law
Medieval Legal History
- Internet Medieval Sourcebook (Paul Halsall, Fordham University)
Ancient Laws
(Gavel2Gavel.com)
Modern Europe
Guide d'Histoire du Droit (Luke Au Yeung, doctoral student, University
of Paris I)
Histoire du Droit (histoiredudroit.org,
Jacques Foviaux)
Histoire du Droit -
Wikipedia (focused on French law)
