As many law librarians know, this series delivers primary source documents that trace the evolution of historical and contemporary law in the U.S., Britain, and Europe since the 16th Century. But how

do scholars feel about it? Here’s insight into the value of this rich content to researchers offered by Dr. Alfred Brophy of University of North Carolina School of Law.

Dr. Alfred L. Brophy is a historian of American law, focusing on African-American legal history. He joined the UNC faculty in 2008

and teaches in the fields of property, trusts and estates, and remedies. He has written extensively on the Tulsa riot of 1921, the movement for

reparations for slavery and Jim Crow, contemporary property law and race, and pro-slavery thought in southern universities and in the judiciary.

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When I started graduate school, these books were often only available on microfiche. Access was limited and incomplete. Now I can sit at my desk at midnight and pull up just about any book published on law in the 19th and early 20th Century. The best law library in the world for American legal historians from 1800 to 1920 is available anywhere there’s wifi.

The Making of Modern Law (MOML) covers all of American law from 1800 to the 1920s. There’s constitutional law – central to writing history – and also criminal law and all manner of private law. Class, gender, race, religion, sex, medicine, and technology – it’s all here. Writings of lawyers and judges, and those who criticize them. You could write a lot of American history out of these sources, and I hope people will increasingly do that.

MOML is unique. Other electronic resources lack the rich search function and depth of the many volumes in MOML.

MOML enriches the research experience in three ways: it makes data much more available; it enables researchers to see the complete breadth of knowledge that lawyers had access to in other time periods and allows us to trace ideas; and it helps researchers see the richness and sophistication of legal knowledge, beyond a few well-known texts. MOML will inspire a whole new world of thinkers and ideas.

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This landmark legal history series is composed of eight series:

• The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises, 1800–1926 represents a revolution in historical law research, opening up a wealth of hidden or previously inaccessible sources to scholars and students. This unique digital collection covers the watershed period of legal development during the 19th and early 20th centuries and is the world’s most comprehensive full-text collection of Anglo-American legal treatises of the period.

• The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832–1978 contains the world’s most comprehensive online collection of records and briefs brought before the nation’s highest court by leading legal practitioners — many who later became judges and associates of the court.

• The Making of Modern Law: Trials, 1600–1926 includes unofficially published accounts of trials; official trial documents, briefs and arguments; and official records of legislative proceedings, administrative proceedings and arbitrations.

• The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources, 1620–1926, features the published records of the American colonies, documents published by state constitutional conventions, state codes, city charters, law dictionaries, digests and more.

• The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources II, 1763–1970 supports scholarly work with its United States codes, conventions and compilations, and municipal codes.

• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600–1926, is an invaluable collection of legal treatises, historical records enabling detailed research on centuries of major events of legal history, from public policy and taxation to contract law, sustainable development concerns, and issues of war and peace.

• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600–1970 complements the collection of treatises found in Foreign, Comparative and International Law 1600-192 and provides an interpretive analysis with books on codes, the “primary sources” of law.

• The Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources Part II is comprised of historical legal codes and similar statutory materials, as well as commentaries on codes, drawn from Spain, Portugal, Italy, Latin America, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Africa, and Asia.

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Gale Artemis: Primary Sources

Seven of The Making of Modern Law collections will join the Making of the Modern World, Parts I & II , Sabin Americana, 1500-1926, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, and Nineteenth Century Collections Online in Gale Artemis: Primary Sources in 2014. With over 400 years of primary sources in one place, enhanced by new tools and functionality, Gale Artemis: Primary Sources is absolutely unmatched in the possibilities it will present for scholarly research.