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Law: Legal History

The hub for the Bodleian Law Library's online subject guides

Purpose of these guides

These guides are intended for students and researchers studying law at the University of Oxford, although students and researchers from any field may find it useful.

These guides include sources which require an Oxford Single Sign On (Oxford SSO) but also, where possible, provide links to reliable sources available on the free web which only require access to the internet.

History of Common Law Tradition/Anglo-American Legal Tradition

The Bodleian Law Library is where you can find most of the Bodleian's collection of print resources for the legal history of the British Isles and its constituent jurisdictions.

The following Law Bod guides to individual jurisdictions in the common law tradition have a page on their legal history

Interested in history of other legal systems?

Guides to foreign jurisdictions which include a page on domestic legal history: