Litchfield Unbound: Unlocking Legal History with Metadata, Digitization, and Digital Tools

Notebooks written by students at the Litchfield Law School are among the primary sources for understanding the influence of English law in this country. The notebooks provide rich documentation of how the common law and elements of English law were presented, explained, and compared with American la...

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Published in:Law and history review 2016-11, Vol.34 (4), p.831-855
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