The Making of Modern Law

The Law Library has recently acquired The Making of Modern Law (MOML):

MOML is a fully searchable collection of 19th and 20th century British Commonwealth and American law that includes 14,900 titles covering the 19th century and 7,100 titles covering 1900-1926. It comprises a wide range of legal treatises, casebooks, local practice manuals, form books, pamphlets, letters, speeches, and other historical legal works, some of which are extremely rare. The database preserves illustrations, hand-written notes, etc. For more information about MOML, see the Gale/Thomson information page.

Below are just a few examples of material available in MOML:

• Ordronaux, John. On hallucinations consistent with reason
• Á Beckett, Gilbert Abbott. The comic Blackstone : with illustrations by George Cruikshank./ London, 1846
• Woman’s Rights Convention (1855 : Boston, Mass.). Reports on the laws of New England : presented to the New England meeting [of the Woman’s Rights Convention] convened at the Meionaon, Sept. 19 ...
• Lincoln, Abraham. Political debates between Abraham Lincoln and Stephen A. Douglas in the celebrated campaign of 1858 in Illinois.