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- HeinOnline Core Collection This link opens in a new windowIncludes English statutes and case reports from the 13th century on, early American case law (1700s to 1920s), classic legal treatises from the 18th and 19th centuries, and Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law.Available on campus to all, or off-campus to UMass Amherst students, staff and faculty with an UMass Amherst IT NetID (user name) and password.
Selected recent publications
- Self-Evident Truths: Contesting Equal Rights From the Revolution to the Civil War by Richard D. BrownCall Number: e-BookISBN: 9780300227628Publication Date: 2017
- Inventing American Exceptionalism: The Origins of American Adversarial Legal Culture, 1800-1877 by Amalia D. KesslerCall Number: e-BookISBN: 9780300224849Publication Date: 2017
- The Origins of Reasonable Doubt: Theological Roots of the Criminal Trial by James Q. WhitmanCall Number: e-BookISBN: 9780300150100Publication Date: 2008
- Trespassing: An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land by John Hanson MitchellCall Number: e-BookISBN: 9781611687750Publication Date: 2015
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