Looking for a historical treatise in international law? Or perhaps the German Civil Code from the 18th Century? Check out two new recent supplements to  The Making of Modern Law* collection, giving you the opportunity to search a vast amount historical materials in foreign, comparative, and international law.

Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600 -1926 provides access to historical treatises, records, and other secondary legal materials dating back to the 17th century. These materials are derived from the collections at Yale Law Library, George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library, covering foreign and international law, religious law, and ancient law.

Complimenting the historical treatises collection is Making of Modern Law: Foreign Primary Sources, 1600-1970. This database offers access to historical and superceded legal codes, statutes, regulations and commentaries of codes from the UK, France, Germany, as well as several otherl Northern and Eastern European Countries. The legal codes are available in English, Dutch, French, German, Irish, and Italian.

Making of Modern Law databases are accessible to UW Madison users anywhere.

 *NOTE: all of the Making Modern Law modules the law library has access to can be found via this link to our database list.

Submitted by Sunil Rao, on September 26, 2018

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