The Law Library has just licensed two new products available to University of Iowa students and staff:

The Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926
The Treatises are derived from two essential reference collections for historical studies and from more recent legal works: the Nineteenth-Century Legal Treatises and Twentieth-Century Legal Treatises microfilm collections. Legal Treatises comprise over 21,000 works from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries on British Commonwealth and American law, with 14,900 titles from the nineteenth century and 7,100 titles from the years 1900-1926. This resource covers nearly every aspect of law, encompassing a range of analytical, theoretical, and practical literature, some of which is very rare. The monographs and materials in Legal Treatises include casebooks, local practice manuals, books on legal form, works for lay readers, pamphlets, letters, and speeches.

The Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978
This collection features a fully searchable database of roughly 11 million pages, with more than 350,000 separate documents. Approximately 150,000 Supreme Court cases are included. The majority consist of those for which the Court did not give a full opinion. Materials are derived from the holdings of the Jenkins Memorial Law Library, America’s first law library (1832-1915), as well as the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York (1915-1978).