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Webpages useful for the study of legal history 

Research Centers and Institutes

Ius Commune - Grupo de Pesquisa em História da Cultura Jurídica - UFSC

Centro di Studi per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno - Università degli Studi di Firenze

Max Planck Institut für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte

Institute für Rechtsgeschichte (Goethe Universität Frankfurt am Main)

Institut für Rechts- und Verfassungsgeschichte (University of Vienna)

Institut d'Histoire du Droit (Université Paris 2 - Pantheón Assas)

Centre Aquitain d'Histoire du Droit - Université de Bordeaux

Centre d'Histoire du Droit et d'Antropologie Juridique - Université Libre de Bruxelles

Département d'histoire du droit et des doctrines juridiques et politiques - Université de Genève

Institute for Legal History (University of Ghent)

Department of History of Law (Uniersity of Gdansk)

Centre d'Histoire du Droit et de la Justice (Université Catholique de Louvain)

Institut d'Histoire du Droit (Montpellier)

Institut für Römisches Recht und Rechtsgeschichte (University of Innsbruck)

Centre for Legal History (University of Edinburgh)

Legal History at Glasgow

Institutet för Rättshistorisk Forskning grundat av Gustav och Carin Olin (Suécia)

Berg Foundation Institute for Law and History (Tel Aviv University)

Leopold-Wenger-Institut für Rechtsgeschichte (University of Munich)

Intitut für Deutsche und Rheinische Rechtsgeschichte (University of Bonn)

Intitut für Römisches Recht und Vergleichende Rechtsgeschichte (University of Bonn)

Zentrum für rechtsgeschichtliche Forschung (University of Zürich)

Law, Society and Historical Change Research Group (Oslo University)

Centre for Mediaeval and Early Modern Law and Literature (Universities of St. Andrews, Oxford and Cambridge)

I-HILT, Institute for the History of International Law (Tilburg University)

Institute for Legal History and Comparative Legal History (University of Freiburg)

Institut für geschichtliche Rechtswissenchaft (Universität Heidelberg)

Centre For Law and History (University of Bristol)

Associations

Journals

Quaderni Fiorentini per la Storia del Pensiero Giuridico Moderno

Rechtsgeschichte

Comparative Legal History

Giornale di Storia Costituzionale

Revista de Historia del Derecho (Argentina)

Revista de Estudios Historico-Juridicos (Chile)

Forum Historiae Iuris - Erste Europäiche Internet Zeitschrift für Rechtsgeschichte

Tijdschrift voor Rechtsgeschiedenis / Revue d'Histoire du Droit 

Italian Review of Legal History

Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte

Law and History Review (EUA)

American Journal of Legal History

Crime, Histoire & Sociétés

Revista Mexicana de Historia del Derecho

Revista Historia y Justicia (Chile)

Revista Chilena de Historia del Derecho

Fundamina (Southern African Society of Legal Historians)

Clio@Themis: Revue Électronique d'Histoire du Droit

Glossae - European Journal of Legal History (Universidad de Valencia)

Rivista di Storia del Diritto Italiano

Diacronìa: Rivista di Storia di Filosofia del Diritto

Quaderno di Storia del Penale e della Giustizia

Revue Historique de Droit Français et Étranger

The Journal of Legal History

Administory - Journal for the History of Public Administration

Journal of the History of International Law

Revue d'histoire des facultés de droit et de la culture juridique

Beiträge zur Rechtsgeschichte Österreichs

Historia et Ius - Rivista di Storia Giuridica dell'età Medievale e Moderna

Materiali per una Storia della Cultura Giuridica

Vergentis (Espanha)

Anuario de Historia del Derecho Español

Journal of Southern Legal History

e-Legal History Review: Studia Legaliae Hispanica Rescripta

Cuadernos de Historia del Derecho (Espanha)

Initium: Revista catalana d'historia del dret

Historia Constitucional (Espanha) 

Comentationes Historiae Ivris Helveticae

Law & History (Austrália)

Journal on European History of Law

Memoires de la Société pour l'Histoire du Droit et des institutions des anciens pays bourguignons, comtois et romands

Histoire de la Justice

Revista Justiça & História

Passagens – Revista Internacional de História Política e Cultura Jurídica (UFF)

Zeitschrift für Neuere Rechtsgeschichte (Áustria)

Rechtskultur - Zeitschrift für Europäische Rechtsgeschichte (Alemanha)

Revista de la Inquisición 

Legal History Review (Japão)

California Legal History

Ius Gentium: Journal of International Legal History

Unbound: a Review of Legal History and Rare Books

Western Legal History

Pro Memorie. Bijdragen tot de rechtsgeschiedenis der Nederlanden

Bulletin of Medieval Cannon Law (EUA)

Rivista Internazionale di Diritto Comune

Cahiers Jean Moulin

C@hiers du CRHIDI

Krakowskie Studia z Historii Państwa i Prawa (Cracow Studies of Constitutional and Legal History)

Legal History (Australia)

Studia et Documenta Historiae et Ius

Miscellanea Historico-Iuridica

PrávnÄ›historické studie

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Terminated:

Ius Commune

Interpretatio: Revista de Historia del Derecho (Espanha)

Massachussets Legal History

Byblos: Revista de Historiografía Historico-Juridica

Codex: boletín de la Ilustre Sociedad Andaluza de Estudios Histórico-Jurídicos

Jahrbuch für europäische Verwaltungsgeschichte

Rechts-historisches Journal

The Journal of Asian Legal History

Australasian Colonial Legal History Library

South Asian Legal History Resources

Others

Brazilian sources and databases

Biblioteca digital do Senado

Biblioteca digital do STF

Biblioteca digital do STJ

Biblioteca digital da Câmara dos Deputados

Hemeroteca Digital da Biblioteca Nacional

Anais do Senado

Biblioteca Brasiliana da USP

Atas do pleno do Conselho de Estado do Império

Ordenações Filipinas

Coleção das Leis do Império

Coleção das Leis da República

Lexml

Projeto Memória Acadêmica da Faculdade de Direito do Recife

Coleção Brasiliana Eletrônica

CPDOC - FGV

Ministerial and provincial reports and presidencial messages (1822-1960)

Leis mineiras 1842-1889 (Laws from Minas Gerais state)

MAPA - Memória da Administração Pública Brasileira (Memory of the Brazillian Administration)

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Brazilian journals edited before 1930 

Revista da Faculdade de Direito de São Paulo

Revista Acadêmica da Faculdade de Direito do Recife

Revista da Faculdade de Direito da UFMG

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Foreign sources and databases

Gallica (França)

Archive.org

Biblioteca Digital da Universidade Nova de Lisboa

O Governo dos Outros (Império Português)

História dos Direitos Humanos

Digithemis: Système numérique d'information historique sur la Justice (Bélgica)

ALEX (Textos histórico-jurídicos austríacos)

Biblioteca Europea di Informazione e Cultura

Documenta Catholica Omnia

Thèses.fr (Teses de Doutorado Francesas)

The Triangle Legal History Seminar - Legal History on the Web

Fontes Historiae Iuris (Université Lille 2)

Bibliothèque Interuniversitaire Cujas (France)

The Avalon Project

Links zur Rechtsgeschichte (University of Munich)

Diccionario de Catedraticos Españoles de Derecho

Archivio delle Costituzioni Storiche

Rechtsikonographische Datenbank

Histoire du Droit - Toute l'Actualité Scientifique de la Discipline

Donne & Diritti: Osservatorio di Storiografia Giuridica

The Medieval Nordic Legal Dictionary

Criminocorpus

Handwörterbuch zur deutschen Rechtsgeschichte

Australasian Colonial Legal History Library

South Asian Legal History Resources

Memorial de Ministros: Letrados e lugares de letras. Portugal e ultramar, 1620-1830

Portuguese parliamentary records 

Portuguese royal legislation (1603-1910)

Europeana Collections

Project Gutenberg

European History Primary Sources

DigitUniTO - Collezioni e fondi digitali dell'Università di Torino

Brazilian Prision History: Bibliographic database

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Blogs

European Society for Comparative Legal History

Rechtsgeschiedenis Blog - Legal History with a Dutch View

Storia del Diritto Medievale e Moderno (Italy)

Svensk rättshistorisk blogg (Sweden)

Legal History Blog

Canadian Legal History Blog

English Legal History Blog

Carnet de recherche pour la valorisation de la formation et de la recherche en histoire du droit et des idées politiques

European Society of International Law's Interest Group on the History of International Law

Environment, Law and History

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