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Making of Modern Law: U.S. Supreme Court Records and Briefs 1832-1978
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- Description
- Covering cases from the generation before the American Civil War to the decade of the Vietnam War
and Watergate, the Making of Modern Law: Supreme Court Records and Briefs, 1832-1978 is a
nearly comprehensive, full-text archive of legal documents from the Court. It comprises more than
350,000 documents from approximately 150,000 cases, the majority consisting of those for which the
Court did not give a full opinion. While the database does not include Court decisions, it does
include various types of briefs and petitions as well as oral transcripts, memoranda, and other
types of filings. The database is searchable by keyword in full-text, as well as by case name,
U.S. Reports citation, docket number, author, date, and type of document. Documents can
also be browsed by author or case name.
Supreme Court Records and Briefs is an excellent resource, not just for law, but also for
research in a wide range of topics, including slavery, civil rights, gender, labor relations,
education and all aspects of American constitutional, political, legal, social, economic, cultural,
and intellectual history.
- Help
- "Help" and "Search Tips" are available from links at the top of every screen.
- Dates covered
- 1832-1978.
- Updating frequency
- The database is complete.
- Sources
- Briefs, oral transcripts, petitions, memoranda, and other legal documents filed in cases before the
Supreme Court.
- Type of coverage
- Full text in image format.
- Print counterpart or related resources
- For related materials, such as the full text of Court opinions, see Westlaw Campus Research.
- Producer/content provider
- Jenkins Memorial Law Library, Philadelphia; the Library of the Association of the Bar of the City of
New York
- Vendor/electronic presentation provider
- Gale Cengage Learning
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