Law

This Library includes databases of the Australasian Legal History Libraries.

Conciliation and Arbitration; Conscription; History of Federation; Separation of Powers; White Australia Policy.

This database contains law monographs published in Australia pre-1901 (1846-1900).

This Library includes databases of the Australasian Legal History Libraries.

Via WorldLII

Museum of Australian Democracy

Selected records relating to the federal conventions

Debates and Proceedings of the Australasian Federation Conference, Melbourne, 6-14 February, 1890; Debates of the National Australasian Convention, Sydney, 2 March–9 April 1891; Debates of the Australasian Federal Convention of 1897/8 in three sessions.

2006 to 2012

1957 to present.

This Library includes databases of Australian legal history accessible via AustLII.

Trove - National Library of Australia. A good source of historical legal decisions is the law reporting in the old newspapers.

This presentation gives an overview of the Australian Newspapers service. It contains over 20 million digitised historic newspapers. The service is now being integrated with Trove. Librarians on the panel describe how they have used the information to solve legal cases. Most of these involve family names and history including ownership of property.
Holley, Rose Legal research using digitised historic newspapers., 2010 . In Australian Law Librarians Association Event, National Library of Australia, Canberra (Australia), 28 July 2010. [Presentation]

This project will produce a rich understanding of how crime has been prosecuted in Australia. It will also tell us much about Australian history – how people lived, how they behaved, how they dealt with conflict and tragedy, how legal and political institutions responded to crime and its consequences. This project is supported by the Australian Research Council (ARC Laureate Fellowship, 2013-18) and Griffith University.

Legal history.

Original texts, transcripts and information relating to various constitutional and other legislative documents of the 19th and 20th century (Documenting a Democracy).

This database contains Legge's Supreme Court Cases (NSW)(NSWLeggeSC) (1830-1863).

Hosted by Queensland University of Technology Library

The Queensland Law Collection contains historical Queensland legislation and other legal materials relating to Queensland.

Legal Resources selected & annotated by
Inner Temple Library

Yale Law School. Documents in law, history and diplomacy.

Duke University

A fully searchable edition of the largest body of texts detailing the lives of non-elite people ever published, containing 197,745 criminal trials held at London's central criminal court.

At present there are 104 items, each with some brief introductory or explanatory text and a link to free OUP content.

Includes Law Journals & Blogs and Other Indexes