We are happy to announce that we have added new content to the Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law database, at no additional cost for subscribers! Users can now explore Welsh Legal History Society publications, including essays and monographs covering a variety of periods and subjects. Explore the rich history of law in Wales with this new subcollection!

About the Welsh Legal History Society

The Welsh Legal History Society was founded in 1999, its inaugural lecture being delivered by Professor David Ibbetson in May of that year and the official launch being held at Cardiff in May 2000. Its first volume was published in 2001 and celebrated the foundation of the society by publishing the first collection of its proceedings. Six of the eight papers contained in the volume are based on lectures delivered to the Society by members at the three meetings held during the first fifteen months of the Society’s existence. These include the inaugural lecture at Cardiff in May 1999.

The Society exists to spread knowledge of, and promote research into, the rich history of law in Wales. That history extends from a fascinating medieval indigenous legal system to the specific (sometimes surprising) application of law within Wales in more modern times.

They have published a series of works featuring scholarly editions, collections of essays, and monographs across a variety of periods and subjects. The work of lawyers and commentators with Welsh connections is also addressed by the Society. Its historical interests cover both the doctrinal history of the law and the contextual study of the law in the society in which it operates.

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HeinOnline’s Selden Society Publications and the History of Early English Law gives users access to English and American legal history dating back to A.D. 1066 in an online digital format. We have partnered with the Ames Foundation to include early manuscripts, yearbooks and more! In addition to primary publications, researchers will also find some of the most influential digests, abridgments, and modern encyclopedias that formed the foundation of English law, and had enduring effects on the development of law in America.

Features and benefits of this database include:

• Links to more than 350 scholarly articles discussing the development of English legal history, including famous English and American lawyers, professors, and jurists.
• More than 1100 English legal history classics including abridgments, digests and dictionaries.
• The Selden Society Annual Series in the original language version or in a modern English translation.
• Access to the English Reports Full Reprint, 1220-1867, which contains more than 100,000 English cases, several of which are still cited today!
• Access to the original reproduction of Statutes of the Realm which contains English laws and statutes between 1225 and 1713.

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