| January 27 |
Historical sources of American law; Colonial America’s
law |
| February 3 |
Overview of bibliographic sources (general and legal), including RLIN,
OCLC, ESTC, EAI, periodical indices, historical abstracts, etc. |
| February 10 |
Research in early (pre-1880) case law |
| February 17 |
Research in early statutory law and legislative history |
| February 24 |
Constitutional research – federal and state |
| March 3 |
Legal history in government documents, federal and state (including serial set) |
| March 10 |
Biographical materials (general and legal); manuscript collections
and personal papers (including NUCMC) |
| March 17 |
Spring recess |
| March 24 |
Crime literature – execution literature, broadsides, trials |
| March 31 |
Legal ephemera (including student notebooks, ledgers and lawyers' dockets, broadsides, almanacs, commonplace books) --or no class |
| April 7 |
Court records (federal and state) |
| April 14 |
Practice materials (court rules, legal forms, legal manuals); secondary sources; and reconstructing the legal and public context (treatises, periodicals, newspapers, law lectures and student texts) |
| April 21 |
Early American sources of international law and relations |
| April 28 |
Coordinating historical research; student presentations |
| May 5 |
Student presentations; wrap-up |
