The Anglo-American Legal Traditions project

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The Anglo-American Legal Traditions project

Legg inn av Gjest » 01 feb 2007 15:41:32

Announcement: The Anglo-American Legal Traditions project

The O'Quinn Law Library at the University of Houston Law Center is
proud to announce the inauguration of the extraordinary new website,
the Anglo-American Legal Tradition - AALT.

The AALT is the result of over fifteen years of negotiation with the
National Archives of the United Kingdom by Robert C. Palmer, Cullen
Professor of History and Law at the University of Houston. The
license with the National Archives permits the free, non-commercial,
public display and use of the images captured by Professor Palmer's
ongoing project to acquire images of the main categories of court
records over almost four centuries (c.1272 - 1650); at this point,
some 450,000 images have been acquired. Access to these documents was
previously possible only through use of the original documents at the
National Archives itself.

The AALT will be a great boon to the far-flung scholars of Anglo-
American legal history. In order to facilitate use of these ancient
documents Professor Palmer has supplied guides to paleography and
overviews of English legal history, as well as links to other websites
of interest to legal historians. The AALT will continue to add images
from the National Archives, as well as collections of historical
documents from other court systems in the Anglo-American legal world.
If others wish to contribute to the general endeavor at other archives
and lack only the resources to run a website, the intention of this
website is to be available to host such materials, as long as they are
legally oriented and meet the general standards for image quality and
public availability. The AALT site has the financial resources to
continue as a public resource and to grow as materials are offered.

Please visit the AALT website at http://aalt.law.uh.edu/ and join us
in welcoming this valuable resource.

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