Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600–1926 (Gale)
RU. Provided by the Law Library. The Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative and International Law, 1600-1926, brings together foreign, comparative, and international titles in a single resource. The International Law component features works of some of the great legal theorists, including Gentili, Grotius, Selden, Zouche, Pufendorf, Bijnkershoek, Wolff, Vattel, Martens, Mackintosh, Wheaton, among others. The Foreign Law component features foreign legal treatises, commentaries, encyclopedias, textbooks, and monographs. The Comparative Law component features books that compare more than one legal system and includes Ancient, Roman, Jewish Law, and Islamic Law. These documents showcase that the roots of English common law can be found in the deep recesses of European history. The materials in this archive are drawn from the collections at the Yale Law Library, the George Washington University Law Library, and the Columbia Law Library.