Open up older legal texts to a new audience with this digital archive.
Set your legal library apart with historical materials from West.
Enrich your collection with a valuable new research tool - Rise of American Law, Digital Archive of 19th and 20th Century Legal Texts. This new collection of legal resources, available only from West, helps you set your library apart with content that was hard to access until now.
Get digital versions of important legal texts from the 19th and 20th centuries.
Contents include:
- More than 1,700 out-of-print secondary law volumes
- Titles covering the vital period from 1840 to 1970
- Rare and difficult-to-find texts not available in your library:
- Treatises
- Jurisprudence
- Legal encyclopedias
- Histories
- Commentaries
- International law
Here are seven reasons to add Rise of American Law to your legal library.
- Includes unique, hard-to-find historical content
- Augments your print library with immediate access to extraordinary texts
- Saves valuable shelf space
- Includes PDF documents searchable by keyword, author, or title
- Highlights search terms within each document for easy reference
- Delivered to your patrons on DVD or via your network
- Integrated with Westlaw for a nominal annual fee, allowing full access to every title, any where, any time
Titles included are some of the foundations of our current legal system.
Rise of American Law features:
- The original editions of AmJur, Law Reports Annotated, and Corpus Juris
- Original editions of CalJur, NYJur, Texas Jurisprudence, Florida Jurisprudence, Ohio Jurisprudence, Pound's Jurisprudence, and Illinois and Michigan Law and Practice Encyclopedias
- Over 200 unique treatises in their complete, original versions, including Pomeroy's Equity and Jurisprudence, Thomas Cooley's Treatise on the Law of Torts, Bogart's Law of Trust and Trustees, and many more.
- Practice series and other guides as to how law was conducted in the late 19th and early 20th centuries
- Commentaries and legal histories from Roscoe Pound, Arthur Harris, Francis Biddle, and John Dos Passos
- International materials covering Great Britain, Latin America, and the Philippines
Call or email today to learn more.
For more information,
- Contact your West representative, or
- Call 1-800-328-9352
Take a Closer Look
View a demo »This short video explains how Rise of American Law can set your legal library apart with digital content that's hard to access anywhere else.
See a sample screen »Rise of American Law can provide instant access to historical content within the familiar Westlaw interface.
See what's included (PDF) »Here's a comprehensive list of the content and materials included with Rise of American Law.
Learn more about the DVD »Read more details about the Rise of American Law DVD, including system requirements.