Launched in August 2000, this service from AustLII (Australian Legal Information Institute) offers free access to British and Irish legal materials, currently containing over 75,000 searchable documents with about 2 million hypertext links. At present, the site hosts fourteen databases from five jurisdictions, which may be searched individually or jointly. These include UK House of Lords...

If you are not a student of medieval law, you might not be familiar with the work of Henry of Bratton (Henricus de Brattona or Bractona). Bratton was a judge of the court known as coram rege, which later became known as the King's Bench, in the 1250's. He is best known for writing the extended treatise, "De legibus et consuetudinibus Angliae", which translated means, "On the Laws and Customs of...

Henry of Bracton's Thirteenth Century work, originally titled De Legibus Et Consuetudinibus Angliae, has been made available by Harvard University's Ames Foundation and Law Library, and Cornell University's Legal Information Institute. This work is an attempt to describe English law based on "the combination of Roman and canon law that was taught in the universities in Bracton's time." It can be...