Here are some of my favorite websites–for research, conferencing, and keeping up with the field generally.
1. Research:
a. General
b. Blogs
- Access and Archives (Aparna Balachandran & Rochelle Pinto)
- Anglo-American Legal History (Mitch Fraas)
- Imperial and Global Forum (University of Exeter)
- Indian Constitutional Law and Philosophy (Gautam Bhatia)
- Jotwell: Legal History
- Law and Other Things
- Legal History Blog, including my guest post on Digital Asian Legal History
- Legal History Miscellany (on law, crime and justice in Britain)
- The Legal History Project
- Melissa Crouch (on Myanmar/Burma)
- South Asia Jurist
- World Legal History Blog
c. Databases & Primary Sources
- Afghanistan’s Constitution
- Ames Foundation PC Appeals
- Anglo-American Legal Tradition
- Asian Legal Information Institute (including Indian Law Reports)
- Avalon Project: Documents in Law, History and Diplomacy
- BAILII Databases including Judicial Committee of the Privy Council Decisions
- Bhutan’s Constitution
- Bombay High Court Virtual Museum
- Centre for South Asian Studies’ Oral History collection (Cambridge)
- Constituent Assembly Debates (India): options here and here
- Digital Himalaya
- Digital Library of India
- Digital South Asia Library
- Google Books
- Guide to Legal History Databases
- Heinonline (by subscription)
- India’s Constitution
- Indian Kanoon
- Indlaw (by subscription)
- Inner Temple Admissions Database
- Internet Archive
- Islamic Heritage Project
- The Islamic Review Archive
- JUSTIS (UK; by subscription)
- LawNet (Sri Lanka)
- Laws of India
- Legal Databases: Comparative Analysis
- Legal Information Institute of India (LIIofIndia)
- legislation.gov.uk
- LLMC Digital (by subscription)
- Making Britain
- Making of Modern Law: Foreign, Comparative, and International Law, 1600-1926 (includes South Asia; by subscription)
- Making of Modern Law: Legal Treatises 1800-1926 (mainly Anglo-American; by subscription)
- Manupatra (by subscription)
- Myanmar’s Constitution
- Myanmar/Burma AsianLII legal history sources
- Newspapers.com World Collection (for British newspapers; by subscription)
- Proceedings of the Old Bailey
- Online Burma/Myanmar Library
- Oxford International Encyclopedia of Legal History
- Pakistan Law Site (by subscription)
- Parliamentary Papers (UK; by subscription)
- Macquarie University Privy Council (Australia)
- Privy Council Papers
- Readex South Asian Newspapers, 1864-1922 (by subscription)
- Scott manuscript: Indians at Inns, 1859-1927
- South Asia Archive (Taylor & Francis; by subscription)
- Sri Lanka’s Constitution
- Supreme Court Observer
- Tagore Law Lectures (University of Calcutta Digital Library)
- Tibet’s Constitution (Charter of the Tibetans in Exile)
- Times Digital Archive (UK; by subscription)
- Times of India (by subscription)
- Village Histories Project
- Wharton’s Law Lexicon (1892)
- World History Matters
- World Legal Information Institute
d. Bibliographies, Catalogs, Guides & Publications
- A2A (UK)
- Academia.edu
- B. R. Ambedkar: a basic bibliography (Patrick S. O’Donnell)
- Brill, Foreign Law Guide (by subscription)
- ArchiveGrid (especially for archives in North America)
- Archives Direct (UK)
- Bibliography of Hindu Law
- British Library Main Catalogue
- British Library: Asia, Pacific & Africa Collections
- Columbia Law Library Catalog
- Donald R. Davis, Jr., Bibliography of Hindu Law: A Cooperative Project of Scholars and Students
- Dissertation Reviews’ “Fresh from the Archives”
- Harvard Law Library, Research Guides, including guides on Indian law, Islamic law, Islamic family law, Law and Society, online legal history sources, and others
- François Lareau, India – Penal Code 1860/Inde-Code pénal 1860 (2001)
- Legal History on the Web (Triangle Legal History Seminar)
- Library of Congress, Islamic Law: A Basic Bibliography of Works Published in English
- Timothy Mathew, The Afghanistan Analyst Law Bibliography (2011) (see pp.223-40)
- Leslie F. Maxwell, A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations. Vol.7: The British Commonwealth excluding the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, Canada, India and Pakistan (London: Sweet and Maxwell, 1964) (see Ceylon section)
- National Archives (UK)
- National Archives of India
- National Library of India
- Naval Kishore Press Bibliographie
- Patrick S. O’Donnell, Comparative Law: A Basic Bibliography of Books in English (c. 2008) (see Hindu and Islamic law sections)
- Oxford Handbooks Online: including Law series (by subscription)
- Princeton Libnet Guide to South Asian Studies: Law
- Marilyn Johnson Raisch (Hauser Global Law School Program, New York University), Religious Legal Systems in Comparative Perspective: A Guide to Introductory Research (2006)
- SOAS Library Catalogue
- Social Science Research Network
- South Asian Law Online
- University of Wisconsin Law Library, Research Guides, including English legal materials, foreign and comparative law, India legal research guide, Islamic law, South Asian law online
- The Varna and Caste System in India: A Basic Bibliography (Patrick S. O’Donnell)
- Worldcat
- Yale Law Library, Research Guides, including country-by-country guides to foreign legal research, English cases and statutes, foreign and comparative law research guide, Islamic law
2. Institutions, Organizations, Networks & Events
- Allahabad High Court
- American Society for Legal History
- Annual Conference on South Asia
- Annual South Asia Legal Studies Workshop
- Asian Law and Society Association
- Association of Asian Studies
- Bombay High Court (Mumbai)
- Calcutta High Court (Kolkata)
- K. R. Cama Oriental Institute
- Delhi High Court
- European Society for Comparative Legal History
- Harvard Law School’s Islamic Legal Studies Program
- Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History
- Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (UK)
- JNU Centre for the Study of Law and Governance
- Judicial Committee of the Privy Council (UK)
- Law and Social Sciences Research Network (LASSNet)
- Law and Society Association
- Legal Biography Project (LSE)
- Madras High Court (Chennai)
- Max Planck Institute for European Legal History
- Nepal Law Commission
- Oral History Association of India
- Royal Court of Justice, Bhutan
- Society for Advancing the History of South Asia (SAHSA)
- Supreme Court of Bangladesh
- Supreme Court of India
- Supreme Court of Myanmar
- Supreme Court of Nepal
- Supreme Court of Pakistan
- Supreme Court of Sri Lanka
- University of Wisconsin (UW) Center for South Asia
- UW Global Legal Studies Center
- UW South Asia Legal Studies Working Group
(version updated on 10 Sept. 2020)