The selected scholarship below treats aspects of the historical development and teaching of English and American law. Further resources may be found in many of the works.
- Arvind, T. T., and Christian R. Burset. "A New Report of Entick v. Carrington (1765)." Kentucky Law Journal 110, no. 2 (2021-2022): 265-332.
- Baker, John H. “Coke’s Note-Books and the Sources of his Reports.” Cambridge Law Journal 30, no. 1 (1972): 59-86.
- Baker, John H. The Common Law Tradition: Lawyers, Books, and the Law. London: Hambledon
Press, 2000. - Baker, John H. “English Law Books and Legal Publishing.” In The Cambridge History of the
Book in Britain, Volume IV, 1557-1696 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998), 474-
503. - Beckerman, John S. “Law-Writing and Law-Teaching: Treatise Evidence of the Formal Teaching
of English Law in the Late Thirteenth Century.” In Learning the Law: Teaching and the
Transmission of Law in England, 1150-1900 (Jonathan Bush & Alain Wijffels, eds.; London:
Hambledon Press, 1999), 33-50. - Brand, Paul. “The Beginnings of English Law Reporting.” In Law Reporting in Britain (Chantal
Stebbings, ed.; London: Hambledon Press, 1995), 1-14. - Bush, Jonathan, and Alain Wijffels, eds. Learning the Law: Teaching and the Transmission of
Law in England, 1150-1900 (London: Hambledon Press, 1999). - Friedman, Lawrence M. A History of American Law, 4th ed. (New York, 2019).
- Hoeflich, Michael, ed. The Gladsome Light of Jurisprudence: Learning the Law in England and
the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries (New York: Greenwood Press, 1988). - Hoeflich, Michael. “Roman and Civil-Law in American Legal Education and Research Prior to
1930 – A Preliminary Study.” University of Illinois Law Review 1984, no. 3 (1984): 719–37. - Kimball, Bruce A. The Inception of Modern Professional Education: C. C. Langdell, 1826-1906
(Chapel Hill, 2009). - Langbein, John H., Renée Lettow Lerner, and Bruce P. Smith. History of the Common Law: The
Development of Anglo-American Legal Institutions (New York: Aspen Publishers, 2009). - LaPiana, William P. Logic and Experience: The Origin of Modern American Legal Education
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994). - Lind, Douglas W. Bibliography of American Law School Casebooks, 1870-2018 (2nd ed.;
Getzville, New York: William S. Hein & Co., 2020). - Noll, David, "A Reader's Guide to Pre-Modern Procedure." 65 J. Legal. Educ. 414 (2015): 414-27.
- Oldham, James. “Eighteenth-Century Judges’ Notes: How They Explain, Correct and Enhance the Reports.” The American Journal of Legal History 31, no. 1 (1987): 9–42.
- Simpson, A. W. Brian. Leading Cases in the Common Law (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995).
- Simpson, A. W. B. “The Rise and Fall of the Legal Treatise: Legal Principles and the Forms of
Legal Literature.” The University of Chicago Law Review 48, no. 3 (1981): 632-79. - Stebbings, Chantal, ed. Law Reporting in Britain: Proceedings of the Eleventh British Legal History Conference (London: Hambledon Press, 1995).