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Classic Cases: Historical Foundations of First-Year Law School Cases

• Constitutional Law
  • Entick v. Carrington
  • Marbury v. Madison
  • McCulloch v. Maryland
  • Proprietors of Charles River Bridge v. Proprietors of Warren Bridge
  • The Slaughter-House Cases
• Contract Law
  • Hochster v. De La Tour
  • Hadley v. Baxendale
  • Taylor v. Caldwell
  • Carlill v. Carbolic Smoke Ball Co.
  • Morrison v. Thoelke
• Criminal Law
  • M'Naghten Rule
  • Regina v. Dudley & Stephens
  • People v. Beardsley
  • Regina v. Cunningham
• Property Law
  • Duke of Norfolk’s Case
  • Pierson v. Post
  • Johnson v. M'Intosh
  • Tulk v. Moxhay
• Tort Law
  • Case of Thorns
  • Byrne v. Boadle
  • Vosburg v. Putney
  • Martin v. Herzog
  • Palsgraf v. Long Island Railroad Co.
• Classic Cases Timeline
• Recommended Reading

Evolution on the Stand: Revisiting the Scopes Trial at 100

• Main Exhibit
  • A Public Debate: Creationism and Evolution
  • The Showdown in Dayton, Tennessee
    • Letter from William Jennings Bryan to Jay Bartlett, December 26, 1893.
  • A National Sensation
    • The John T. Scopes Trial | Vernon Dalhart
    • Letter from Robert Phifer to Clarence Darrow, June 1925
    • Keebler’s Address regarding The Tennessee Evolution Case from the Tennessee Bar Association’s annual meeting on June 26–27, 1925.
    • Letter from David S Garland to Samuel J Rosensohn
  • The Scopes Trial and Appeal
  • The Struggle Over Expert Testimony
    • Statement by Professor Horatio Hackett Newman
    • Statement by Kirtley F. Mather
    • Statement by Wilbur A. Nelson
  • Scenes from the Trial and Its Aftermath
  • John T. Scopes and Clarence Darrow
    • Letter from John Thomas Scopes to Clarence Darrow
    • Center of the Storm
    • Reflections on the Debate: Science and Religion in the 1920s
  • Clarence Darrow
  • Major Players: The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes
  • Daily Trial Summaries
    • Trial Summary: Day One
      July 10, 1925
    • Trial Summary: Day Two 
      July 13, 1925
    • Trial Summary: Day Three
      July 14, 1925
    • Trial Summary: Day Four
      July 15, 1925
    • Trial Summary: Day Five
      July 16, 1925
    • Trial Summary: Day Six 
      July 17, 1925
    • Trial Summary: Day Seven 
      July 20, 1925
    • Trial Summary: Day Eight
      July 21, 1925
  • Exhibit Timelines
    • Evolution Debate Timeline
    • Timeline of Evolutionary Thought
      • Butler Act | Transcription

More Research Sites and Exhibits

• Tools of the Profession: Law Books and the History of Legal Education
• Commemorating Walter F. Mondale (’56) (1928-2021): A Lasting Legacy
• A Witness to Barbarism: Horace R. Hansen and the Dachau War Crimes Trials
• Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice
• Noted and Notable: Treasures of the Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center
• Böcker Har Sina Öden (Books Have Their Destinies)
• A Foundation in the Law: Celebrating 40 Years at Walter F. Mondale Hall
• The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection
• Walter F. Mondale
  Spokesman for Reform and Justice in the U.S. Senate
• Magna Carta, 800 Years: Rights and the Rule of Law
• Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective
• Equal Caricature Under Law
  Supreme Court Bobbleheads by the Green Bag
• Treasures of the Riesenfeld Center
• Hermann Kantorowicz Collection Catalog
• [ web archive ] Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery
  commonly known as the Penal Laws