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• Obscenity and the Limits of Liberalism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c2011), ed. by Loren Glass and Charles Francis Williams, contrib. by Michael Taussig, Nadine Strossen, Brett Gary, Tim Miller, Jyoti Puri, Laura Kipnis, Mikita Brottman, David Sterritt, and John Durham Peters (PDF at Ohio State)
• Literary Trials: Exceptio Artis and Theories of Literature in Court (New York and London: Bloomsbury Academic, c2016), ed. by Ralf Grüttemeier, contrib. by Gisèle Sapiro, Anton Kirchhofer, Ted Laros, K. Beekman, Claudia Lieb, Sylvia Sasse, Katharina Hupe, Peter D. McDonald, and Martin A. Kayman (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)
• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)

• Jurgen and the Law: A Statement, With Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: R. McBride, 1923), ed. by Guy Holt (page images at HathiTrust)

• People of the State of New York Against Guy Holt, Robert N. McBride and Company, and Robert N. McBride: Brief for Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: Evening Post Job Printing Office, ca. 1922), by Garrard Glenn, William U. Goodbody, and William L. Glenn (page images at HathiTrust)

• Report of the New York State Joint Legislative Committee to Study the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (1962), by New York State Joint Legislative Committee Studying the Publication and Dissemination of Offensive and Obscene Material (page images at HathiTrust; US access onny)
• "Obscene" Literature and Constitutional Law: A Forensic Defense of Freedom of the Press (1911), by Theodore Schroeder (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Pornography and Civil Rights: A New Day for Women's Equality, by Andrea Dworkin and Catharine A. MacKinnon (HTML at nostatusquo.com)
• Music Lyrics and Commerce: Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Consumer Protection, and Competitiveness of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, Second Session, February 11 and May 5, 1994 (Washington: GPO, 1994), by United States House. Committee on Energy and Commerce (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comic Books, Municipal Control of Sale and Distribution: A Preliminary Study (report #124; Washington: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1948), by Charles S. Rhyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Lotteries, Frauds and Obscenity in the Mails (Columbia, MO: Press of E. W. Stephens, 1900), by John Lilburn Thomas (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Postal Laws and Regulations of the United States of America: Compiled, Revised, and Published in Accordance with the Act of Congress Approved March 3, 1891 (Washington: GPO, 1893), by United States (page images at HathiTrust)

• Practical, Sharp, Eccentric and Humorous Prison-Life Thoughts! (Philadelphia: Landis publishing society, 1872), by Simon M. Landis (multiple formats at archive.org)

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• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Final Report (aka the Meese Commission report; 2 volumes; 1986), by United States Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)

• Cyberporn, Protecting Our Children from the Back Alleys of the Internet: Joint Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Basic Research and the Subcommittee on Technology of the Committee on Science, U.S. House of Representatives, One Hundred Fourth Congress, First Session, July 26, 1995 (Washington: GPO, 1995), by United States House Subcommittee on Basic Research and United States House Subcommittee on Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Attorney General's Commission on Pornography: Final Report (aka the Meese Commission report; 2 volumes; 1986), by United States Attorney General's Commission on Pornography (page images at HathiTrust)
• Comic Books, Municipal Control of Sale and Distribution: A Preliminary Study (report #124; Washington: National Institute of Municipal Law Officers, 1948), by Charles S. Rhyne (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jurgen and the Law: A Statement, With Exhibits, Including the Court's Opinion, and the Brief for the Defendants on Motion to Direct an Acquittal (New York: R. McBride, 1923), ed. by Guy Holt (page images at HathiTrust)

• Computer Pornograph and Child Exploitation Prevention Act: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Juvenile Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on S. 1305 (Washington: GPO, 1986), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Use of Computers to Transmit Material Inciting Crime: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Security and Terrorism of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, Ninety-Ninth Congress, First Session, on the Use of Computers to Transmit Material That Incites Crime and Constitutes Interstate Transmission of Implicit Obscene Matter, June 11, 1985 (Washington: GPO, 1985), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)

• Other People's Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #18; London: Stevens and Sons, 1966), by Charles James Dalrymple Shaw Kilbrandon (PDF in the UK)
• The Path of the Law, by Oliver Wendell Holmes (Gutenberg text)
• The Riddle of the Ruthvens, and Other Studies (Edinburgh: W. Green and Son, 1919), by William Roughead
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring (11 volumes in 22; Edinburgh: W. Tait; et al., 1838-1843), by Jeremy Bentham, ed. by John Bowring (page images at HathiTrust)
• Law's Order: What Economics Has to Do with Law and Why It Matters, by David D. Friedman
  • JavaScript-dependent page images at daviddfriedman.com
  • HTML of prepublication draft at daviddfriedman.com
• Quistioni di Dritto: Trattate Nella Conclusioni, Ne' Discorsi ed in Altri Scritti Legali (2 volumes in 1, in Italian; Naples: Tipografia Prete Largo Avellino, 1869), by Niccola Nicolini
  • multiple formats at Google
  • multiple formats at archive.org

• Introduction to Basic Legal Citation (electronic edition, 2011), by Peter W. Martin (frame-dependent HTML at Cornell)

• Session Laws, Resolutions, and Memorials, by Alaska Legislature (partial serial archives)

• Acts of the General Assembly, by Arkansas (partial serial archives)
• Ordinances of the State Convention, Which Convened in Little Rock, May 6, 1861 (Little Rock: Johnson and Yerkes, 1861), by Arkansas Convention (1861) (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Acts of the General Assembly of the Territory of Arkansas, by Arkansas Territory (partial serial archives)

• Tales From the Public Domain: Bound by Law? (2006), by Keith Aoki, James Boyle, and Jennifer Jenkins (page images with commentary at Duke)

• Acts and Resolutions of the Third Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, held at Richmond, Va. (1861), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Acts and Resolutions of the First Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (Richmond: Enquirer Book and Job Press by Tyler et al., 1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Acts and Resolutions of the Second Session of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States, Held at Montgomery, Ala. (1861), by Confederate States of America
  • HTML and TEI at UNC
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• The Statutes at Large of the Provisional Government of the Confederate States of America, From the Institution of the Government, February 8, 1861, to its Termination, February 18, 1862, Inclusive: Arranged In Chronological Order, Together With the Constitution for the Provisional Government, and the Permanent Constitution of the Confederate States, and the Treaties Concluded by the Confederate States With Indian Tribes (Richmond, VA: R. M. Smith, 1864), by Confederate States of America, ed. by James M. Matthews
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions of the Confederate States of America (Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)
• Provisional and Permanent Constitutions, Together With the Acts and Resolutions of the Three Sessions of the Provisional Congress of the Confederate States (bound with the Acts and Resolutions of the fourth session; Richmond: Tyler, Wise, Allegre and Smith, Printers, 1861-1862), by Confederate States of America (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Statutes at Large of the Confederate States of America (with public and private laws for the first session of First Congress, 1862), by Confederate States of America (HTML and TEI at UNC)

• The True-Blue Laws of Connecticut and New Haven, and the False Blue-Laws Invented by the Rev. Samuel Peters; To Which are Added Specimens of the Laws and Judicial Proceedings of Other Colonies and Some Blue-Laws of England in the Reign of James I (Hartford: American Pub. Co., 1876), ed. by J. Hammond Trumbull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Ye Olden Blue Laws (New York: The Century Co., 1921), by Gustavus Myers (multiple formats at archive.org)

• The Annotated Revised Codes of the Territory of Dakota, 1883 (second edition, with supplement on 1885 legislation; St. Paul: West Pub. Co., 1885), by Dakota Territory, ed. by Aaron Burton Levisee and L. Levisee, contrib. by Robert Desty (page images at HathiTrust)

• Radin Law Dictionary (New York: Oceana, c1955), by Max Radin, ed. by Lawrence G. Greene (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Compendious and Comprehensive Law Dictionary: Elucidating the Terms, and General Principles of Law and Equity (London: Printed for Gale and Fenner, 1816), by Thomas Walter Williams (PDF files at Georgetown)
• Nomo-Lexikon: A Law-Dictionary, Interpreting Such Difficult and Obscure Words and Terms, As Are Found Either in Our Common or Statute, Ancient or Modern, Laws (second edition; London: Printed for H. Herringman et al., 1691), by Thomas Blount (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Coase Theorem: A Study in Economic Epistemology (Tyler, TX: Institute for Christian Economics, c1992), by Gary North (PDF with commentary at garynorth.com)

• Contrats Egyptiens Archaïques, Démotiques, Araméens (4 parts, in handwritten French and ancient Egyptian; Paris: Leroux, 1911-1912), ed. by Eugène Revillout (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• The Selected Writings and Speeches of Sir Edward Coke (3 volumes; Indianapolis: Liberty Fund, 2003), by Edward Coke, ed. by Steve Sheppard (HTML and PDF at libertyfund.org)
• Pragmatism and Theory in English Law (Hamlyn Lectures, #39; London: Stevens and Sons, 1987), by P. S. Atiyah (PDF in the UK)

• Introducing a European Legal Order (Hamlyn Lectures, #43; London: Stevens and Sons/Sweet and Maxwell, 1992), by Gordon Slynn (PDF in the UK)

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