The papers of Chief Justice Burger will be closed to researchers until 2026. The site presently has a brief description of the collection, with plans to expand. An overview identifies some of the more significant collections. African American Pioneers in Kentucky Law . The American Radicalism Collection , Michigan State University, offers scanned images of many items in the collection, with regular additions.
Access is via subject and title lists.
Of interest to legal historians are dozens of items published by radical groups on the Rosenberg spy case, the Sacco-Vanzetti trial, the Scottsboro Boys, civil rights, the Ku Klux Klan, and labor unions. Bracto n's De Legibus , composed in the 13th century, is the earliest known attempt to rationally describe the whole of English law. Part of the American Memory project at the Library of Congress. Information can be browsed or searched. The volume is both searchable and browsable, and contains annotated references to Supreme Court decisions in their constitutional context.