Open Educational Resources, or OERs, are freely available online didactic materials. Among them you can find Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs), podcasts, textbooks, manuals, edu-oriented editions, and other educational materials. We intend to gather information about such endeavors below.
If you know about such resources, or maybe even you authored and produced OERs, please contact us, so we can spread the knowledge about your work!
We invite you to listen to the podcasts prepared by Emanuele Conte.
Legal History from the European Perspective. CLCLCL Project
Available on: Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Spotify
List of podcasts:
LH0021: Why Legal History? A discussion with Emanuele Conte and John Hudson [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0030: Why Do We Study Legal History? [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0150: What Is a Law? [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0180: Transformation of Property and Possession [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0190: The Traditional Historiography and Legal Change [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0290: A New Idea of Legal Text [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0320: The Method of Glossators [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0321: The Dialectical Method [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0330: Canon Law [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0340: Feudal Law [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0342: A Discussion on Fiefs with Emanuele Conte, Attilio Stella and Matthew McHaffie [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0350: The Universities [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0360: The System of the Ius Commune [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0370: Ius Commune and Legal Pluralism [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0379: Europe in 1100 [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0390: The Judiciary Abstraction [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0400: Procedure in England and on the Continent [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0409: Thomas Becket [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0420: Common Law, Royal Laws, and Parliament [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0430: How Exceptional Was English Common Law? [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0440: Institutional Framework [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0450: Crisis of the Universal Powers and the End of the Middle Ages [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0451: The Modern Age [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0460: Legal Humanism [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0470: Legal Culture in France [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0480: The Protestant Reformation [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0490: Hotman between Geneva and France [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0500: Customs [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0510: Customary National Laws [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0520: Common Law as Customary Law [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0740: American Constitution as a Model [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0743: A Discussion with Andrew Cecchinato on Revolutions [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0815: France at War [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0820: Absolutism and Codification [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0850: Jurisprudence and Codification [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0860: France as a Model [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0900: Introduction to the 19th Century [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0910: Savigny and the Historical School [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0920: The Germanists [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
LH0930: Germanists and Gewere [Apple Podcasts] [Spotify]
Other podcasts
Sarah Ifft Decker's podcast one medieval history in general.
1. Centre for Legal History at Edinburgh Law School uploaded several videos concerning legal history.
The Internet Medieval Sourcebook is an ample collection of online primary sources suited for educational purposes. The scope of sources is rather extensive and legal historical sources are included. The Internet Ancient History Sourcebook and the Internet Modern History Sourcebook serve the same purpose for respective periods.
If interested in medieval canon law, Roman law, or ius commune, on should definitely see the website of an eminent scholar, Professor Kenneth Pennington, where various lectures and courses regarding canon law, Roman Law and ius commune in the Middle Ages are available.
Interactive Album of Mediaeval Palaeography provides exercises which may help you to develop your skills in the field of reading medieval texts.
University of Cambridge prepared an online course English Handwriting Online (1500-1700).
Also Ad fontes project website offers a variety of exercises concerning working with historical sources.
If you read German, you can also see Mittelalterliche Geschichte website which provides an online course on medieval history, focusing on sources and including historical auxiliary sciences. The project is affiliated with Universität Augsburg.