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The study and teaching of legal history has flourished in the last few decades in the United States. This progression has been augmented by several key factors. First, digital sources have made legal and historical documents widely accessible. A chief difficulty scholars once faced while teaching legal history was a limited access to important documents; printed scholarly journals are expensive to produce, buy, and store. However, the advent of digital technology has provided greater ease of access to once difficult to obtain sources. For example, scholars at Yale Law School’s Avalon Project placed essential documents on the Internet, where they can be viewed easily and for free. Reprints of classic texts allow for inexpensive and easy access to old and rare documents. A second contributing factor to the growth of legal history scholarship is the increasing acceptance of dual-degree legal historians in both law schools and history faculties. Older and more mature dual-degree holders have blazed a path for a younger generation of legal historians. By training and finding employment for their younger counterparts, these older legal historians have a powerful effect on the discipline. A third factor contributing to this growth is the increased interest in several subjects within the field of legal history, such as: the history of legal writing; law and war; courts and judicial review; civil rights; medieval and English law; Islamic law; legal institutions; as well as historically significant individuals in the field of law. These advances in access to historical legal documents coupled with an expansion of subjects covered will alter how legal history is viewed and developed. One goal of legal history scholars is for lawyers to perceive issues of U.S. law as questions of legal history.
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Foreword: The Books of Justices
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For this Michigan Law Review issue devoted to recently published books about law, I thought it would be interesting to see what books made an appearance in the past year’s work of the Supreme Court. I catalogued every citation to every book in those forty opinions in order to see what patterns emerged: what books the justices cited, which justices cited which books, and what use they made of the citations. To begin with, I should define what I mean by “books". For the purposes of this Foreword, I excluded some types of reading matter that may have a book-like appearance or that others might view as a book: government reports and statistical compilations, including the Federal Sentencing Guidelines; the Model Penal Code; the Congressional Record; the Federal Register; and other current compilations of statutes or regulatory codes. (I include some older compilations as primary source material, e.g., a volume of the Vermont State Papers 1779– 1786, published in 1823 and cited by C...
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Legal and Constitutional History
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