The invention of legal research
By: by Joseph L. Gerken
Series: AALL publications series -- no. 78
Publisher: William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Getzville, New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 234
ISBN-13: 9780837740317
Subjects: Forschung; Recht; Law reports, digests; History; Legal research; Law; Legal literature; Publishing; Legal authorities; Citation of legal authorities; Stare decisis; Practice of law; Study and teaching; National reporter system
Description: The online revolution in legal research methodology over the past three decades is not unprecedented, and it is not a stretch to think that law practice was transformed during the period from 1870 to 1890 as much as it has been the past thirty years. This is the story of those "golden decades," which saw the development of U.S. case reporters, digests and citators from the early days of the republic to the emergence of the West National Reporter System, West Digests and Shepard's Citations. The book also explores the relationship between this revolution in legal research and two phenomena that occurred during the same period: courts' adoption of the doctrine of stare decisis in deciding cases, and the implementation of the case method of instruction in law schools. Ultimately, it is most of all a narration of the stunning accomplishments of a remarkable generation of innovators.--Publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (page 223-231) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Case reporters; title: Finding cases: digests and citators; title: Case-finding and stare decisis; title: Statutes 1800-1850; title: Statutes 1850-1900; title: Law reviews; title: Legal science; title: Summing up.