Putting the Legal Treatise in its Place

Fernandez, Angela; Dubber, Markus D.

doi:10.2139/ssrn.2035134

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Putting the Legal Treatise in its Place

University of Toronto - Faculty of Law

April 5, 2012

LAW BOOKS IN ACTION: ESSAYS ON THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL TREATISE, Fernandez & Dubber, eds., 2012

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In 1976, while working on the first volume of The Transformation of American Law, Morton Horwitz noted that treatises were "the most neglected and really important sources of American legal history." Little has changed since then: treatises are still neglected, they are still really important, and not only in American legal history, but in common law history as a whole. This book aims to give legal treatises their due by undertaking an international and comparative analysis of the significance of the common law treatise in modern legal history and historiography.

Number of Pages in PDF File: 21

Keywords: treatise, legal history, legal texts

JEL Classification: K00

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Date posted: April 6, 2012 ; Last revised: May 23, 2012

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Fernandez, Angela and Dubber, Markus D., Putting the Legal Treatise in its Place (April 5, 2012). LAW BOOKS IN ACTION: ESSAYS ON THE ANGLO-AMERICAN LEGAL TREATISE, Fernandez & Dubber, eds., 2012. Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2035134 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2035134

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Angela Fernandez (Contact Author) University of Toronto - Faculty of Law ( email ) 78 and 84 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5 Canada
Markus D. Dubber University of Toronto - Faculty of Law ( email ) 78 and 84 Queen's Park Toronto, Ontario M5S 2C5 Canada

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Putting the Legal Treatise in its Place

Angela Fernandez

Markus D. Dubber

Date posted: April 6, 2012 ; Last revised: May 23, 2012

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Angela Fernandez (Contact Author)

Markus D. Dubber