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The invention of legal research / by Joseph L. Gerken.
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Title:The invention of legal research / by Joseph L. Gerken.
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Author/Creator:Gerken, Joseph L., author.
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Published/Created:Getzville, New York : William S. Hein & Co., Inc., 2016.
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Call Number: KF240 .G47 2016
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Number of Items:1
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Status:Available
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Location:LAW LIBRARY (level 3)Where is this?
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Library of Congress Subjects:Legal research--United States--History.
Law--United States--History--19th century.
Law reports, digests, etc.--United States--History--19th century.
Legal literature--Publishing--United States--History--19th century.
Legal authorities--United States--History--19th century.
Citation of legal authorities--United States--History--19th century.
Stare decisis--United States--History--19th century.
Practice of law--United States--History--19th century.
Law--Study and teaching--United States--History--19th century.
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Subject(s):National reporter system. United States series--History.
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Description:xiv, 234 pages ; 23 cm
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Series:AALL publications series ; no. 78.
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Summary: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.
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (page 223-231) and index.
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ISBN:9780837740317
0837740312
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Contents:Introduction
Case reporters
Finding cases: digests and citators
Case-finding and stare decisis
Statutes 1800-1850
Statutes 1850-1900
Law reviews
Legal science
Summing up.