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Contemporary and Future Directions in American Legal Research: Responding to the Threat of the Available

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2019

Richard A. Danner
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Histories of law publishing in the United States can be found in a number of sources, several of which are listed in the bibliography that accompanies this article. Although there are no completely up-to-date treatments of the subject, the most comprehensive is probably Erwin C. Surrency's A History of American Law Publishing (1990). Surrency discusses American legal publishing from the colonial era to the late twentieth century, but his book closes before the far-reaching changes resulting from the growth of electronic publishing and dissemination of legal information in the latter years of the twentieth century. A few sources discuss the initial impacts and implications of computer-assisted legal research databases. More recent literature on the Internet's effects on legal research is discussed in section IV of this article. Other useful sources for exploring the history of U.S. law book publishing are found in two edited collections: George S. Grossman's Legal Research: Historical Foundations of the Electronic Age (1994); and Betty Taylor and Robert Munro's four volume set: American Law Publishing 1860-1900: Historical Readings (1984).

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Order from Chaos: Contexts for Global Legal Information IALL 21st Course on International Law Librarianship
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International Journal of Legal Information , Volume 31 , Issue 2 , Summer 2003 , pp. 179 - 204
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Copyright © 2003 the International Association of Law Libraries 

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Selective Bibliography

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