"Legal treatises" refers to written materials that explain and discuss the laws in a comprehensive and detailed manner. These treatises typically provide insights, interpretations, and analyses of legal concepts and principles. They are authoritative resources used by legal professionals, such as lawyers and judges, to gain a deeper understanding of specific areas of law.
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Readers prefer books in print and a library can build and maintain a print collection of core
legal treatises on a few bookcases.
However, we also agreed I think that a combined approach of print and full - text keyword searching of e-books was effective, especially since the entire universe of
Canadian legal treatises remains printbound for some time (until Google Books rules the world).
Far better for the Canadian legal profession to use Halsburys Laws of England with a few footnote references to Canadian cases in what was known as the «Canadian Converter», and
major legal treatises from the U.K., than to use the obviously inferior publications that would be written by Canadian authors.
Unfortunately, most students don't become very familiar with
legal treatises in law school.
Historical collection of American and British
legal treatises from the 19th to the early 20th Century (1800 - 1926).
In addition to
authoring legal treatise Nesci's Arizona DUI Defense: The Law & Practice, 4th Edition, designed for defense lawyers and the like, he has co-authored many criminal defense - related books catered specifically to Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Iowa, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia, West Virginia, and Wisconsin justice systems.
Author of the nationally distributed
legal treatise for tax strategy for family lawyers, «Frumkes & Vertz on Divorce Taxation,» Vertz is adept at explaining technical aspects of tax laws to clients and professionals alike.
All in all, we are in for another round of content migration, this time to a new platform that meets the as yet unfulfilled need of institutions and researchers to own content, as well as the need of legal researchers to have convenient electronic access to selected
legal treatises without having to subscribe to a major online service.
There are some
great legal treatises, including McQuillan on Municipal Corporations and Antieau on Local Government Law, that can provide a much fuller picture of local government law and its many nuances.
These educational seminars build upon the nationally
distributed legal treatise, Frumkes & Vertz on Divorce Taxation, Brian writes and publishes annually for family lawyers.
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When I later encountered his ideas in a
leading legal treatise on the state of women under the law, I could no longer bring myself to question the significance of George's reflections or resist trying to apply them.
My point, is that as «church», we invest a huge amount of trust and power in the hands of our (ex) leaders, who tend to justify their «annointed» position by invoking God with a cut and paste
scriptural legal treatise underpinning their position!
While in law school, Kevin interned for two judges, litigated for the New York City Law Department, and
copyedited legal treatises for Matthew Bender & Company, Inc..
Those that buy a
relevant legal treatise out of their own money and spend time on their weekends reading it will succeed.
And there have been some attempts to
create legal treatises and encyclopedias using the wiki group - authoring format.
Bob is editor and coauthor of Massachusetts Condominium Law, and the author of the condominium chapter in Crocker's Notes on Common Forms, both leading
Massachusetts legal treatises.
No stranger to complex projects, Jack also authored The Sarbanes - Oxley Deskbook (Practising Law Institute), a 3 -
volume legal treatise on corporate governance and securities reforms.
There clearly is a future for hard
bound legal treatises and monographs, despite the social and corporate pressure to go digital.
The same is obviously true for lawyers preparing documents for submission to courts and for legal scholars
writing legal treatises.
The truth is, lawyers frequently
use legal treatises, especially early on in their practice, for a variety of reasons.
The collection still retains some of the original holdings including
historic legal treatises and reporters which date back to 1558.
The need to devote a large portion of their budgets to subscriptions to looseleaf and online services has reduced the resources available to acquire
new legal treatises and monographs.
W.S. Hein has been one of the leaders in publishing
historical legal treatises via HeinOnline with the Legal Classics Library, the World Trials Library, World Constitutions Illustrated, and the recently released, History of International Law Library.
For example, Black's Law Dictionary, Whigmore on Evidence, or any
other legal treatise would also be a secondary source.
Using that list as a comparator, we could say that roughly 10 % (85 of of 800 titles) of the major
Canadian legal treatises are available in electronic format, a fairly significant number in my opinion (remember I said «roughly» — I realize my statistical methods here are «quick and dirty»).
Canada Law Book published most of the
major legal treatises and all of the major law reports, while CCH had the leading looseleaf services in key subjects such as publications in corporations law, labour, family, estates and tax.
For that
great legal treatise the University of London awarded him a higher doctorate in laws (LL.D).
He is currently preparing
a legal treatise, Biologic Patenting and Regulation, to be published in 2012 by BNA and AIPLA.
This feature creates something akin to
a legal treatise, Arredondo says.
In the old days, the value of
a legal treatise seemed to be determined by the weight / number of pages as much as any rational pricing policy based on solid market research.
I have earlier posted (here and here) on the increasing availability of Canadian
legal treatises being available online (by subscription).
Judgments routinely incorporate phrases and paragraphs from a variety of sources, such as decided cases,
legal treatises, pleadings, and arguments of the parties.
In a post here two months ago, I reported on the launch by legal research service Fastcase of a new publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals,
legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow tools.
Blog posts do not have to be
legal treatises: they can be short and sweet, so long as they encourage your reader to stay on your site or click the «Contact Us» page.
On a transitional basis, print citations could be located in the Table of Cases that usually appears in the preliminary pages of
a legal treatise or monograph.
Well, in its own quest for the Holy Grail, Fastcase is today launching a major initiative, a publishing arm called Full Court Press that will produce law journals,
legal treatises, deskbooks, forms, checklists and workflow tools.
This includes content from the National Law Journal ®, The American Lawyer ®, Law Technology News ®, The New York Law Journal ® and Corporate Counsel ®, as well as ALM's other newspapers, directories,
legal treatises, published and unpublished court opinions, and other sources of legal information.