Mike Widener, formerly Rare Book Librarian in the Lillian Goldman Law Library at the Yale Law School, has made two recent articles available via Academia. The first appeared in volume 29 of the Green Bag, 2d ser.: "Confessions of a Case Reporter." “It describes and publishes a letter that Simon Greenleaf wrote in 1836, where Greenleaf discusses both the economics and the style of case reporting, and concludes that ‘it costs far more labor to make a neat & condensed report of a case, than to publish it, chaff & all, just as the materials come to the reporter’s hands.’”
The second appeared in volume 12 (2025) of the Journal of Law. "Authoring: Reclaiming Credit Where Credit is Due” presents “an irate memorandum by Arthur Corbin, accusing the dean of the Yale Law School of trying to stiff him and a co-author over payment and credit for their work on Volume 22 of the Cyclopedia of Law and Procedure (1906).”
--Dan Ernst
