Wednesday, September 18, 2024

Widener and Greenwood's "Histories of Legal Literature"

Talbot Publishing, an imprint of The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd., announces the forthcoming publication of Histories of Legal Literature: A Hundred Years of English-Language Scholarship by Michael Widener and Ryan Greenwood:

The history of law is known above all through its literature, an extraordinarily diverse body of texts in an equally diverse variety of formats. Histories of Legal Literature maps the past hundred years of English-language scholarship with a bibliography of 998 publications on the origins, authorship, dissemination, design, readership, and preservation of the works that shaped the law books of today, including the vast legal literatures from outside the Anglo-American world. With the help of a detailed subject index and statistical analysis, Widener and Greenwood reveal the strengths and gaps in this body of scholarship and point to opportunities for new contributions. Histories of Legal Literature will be a useful reference for legal historians, book historians, librarians, and those working in allied fields.
–Dan Ernst.  TOC here.