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An Index to Common Law Festschriften

An Index to Common Law Festschriften

Author: Michael Taggart
Publisher: Hart Publishing
ISBN: 9781841136417
Published In: January 2007
Format: Hardback , 334 pages
Jurisdiction: U.K. ? Disclaimer:
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This is the first ever index of contributions to common law Festschriften and fills a serious bibliographic gap in the literature of the common law. The German word Festschrift is now the universally accepted term in the academy for a published collection of legal essays written by several authors to honour a distinguished jurist or to mark a significant legal event.

The number of Festschriften honouring common lawyers has increased enormously in the last thirty years. Until now, the numerous scholarly contributions to these volumes have not been adequately indexed. This Index fills that bibliographic gap. The entries included in this work refer to some 296 common law Festschriften indexed by author, subject keyword, editor, title, honorand and date. It therefore includes over 5,000 chapter entries.

In addition, there are more than a thousand entries of English language contributions to predominantly foreign language, non-common law legal Festschriften from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

Contents:: Acknowledgements; 1 Turning the Graveyard of Legal Scholarship into a Garden: Indexing Common Law Festschriften; Introduction; The Web-based Index Project; Common Law Jurisdictions; Law?; Hidden Festschriften; Exclusion of Special Issues of Law Reviews; Anti-Festschriften and the Middle Ground; English Language Contributions to Non-Common Law; Legal Festschriften Published in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordic Countries; Currency and Title of this Index; Other Composite Works; Copyright and Editorial Responsibility; Conclusion; 2 How to Use this Index; Honorand Index; Subject Index; Author Index; Methodology for Compiling Subject Headings; Appendix I; Subject Headings; Appendix II; Subject Headings with Cross-references to Related; Headings; Appendix III; Subject Headings with Reference to Library of Congress; Subject Headings; Honorand Index; Subject Index; Author Index

Michael Taggart is the Alexander Turner Professor of Law in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written extensively on administrative and public law, privatisation and the public/private law divide. He has visited at the Universities of Melbourne, Toronto, Cambridge, Paris II, Saskatchewan, Western Ontario and Queen's University at Kingston and Osgoode Hall Law School. He has a long-standing interest in Festschriften, has contributed to five Festschriften and presently is co-editing one.

…contains nearly all the bibliographical information that a librarian could want in order to identify and trace an essay…the presentation is immaculate, easy to use and elegant…This book should be bought by libraries which are used for academic research…
Barbara Tearle
Legal Information Management
Vol 7, 2007

Taggart…fills a bibliographic gap in providing this index…
Reference & Research Book News
February 2007

...an important, straightforward reference resource…
Janet Ferguson
Australian Law Librarian Journal
2008