Lawyers' Law Books
Lawyers Law Books: A Practical Index to Legal Literature is a bibliography of law. The First Edition was by John Rees and Donald Raistrick. The Second and Third were by the latter author alone.
First Edition
The First Cumulative Supplement to this Edition was published in 1979.
Second Edition
Hines said this book might be the "most noteworthy" of the more recent general legal bibliographies.[1] McVeigh praised it for its succinctness and called it "the best starting point".[2]
Third Edition
The preface to this edition is dated August 1996. This Edition does not include books published before 1980 unless the author considered them to be "useful".[3] Finch and Fafinski said that this book is "extremely useful".[4] Holborn called it "excellent".[5]
References
- John Rees and Donald Raistrick. Lawyers' Law Books: A Practical Index to Legal Literature. Professional Books. Abingdon. 1977. ISBN 9780903486408. Google Books.
- Donald Raistrick. Lawyers' Law Books: A Practical Index to Legal Literature. Second Edition. Professional Books. Abingdon. 1985.
- Donald Raistrick. Lawyers' Law Books: A Practical Index to Legal Literature. Third Edition. Bowker-Saur. 1997.
- The Library Association Record. Library Association. 1979. Volume 81. p 73.
- The Law Librarian. British and Irish Association of Law Libraries. 1983. Volumes 14 - 16. p 13.
- ↑ Hines, William Douglas. English Legal History: A Bibliography and Guide to the Literature. Vol 1011 of the Garland Reference Library of the Humanities. Garland Publishing Inc. 1990. ISBN 0-8240-4299-9. p 118.
- ↑ McVeigh, K J A. "Lawyers Law Books" (1986) 45 Cambridge Law Journal 159 doi:10.1017/S0008197300116010
- ↑ Preface to the Third Edition. Page ix.
- ↑ Emily Finch and Stefan Fafinski. Legal Skills. Second Edition. Oxford University Press. 2009. ISBN 978-0-19-955440-9. Page 189.
- ↑ Holborn, Guy. Legal Research Guide. Butterworths. 2001. ISBN 0 406 93023 6. Paragraph 12.11 at page 25.
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