By M. H. Hoeflich
Criminal Publishing in Antebellum the United States offers a background of the legislations ebook publishing and distribution within the usa. half enterprise historical past, half criminal background, half heritage of knowledge diffusion, M. H. Hoeflich indicates how quite a few advancements in printing and bookbinding, the advent of railroads, and the growth of mail carrier contributed to the expansion of the from an basically neighborhood to a countrywide undefined. in addition, the e-book ties the unfold of a selected method of legislation, that's, the "scientific approach," championed via Northeastern American jurists to the expansion of legislations publishing and legislation e-book promoting and indicates that the 2 have been seriously intertwined.
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The Inns of Court and the English Bar, 1680–1730 (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1990); Raymond Cocks, Foundations of the Modern Bar (London: Sweet & Maxwell, 1983). Though more popular in tone, also useful are Michael Birks, Gentlemen of the Law (London: Stevens, 1960) and David Pannick, Advocates (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992). Interestingly, there were attempts in the American colonies and in the early republic to create a bifurcate Bar and even to model courts after Westminster; see Haber, Authority and Honor, 70, and Friedman, History of American Law, 315–18.
Indeed, we have evidence of the number and distribution of booksellers who, if not dealing exclusively in law books, at least were known to sell a wide range of legal texts. 20 Griffith was a lawyer with literary and bibliographical leanings. He decided to publish a legal annual that would provide information on critical facts about the law and the legal profession in the United States. He sent surveys to leading practitioners in each of the states and solicited all significant information about their state’s laws and lawyers.
With the triumph of Langdell’s Harvard model of legal education, the various forces that had led to the expansion of the antebellum law book trade such as the drive for professional prestige by the Bar, nationalization of law on the Federalist model, and promotion of scientific legal education had triumphed as well. 90 That this transformative work was published by Little, Brown, one of the oldest of the national law book publishers and booksellers in the United States is itself quite significant, for, had the law book trade not grown and developed as it had in the preceding century, Langdell’s work would never have been able to change the American legal scene as it did.