Empirical Legal Studies Before 1940: A Bibliographic Essay

The modern empirical legal studies movement has well-known antecedents in the law and society and law and economics traditions of the latter half of the 20th century. Less well known is the body of empirical research on legal phenomena from the period prior to World War II. This paper is an extensive bibliographic essay that surveys the English language empirical legal research from approximately 1940 and earlier. The essay is arranged around the themes in the research: criminal justice, civil justice (general studies of civil litigation, auto accident litigation and compensation, divorce, small claims, jurisdiction and procedure, civil juries), debt and bankruptcy, banking, appellate courts, legal needs, legal profession (including legal education), and judicial staffing and selection. Accompanying the essay is an extensive bibliography of research articles, books, and reports

A Panorama of the World\u27s Legal Systems

This is a 1936 library edition of John Henry Wigmore\u27s Panorama of the World\u27s Legal Systems, originally published in 1928. The book compares legal systems throughout the world and over time. The illustration shown here features a 4th century B.C. Egyptian marriage contract in which the woman has the right to divorce. View in Library Cataloghttps://scholarship.law.wm.edu/womenhistorylaw/1016/thumbnail.jp

A treatise on the Anglo-American system of evidence in trials at common law : including the statutes and judicial decisions of all jurisdictions of the United States and Canada /

Accompanied by "A supplement 1923-1933" (xv, 1395 p., published in 1934)Mode of access: Internet

Problems of law, its past, present, and future; three lectures,

Problems of the law's evolution.- Problems of the law's mechanism in America.- Problems of world-legislation and America's share therein.Mode of access: Internet

Defining and Presenting Data

Peer Reviewedhttp://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/67457/2/10.1177_108056998004300203.pd

Evolution of law : select readings on the origin and development of legal institutions /

Includes index.v. 1. Sources of ancient and primitive law.--v. 2. Primitive and ancient legal institutions.--v. 3. Formative influences of legal development.Mode of access: Internet

Formative influences of legal development,

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