Law, Legislative and Municipal Reference Libraries. John B. Kaiser

Rethinking legislative consent law?

Networks and Law Libraries

JOHN B . HAVILAND Ideologies of Language : Some Reflections on Language and U . S . Law

I present two U.S. court cases in which I participated as a linguistic anthropological "expert" to show how language ideologies of the law both influence legal outcomes and conflict with "scientific" ideas about language. One case was the murder trial of a young Mixtec-speaking Indian from Oaxaca; the other was a civil suit brought by four Hispanic women dismissed from an elder-care center for ...

Law Libraries as Special Libraries: An Educational Model

THISARTICLE SUMMARIZES the history of the law library profession and the development of the educational model for law librarians. The American Association of Law Libraries’ (AALL) Guidelines for Graduate Programs in Law Librarianshifi is analyzed in light of the current education model in law librarianship. The key characteristics that define law library careers in the private sector are scruti...

Judges , commerce and contract law by John Gava

This question received a powerful impetus with the publication of Stewart Macaulay’s pioneering study in 1963 into the use of contract law in the market place. Macaulay looked at the contracting practices of businesses in Wisconsin and found that many entered into agreements that didn’t satisfy the requirements of contract law and would not, therefore, be enforceable in the courts – and that th...