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A legal periodical is a periodical about law. Legal periodicals include legal newspapers, law reviews, periodicals published by way of commerce, periodicals published by practitioner bodies, and periodicals concerned with a particular branch of the law. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

The obituaries and profiles in legal periodicals may be useful to historians and biographers. [8] [9] Book reviews in legal periodicals may be useful to librarians. [10] There is a Book Review Index in the Index to Legal Periodicals. [11]

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References

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  8. Patrick Polden, "Judging Judges: The Reputations of Nineteenth-Century Judges and their Sources", in Anthony Musson and Chantal Stebbings (eds), Making Legal History: Approaches and Methodologies, Cambridge University Press, 2012, Pages 60 and 61.
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