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George Graham Winterton was an Australian academic specialising in Australian constitutional law. Winterton taught for 28 years at the University of New South Wales before taking up an appointment of Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Sydney in 2004.
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A Short View of Legal Bibliography is a book by Richard W. Bridgman. It was first published in 1807.
Legal bibliography is the bibliography of law. The term has been applied to "the kinds and functions of legal materials" and to "lists of law books and related materials".
This list is a legal bibliography.
Current Law Statutes Annotated, published between 1994 and 2004 as Current Law Statutes, contains annotated copies of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom passed since 1947 and Acts of the Scottish Parliament passed since 1999. It is published by Sweet & Maxwell in London and by W Green in Edinburgh. It was formerly also published by Stevens & sons in London.
A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations, formerly Sweet & Maxwell's Legal Bibliography, is a bibliography of law published in London by Sweet & Maxwell.
Law Books in Print is a descriptive legal bibliography. It was published by Glanville Press. Marke, Sloan and Ryan said it is "an excellent source". S. Houston Lay said that a copy should be in the possession of all substantial law libraries. Law Books in Print is the primary series for the determination of prices and current editions. It is updated by Law Books Published.
Bowker's Law Books and Serials in Print is a descriptive legal bibliography, and is one of the two main publications of this type. Law libraries often use it as an aid to collection development. It is a "standard reference work". It is "irresistible". It is complemented by International Legal Books in Print. It is published by R. R. Bowker.
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Legal biography is the biography of persons relevant to law. In a preface dated October 1983, A. W. B. Simpson wrote that it was "a rather neglected field". Since then there has been a "resurgence of interest".
Words and Phrases Legally Defined is a law dictionary. It contains statutory and judicial definitions of words and phrases. It is one of the two "major" dictionaries of its type. Both dictionaries have entries not contained in the other. This dictionary is "useful".
Biographical Dictionary of the Common Law is a biographical dictionary concerned with legal biography, edited by A. W. B. Simpson and published in 1984 by Butterworths. Hines called it "valuable". Holborn described it as a "handy starting point". Tearle said it is "the best source to consult first". Clinch called it "invaluable".
Information Sources in Law is a book.
The law of Albania is civil law.
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The law of Romania is civil law.
The law of the Slovak Republic is civil law.
The law of Hungary is civil law. It was first codified during the socialist period.
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- ↑ Pagel, Scott B (editor). The Legal Bibliography: Tradition, Transitions and Trends. Routledge. 1989. p 124. Digitized copy from Google Books.
- ↑ Edward D Re (1956) 42 ABA Journal 758 at 759, Google Books
- ↑ Jules Winterton and Elizabeth M Moys (editors). Information Sources in Law. Second Edition. Bowker-Saur. 1997. ISBN 1-85739-041-5. p 12.
- ↑ Marci Hoffman and Mary Rumsey. International and Foreign Legal Research: A Coursebook. Second Edition. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers. 2012. ISBN 978-90-04-20480-5. p 140. Digitized copy from Google Books.