Call for Papers – The Legal Treatise: Past, Present, and Future
The Lillian Goldman Law Library
and Law Library Journal invite proposals for a symposium on
the Legal Treatise to be held at Yale Law School on Friday, March 24, 2023.
The purpose of this symposium is to
examine the many aspects of the history, present circumstances, and future of
the legal treatise as a source and genre. Possible topics include but are not
limited to: the origins of the treatise, the role of the treatise in English
and American law practice and legal culture during particular periods in
history, the commodification of the treatise, international and comparative
perspectives on the treatise, microhistories of specific treatise titles,
biographical accounts of treatise writers, rivalries between treatise writers,
treatise authorship successions, reflections on contemporary treatise writing
and publishing, the rise of the scholarly monograph, the (in)accessibility of
the treatise, the transition of the treatise from a print resource to an
electronic resource, the decline of the multi-volume treatise in law practice
and legal scholarship, and theories about and proposals for the future of the
treatise.
Please send proposals in the form of an
abstract to Nicholas Mignanelli at nicholas.mignanelli@yale.edu. Please
be sure to include your name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), and
contact information in your email. Those whose proposals are accepted will be
invited to present at the symposium and will have the opportunity to publish
their paper in Law Library Journal. Early-career and
previously unpublished scholars, as well as previously published authors, are
encouraged to submit. The submissions deadline is June 1, 2022.
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