An Index to Common Law Festschriften

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This is the first ever index of contributions to common law Festschriften and fills a serious bibliographic gap in the literature of the common law. The German word Festschrift is now the universally accepted term in the academy for a published collection of legal essays written by several authors to honour a distinguished jurist or to mark a significant legal event. The number of Festschriften honouring common lawyers has increased enormously in the last thirty years. Until now, the numerous scholarly contributions to these volumes have not been adequately indexed. This Index fills that bibliographic gap. The entries included in this work refer to some 296 common law Festschriften indexed by author, subject keyword, editor, title, honorand and date. It therefore includes over 5,000 chapter entries. In addition, there are more than a thousand entries of English language contributions to predominantly foreign language, non-common law legal Festschriften from Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and Sweden.

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contains nearly all the bibliographical information that a librarian could want in order to identify and trace an essaythe presentation is immaculate, easy to use and elegantThis book should be bought by libraries which are used for academic research -- Barbara Tearle * Legal Information Management, Vol 7 *
Taggartfills a bibliographic gap in providing this index * Reference & Research Book News *
...an important, straightforward reference resource -- Janet Ferguson * Australian Law Librarian Journal *

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Michael Taggart is the Alexander Turner Professor of Law in the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written extensively on administrative and public law, privatisation and the public/private law divide. He has visited at the Universities of Melbourne, Toronto, Cambridge, Paris II, Saskatchewan, Western Ontario and Queen's University at Kingston and Osgoode Hall Law School. He has a long-standing interest in Festschriften, has contributed to five Festschriften and presently is co-editing one.