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Legal and Constitutional History
Nelson, William
Nelson, William
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Abstract
Since the publication of the last Legal and Constitutional Histo, survey two years ago, the field has seen an extraordinary outpouring of significant literature. In part, the literature was a product of the bicentennial celebration. The University of Pennsylvania Law Review, the Virginia Law Review, the De Paul Law Review, and even the Public Contract Law Journal published bicentennial issues, each of which contained several historical articles. In addition, the Law and Society Review published a two-issue Festschrift in honor of the retirement of the preeminent legal historian of the last three decades, James Willard Hurst. These special issues, together with the volumes of the American Journal of Legal History that have been published during the past two years, contain extensive and important periodical literature to which many major figures in the field have contributed. Individual comment upon the articles is impossible; all that can be said is that most of them deserve examination by any scholar seeking to remain current in the field.