About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

1 K.C.L.J. 91 (1990-1991)
The Journal of Legal History 1980-1990

handle is hein.journals/kingsclj1 and id is 93 raw text is: Research Notes or will you care enough to make a difference? These goals and challenges that I offer are not pipe dreams, they are real possibilities and whether we strive to achieve them as lawyers will depend upon the moral philosophies that guide our daily lives. It is for these reasons, among others, that a message of the conference was that access to education, the environment in which it takes place and the manner in which it is conducted are all inextricably linked to each other, to equality of opportunity, to the power that teaching institutions have over their students and to the responsibili- ties that law schools have to society. JON HAYES* THE JOURNAL OF LEGAL HISTORY 1980-1990 Most countries have had special journals devoted to articles, notes and book reviews on the subject of legal history. In Britain such articles have appeared in general legal journals and in general historical journals. There appeared to be a need for a specialist journal on the subject as well. This would provide an opportunity for publication of more material and an extension of the range in date. Time is always slipping by and to-day's current law soon becomes history. That such material exists and is valuable is confirmed by the universally high quality of articles submitted to this journal and the high standard of its language. Even Bernard Levin, no sycophant of our legal apparatus, has admitted that lawyers are almost the only people left who use standard English! The authors of these articles are lawyers, historians, political scientists and other qualified people. The advantage of a specialist journal would seem to rest on the accelerated trend towards specialisation in the law and the opportunity to have an editorial structure that would allow ongoing contact with the contributors and an editorial policy. The extension of subjects of interest allows an escape from the rather incestuous attitude that articles are written to dispute other articles within a very limited range of subjects and periods. For linguistic and traditional reasons the journal tends to concentrate on the Anglo- American world but this has not excluded foreign legal history of interest to our readers and comprehensible by them. The history of our own world also comprises its early roots and the ideas which have influenced our notions of law itself. The investigation of problems not yet easily solved retains a special cachet, requiring special linguistic and palaeographic skills, but other periods and other topics are also relatively unexplored and reward research. Of the articles published in the journal this decade the * Lecturer in Law, King's College London

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most