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| Type: | Journal article |
| Title: | History and biography, legal and otherwise |
| Author: | Prest, W. |
| Citation: | Adelaide Law Review, 2011; 32(2):185-203 |
| Publisher: | Adelaide Law Review Association |
| Issue Date: | 2011 |
| ISSN: | 0065-1915 |
| Statement of Responsibility: | Wilfrid Prest |
| Abstract: | After surveying the somewhat ambivalent attitudes and practices of historians in general towards biography and as biographers, this article traces the emergence of legal biography as a genre from early modern times to the present day. Particular reference is made to the written lives of common lawyers in England, the USA and Australia. It concludes with some remarks on the difficulties and rewards of writing legal biography which seeks to satisfy the partly overlapping but nonetheless divergent interests of lawyers, historians, and the general reader. |
| Rights: | © Author |
| Published version: | http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=20121404;res=AGISPT |
| Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest 4 Law publications |
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