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Legal biography is the
biography A biography, or simply bio, is a detailed description of a person's life. It involves more than just the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death; it portrays a person's experience of these life events. Unlike a profile or c ...
of persons relevant to
law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...
. In a preface dated October 1983,
A. W. B. Simpson Alfred William Brian Simpson, QC (Hon.), JP, FBA (17 August 1931 – 10 January 2011) usually referred to as Brian Simpson and publishing as A. W. Brian Simpson, was a British legal historian and legal philosopher. At the time of his ret ...
wrote that it was "a rather neglected field". Since then there has been a "resurgence of interest".Parry, R Gwynedd. Is Legal Biography Really Legal Scholarship? (June 2010) Legal Studies: The Journal of the
Society of Legal Scholars The Society of Legal Scholars (SLS) is the learned society for those who teach law in a university or similar institution or who are otherwise engaged in legal scholarship. As of the beginning of 2016 the Society had over 3,000 members consisting ...
. Volume 30. Issue 2. Page 208. Wiley Online Library.


History

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Biographia Juridica ''Biographia Juridica: A Biographical Dictionary Of The Judges Of England From The Conquest To The Present Time, 1066-1870'' is a lengthy and rigorous review of the major legal minds in British history. It was compiled by Edward Foss, a lawyer ...
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, Department of Law. *Fenster, Mark. "The Folklore of Legal Biography" (2007) 105
Michigan Law Review The ''Michigan Law Review'' is an American law review and the flagship law journal of the University of Michigan Law School. History The ''Michigan Law Review'' was established in 1902, after Gustavus Ohlinger, a student in the Law Departmen ...
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Thomas Roscoe Thomas Roscoe (Liverpool 23 June 1791 – 24 September 1871 London) was an English author and translator. Life The fifth son of William Roscoe, he was born in Toxteth Park, Liverpool in 1791, and educated by Dr. W. Shepherd and by Mr. Llo ...
(compilers). "Legal Biography" in ''Westminster Hall: or Professional Relics and Anectdotes of the Bar, Bench and Woolsack''. John Knight & Henry Lacey. London. 1825. Volume 3. Pages 209–226
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. *Association of American Law Schools. "Reading and Writing Legal Biography" in 1977 Annual Meeting Proceedings. 1977. Part One. Page 23
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A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations ''A Legal Bibliography of the British Commonwealth of Nations'', formerly ''Sweet & Maxwell's Legal Bibliography'', is a bibliography of law published in London by Sweet & Maxwell Sweet & Maxwell is a British publisher specialising in legal ...
. Sweet & Maxwell. London. 1955. Volume 1: English Law to 1800. Chapter 26 ("Biography"). *"Historical value of legal biography" (1909
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Canadian Law Times 450 *Nelson and Reid. "Legal Biography" in ''The Literature of American Legal History''. Oceana Publications Inc. 1985. Reprinted by Beard Books. 2006
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Hoffman's Course of Legal Study Hoffman's ''Course of Legal Study'' is an 1817 legal textbook by American law professor David Hoffman that was influential in the development of America's first law school curricula. An early American law professor, Hoffman was largely forgot ...
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*John McEldowney, "Challenges in Legal Biography: The Role of Biography in Legal History" (2004) 39 Irish Juris
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to 242 *Alec Samuels, "Legal Biography" (1990
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Justice of the Peace 612 (22 September 1990) *Hampton L Carson, "The Interest and Value of the Study of Legal Biography" (1911
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The Green Bag 340; "The Study of Legal Biography" (1911
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The Law Times 328 (5 August 1911) *David R Williams, "Legal Biography in Canada: A New Field to Plow" (1980
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Gazette 329 (Law Society of Upper Canada) *Donald H J Hermann, "Patterns of Life in Law: A Consideration of Contemporary American Legal Biography" (1975) 24 DePaul Law Review 853 to 913 *Ignacio de la Rasilla. "Biographical Approaches to the History of International Law". International Law and History: Modern Interfaces. Cambridge University Press. 2021. Page
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to 338. *Kehinde Olaoye, "Legal biography and legal subjects". Viljoen, Sipalla and Adegalu (eds). Exploring African approaches to International Law. Pretoria University Law Press. 2022. Page
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to 69. *John B Nann and Morris L Cohen. "Biographical Materials". The Yale Law School Guide to Research in American Legal History. Yale University Press. 2018. Page
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to 293. *G Blain Baker, "Juristic Biographies, Homage Volumes and 'Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law'". Baker and Janda (eds). Tracings of Gerald Le Dain's Life in the Law. McGill Queens University Press. 2019
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See particularly "Juristic Biographies and Homage Volumes" at pages 4 to 9. *Leslie Dingle, "Legal Biography, Oral History and the Cambridge Eminent Scholars Archive" (2014) 14 Legal Information Management 58 to 6
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*Yuliya Chenykh, "The Gust of Wind". Schill, Tams and Hofmann (eds). International Investment Law and History. Page 241 at page
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to 246. *Linda Mulcahy and David Sugarman. Legal Life-Writing: Marginalised Subjects and Sources. John Wiley & Sons. 2015
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**Linda Mulcahy and David Sugarman, "Introduction: Legal Life Writing and Marginalized Subjects and Sources" (2015) 42 Journal of Law and Societ
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**David Sugarman, "From Legal Biography to Legal Life Writing: Broadening Conceptions of Legal History and Socio-legal Scholarship" (2015) 42 Journal of Law and Societ
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**Rosie Auchmerty, "Recovering Lost Lives: Researching Women in Legal History" (2015) 42 Journal of Law and Societ
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**Leslie J Moran, "Judicial Pictures as Legal Life-writing Data and a Research Method" (2015) 42 Journal of Law and Societ
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*Aleksi Peltonen, "Approaching International Criminal Law through Life Writing". The New Histories of International Criminal Law
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