Subjects:

General Interest

Contents:

Acknowledgements

1 Turning the Graveyard of Legal Scholarship into a Garden: Indexing Common Law Festschriften

Introduction

The Web-based Index Project

Common Law Jurisdictions

Law?

Hidden Festschriften

Exclusion of Special Issues of Law Reviews

Anti-Festschriften and the Middle Ground

English Language Contributions to Non-Common Law

Legal Festschriften Published in Germany, Austria, Switzerland and the Nordic Countries

Currency and Title of this Index

Other Composite Works

Copyright and Editorial Responsibility

Conclusion

2 How to Use this Index

Honorand Index

Subject Index

Author Index

Methodology for Compiling Subject Headings

Appendix I

Subject Headings

Appendix II

Subject Headings with Cross-references to Related

Headings

Appendix III

Subject Headings with Reference to Library of Congress

Subject Headings

Honorand Index

Subject Index

Author Index

Wildy's Book of the Month - March 2007

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.