(c) by special articles, such as Homestead and Exemption Laws (Vol. 13, p. 639), Original Package (Vol. 20, p. 273) and Interstate Commerce (Vol. 14, p. 711; equal to about 10 pages of this Guide), by Prof. Frank A. Fetter of Princeton (formerly Cornell), which deal with purely American legal topics.
(d) by legal sections in general economic articles, for instance: in Railways, the section on American Legislation, by Prof. F. H. Dixon of Dartmouth, author of State Railroad Control; in Trusts, by Prof. J. W. Jenks, the great American authority on the subject; in Employers’ Liability; in Trade Unions and in Strikes and Lockouts, both by Carroll D. Wright, late U. S. Commissioner of Labor; Bankruptcy, by Edward Manson, author of Law of Bankruptcy; and in Insurance (Vol. 14, especially p. 662 c).
(e) by general legal articles like: Common Law; Criminal Law, by W. F. Craies, editor of Archbold On Criminal Pleading; Liquor Laws, by Arthur Shadwell, author of Drink, Temperance and Legislation; Medical Jurisprudence, by H. H. Littlejohn, professor of forensic medicine in the University of Edinburgh; Military Law, by Sir John Scott, former deputy judge-advocate-general, British Army; Navigation Laws, by James Williams, of Lincoln College, Oxford; Press Laws; Seamen, Laws, relating to, etc.
and (f) by sections and paragraphs on American law in hundreds of articles on legal topics—for list see below.
Biographies of Lawyers
The following list of American jurists does not include all American lawyers about whom there are separate articles in the Britannica, but will serve to suggest a brief course of biographical readings which the lawyer could not duplicate even in a special and expensive work on the American bar:
- Samuel Sewall (Vol. 24, p. 733)
- John Rutledge (Vol. 23, p. 945)
- Samuel Chase (Vol. 5, p. 956)
- Francis Dana (Vol. 7, p. 792)
- John Lowell (Vol. 17, p. 76)
- Oliver Ellsworth (Vol. 9, p. 294)
- John Jay (Vol. 15, p. 294)
- Robert R. Livingston (Vol. 16, p. 812)
- Luther Martin (Vol. 17, p. 794)
- Theophilus Parsons (Vol. 20, p. 868)
- John Marshall (Vol. 17, p. 770)
- Edmund Randolph (Vol. 22, p. 886)
- James Kent (Vol. 15, p. 735)
- Edward Livingston (Vol. 16, p. 811)
- Bushrod Washington (Vol. 28, p. 344)
- Roger Brooke Taney (Vol. 26, p. 396)
- Samuel Hoar (Vol. 13, p. 542)
- Horace Binney (Vol. 3, p. 949)
- James Wilson (Vol. 28, p. 693)
- William Pinkney (Vol. 21, p. 627)
- Lemuel Shaw (Vol. 24, p. 813)
- Daniel Webster (Vol. 28, p. 459)
- Simon Greenleaf (Vol. 12, p. 548)
- Henry Wheaton (Vol. 28, p. 583)
- Richard Rush (Vol. 23, p. 857)
- John Bouvier (Vol. 4, p. 336)
- Joseph Story (Vol. 25, p. 969)
- Levi Woodbury (Vol. 28, p. 790)
- James Hall (Vol. 12, p. 847)
- Reverdy Johnson (Vol. 15, p. 462)
- Hugh S. Legaré (Vol. 16, p. 373)
- Rufus Choate (Vol. 6, p. 258)
- Benjamin F. Butler (Vol. 4, p. 881)
- David Dudley Field (Vol. 10, p. 321)
- S. P. Chase (Vol. 5, p. 955)
- John J. Crittenden (Vol. 7, p. 471)
- Hamilton Fish (Vol. 10, p. 427)
- Benjamin R. Curtis (Vol. 7, p. 652)
- J. S. Black (Vol. 4, p. 18)
- Judah P. Benjamin (Vol. 3, p. 739)
- John Y. Mason (Vol. 17, p. 840)
- George Ticknor Curtis (Vol. 7, p. 651)
- R. H. Dana (Vol. 7, p. 792)
- Samuel J. Tilden (Vol. 26, p. 970)
- Samuel F. Miller (Vol. 18, p. 464).
- Stephen J. Field (Vol. 10, p. 322)
- W. M. Evarts (Vol. 10, p. 4)
- Francis Wharton (Vol. 28, p. 575)
- Morrison R. Waite (Vol. 28, p. 246)
- T. W. Dwight (Vol. 8, p. 741)
- E. J. Phelps (Vol. 21, p. 363)
- Stanley Matthews (Vol. 17, p. 899)
- L. Q. C. Lamar (Vol. 16, p. 100)
- C. C. Langdell (Vol. 16, p. 172)
- D. W. Voorhees (Vol. 28, p. 211)
- T. F. Bayard (Vol. 3, p. 554)
- Horace Gray (Vol. 12, p. 391)
- Joseph Hodges Choate (Vol. 6, p. 258)
- Melville W. Fuller (Vol. 11, p. 296)
- Wayne MacVeagh (Vol. 17, p. 269)
- John Marshall Harlan (Vol. 12, p. 954)
- Richard Olney (Vol. 20, p. 91)
- Cushman K. Davis (Vol. 7, p. 866)
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (Vol. 13, p. 616)
- David Bennett Hill (Vol. 13, p. 464)
- Elihu Root (Vol. 23, p. 711)
- Philander C. Knox (Vol. 15, p. 882)
Of great value to the student of law, as widening his scope, would be a course of more general reading. This should include:
(a) the articles Law, Jurisprudence and Comparative Jurisprudence, by Paul Vinogradoff, Corpus professor of jurisprudence at Oxford.
(b) articles on national and other legal systems, such as