TEXTS AND CONTEXTS - THE APPLICATION TO AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY OF THEMETHODOLOGIES OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Authors
FISHER WW
Citation
Ww. Fisher, TEXTS AND CONTEXTS - THE APPLICATION TO AMERICAN LEGAL HISTORY OF THEMETHODOLOGIES OF INTELLECTUAL HISTORY, Stanford law review, 49(5), 1997, pp. 1065-1110
Citations number
205
Categorie Soggetti
Law
Journal title
Stanford law review → ACNP
ISSN journal
00389765
Volume
49
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Pages
1065 - 1110
Database
ISI
SICI code
0038-9765(1997)49:5<1065:TAC-TA>2.0.ZU;2-9
Abstract
In this article, Professor William Fisher surveys how recent work in A merican legal history has been influenced by four methodologies develo ped by intellectual historians. He then identifies nine possible purpo ses of legal history and evaluates how the four methodologies might fu rther each objective.