Saw this item in the May 5th Business Week (“Many Historic Returns,” p. 17):
“Ancestry.com . . . has now added an electronic version of U.S. income tax records from 1862 . . . through 1918. The site, which paid the government $ 46,000 for the rights to digitize the data, displays a listing of annual incomes — for those making more than $600 — as well as inventories of taxable luxury items. . . . “
Another new book just arrived in the library today. Its catalog record is pasted below. The contributors are from China, the UK, and Australia, so the perspective is interesting.
Title: Research methods for law / edited by Mike McConville and Wing Hong Chui.
Imprint: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2007.
Physical Description: viii, 239 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Series: (Research methods for the arts and humanities)
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents: ch. 1. Qualitative legal research / Ian Dobinson and Francis Johns — ch. 2. Quantative legal research /Wing Hong Chui — ch. 3. Doing ethnographic research: lessons from a case study / Satnam Choongh — ch. 4. Comparative legal scholarship / Geoffrey Wilson — ch. 5. Integrating theory and method in the comparative contextual analysis of trial process / Mark Findlay and Ralph Henman — ch. 6. Researching the landless movement in Brazil / George Meszaros — ch. 7. Non-empirical discovery in legal scholarship – choosing , researching and writing a traditional scholarly article / Michael Pendleton — ch. 8. Researching international law / Stephen Hall — ch. 9. Development of empirical techniques and theory / Mike McConville.
Subject (LC): Legal research.
Added author: McConville, Michael.
Added author: Chui, Wing Hong.
LAW CALL NUMBER
1)K85 .R47 2007
