An Issue of the Journal
The Real Law Journal, Volume I, Number 1.
Autumn MMXXV · Published
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Masthead
Bibliographic record.
- Volume
- Volume I
- Issue
- No. 1
- Season
- Autumn MMXXV
- Status
- Published
- Publication Date
- MMXXV
- DOI
- 10.00000/rlj.i.1
- Issue Editors
- The Editor-in-Chief · Editor-in-ChiefThe Managing Editor · Managing Editor
§ II
Editor's Introduction
On the present issue.
The first issue of The Real Law Journal opens with a question rather than a thesis: how shall a periodical of primary authority be made? The five articles that follow are offered as a partial answer.
Two articles address the discipline of reading law as written. The first treats citation as the apparatus by which a reader returns to the source; the second treats statutory interpretation as the reading of a written instrument before the reaching for meaning.
A research note takes up the recorded instrument as evidence; a case note reads Ashcroft v. Iqbal against Rule 8; a book review treats the Restatement (Third) of Trusts as a continuing project.
The issue is small by design. It is intended to establish the kind of periodical the Journal will be, before it is asked to be much more.
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Table of Contents
The articles of the issue.
Articles
- 01
Primary Authority and the Discipline of Citation
On the apparatus by which a reader returns to the source.
Faculty of the School of Legal Research
1–28
- 02
What the Text Says, and What It Means
On the reading of statutes as written instruments.
Faculty of the School of Legal Research · The Editorial Committee
29–54
Research Notes
Case Notes
Book Reviews
§ IV
Articles
The articles.
Vol. I · No. 1
Primary Authority and the Discipline of Citation
On the apparatus by which a reader returns to the source.
Faculty of the School of Legal Research
Articles · Published
Vol. I · No. 1
What the Text Says, and What It Means
On the reading of statutes as written instruments.
Faculty of the School of Legal Research · The Editorial Committee
Articles · Published
§ V
Research Notes
The research notes.
§ VII
Book Reviews
The book reviews.
§ VIII
Citation Information
On citing this issue.
The articles of the present issue are cited by author, short title, volume, page, and year. The issue as a whole is cited by volume and number.
DOI · 10.00000/rlj.i.1
I Real Law J. (No. 1) (MMXXV).
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Cross-References
The scholarship of this issue, within the institution.
The articles of this issue draw from and return to the catalogues of the Academy, the Library, and the Press.
Related Publications
An Introduction to Legal Research
The hierarchy of authority and the discipline of citation.
Educational Guide · Monograph No. 1
Reading the Statute
Text, structure, definitions, and the canons of construction.
Educational Guide · Monograph No. 2
Reading the Recorded Instrument
Deeds, mortgages, satisfactions, and the chain of title.
Treatise · Vol. II
The Architecture of Civil Procedure
Pleadings, motions, and the path of a case.
Treatise · Vol. III
The Duties of a Trustee
A reading of the Uniform Trust Code with annotations from the Restatement (Third) of Trusts.
Treatise · Vol. I
Related Schools
I
School of Trust Law & Fiduciary Administration
Trusts, trustees, beneficiaries, and the duties of fiduciaries.
IV
School of Property Law
Estates in land, recording acts, conveyancing, and title.
VII
School of Civil Procedure
Pleadings, motions, discovery, and the rules of the court.
IX
School of Constitutional Law
Federal and state constitutions read as enacted.
X
School of Legal Research
Method, citation, and the discipline of finding what governs.
Related Library Divisions
II
Statutes
Codified federal and state statutory law, organized by title and chapter.
IV
Court Rules
Federal and state rules of procedure, evidence, and local practice.
V
Judicial Opinions
Selected opinions of the federal and state courts of record.
VII
Historical Documents
Founding-era charters, antecedent instruments, and treaty texts.
VIII
Treatises
Restatements, hornbooks, and reference works of accepted authority.
The Journal
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