Background
Grossman, George Stefan was born on May 31, 1938 in Poltar, Czechoslovakia.
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Maintaining that the development of legal research tools has been a fundamental and integral part of the history of law, this comprehensive anthology includes selections and notes on court reports, digests, legislative codes, administrative regulations, citators, treatises, law reviews and other sources, concluding each section with a description of the research tools of today and the impact of computers on modern legal research. Readings also examine the impact of legislative publications on the judicial interpretation of statutes, the attempts to bring under control the growing mass of information generated by modern-day administrative regulation, the interrelationship between the development of court reporting and the use of judicial decisions as precedents, and the effect of scholarly literature on the growth of the law. In each section, Grossman relates the historical readings to the legal information environment of today and in the Epilogue he examines the wide-ranging impact of computers on legal research. The book is intended to develop practical research skills in the most meaningful way--by appreciation of the forces which brought each research tool into being and the purposes those tools are intended to serve.
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Intended for the general public, the readings in this collection explore the roots of American law from pre-history to ancient Greece and Rome and the common law of England. America’s legal development is traced from the drafting of the Constitution to the Rehnquist Court. Themes along the way include the ”Golden Age” of the early nineteenth century, when American law took on its distinctive character, the impact of slavery and the Civil War, and the struggles of the Progressives to regulate the nation’s industrialized economy between the post-Civil War era and the New Deal. A reading on the Nuremberg Trials introduces the theme of international human rights, while post-war readings trace the nation’s legal confrontations over civil liberties, civil rights, the rights of women, the protection of the environment, and legal protections for those accused of crimes. Dramatic highlights include the Sacco-Vanzetti case, the internment of Japanese-Americans during the Second World War, the trial of the ”Chicago Eight” during the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal. Leading personalities include Sirs Edward Coke and William Blackstone in England, Chief Justices John Marshall and Earl Warren, Justices Stephen J. Field, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Louis D. Brandeis, and Felix Frankfurter, and Judge Learned Hand. Readings on the future of American law explore the impact of alternative dispute resolution, science and technology, globalization, and space exploration, as well as trends in the legal profession and in legal philosophy.
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Grossman, George Stefan was born on May 31, 1938 in Poltar, Czechoslovakia.
Bachelor of Arts, University of Chicago, 1960; Bachelor of Laws, Stanford University, 1966; Master of Arts in Library Science, Brigham Young U., 1971.
Technology processes law librarian, University of Pennsylvania, 1966-1968; associate professor of law, law librarian, U. Utah, 1968-1970; professor, law librarian, U. Utah, 1970-1973; professor, director law library, University of Minnesota, 1973-1979; professor, director law library, Northwestern University, Chicago, 1979-1993; with, University of California, Davis, since 1993. Consultant to universities.
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Member Indian rights committee American Civil Liberties Union, 1973-1992, president Utah affiliate, 1972-1973, board directors Illinois affiliate, 1982-1987. Member American Association Law Libraries, International Association Law Libraries.
Married Suzi Herczeg, 1960. 1 child, Zoltan.