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History See other History Articles Title: Roots of the ABA -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [tips_and_tricks] Middle Temple ties to ABA Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2007 00:09:53 -0600 From: hobot Reply-To: tips_and_tricks@yahoogroups.com To: tips and tricks Here's online references to origins and connections we face in American BAR Association staffed courts. http://www.middletemple.org.uk/Library%5CThe_American_Collection.html Middle Temple Library possesses one of the largest collections of American legal materials outside of the United States. This collection is located on the third floor of the Library. The Middle Temple has always enjoyed a close relationship with the United States and we have links that go back to Elizabethan times. Five of the original signatories to the Declaration of Independence were Middle Templars and our ties continue to be maintained through the American Bar Association and through the United States Ambassadors each of whom has been made an Honorary Bencher of the Inn. The collection aims to provide practitioners with quick access to US case law within the precincts of the Inns of Court and with basic supporting material. It contains a fine collection of many of the earlier nominate reports including a copy of the first Supreme Court Report. A major part of the current collection is comprised of law reports, mainly consisting of the National Reporter System. Each title consists of the law reports of several states which are linked by geographical proximity. Prominent titles held include Corpus Juris Secundum which is the US equivalent to Halsbury's Laws. Textbooks include many single volume authoritative titles on areas of law such as family law, civil procedure and insurance law and some major multi-volume works such as Wigmore on Evidence and Williston on Contract and other subjects that will be of particular significance to British lawyers such as works on scientific evidence and homeland security to cover the latest material on DNA and terrorism that do not currently have comparable publications in UK law, but which will soon have a bearing on it. The library also holds several law journals including the Harvard and Yale reviews. Access to all US law reports is available in the library on http://Lexis.com. Members who require more specialist texts or expertise will find both at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in Russell Square. Middle Temple site American Bar Association search result http://www.middletemple.org.uk/search.asp http://www.pepysdiary.com/p/131.php This part of the church still contains effigies of Knights Templar who were buried in the church. The Temple Church was damaged by German bombs during the Blitz and repaired after generous donations by the American Bar Association. More mystery details http://www.apfn.net/MESSAGEBOARD/02-08-05/discussion.cgi.44.html English and American BARs party together on Virginia's early charter for ecomomic globalization http://www.britainusa.com/sections/articles_show_nt1.asp?d=0&i=65037&L1=0&L2=0&a=42099 The English Commercial Bar Association, in association with the four Inns of Court, the Supreme Court of Virginia and the American Bar Association, are commemorating the 400th anniversary of the signing of the Virginia Charter and the founding of Jamestown USA by holding a series of prestigious lectures on the Rule of Law by leading figures in the judiciary, and the academic and business world. http://www.hawaiiparalegal.org/londwalk1.htm We then walked past the headquarters of The Law Society, which is the solicitors' umbrella organization (as a barrister is a member of an Inn of Court, so a solicitor is a member of the Law Society). The Law Society is more analogous to the American Bar Association than are the Inns of Court. Barred from the BAR? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_association Law Society http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_society
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