A legal periodical is a

periodical A periodical literature (also called a periodical publication or simply a periodical) is a published work that appears in a new edition on a regular schedule. The most familiar example is a newspaper, but a magazine or a journal are also example ...

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law Law is a set of rules that are created and are enforceable by social or governmental institutions to regulate behavior,Robertson, ''Crimes against humanity'', 90. with its precise definition a matter of longstanding debate. It has been vario ...

. Legal periodicals include legal newspapers,

law review A law review or law journal is a scholarly journal or publication that focuses on legal issues. A law review is a type of legal periodical. Law reviews are a source of research, imbedded with analyzed and referenced legal topics; they also p ...

s, periodicals published by way of commerce, periodicals published by practitioner bodies, and periodicals concerned with a particular branch of the law. The obituaries and profiles in legal periodicals may be useful to historians and biographers. Book reviews in legal periodicals may be useful to librarians. There is a Book Review Index in the Index to Legal Periodicals.James R Acker and Richard Irving. Basic Legal Research for Criminal Justice and the Social Sciences. Aspen Publishers. Gaithersburg, Maryland. 1998
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References

*Patrick Polden, "The Education of Lawyers" in W R Cornish, ''The Oxford History of the Laws of England'', Oxford University Press, 2010, volume 11, pages 1201 to 1211. *Allyson Nancy May. The Bar and the Old Bailey, 1750–1850. University of North Carolina Press. 2003. Page
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and 136. *Frank Luther Mott. "Legal Periodicals". A History of American Magazines, 1865–1885. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press. 1938
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