Morris L. Cohen Named Recipient of 1999 Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award

For Immediate Release
June 14, 1999

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Law Library Director
Washoe County Law Library
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The American Association of Law Libraries (AALL) Awards Committee is very pleased to announce the 1999 recipient of the Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award to Morris L. Cohen for his publication, Bibliography of Early American Law.

The Joseph L. Andrews Bibliographical Award was established in 1967 in honor of Joseph L. Andrews, Reference Librarian at the Association of the Bar of the City of New York. The Andrews Award is given for significant contribution to legal bibliographical literature, measured primarily by its creative and evaluative and the extent to which judgement was a factor in its formulation.

Morris L. Cohen has had a distinguished career: Bibliography is the culmination of over 35 years or work that began when he was a librarian at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. He has been employed by Rutgers University, Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania, Harvard University, and finally Yale University, where he has been an Emeritus Professor of Law since 1991. Among his many accomplishments and activities, he is an active member of the ABA, ALA and AALL, where he is a past president of our Association.

This book covers all literature, foreign, comparative, international and American if published from the beginnings of American history through 1860. This work chronicles and classifies the monographic and trial literature on American law and legal developments. Its 14,000- plus entries include American cases, statutes, conventions, treatises, and other law-related materials such as fiction, memoirs, sermons, and ballads. The bibliography provides a complete bibliographic record of American law. Each entry is identified by its author, title, and imprint. Detailed annotations cover the history of each entry. Of extra value, this work is accessible by eight indexes: jurisdiction, parties, place and publisher, chronological, language, author, title, and subject.

The American Association of Law Libraries was founded in 1906 to promote and enhance the value of law libraries to the legal and public communities, to foster the profession of librarianship, and to provide leadership in the field of legal information.