The Legacy of Critical Legal Thought and Transatlantic

Akron L. Rev., 1996

The British Journal for the History of Science, 1991

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The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2021

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Aperture 214, 2014, 58-64

2015

SINCE THE BEGINNINGS of Canadian Literature we have been concerned about the censorship of books. In our second issue, in Autumn 1959, I devoted an editorial-"Areopagitica re-written"-to the laws relating to obscenity which in that year were passed in both Britain and Canada. The conclusion of that editorial was that while the British legislation was an obvious advance on anything in the past, the Canadian legislation was at best ambiguous and at worst oppressive. While praising the British legislation for its provision for a consideration of the literary, scholarly or artistic merits of any work involved in a prosecution, I also remarked :

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2015 Roger C. Schonfeld, Attribution-NonCommercial (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) CC BY-NC. In many academic and professional fields, the society-sponsored journal has for a century had a unique position in scholarly discourse. An annual meeting and conference provided intellectual exchange and social stimulation, while the journal provided a more formal mechanism to communicate, to review, to evaluate, and to certify. In celebrating the rich contributions C&RL has made over the past 75 years, we find ourselves in a moment of profound change in the ways that scholarship is conducted and communicated. These changes in scholarly production and distribution, combined with a growing diversity in how research itself is conducted, provide C&RL new opportunities to maintain its leadership position in the library field. The 75th anniversary of the journal is an opportune time for a bold examination of how ACRL and C&RL can continue to facilitate the scholarship of libraria...