Bernard Hibbitts
Canadian lawyer and publisher
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Bernard Hibbitts is a Canadian lawyer, law professor, academic entrepreneur, editor and publisher currently teaching in the United States at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. Trained as a legal historian, his early work focused on the historical relationship between law, technology and the senses. In the mid-1990s he wrote a series of controversial articles on the future of law reviews and scholarly publishing in the then-just-emerging age of the Internet. He is best known today as the founder, publisher & Editor-in-Chief of JURIST, the Webby award-winning online legal news service he created in 1996 that is now powered by a volunteer team of over 80 students from 29 law schools in the US, the UK, continental Europe, Kenya, Mauritius, Australia and New Zealand. He is Chairman of the Board of Directors of JURIST Legal News and Research Services, Inc., the 501 non-profit corporation he organized to operate JURIST in 2008.
Bernard Hibbitts's Published Works
Published Works
- 'Coming to Our Senses': Communication and Legal Expression in Performance Cultures (1992) (75)
- Making Sense of Metaphors: Visuality, Aurality and the Reconfiguration of American Legal Discourse (1994) (67)
- Beyond the Electronic Portfolio: A Lifetime Personal Web Space (2004) (67)
- Last Writes? Re-Assessing the Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace (1996) (37)
- Rights, wrongs, and journals in the age of cyberspace. "We all want to change the world". (1996) (26)
- The Senses Still: Perception and Memory as Material Culture in Modernity. C. NADIA SERE‐METAKIS, ed (1996) (20)
- Making Motions: The Embodiment of Law in Gestures (1995) (17)
- E-Journals, Archives and Knowledge Networks: A Commentary on Archie Zariski's Defense of Electronic Law Journals (1997) (16)
- Yesterday Once More: Skeptics, Scribes and the Demise of Law Reviews (1996) (15)
- Last Writes The Law Review in the Age of Cyberspace (1996) (8)
- A Change of Mind: The Supreme Court and the Board of Railway Commissioners, 1903-1929 (1991) (6)
- From law reviews to knowledge networks: Legal scholarship in the age of cyberspace (1999) (4)
- A Bridle for Leviathan: The Supreme Court and the Board of Commerce (1989) (4)
- The Technology of Law (2010) (3)
- The metaphor is the message: Visuality, aurality and the reconfiguration of American legal discourse (1995) (3)
- Martial Lawyers: Lawyering and War-Waging in American History (2015) (2)
- Critical years: An Opinionated history of the law review (1998) (1)
- Changing Our Minds: Legal History Meets the World Wide Web (1999) (1)
- Academic Public Service Web Sites and the Future of Virtual Academic Public Service (2005) (1)
- Preface (2019) (0)
- 10. Her Majesty's Yankees: American Authority in the Supreme Court of Victorian Nova Scotia, 1837-1901 (2004) (0)
- Lawyering in Place: Topographies of Practice and Pleadings in Pittsburgh, 1775-1895 (2014) (0)
- Teaching Law in Real-Time: The JURIST Model (2005) (0)
- Chatterbots and Persona-Bots: Instructional Applications for the Future (2004) (0)
- 8. ‘Our Arctic Brethren’: Canadian Law and Lawyers as Portrayed in American Legal Periodicals, 1829–1911 (1999) (0)
- Pushing the Envelope: How a Handful of Innovative Law Professors Delivered Distance Education in the Age of Langdell (2021) (0)
- Letters of the Law: The Rise and Fall of University-Based Legal Education by Mail, 1875-1885 (2018) (0)
- THE IMPACT OF THE IRAN-IRAQ CASES ON THE LAW OF FRUSTRATION OF CHARTERPARTIES (1985) (0)
- Peter Charles Hoffer, Law and People in Colonial America , Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992. Pp. xv, 156. $38.00 (ISBN 08018–4306–5). (1994) (0)
- Academic and Public Service Web Sites: Two Models and Effective Strategies (2004) (0)
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