A must-read thread for anyone interested in doing legal-historical work. History is an actual field with actual methods! You don't need a PhD in history, but you do need some training. Without that, you're just doing law-office history. (And yes I mean that as an insult.)
Dan Rohde
I have come to the view that law professors who wish to do historical research as part of their scholarship would, generally, benefit from formal methods training. That means taking classes with trained historians.
At a minimum, they should adhere to the standards of the discipline laid out below.
Rachel Rothschild
reading this for no particular reason www.historians.org/resource/sta...
