Document Type
Article
Abstract
As a student of Pennsylvania legal history, one of my goals is to create a website on the history of the Pennsylvania judiciary. In submitting a proposal to the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the Court and the Court Administrator approved the creation of a biographical dictionary of the Court's judiciary. The Supreme Court dates itself back to 1684 when William Penn created a Provincial Court to hear appeals from the county justices of the peace (act 158 of 1684). There are approximately 165 justices dating from 1684 to the present. Following the information provided on the court's current website (www.pacourts.us), my work includes Name of Justice, Birth Year and Death Year, Term of Service, Education, Professional Experience, Honors and Awards, Memberships and Associations, Publications, and Sources. This article describes some of the sources used to create such a biographical directory.
Repository Citation
Fishman, J. (2020). Creating a Biographical Dictionary of the Justices of the Supreme Court of Pennsylvania: A Bibliographical Essay. Unbound: A Review of Legal History and Rare Books, 12 (1). Retrieved from https://dsc.duq.edu/law-faculty-scholarship/178