Better read when dead?

In an article based on a chapter from his book on Jurists and judges, the author considers why the English convention opposing the citation of living authors in court, which withered away some time ago, ever evolved in the first place. Article by Professor Neil Duxbury (University of Manchester and Visiting Senior Research Fellow, IALS). Published in Amicus Curiae - Journal of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies and its Society for Advanced Legal Studies. The Journal is produced by the Society for Advanced Legal Studies at the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London.