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| title = Annual Bulletin (Comparative Law Bureau)
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| editor = William W. Smithers
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The '''''Annual Bulletin''''' of the '''Comparative Law Bureau''' of the [[American Bar Association]] (ABA) was a [[United States|U.S.]] specialty [[law journal]] (1908–1914, 1933). The first [[comparative law]] journal in the United States,<ref name=Clark2005/> it surveyed foreign legislation and legal literature. Circulated to all ABA members, it was absorbed in 1915 by the newly formed ''[[American Bar Association Journal]]''.

==History==
===Bureau===
In 1905, a committee of the [[Pennsylvania]] State Bar Association considered the creation of a [[comparative law]] society and recommended to bring such large project to the [[American Bar Association]].<ref name=Clark2005>Clark 2005.</ref> The ABA created such entity at its 1907 annual meeting, as a new section named the Comparative Law Bureau: the Bureau members would meet annually at the ABA's summer meeting and publish an annual bulletin.<ref name=Clark2005/>

The Bureau's officers included: [[Simeon E. Baldwin]] (as director, 1907–1919; ABA co-founder and president, later Governor of Connecticut) and William Smithers (as secretary, also the chairman of the ''Bulletin'''s editorial staff).<ref name=Clark2005/> The Bureau's managers included: [[James Barr Ames]] (dean at Harvard), [[George Kirchwey]] (dean at Columbia), [[William Draper Lewis]] (dean at Pennsylvania, later the founding director of the [[American Law Institute]]), and [[John Henry Wigmore]] (dean at Northwestern).<ref name=Clark2005/><ref>See also David S. Clark, "The Modern Development of American Comparative Law: 1904-1945, 55 ''Am. J. Comp. L.'', 587, 597-598 (2007).</ref>

The Bureau's aims were presented in the ''Bulletin'''s first issue: (1) to publish an annual ''Bulletin'' with foreign legislation and reviews of foreign legal literature; (2) to translate and publish foreign legislation as well as relevant expert opinions; (3) to hold an annual conference for discussing comparative law; (4) to improve means by which foreign laws can become available to U.S. lawyers; (5) to promote research in the areas of foreign law; (6) to establish a list of foreign correspondents; and (7) to gather information on foreign law, such as bibliographies, for the benefit of practicing lawyers, law teachers, and students.<ref name=Clark2005/><ref>See also Clark, "The Modern Development of American Comparative Law," note 2 above, p. 598, & 1908 ''Ann. Bull.,'' no.1, July 1908, p.2.</ref>

The Bureau met annually and published its ''Bulletin'' (separately, then within the ''Journal'') until financial difficulties in the 1930s due to the [[Great Depression]]. In 1933, after publishing an ultimate separate ''Bulletin'', the Bureau was merged with the ABA's International Law section, forming the ABA Section of International & Comparative Law.<ref name=Clark2005/>

===Bulletin===
In July 1908, the ''Annual Bulletin'' (no [[ISSN]])<ref>The ''Bulletin'' is referenced under various titles. The main uniform title used in library catalogs (Library of Congress, OCLC/WorldCat) is "Annual bulletin (American Bar Association. Comparative Law Bureau)". Other titles found in citations include: "Annual Bulletin - Comparative Law Bureau", "Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau", "Annual Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association", etc., and sometimes "Bulletin of the Comparative Law Bureau of the American Bar Association", etc.</ref> was founded by the Bureau. The first [[comparative law]] journal in the United States,<ref name=Clark2005/> it provided a survey of foreign legislation and legal literature. Its first issue was a 200 or so page bulletin.<ref name=Clark2005/> Special bulletins also were foreseen, such as that issued in March of 1908, which consisted of a multi-country bibliography on marriage and divorce law.<ref>1908 ''Ann. Bull.,'' no. 1, p.6.</ref> Moreover, pursuant to point 2 of the Bureau's aims noted above, the Bureau also published numerous translations of foreign laws as separate volumes. These included modern laws such as the German Civil Code and Brazilian Civil Code, as well as ancient laws, e.g., the [[Visigothic Code]] and [[Las Siete Partidas]].<ref>56 Ann. Rpt. ABA, 79-80 (1933).</ref>

The editor (chairman of the editorial staff) was Bureau secretary Smithers (from Philadelphia, where was also the ''Bulletin'''s printer).<ref name=Clark2005/> The editorial staff in 1908 included: [[Simeon E. Baldwin]] (Yale) for general [[jurisprudence]]; Ernest Lorenzen (George Washington) and [[Roscoe Pound]] (then at Northwestern) for [[Germany]]; Charles Wetherill for [[Great Britain]]; Masuji Miyakawa for [[Japan]]; Leo Rowe (University of Pennsylvania) for [[Latin America]]; William Hastings (University of Nebraska, dean in 1910) for [[Russia]]; [[Samuel Parsons Scott]] for [[Spain]]; and Gordon Sherman for [[Switzerland]].<ref name=Clark2005/> There were foreign correspondents from fourteen countries, including Gaston de Leval from [[Belgium]] and [[Eugen Huber]] (creator of the [[Swiss civil code of 1907]], still in force) from [[Switzerland]].<ref name=Clark2005/> In 1910, Smithers added [[Charles Lobingier]] to be editor for the Phillispines and [[Samuel Williston]] of Harvard as editor for German.<ref>Clark, "The Modern Development of American Comparative Law," note 2 above at 598-599.</ref> Scott, Lobingier, Wigmore, Williston, and others in the Comparative Law Bureau were also Roman Law scholars.<ref> See Timothy Kearley,''Lost in Translations: Roman Law Scholarship and Translation in Early Twentieth-Century America,'' 19, 40-43, 68 (2018).</ref>

The ''Bulletin'' was circulated to all ABA members and to other subscribers.<ref name=Clark2005/> Published by International Printing Co. in Philadelphia, it ran from July 1, 1908, to July 1, 1914,<ref name=LOC-AnnualBulletin>LOC, "Annual bulletin".</ref> for volume 1 to 7.

The separate ''Bulletin'' was discontinued for two reasons:<ref name=Clark2005/> in 1914, [[World War I]] disrupted cross-Atlantic connections; and in 1915, the ABA started publishing its own ''Journal'', into which the ''Bulletin'' was merged as an annual issue. (Though in 1933,<ref name=LOC-Bulletin1933>LOC, "Bulletin for 1933".</ref> there was an ultimate separate ''Bulletin'', 215 page long. And in 1964,<ref>[[WorldCat]]. [http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/22590456?tab=details "Annual bulletin" (1964 reprint), OCLC 22590456].</ref> two backissues were reprinted.)

===Journal===
{{Main|American Bar Association Journal}}
In 1915, the ''American Bar Association Journal'' ({{ISSN|0002-7596}}) was founded by the [[American Bar Association]] as a quarterly magazine (it became monthly in 1921). From 1915 to 1928, the ''Bulletin'' was merged into it:<ref name=LOC-Bulletin1933/><ref name=LOC-AnnualBulletin/> the Comparative Law Bureau controlled the second issue each year,<ref name=Clark2005/> the April number. Bureau issues stopped in 1929, but comparative and foreign law articles still regularly appeared in the ''Journal'' (about five to ten per volume).<ref name=Clark2005/>

==Notes==
<references/>

==References==
Sources used for this article:
* Clark, David S. (2005). [https://web.archive.org/web/20090326164802/http://law.wustl.edu/wugslr/issues/volume4_3/p583Clark.pdf "Establishing Comparative Law in the United States: The First Fifty Years"](HTML from [http://law.wustl.edu/wugslr/issues/volume4_3/p583Clark.pdf the original PDF]), ''[[Washington University Global Studies Law Review]]'' ({{ISSN|1546-6981}}), vol. 4:583–593, October 28, 2005, esp. p. 584 & 588–589 — With a short history of the ''Bulletin'' and early ''Journal''.
* LOC (2009). "Annual bulletin (American Bar Association. Comparative Law Bureau)", {{LCCN|08023300}} (also {{OCLC|2038856}}), [[Library of Congress]] Online Catalog, consulted in March 2009
* LOC (2009). "Bulletin for 1933", {{LCCN|36014329}} (also {{OCLC|1927988}}), [[Library of Congress]] Online Catalog, consulted in March 2009 — With a brief history of the ''Bulletin'' in Notes.

==Further reading==
;Annual Report of the American Bar Association
* (For 1914 apparently not available online.)
* {{Internet Archive|id=annualreportame52assogoog|name=For 1915}} — ''Bulletin'' merged into the new ''Journal''.
* {{Internet Archive|id=annualreportame43assogoog|name=For 1916}}
* (For 1933 apparently not available online.)
* Vol. 1, No.1 (1887)--Vol. 140, No.1 (2015) https://HeinOnline.org

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