[HeinOnline listserv] Note to HeinOnline subscribers regarding Erwin Griswold's Harvard Law Review article about the Federal Register

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Dear HeinOnline subscribers,

Since many of our subscribers are also members of the American Association of Law Libraries (AALL), and therefore receive the monthly AALL publication, "Spectrum", I thought I would point out a link to an historical article located in HeinOnline that was mentioned by AALL President Claire Germain (Spectrum, June 2006, p. 4, column 2) as a result of her attendance at the commemoration of the 70th anniversary of the first edition of the Federal Register.

At the commemoration, which was held at the Government Printing Office (GPO) in Washington, DC, Solicitor General Paul Clement noted that the Federal Register actually began as a result of an article written in Harvard Law Review by Erwin Griswold (See 48 Harv. L. Rev. 198 at <http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hlr48&collection=top30&id=254> for the complete article). 

The article, "Government in Ignorance of the Law-A Plea for Better Publication of Executive Legislation", is a fascinating read. In a mere 18 pages, Griswold argues successfully for the need to create a system to publish, in one resource, all of the administrative regulations of a growing nation. Griswold states, "It is clear, therefore, that no search of the statutes (U.S. Statutes at Large, a publication also available in its entirety in HeinOnline) can be complete until the applicable executive pronouncements have been examined. When the legal effect of a statute depends on an administrative ruling, the order bringing the statute to life or tolling its existence should be as readily available as the statute itself." (48 Harv. L. Rev. 202, which can be found at this link in HeinOnline: <http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.journals/hlr48&size=2&isize=L&rot=0&collection=journals&id=258> ).

As a result, Congress enacted legislation to create the Federal Register (See HeinOnline's U.S. Statutes at Large library at 49 Stat. 500 for the Act itself: <http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?handle=hein.statute/sal049&collection=statute&id=548>).

When you have an opportunity (perhaps on your flight to St. Louis for this year's AALL annual meeting!), I encourage you to read Griswold's article; a truly interesting look at the argument for what was to become an instrumental publication in US Administrative Law.

Sincerely,

Brian Jablonski
Director, Marketing & Publications
William S. Hein & Co., Inc.
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