Document Type
Blog Post
Description
Judge Roy Bean was a legendary justice of the peace in Texas, known as the “Law West of the Pecos.” However, he was not known for his encyclopedic knowledge of the law. Judge Bean “had only one law book, a copy of the Revised Statutes of Texas, printed in 1879, as authorized by the Sixteenth Texas Legislature.” He relied exclusively on that book, and “[e]ven though the legislature sent him new books every two years, reflecting new laws, he burned them. He said he liked the old book better and he like those laws better, too.”
Publication Date
5-12-2025
Publisher
RIPS Law Librarian Blog
Keywords
Artificial intelligence, Legal databases, Legal Research
Disciplines
Law Librarianship | Legal Education | Library and Information Science | Scholarly Communication
Recommended Citation
Levine, Joshua, "The Volume of Information" (2025). Library Staff Online Publications. 35.
https://larc.cardozo.yu.edu/staff-online-pubs/35
