Time
and space have long constrained legal debate. Careful legal scholarship takes
time to craft; publication in book and journals are at the mercy of selection and review processes and production schedules; and delivery of scholarship
requires a further wait for the publication to reach library book shelves in
hard copy form or become digitally available in online databases.
Despite the
globalisation of law, libraries prioritise research relevant to the regions in which they are located, and online databases even comprehensive repositories such as West law, Lexis Nexis and Hein Online privilege research published in
certain geographical jurisdictions, notably the United States, over others.
Time fetters; space shackles; and legal debate, in the process, suffer.
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