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The Norton team of Contributing Editors and consultants are assembling materials to publish a Norton Legislative History of the Bankruptcy Acts and a Norton Legislative History of the Bankruptcy Rules. These histories will be produced via Westlaw. The materials will include the legislative history of every act from the beginning of the early 1800's when the first bankruptcy act was enacted and will extend through each bankruptcy bill, act and committee report and Congressional Record proceedings to date. We intend to include the studies and memoranda of the bankruptcy study commissions that have convened over the years and to further include the memoranda of staff and members of Congress and task forces and independent and relevant studies that were used in the drafting of the bills and the final acts and reports.
At various divisions of the materials, there will be Editor's written by those who have participated in the legislative and rule making process or who are otherwise familiar with that segment of the legislative history. Attempts are being made to gather contemporaneous articles and critiques of the legislative process from periodicals and newspapers. We are appreciative of the Members of Congress and staff members of committees and commissions who have submitted their files of the various levels of consideration of recent legislation since the early 1970's. The Editor's Comments to be prepared by intimates to the legislative and rule-making process will contain both their recollection of legislative movement and analysis and should be invaluable to future researches to understand the bankruptcy legislative process and intent and meanings of various issues arising from various legislative enactments.
We are appreciative of Thomson West for agreeing to make this legislative materials available by Westlaw and look forward to it becoming available in the future. Westlaw is the appropriate data base to make this information available because the materials would amount to perhaps 40 or 50 volumes if published in print.
