caa a22 4500 378857304 CHVBK 20180305123338.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161128e20031002xx s 000 0 eng 10.2202/1565-3404.1076 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)gruyter-10.2202/1565-3404.1076 Kalman Laura 1Organization of American Historians, the University of Virginia Law The (Un?)Bearable Liteness of E-Mail: Historians, Impeachment and Bush v. Gore [Elektronische Daten] [Laura Kalman] Historians have recently used the Internet to circulate political statements about law. This paper explores the statements they issued against President Clinton's impeachment and President Bush's inauguration. It pays special attention to impeachment, comparing the position taken by historians with that taken by the law professors. While concluding that such statements can be useful, the author advises historians lacking the expertise to evaluate the positions taken in a statement to proceed carefully in signing it. She suggests that historians sign only such documents whose scholarship they have made a preliminary assessment that they could individually defend publicly. She also urges historians to craft statements that give the public a sense of the methods they use in interpreting the past. ©2011 Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin/Boston Theoretical Inquiries in Law De Gruyter 4/2(2003-10-02) 4:2 2003 4 til https://doi.org/10.2202/1565-3404.1076 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.2202/1565-3404.1076 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kalman Laura 1Organization of American Historians, the University of Virginia Law NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theoretical Inquiries in Law De Gruyter 4/2(2003-10-02) 4:2 2003 4 til CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-gruyter