Next week, the Legal Information & Book History workshop will meet at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library to examine the account books kept by Samuel J.
Exhibit Tour, Oct 20 – "Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School"
Please join Fred Shapiro (Associate Director for Collections) and Kathryn James (Rare Book Librarian) on Thursday, October 20, 12-1pm, for a tour of the Library’s current exhibition, “Race, Slavery, & the Founders of Yale Law School.” We’ll meet at the Rare Book Room, on Level Two of the Library, down one floor from the main
Incarceration & Imagination – Online Gallery & Beinecke Exhibit
Shown left: “Published on board the convict ship ‘Success’ ”: Detail, The History of the Convict Ship ‘Success’ (1912); call# SSP H629.
Invitation – Legal Information & Book History Workshop, Thurs Sept 29
New Book Display on L1: Showcasing the Scholarship of our Recent Graduate Alumni
Showcasing the Scholarship of our Recent Graduate Alumni
In addition to collecting dissertations completed by our graduate students, the law library purchases, and is often gifted with, scholarly works authored, edited or translated by our graduate alumni.
In addition to collecting dissertations completed by our graduate students, the law library purchases, and is often gifted with, scholarly works authored, edited or translated by our graduate alumni.
New Book Display – Constitutionalism: Global and Comparative Perspectives
The Law Library has prepared a book display in the Reading Room on L3 entitled “Constitutionalism: Global and Comparative Perspectives.” This book display accompanies the 2022-2023 Robert P.
Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection
Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection
An exhibition welcoming incoming and returning students, on view in the Danzus-Panziger Rare Book exhibition area, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level Two
August 1-31, 2022
Including:
–Batman’s Yale Law School diploma, in the original art work by Sal Amendola, ca. 1974
–Copy-editing the Gettysburg Address, in
An exhibition welcoming incoming and returning students, on view in the Danzus-Panziger Rare Book exhibition area, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level Two
August 1-31, 2022
Including:
–Batman’s Yale Law School diploma, in the original art work by Sal Amendola, ca. 1974
–Copy-editing the Gettysburg Address, in
A Plan of Newgate Prison in Dublin, 1819
A new acquisition from Maggs: George Warner, “Paper Relating to the Prisons in Dublin” (London: Luke Hansard, 1819), with an engraved plan of Newgate Prison.
"Cause of Death": notebooks kept by an early expert pathologist in London
The Rare Book Collection has acquired two manuscript notebooks kept by Ludwig Freyberger, physician and early expert pathologist at the turn of the 20th century in England. Originally from Austria, where he trained in Vienna as a physician, Freyberger was a prominent London physician and barrister-at-law at the Middle Temple. Nominated as an expert pathologist
(Tiny) new acquisition: Elizabeth Fry's Books for prisoners project, ca. 1839
In 1839, the English Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, published this pocket-sized devotional work, intended for distribution to women prisoners in France. Fry was a dedicated advocate for prison reform and a founding member of the Ladies’ Association for the Reformation of the Female Prisoners in Newgate, reconfigured in 1821 as the British Ladies’ Society for Promoting