Join the HLS Library on Wednesday September 20 at 12:30pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in Milstein West, Wasserstein Hall. This event features a discussion on The Problem of Twelve with author John Coates and panelists Guy-Uriel Charles and Shawn Cole. This event is free and will be recorded. The in-person event is open to all Harvard …
Join the HLS Library on Wednesday September 12 at 12pm for a HLS Library Book Talk in Milstein East, Wasserstein Hall. This event features a discussion on How to Interpret the Constitution with author and HLS Professor Cass Sunstein and panelists Steven Pinker and Richard Fallon, Jr. This event is free and will be recorded, open to all …
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Come visit, or revisit, the Library’s exhibit, “Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame, and Sympathy,” before it closes at the end of July 2023. It’s on view weekdays 9 to 5 in the Library’s Caspersen Room, and is open to all HUID holders. If you can’t make it, visit the online version of the exhibit, which will remain up …
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Post by Matt Seccombe During June I analyzed the defense documents of Walther Funk and one-third of the documents of Admiral Doentiz. This ended one year’s work on the IMT following the COVID related “pause,” and also one year with the defense material. During the year I worked through the documents of defendants Frank, Frick, Funk, Goering, Hess, Kaltenbrunner, …
Post by Matt Seccombe During May I analyzed the defense documents of Julius Streicher, the antisemitic propagandist, and Hjalmar Schacht, the regime’s banker in the 1930s. Streicher was the most repulsive of the defendants and Schacht the most sympathetic. I expected Streicher’s material would be difficult to deal with and Schacht’s to be dull (considering his role as a …
When US Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg (aka RBG) passed away at age 87 on September 18, 2020, members of the HLS community came together to create a spontaneous memorial (link to Boston Globe article) on the front steps of Langdell Hall to express their grief, admiration, and gratitude for her pathbreaking life and work. Over the …
Get your summer legal research projects off to a good start with help from three of our recently updated research guides! Guide to Local Law Libraries Check out HLSL Research Librarian / Library Instruction Coordinator AJ Blechner’s newly updated Research Guide to Local Law Libraries. Whether you’re working at a law job, or need access to legal resources …
Post by Matt Seccombe During April I finished the analysis of Hans Frank’s fourth and fifth document books, and then analyzed Wilhelm Frick’s defense documents. Frick, the Interior Minister, presented a more compact defense than the other high-level defendants, relying on his record as a bureaucrat who had no role in the planning of the war and no control …
Summer is almost here, and whether you’re about to graduate from HLS or embark on a summer job opportunity, there are online research resources available to you. Read on for information about access to your Bloomberg Law, Lexis, and Westlaw accounts, along with other library databases. BLOOMBERG LAW RETURNING STUDENTS’ SUMMER USE: You may continue to use your …
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