Over the years, Historical & Special Collections has taken on many digitization projects – from early studies of Roman law, to our collection of legal portraits, to the papers of some of the Law School’s distinguished alumni. One of my personal favorites is the Charles Claflin Davis Papers. Davis attended both Harvard College and the Law School, graduating …
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In an effort to get more manuscript collections out of the backlog and available to researchers, the staff in Historical & Special Collections have been busy over the last six months organizing and describing nine new Modern Manuscript collections. Spanning both the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, these collections cover a variety of topics including an account of the …
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Salem, Massachusetts does not shy away from its past and the notorious Salem Witch Trials of the late 17th Century, which draws tourists to this seaport year-round, though October is an especially busy time. If you’re curious about the Salem Witch Trials, but not up for braving the crowds, we have a few items in our collections that …
With the start of a new Supreme Court term, I can’t help but think about all of the remarkable manuscript collections of Supreme Court justices held by the Harvard Law School Library. Among the collection are the papers of: Louis D. Brandeis, Felix Frankfurter, and Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. These collections are rich with information – some of …
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Harvard Law School faculty and graduates are no strangers to elected office on both the state and federal level. President Obama graduated in 1991 and Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick was class of ’82. Yesterday we learned that Professor Elizabeth Warren is throwing her hat in the ring for the Massachusetts Senate seat currently held by Scott Brown. In …
Historical & Special Collections is pleased to announce the installation of a new exhibit: Ruhleben: A British community in wartime Germany. Ruhleben was a civilian internment camp established by Germany at the outbreak of World War I. German authorities arrested all male British citizens in the country shortly after England declared war on Germany. Many of these men …
And bid us go to Portsmouth our frigot to make claim And there we was to be paid off and so to the seas again There’s fifteen girls at Scarborough and five and forty more We left with child at Portsmouth and that makes just three score It’s all you girls at Portsmouth we bid you all fairwell, …
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The Harvard Law School Library’s Historical & Special Collections is a repository for many manuscripts collections relating to the Nuremberg Military Tribunals. You can find the finding aids for the personal papers of several prosecutors from the trials, such as Leonard Wheeler, Jr, Belle Mayer Zeck, and Joseph M. Stone in OASIS. However, perhaps most impressively, the library …
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The trials of the military and political leaders of Nazi Germany before both the International Military Tribunal (IMT) and the United State Nuremberg Military Tribunals (NMT) – collectively known as the Nuremberg Trials – occurred on an unprecedented scale in an international spotlight. History has not – and likely will not – forget many of the primary individuals …
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In honor of the commencement activities happening today and tomorrow, here’s a look back at one of our HLS Alums who is celebrating his 50th reunion – Myles Berkman. If you follow the field of law and technology, the Berkman name may sound familiar to you, and indeed, Myles is of the Berkman family that donated $5.4 million …