If you were to judge this book by its cover you would see an attractively bound compilation of English statutes, published in London in 1587. Impressive enough on its own . . . but turn the book over in your hands, and you will see a magnificent painting on the edges of its pages! This may be the …
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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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Since last year, a team of individuals from throughout the library has been working on a forthcoming Gale digital collection, The Making of Modern Law: Primary Sources II, 1763-1970. Over 1,500 volumes, totaling more than half a million pages from Historical & Special Collections were digitized as part of this project; the majority of which came from the …
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Interested in finding out the latest news in Lithuania? Or are you more interested in seeing a selection of online newspapers from Iceland? Either way, Newspaper Map can help. Newspaper Map is a website that offers access to over 10,000 online newspapers from around the world. Newspapers are shown as pins on a map of the world representing …
Accounts of sensational crimes have long been a source of fascination, as illustrated by the Library’s large collection of 19th century British and American crime and trial literature, most produced for the popular press and including hundreds of broadsides as well as pamphlets. The vast majority of these accounts are based on verifiable events and, in an era when …
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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 …
Picturing the Harvard Law Library almost 60 years ago… While assisting a researcher, I came upon an interesting find in the papers of former HLS Dean, Erwin N. Griswold. There, nestled in the first folder of box 306 was a typescript “Guide to the Law Library” from September 1953. It got me thinking about what life was like …
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The Federal Judicial Center (FJC) was established by Congress in 1967 (28 U.S.C. §§ 620-629) on the recommendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States. Among its duties, the FJC is tasked with: [conducting] research and study of the operation of the courts of the United States, and to stimulate and coordinate such research and study on …
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Figuring out who once owned a book can be an intriguing and enlightening puzzle –as was recently the case with a book the Library acquired in 1924. I only needed to make a minor adjustment to the catalog record, but the book’s eighteenth century engraved bookplate piqued my interest. The book, The state of the prisons in England …