April 12, 1861 marked the beginning of the Civil War with an early-morning attack at Fort Sumter. One of Harvard Law School’s brightest alums, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. joined the ranks of the 20th Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry Regiment of the Union Army in 1861, and fought in the war until 1864. Two years ago the library created the …
A small exhibit celebrating the life and work of Professor Areeda will be on display in the Caspersen Room for the next month. The exhibit heavily draws from the collection of his papers, which was recently processed and opened to researchers. The collection covers his 34 years of teaching at HLS, his service in three presidential administrations, and …
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To mark the 100th anniversary of the Ames Moot Court Competition at the Harvard Law School the Historical & Special Collections has installed an exhibit in the Caspersen Room documenting the evolution of the competition. Featured are notes from Simon Greenleaf and Joseph Story. The exhibit will only be installed for a short time, so take a look …
The Harvard Law School Library is pleased to announce that Notes of cases adjudged in Jamaica, May 1774 to Dec. 1787 (Edinburgh : Printed by Adam Neill and company, 1794) [HOLLIS 4417047] has been digitized and is now available through HOLLIS. The Harvard Law School Library purchased this folio volume of 18th century law reports in 1903; it …
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The Harvard Law School Library is pleased to announce the digitization of the Records of the New England Watch and Ward Society. New England Watch and Ward Seal, ca. 1933. seq. 6069 Initially established in 1878 as The New England Society for the Prevention of Vice, the Society was formed in response to concerns about the proliferation …
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No doubt about it: law school is tough. According to one early 20th century newspaper account, the pressure to study could even be deadly. Here are a few things you can do at the HLS Library to fend off brain fever and make the time you do spend studying more effective: Unwind by checking out a movie from …
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Phillip Areeda, 1986 Harvard Law School YearbookPhillip Areeda (1930-1995) taught contracts and antitrust law at the Harvard Law School from 1961 until 1995. During that time he developed a reputation as an expert on antitrust law, which was the focus of his teaching and scholarship. His 11-volume set Antitrust Law is generally considered the definitive treatise on the …
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Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941) is well known for his support of an individual’s right to privacy and free speech. His concurring opinion in Whitney v. California (1927) is considered by many to be one of the greatest defenses of freedom of speech ever written. What is less well known, however, is his dissenting opinion in Ruthenberg v. Michigan, …
LIFE MAGAZINE LOOKS AT THE HARVARD LAW SCHOOL NOVEMBER 1937LIFE was the leading twentieth-century magazine of photo-journalism, appearing weekly from 1936 until 1972. With its familiar logo displaying the title in white sans-serif type against a red rectangular background, the magazine dominated its market with a circulation that eventually reached 13.5 million copies a week. In 2008 Google …
The Harvard Law School Library is pleased to announce the digitization of the Maurice Ettinghausen collection of Ruhleben civilian internment camp papers, 1914-1937. This unique collection, commonly referred to as “Ruhleben,” provides a fascinating insight into the daily life of prisoners at a German World War I camp. Internees around a small building named “La Bohéme.” Grohs, A., …