When the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom opens in a few hours, no longer will the most senior judges in the realm also be in the business of proposing, revising and amending legislation in Parliament’s House of Lords. Former members of the House’s Appellate Committee, also known as Law Lords, the new Justices will still be House …
We have the Amazon Kindle DX for you to check out. You’ve heard the hype. You know you’ve sneaked a peak over someone’s shoulder while he is reading one on the T. Well, now you can check out a Kindle at the Circulation Desk. We’ve got a Kindle with current newspapers, (The Independent, Wall Street Journal, New York …
The American Constitution Society at Yale Law School will be hosting a conference about the new book The Constitution in 2020. The Constitution in 2020 blog serves as a companion to the book and a space for commenting on the work in anticipation of the conference. Edited by Jack Balkin and Reva Siegel, the book contains essays by …
I recently took a stroll in the Langdell basement for some quiet and cool. Casually browsing the shelves, I was excited to discover South Australian Industrial Reports, New Zealand statutes, and English Reports from the seventeenth century to present. I was even more excited to find a collection of books on the philosophy of law, which included books …
Well, wonder no more. Here in Cambridge, we are fortunate to be able to visit the graves of many distinguished, notable individuals. Did you know that four U.S. Supreme Court Justices and six Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court justices are buried in the nearby Mount Auburn Cemetery? If you’d like to learn more, then sign up to take a …
“Do I go to law school at Harvard or at Yale?” If you have this happy dilemma, seek the advice of knowledgeable friends. This was the action taken in 1935 when a young man from Schenectady, New York consulted a hometown friend who had recently graduated from the Harvard Law School. Bill Waldron grew up across the street …
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The Harvard Law School Library is very pleased to announce that the winner of the inaugural Morris L. Cohen Fellowship in American Legal Bibliography and History is Sara Mayeux, a JD—History Ph.D. student at Stanford University. Ms. Mayeux will be conducting research in the Library’s manuscript collections for her project, “A Cultural History of the Criminal Defense Attorney, …
It is not often that the Library has an opportunity to acquire a book or pamphlet about the Harvard Law School that it doesn’t already own. Such an occasion occurred this week when we purchased a pamphlet that not only did we not own but apparently exists only in this copy. The Harvard Manual. Contents: Historical Sketch; Law …
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