Yale Law School Blogs

The Lillian Goldman Law Library is one of the few U.S. libraries that owns a set of the Complete Collected Laws of the Russian Empire ( Polnoe sobranie zakonov Rossiiskoi Imperii ). We now know that our set is an Imperial set, one that came from a palace of the Tsars. Tatjana Lorkovic, Curator of Slavic and East European Collections , Yale University...

"Monuments of Imperial Russian Law," now on display in the Yale Law Library, is perhaps the first rare book exhibit in the U.S. to focus on the history of Russian law. The exhibit's lead curator, Professor William E. Butler of Penn State, will give a talk on the exhibit on May 9, in Room 121 of the Yale Law School (127 Wall Street, New...