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  • Portable scanner available in law library

    There is a "portable scanner" available at the Circulation Desk for check out by patrons with a Yale ID. http://morris.law.yale.edu/record=b765327~S3a The scanner's software is already installed in the Computer in carrel #347 (in the Reading Room, next to the Bloomberg Terminal). If a patron or staff member would like to upload this software...
  • Lexis and Westlaw Training for SAW

    Wednesday, October 15, 2008, from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. - Room 112 Lexis and Westlaw representatives will share the stage and demonstrate special features in their databases to help students conduct research on their SAWs. Included in this training will be: how to develop SAW /Substantial or law journal note topics, how to track and update your research...
  • Early Italian Statutes: Dedicated to Guido Calabresi

    The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian City Statutes in the Yale Law Library Honoring the Hon. Guido Calabresi (Law ’58) The Yale Law School has marked the 50th anniversary of the Hon. Guido Calabresi’s graduation by acquiring a significant collection of 60 early Italian law books for the Law Library’s Rare Book Collection from...
  • Early Italian Statutes: Crasciana

    The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian City Statutes in the Yale Law Library Crasciana (Italy). Statuta, decreta, et ordinameta communis et hominum Crascane (manuscript, Crasciana, 1519-1576). Acquired with the John A. Hoober Fund, May 1946. (View Crasciana on a map .) This manuscript is from Crasciana, a small village outside Lucca in Tuscany, and...
  • Early Italian Statutes: Republic of Venice

    The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian City Statutes in the Yale Law Library Venice (Republic). Institutio Phederici Reynerii in dignitatem rectoris civitatis Canee in insulae Cretea ab Leonardo Laurendano duce Venetiarum (manuscript, Venice, 22 Sept. 1507). Acquired with the John A. Hoober Fund, June 1956. (View the Republic of Venice on a map ...