Pulitzer-Prize winning Greenhouse (Becoming Justice Blackmun) who has covered the Supreme Court for nearly 30 years; together with Yale Law professor Siegel (Processes of Constitutional Decision Making) discuss their new book, "Before Roe v. Wade: the voices that shaped the abortion debate before the Supreme Court's ruling." Bringing to light key voices that illuminate the case and its cultural context, the authors look back and recapture how the arguments for and against abortion took shape as claims about the meaning of the Constitution—and about how the nation could best honor its commitment to dignity, liberty, equality, and life.   The book is available at the Law Library  and you may watch the video online in our catalog.

The Law Library's list of new acquisitions for November 2010 are now available:

• All Acquisitions
• German, French and Italian Language Acquisitions
• Spanish Language Acquisitions
• Movies and TV Programs
  

Or, as always, you can visit the library's new acquisitions web page: http://www.law.yale.edu/library/acquisitions.asp.

The Yale Law Library is happy to announce an exciting book publishing event connected to our library, and an engaging web site created by our library related to the book.  The book is the long-awaited "Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms" by Judith Resnik and Dennis Curtis, two of our faculty members.  It is the third book in the Yale Law Library Series in Legal History and Reference, published by Yale University Press with Yale Law Librarian Fred Shapiro as the series editor.  Resnik and Curtis trace the development of public spaces dedicated to justice, and how this development has reflected and shaped the evolution of adjudication itself and the intimate relationship between the courts and democracy.  The book is visually stunning, with over 200 magnificent color illustrations.

To support "Representing Justice," Camilla Tubbs, Jason Eiseman and Mike Widener of the Yale Law Library have created a website, the first component of our Document Collections Center:  <http://documents.law.yale.edu/representing-justice>.    This website brings the work of Resnik and Curtis to life by connecting readers to fascinating images from the book and from related rare volumes in our library collection, links to library events and videos, and information about a "Representing Justice" course being taught this spring by Resnik and Curtis at the Law School.   

This project is one of many developed in the wake of the Yale Law Library's Strategic Plan to increase the importance of the library in the digital age.  Faculty and students here are deeply engaged in scholarship which requires library support, and in turn, the Law Library benefits from the expertise and knowledge base of the researchers who use, identify and support our collections.  The Yale Law School Library Document Collection Center will publish discrete collections of research material collected by the library.  Some collections are related to faculty publications the library worked on, some collections come from in-house digitization projects, and others have been collected as part of other law school projects.   All digitized collections are intended to make our unique content available to a wider audience.  We look forward to adding additional collections and enhancements in the future, including a powerful cross-collection search. 

You may also view faculty and student publications in the YLS Scholarship Repository.

Responding to requests from law students, we will restrict non-law student access during
undergraduate and Law School reading/exam periods. 
 
Effective the evening of Friday, December 3 and continuing through the afternoon of
Wednesday, January 19, admission to the Law Library will be limited to Law School affiliates,
University faculty, and Law Library pass holders. 
(Passes will be given to non-law students doing legal research and presenting a letter from a faculty member or college dean.) 
 
During this restricted period, law students must show their ID card with the Law School sticker
every time they enter the library to gain admission to the Law Library. 
 
The library monitors will be intending conscientiously to enforce this policy so please help them
by having your card when you come to the library.  If for some reason you do not have the Law School sticker
on your card, you can get one from the Registrar's Office.  In general, we ask for your cooperation with staff
who will be implementing the rules in the stressful environment that exams create for all of us. 
 
Restrictions must always be implemented with caution because we are committed to participating in the University community. 
If you have suggestions about these policies, please feel free to communicate them to me. 
 
Fred Shapiro 
Associate Librarian for Collections and Access 
Lillian Goldman Law Library 
Yale Law School 

Linda Greenhouse and Reva Siegel 
Before Roe v. Wade:  Voices that Shaped the Abortion Debate Before the Supreme Court’s Ruling
Thursday, December 9, at 6 p.m 
Labyrinth Books
290 York St., New Haven, CT

The Lillian Goldman Law Library invites you to a discussion of an important new book by Professor Reva Siegel and Linda Greenhouse, with critical commentary by Professor Jack Balkin.    

Before Roe v. Wade offers compelling review of the societal conditions, incidents, and cases that led to the Supreme Court's historic decision legalizing abortion, which recaptures how the arguments for and against abortion took shape as claims about the meaning of the Constitution—and about how the nation could best honor its commitment to dignity, liberty, equality, and life.

Reva Siegel is the Nicholas deB. Katzenbach Professor of Law at Yale Law School and Professor of American Studies at Yale University. 

Linda Greenhouse is a Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist and long-time Supreme Court reporter who is the Knight Distinguished Journalist in Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale Law School. 

Jack Balkin is the Knight Professor of Law and the First Amendment at Yale Law School.