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A visit from Yale's Directed Studies students

I was pleased to welcome about 30 freshmen from Yale's Directed Studies program to the Paskus-Danziger Rare Book Room on November 4. They were accompanied by three of the Directed Studies faculty: Edwin Duval (French), Paul Freedman (History), and Justin Zaremby (Yale College and Law '10). Directed...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 11-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 18 -- Suggested reading

The following select bibliography includes the sources consulted in the preparation of this exhibit. The image is of the opening leaf of the Liber Assisarum , a collection of Year Book cases from the reign of Edward III (manuscript in Law French, ca. 1450). English law reports Abbott, L. W. Law Reporting...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-23-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 17 -- The birth of the National Reporter System

John B. West & Co., The Syllabi , vol. 1, no. 1 (Oct. 21, 1876; reprint ed.; St. Paul, Minn., 1991). John B. West & Co., The Northwestern Reporter , vol. 1 (1st ed.; St. Paul, Minn., 1879). After the Civil War, the number of cases being reported rose astronomically. However, these case reports...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 16 -- The battle of the Supreme Court reporters

Report of the Copy-Right Case of Wheaton v. Peters: Decided in the Supreme Court of the United States: with an Appendix, Containing the Acts of Congress Relating to Copy-Right (New York, 1834). Henry Wheaton had been unofficial reporter of U.S. Supreme Court cases from 1816-1827. Although his Reports...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 15 -- The first U.S. Supreme Court reports

Alexander James Dallas (1759-1817), Reports of Cases Ruled and Adjudged in the Several Courts of the United States, and of Pennsylvania, Held at the Seat of the Federal Government , vol. 2 (Philadelphia, 1798). In 1790 (one year after Ephraim Kirby began publishing Connecticut reports), Alexander Dallas...

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Landmarks of Law Reporting 14 -- A reporter discusses his work

William Johnson (1769-1848), letter to John Wells Esq., (Albany, NY, October 23, 1819). William Johnson was Chief Justice Kent’s handpicked successor to George Caines as official reporter for the New York Supreme Court. During his tenure, Johnson produced 20 volumes of Johnson's Reports , covering...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 13 -- The first official American law reports

George Caines (1771-1825), Cases Argued and Determined in the Court for the Trial of Impeachments and Correction of Errors, in the State of New-York (New York, 1805). There was no formalized system of reporting in the U.S. until 1804, when both the New York and Massachusetts legislatures provided for...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 12 -- The first American law reports

Ephraim Kirby (1757-1804), Reports of Cases Adjudged in the Superior Court of The State Of Connecticut, from the Year 1785, to May 1788 (Litchfield, Conn., 1789). Although American courts were producing a small number of written opinions after the Revolutionary War, those opinions failed to be collected...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-05-2009
Landmarks of Law Reporting 1 -- Introduction

Case reports are a fundamental source for the study and practice of law in the Anglo-American common law system. "Landmarks in Law Reporting," the Spring 2009 exhibition from the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Rare Book Collection, illustrates the development of law reporting from the Middle...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 05-04-2009
Recent rare book acquisitions, Winter 2008-2009

Here are a few of the highlights from our acquisitions in the past three months. For our growing collection of illustrated law books: Quadruvium ecclesie (Paris, 1509) by Johann Hugonis de Sletstat (a.k.a. Johann Hug), considered the first text on German constitutional law; only one other copy in the...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 03-05-2009

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