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Rare books and manuscripts join the eYLS Repository!

The Rare Book Collection is excited to announce that it now has its own section in the Lillian Goldman Law Library's eYLS Repository . Titled Yale Law Special Collections , it contains digitized rare books and manuscripts from the Rare Book Collection. You can download, print, or just view them online...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 04-26-2013
Capturing dealer descriptions in our online catalog

One of my most pleasurable duties as a rare book librarian is reading the catalogues sent by rare book dealers. Each book's listing is typcally accompanied by a narrative description that describes the book's context and significance. The best book descriptions do more than merely tout a book...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 04-21-2012
A Tribute to Morris L. Cohen (1927-2010)

The latest issue of Law Library Journal is a special issue, "A Tribute to Morris L. Cohen (1927-2010)." Our own Fred Shapiro organized this fitting tribute to our mentor and friend. All of the articles can be downloaded from the LLJ website . -- MIKE WIDENER, Rare Book Librarian Law Library...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-25-2012
Justice as a Sign of the Law: Further Reading

Judith Resnik & Dennis Curtis, Representing Justice: Invention, Controversy, and Rights in City-States and Democratic Courtrooms (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2011). "By mapping the remarkable run of the icon of Justice, a woman with scales and sword, and by tracing the development of public...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 09-24-2011
Internet resources for collecting law books

I prepared the following set of links for the class I'm teaching at the Rare Book School next week, " Law Books: History and Connoisseurship ." Colleagues and readers of this blog might find some of them useful or interesting. If you want to know where I spend my time online, here are a...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 06-08-2011
More images of Lady Justice -- LOTS more!

This past month I've added 44 additional images containing depictions of Justitia (Lady Justice), to our Flickr gallery Justitia: Iconography of Justice . In addition, the Courtroom Scenes gallery grew by a dozen or so images. Below is an image that now appears in both places: it is the frontispiece...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 02-24-2011
Video tour of Rare Books

You can now take a video tour of the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Rare Book Collection, thanks to Yale Law School's Office of Public Affairs. The 20-minute tour is available as Rare Books Library Tour - Part 1 and Rare Books Library Tour - Part 2 , in the Yale Law School's YouTube channel...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 07-21-2010
Early Italian Statutes: Links

The Flowering of Civil Law: Early Italian City Statutes in the Yale Law Library One of the main reasons for organizing this exhibit is to encourage students and scholars to use the Yale Law Library's outstanding collection of early Italian statutes. All of the volumes in the collection are represented...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 11-01-2008
Legal history on the web

A quick round-up of new sources for legal history on the web... From Prof. Robert C. Palmer, University of Houston: "The Anglo-American Legal Tradition website now has available the acquisitions from Spring 2008. The site contains about 2.1 million frames of documents from the U.K. National Archives...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 07-05-2008
The most creative books in American law

Robert F. Blomquist surveyed 426 law professors who have taught legal history for his paper, Thinking About Law and Creativity: On the 100 Most Creative Moments in American Law (Valparaiso University Legal Studies Research Paper No. 08-04, May 2008). Below I've extracted the books and articles that...

Posted to Yale Law Library - Rare Books Blog (Weblog) by Mike Widener on 06-11-2008

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