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Alumni Access

May 23, 2022
Congratulations graduates of Yale Law School Class of 2022! Alumni acccess to library resources changes at various points throughout the year. Access to online...

Summer Access to Westlaw, LexisNexis and Bloomberg Law 2022

April 26, 2022
WESTLAW Continuing Students Continuing students automatically get FULL access all year-round (180 hours per month). You do not have to do anything to gain access...
Exams

Finding Old Exams

April 25, 2022
Finding Old Exams Did you know that the Law Library makes accessible many of your professors’ previous exams to use as study aids? Yale Law School students can access these...
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Foreign & International Blog

New Book Display on L1: WANG CHUNG-HUI (D.C.L., 1905) AND THE HISTORY OF SINO-US RELATIONS

February 18, 2020
You are invited to view a new library exhibit on YLS alumnus Wang Chung-hui (LL.M 1903, D.C.L. 1905) and the history of US-China relations prepared by JSD candidate, Jingjian...
2019 FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Recipient Presentation July 18 2019

2019 FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant Recipient Presentation July 18 2019

August 15, 2019
We were honored to host veteran open-access activist, Ms. Mariya Badeva-Bright, the 2019 American Law Libraries Association FCIL-SIS Schaffer Grant for Foreign Law Librarians...

Blessed Barriers: Highlighting Foreign Language Materials in Law Exhibit on L1

May 23, 2019
“For the barrier of language is sometimes a blessed barrier, which only lets pass what is good. Or – to put the thing less cynically – we may be better in new clean words,...
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Rare Books Blog

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"Cause of Death": notebooks kept by an early expert pathologist in London

May 6, 2022
The Rare Book Collection has acquired two manuscript notebooks kept by Ludwig Freyberger, physician and early expert pathologist at the turn of the 20th century in England...
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A Plan of Newgate Prison in Dublin, 1819

May 6, 2022
A new acquisition from Maggs: George Warner, “Paper Relating to the Prisons in Dublin” (London: Luke Hansard, 1819), with an engraved plan of Newgate Prison. In 1819, the...
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(Tiny) new acquisition: Elizabeth Fry's Books for prisoners project, ca. 1839

May 3, 2022
In 1839, the English Quaker, Elizabeth Fry, published this pocket-sized devotional work, intended for distribution to women prisoners in France.  Fry was a dedicated advocate...
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