At Gotham: Yale Law School at 200

AT GOTHAM: YALE LAW SCHOOL AT 200
An exhibition at the Lillian Goldman Law Library,
Yale Law School,
New Haven, Connecticut

In 1824, the Yale College catalog listed the names of fourteen students of a private law school held in the New Haven law office of Seth Perkins Staples, B.A. 1797, with his partner and former student, Samuel J. Hitchcock, B.A. 1809.  Two years later, a Yale College announcement listed the terms for “tuition and use of library” of the law school overseen, by then, by Hitchcock and Professor David Daggett.  

At Gotham draws on the Lillian Goldman Law Library collections to celebrate the bicentennial of the Yale Law School. Taking its title from the diploma awarded another graduate “by Yale Law School at Gotham, New Haven,” the exhibit follows the intersections and interwoven histories of the Yale Law School community over its first two hundred years, still legible in the collections of its library.

At Gotham will be on view in the Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level 3, January 22 - July 14, 2024

Curated and designed by Kathryn James, Rare Book Librarian; kathryn.james@yale.edu