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Book Exhibit on L3: Dictionaries in Law Libraries and Legal Practice
A new book display is on view in Main Reading Room on L3, prepared by Steven A Mitchell, Research Librarian for Legal History and Foreign &...
Library Space Utilization
The Lillian Goldman Law Library is implementing occupancy monitoring technology (utilization sensors), which will provide data about how spaces are...
Welcome Class of 2029
Carved in Latin above our entrance is Lord Coke's advice, “Prudentis est Petere Fontes,” that “it is wise to go to the sources.” In an age of...
Edward Coke & exhibit cases
Rare Books Blog
"The Choicest Privilege": Press Freedom from Magna Charta to the Early Federal Period - A Rare Book Exhibit
In summer 1789, James Madison proposed amendments to the new Constitution to protect rights "not sufficiently guarded." Madison singled out freedom of...
New York Times advertisement
Rare Books Blog
Actual Malice: Past & Present in The New York Times v. Sullivan (1964) - A Rare Book Exhibit
"Heed their Rising Voices" proclaimed the full-page advertisement published in The New York Times on March 29, 1960. The ad, funded by the newly...