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In honor of the Conference on the Legacy of Stanley Milgram​, to be held at Yale Law School on October 26, 2013, we are pleased to present Authority...

Justice Benjamin Cardozo’s signed copy of his book What Medicine Can Do for Law (1930). Benjamin N. Cardozo (1870-1938) followed in his father’s...

Justice Noah Swayne’s copy of Giles Jacob’s New Law Dictionary (1782). U.S. Supreme Court Justice Noah H. Swayne (1804–1884) served on the Court from...

Chief Justice John Jay’s signed copy of The Conveyancer’s Guide (1821), with inlaid bookplate. This 1821 edition of The Conveyancer’s Guide—oddly...

If you collect enough of anything—in my case, it’s 36,000 books—you inevitably acquire some especially unusual and prized specimens. Tracing the...