Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection

Back to School: Highlights from the Rare Book Collection

An exhibition welcoming incoming and returning students, on view in the Danzus-Panziger Rare Book exhibition area, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Level Two

August 1-31, 2022

Including:

–Batman’s Yale Law School diploma, in the original art work by Sal Amendola, ca. 1974
–Copy-editing the Gettysburg Address, in the Yale precursor to the Harvard Bluebook, Yale Law Journal, 1921
–Law students in class, ca. 1495
–A rare copy of Christopher Columbus Langdell, A selection of cases on the law of contracts (1871), the earliest American citator
–Chained book, from a 17th-century library
–The Sterling Law Library, as photographed after its opening in 1931

And a selection of Justices of the United States Supreme Court, as figured by The Green Bag Bobblehead Series.