A selection of guidebooks for students engaged in the study of the law.
Thomas Lane. The student’s guide through Lincoln’s Inn. 3rd edition. London: Printed for...
A selection legal dictionaries and grammar books.
Repertorium aureum continens titulos quinque librorum Decretalium, sive Concordantiae...
A selection student notebooks and marginalia
Imperatoris Iustiniani Institutionum libri IV. Amsterdam: Joan & Cornelis Blaeu, 1642.
This...
A selection of works which use various visual devices (charts, illustrations, diagrams…) to present information in interesting ways
Giovanni d’Andrea. Lecture...
William Blackstone. Commentaries on the laws of England. 6th edition. London: W. Strahan, T. Cadell, 1774.Gift of Robert Freilich, Yale Law School Class of 1957.
Blackstone’s...
Justinian’s Institutes
In the year 533 the Emperor Justinian reformed legal education in the Eastern Roman Empire, proscribing a new five-year course of study....
When looking at a row of law books today, whether in a law library, a courthouse, or a student’s bookshelf, one might be struck by their apparent uniformity – row upon row of...
Through the centuries, legal education has both shaped legal literature and been shaped by it. “Learning the Law: The Book in Early Legal Education,” the latest exhibition...
