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Book Display on L1: New Approaches to International Law

Evelyn Ma — Wed, 18 Jan 2023 15:59:15 +0000

The new book display on L1 of the law library highlights publications in the law library collection reflecting new approaches to international law. They amplify marginal voices, reexamine existing paradigms and theories on which the global law and order is predicated.

Book Talk: The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy

Pam Rentz — Tue, 17 Jan 2023 17:17:59 +0000

Please join the Lillian Goldman Law Library for a book talk with Jake Mazeitis ’23 and Andrew Porwancher on their new book, The Prophet of Harvard Law: James Bradley Thayer and His Legal Legacy. This book talk will be facilitated by Professors Samuel Moyn and David Schleicher and will include a live recording of their podcast, “Digging a Hole.”

**Online Registration is Required**

The event will take place on Monday, January 23 at 12:10 PM in SLB 122.

A conversation with Janet Odetsi Twum

Jason Eiseman — Fri, 09 Dec 2022 01:20:41 +0000

A conversation with Janet Odetsi Twum, Law Librarian at the Ghana School of Law and Lillian Goldman Law Library Visitor, October 2022.

Please tell us a little bit about your background and what you currently do.

Book Display - Yale Law Faculty Books on Issues of Race

Nicholas Mignanelli — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 10:30:00 +0000

As a companion to the “Race, Slavery, & The Founders of Yale Law School” exhibition, the Lillian Goldman Law Library has created a display in the Class of 1964 Reading Room on L3 that highlights books by Yale Law faculty authors on issues of race. A bibliography of the books included in this display appears below.

Book Talk: The New Yale Book of Quotations

Pam Rentz — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 15:28:56 +0000

Please join the Lillian Goldman Law Library for a book talk with Fred Shapiro on his new book, The New Yale Book of Quotations with commentary by Dr. Kathryn James.

**Online Registration is Required**

This event will take place on November 16, 2022, at 12:10 PM in SLB 120 and via Zoom

Film Screening: The Trials of Constance Baker Motley with Commentary by Producer Joel Motley

Pam Rentz — Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:08:07 +0000

The Lillian Goldman Law Library presents a screening of The Trials of Constance Baker Motley with commentary by producer Joel Motley.

Co-sponsored by the Yale Black Law Students Association (BLSA) and Yale Law Women (YLW)

**Online Registration is Required**

This event will take place on Thursday, November 10 at 12:10 PM and via Zoom.

Please register at: https://bit.ly/3Nfh1SR

About the Film:

This Thursday - Legal Information & Book History Workshop

Kathryn James — Mon, 07 Nov 2022 14:30:55 +0000

Join us this Thursday, November 10, 12:10-1:30pm, for the next meeting of the Legal Information & Book History workshop: “(In)validating the Law: Greenleaf, Story, and the Birth of the Citator.”

We’ll meet in the Rare Book Room, on Level Two (L2) of the Library. All are welcome!

Kathryn James (Rare Book Librarian)
Nicholas Mignanelli (Research Librarian & Director of Programming)

Book Talk: The Words That Made Us: America's Constitutional Conversation 1760-1840

Pam Rentz — Wed, 19 Oct 2022 14:55:25 +0000

Please join the Lillian Goldman Law Library for a book talk with Professor Akhil Reed Amar B.A. ’80 and J.D. ’84 on his new book, The Words That Made Us: America’s Constitutional Conversation, 1760-1840 with commentary by Dr. Andrew Lipka ’78.

**Online Registration is Required**

New Book Display: Witchcraft and the Law

Nor Ortiz — Mon, 17 Oct 2022 13:30:00 +0000

New Books Display – Witchcraft and the Law

That chill in the air may be more than just changing seasons…

New Book Display - Judge Guido Calabresi: A Bibliographic Celebration

Nicholas Mignanelli — Fri, 14 Oct 2022 16:57:38 +0000

New Book Display - Judge Guido Calabresi: A Bibliographic Celebration