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  • Langdell Hall reading room with two oversized black cats sitting atop the bookcases

    HLS Library Haunted Halloween Tour

    August 16, 2023

    Join us for our annual celebration of all things spooky! Tour the Library’s haunted history of wraiths, witches, and wicked works in this exciting Halloween-themed…

  • Langdell Hall reading room with two oversized black cats sitting atop the bookcases

    HLS Library Haunted Halloween Tour

    August 16, 2023

    Join us for our annual celebration of all things spooky! Tour the Library’s haunted history of wraiths, witches, and wicked works in this exciting Halloween-themed…

  • Langdell Hall reading room with two oversized black cats sitting atop the bookcases

    HLS Library Haunted Halloween Tour

    August 16, 2023

    Join us for our annual celebration of all things spooky! Tour the Library’s haunted history of wraiths, witches, and wicked works in this exciting Halloween-themed…

  • Lisa Lilliott Rydin

    April 6, 2023

    Lisa Lilliott Rydin (Faculty Research Librarian) primarily provides research support to HLS faculty members, but also provides research consultations and instruction for JD and graduate…

  • Lori Schulsinger

    April 6, 2023

    Lori supports the Collection Development Unit which includes the direct support of the Associate Director for Collections, the Collection Development Librarian for U.S. and Materials…

  • Maya Bergamasco

    March 10, 2023

    Maya Bergamasco provides scholarly publication and research support to the Harvard Law School community. Maya holds a B.A. in English literature with a concentration in…

  • Emily Neill

    March 10, 2023

    Emily Neill is the Program Manager of HLS Beyond which provides non-curricular learning opportunities for HLS students that build skills and knowledge on issues relevant…

  • Deanna Barmakian

    March 10, 2023

    Deanna Barmakian, Research Librarian for Student Services and Foreign, Comparative & International Law, enjoys supporting the research needs of the HLS community. She holds a…

  • AJ Blechner

    March 10, 2023

    AJ Blechner is a Student Services Research Librarian and Instructional Designer at the Harvard Law School Library. They coordinate and participate in teaching legal research,…

  • Jess Rios

    March 10, 2023

    Jess has been at the Harvard Law School Library for over 15 years in various roles. As the Assistant Director of Digital Content & UX…

  • Debbie Ginsberg

    March 2, 2023

    I oversee faculty research and scholarship support for the Harvard Law School Library. I am active in AALL (incoming vice-chair for the Economic Status of Law…

  • Prachee Arora

    February 6, 2023

    Prachee is an Applied Research Statistician at Empirical Research Services at Harvard Law School. Prachee got a M.S in Economics from University of Illinois –…

  • Arevik Avedian

    February 6, 2023

    Arevik is a Lecturer on Law at HLS, teaching quantitative methods. She holds a Ph.D. in world politics and methods and a M.A. in…

  • Empirical Research Services Team

    February 6, 2023

  • Database Authorization

    August 15, 2022

    CALI CALI, the Center for Computer-Assisted Legal Instruction, provides access to an extensive collection of interactive, computer-based lessons covering a number of subject areas.

  • History of the Library

    August 15, 2022

    In July 1817, the creation of the Law School was announced with the promise that students “will have access to the college library, and a…

  • Visit Us

    August 3, 2022

    Materials in Historical & Special Collections are open to everyone. Request a Reading Room Appointment The Historical & Special Collections’ Reading Room, the Root Room,…

  • Historical & Special Collections

    August 3, 2022

    Image Credits Top of page, clockwise: Left to right:…

  • Modern Manuscripts

    August 2, 2022

    What is in the Modern Manuscripts Collection? In 1964 U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter wrote to Professor Alexander M. Bickel of the Yale Law…

  • Historical & Special Collections Policies

    August 1, 2022

    Reading Room Use Materials in Historical & Special Collections are open to all researchers regardless of academic affiliation. In order to gain access to materials…

  • Rare Books & Early Manuscripts

    August 1, 2022

    The Rare Book Collection contains over 100,000 printed books, pamphlets, broadsides and other material, with imprints between the fifteenth and twentieth centuries. The collection has…