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

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…

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…

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.

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…

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

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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…

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

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…

The History of the Red Set The history of the Red Set dates from the 1890s when the Library began to preserve in a non-circulating…

The Art & Visual Materials Collection documents the legal profession and the history of the law, as well as the history of the Harvard Law…

Rare Books & Early Manuscripts Modern Manuscripts Art & Visual Materials The Red Set Harmful Language Statement Material in Historical & Special Collections (HSC) may…

Historical & Special Collections staff can help you… Use Harvard search tools such as HOLLIS, HOLLIS for Archival Discovery, and…

Although the Historical & Special Collections Department was only organized as an administrative unit in 1985, the history of the collecting of historical legal materials…

Quiet Zones Areas for quiet reading and study. Please keep noise to a minimum and take conversations to other zones. Locations 4th floor Caspersen Room Root…

Research Guides by Topic Study Guides Videos Learn the basics and beyond with our in-house instructional videos.

We are committed to making our spaces and collections accessible to all scholars and researchers. Please contact Access/Circulation, 617-495-3455 or access@law.harvard.edu to ask about…

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