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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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Our Mission From Collections to Connections The Harvard Law School Library supports the learning, research, and teaching needs of the HLS community through engagement with…

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Contact a Research Librarian We’re available to help you find materials in the Library and answer questions about legal research.   Members of the Harvard Law…

A to Z List Use our curated list of legal databases to find items by keyword or subject. Lexis, Westlaw, & Bloomberg Law Lexis,…

Private Group Study Rooms Open Study & Collaboration Spaces Phone Rooms Spaces & Amenities by Floor Printers, Scanners, & Other Equipment Printing Location Printers are…

Research Assistance Support for faculty doing research with an empirical component Publication Support Review empirical papers for sound research design and methodology create publishable quality…