Hours
The Root Room, Historical & Special Collections’ reading room, is open by appointment only, Tuesday-Friday, 10-5.
To schedule an appointment or get in touch with a member of the Historical & Special Collections staff, please email specialc@law.harvard.edu.
UPCOMING CLOSURES:
Wednesday, May 28-Thursday May 29
Thursday, June 19
Friday, July 4
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From the Ephemeral to the Extraordinary: Announcing a New Harvard Law School Library Exhibit
The exhibit is a wonderful opportunity for the Harvard community to learn more about Harvard Law School Library’s collections of rare and archival materials, and to experience the breadth and depth of Historical & Special Collections’s collecting over the past five years.
October 24, 2024
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HSC manager attends Rare Book School
The Historical & Special Collections Department (HSC) at Harvard Law School Library (HLSL) holds a world-class and historically significant rare books and early manuscripts collection. As the new manager of HSC, I recently had the opportunity to attend Law Books: History & Connoisseurship at Rare Book School (RBS), a course taught by Mike Widener and
August 2, 2024
Image Credits
Top of page, clockwise:
- View of rare book spines, Brooks Kraft, 2014.
- Vice Dean Livingston Hall welcoming the first women students of Harvard Law School by Fay Foto Service, 1950, HOLLIS olvwork383501, Harvard Law School Library.
- Registrum brevium, ca. 1476, HLS MS 25, HOLLIS 990037584890203941, fol. 1r, seq. 13, detail, Harvard Law School Library.
Left to right:
- Historical & Special Collections reading room, Brooks Kraft, 2014.
- Harvard Law School Library pass, 1868, HOLLIS 990020808460203941, Harvard Law School Library.
- De legibus Angliae, ca. 1300. HLS MS 1, HOLLIS 990028855300203941, seq. 29, detail, Harvard Law School Library.
- Caspersen Room, Harvard Law School Library, Tony Rinaldo, September 2023.
- Historical & Special Collections stacks, Brooks Kraft, 2014.
- Treasure Room, Langdell Hall by Fay Foto Service, 1952? HOLLIS 8001070613, Harvard Law School Library.