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:
Fridays, August 8-29, open from 9:30am-12:30pm, closing for the day at 12:30pm
Friday, September 12, 10am-12pm
Wednesday, September 17, 12-5pm
Friday, October 24, 10am-12:30pm
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Magna Carta Exhibit This Summer
Harvard Law School Library Historical & Special Collections is pleased to announce a special exhibit opening this June. One Text, Sixteen Manuscripts: Magna Carta at the Harvard Law School Library first debuted in September 2015 to celebrate Magna Carta’s 800th anniversary. In honor of the exciting new scholarship surrounding HLS MS 172, we are pleased
May 21, 2025
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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
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.