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Side view of exhibit case, books flat on exhibit deck next to paper exhibit labels.
September 29, 2023. Banned Book Exhibit in the Caspersen Room in Langdell Hall. Credit: Tony Rinaldo 2023

Historical & Special Collections curates a major exhibit each year in the Law Library’s Caspersen Room on the fourth floor of Langdell Hall. Smaller exhibits also rotate in and out of the Caspersen Room bookcases and at the Areeda Hall entrance to the Library.

Current Exhibit

New Exhibit Now Open

This exhibit celebrates the career, leadership, and impact of late Harvard Law School alumnus and beloved Professor Charles J. Ogletree, Jr. (1952-2023), through examples from his personal papers. Organized into four themes, Educator, Advocate, Scholar, and Leader, this exhibit explores key roles held by Ogletree at Harvard Law School and beyond.

The exhibit is on view in the Caspersen Room, Harvard Law School Library (access with Harvard ID), weekdays from 9am to 5pm from August 20, 2025 – July 2026.

CURIOSity

Explore both new and migrated online exhibit content via Harvard Library’s CURIOSity platform.



Exhibit Addenda (2015-2024)

Exhibit Addenda was a website that featured companion content for Historical & Special Collections’ physical exhibits, as well as online exhibits. It debuted in January 2015 and was retired in April 2024.

Select content from the Exhibit Addenda site was migrated to CURIOSity.

Looking for Historical & Special Collections exhibit content not available on CURIOSity? You can view past versions of the Exhibit Addenda site via Archive-It (a web archiving service built at the Internet Archive). The archived Exhibit Addenda site was collected by the Harvard University Archives, as part of their collection of “A-Sites: Archived Harvard Websites.”

The Exhibit Addenda site is also searchable via the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine.

Questions

Still not finding what you are looking for? Please contact specialc@law.harvard.edu with questions.