Tag: Harvard Law School Library
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Nation
Who’s getting hurt most by soaring LGBTQ book bans? Librarians say kids.
Book bans targeting LGBTQ content reached record level highs in 2022. Transgender activists and experts on gender and identity share their thoughts on what’s happening both politically and socially to drive this change.
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Nation & World
Judges and their toughest cases
At Harvard Law School Library, a panel drew lessons from a new book containing firsthand accounts of the some of the hardest cases in judges’ careers.
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Nation & World
Devils in the details
HLS staff members talk about the haunting experience of digitizing documents from the Nuremberg war trials.
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Arts & Culture
Guarding the dazzle of the past
The Gazette visited the Weissman Preservation Center to see how conservators preserve Harvard’s rare and unique collections.
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Arts & Culture
Complicated legacy
A Harvard Law School scholar reflects on the legacy of the 800-year-old Magna Carta.
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Nation & World
Old Harvard, old France, old crime
An exhibit drawn from the holdings of the Harvard Law School Library combines detailed scholarship with a touch of scandal.
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Arts & Culture
The rote notes of early U.S. law
The Harvard Law School Library has digitized law student notebooks from 200 years ago, giving online readers a glimpse at legal education in the young United States.
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Nation & World
Holmes’ suite home
In a pioneering first, the Harvard Law School Library has used its eight collections on celebrated jurist Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. to aggregate a hyperaccessible digital “suite” that scholars and the public can search, browse, and tag.
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Arts & Culture
Evidence of greatness
“A Storied Legacy: Correspondence and Early Writings of Joseph Story,” online and at Harvard Law School, goes deep into the life and work of the scholar, best-selling author, and Supreme Court justice.
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Nation & World
Guides to the gallows
The Harvard Law School Library’s “Dying Speeches” collection of English crime broadsides — street literature sold at public executions — is one of the largest in the world and the first to be completely digitized.
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Nation & World
Recording a horrific history
Through its Nuremberg Trials Project, the Harvard Law School Library is digitizing parts of a massive trove of records from the postwar trials of high-ranking Nazi political and military leaders.