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• Never Whisper Justice (pdf)
• WESTLAW ... an early history (pdf)
• Tools of the Profession: Law Books and the History of Legal Education
  • Early Continental Legal Education
  • Early English Legal Education
  • Early American Legal Education
  • Classic Treatises: Fundamental Tools
  • Law Students and Their Books
  • Legal Education at Minnesota
• EQUAL CARICATURE UNDER LAW SUPREME COURT BOBBLEHEADS BY THE GREEN BAG
  • Introduction
  • Original Justices
    • John Jay
    • John Rutledge
    • William Cushing
    • James Wilson
    • John Blair
    • James Iredell
  • 19th Century Justices
    • Benjamin R. Curtis
    • David J. Brewer
  • 20th Century Justices
    • Louis D. Brandeis
    • Stanley Reed
  • Recent Justices
    • Harry A. Blackmun
    • William H. Rehnquist
    • John Paul Stevens
    • Sandra Day O'Connor
    • David H. Souter
    • Antonin Scalia
    • Ruth Bader Ginsburg
  • Current Justices
    • Anthony Kennedy
    • Clarence Thomas
    • Stephen Breyer
    • John G. Roberts, Jr.
    • Samuel A. Alito, Jr.
  • Non-justices
    • Belva Lockwood
    • Thurgood Marshall
  • Make 'em bobble!
• Noted and Notable: Treasures of the Riesenfeld Rare Books Research Center
  • Introduction
  • The Pulling Collection
  • Remarkable Copies
    • GERARD TUNING, IN QUATUOR LIBROS INSTITUTIONUM JURIS CIVILIS DIVI IUSTINIANI COMMENTARIUS (LEIDEN: ELZEVIR, 1618).
    • JOOST DAMHOUDER, PRAXIS RERUM CRIMINALIUM (ANTWERP: JOHANNES BELLERUS, 1570).
    • [MASSACHUSETTS] AN ACT TO PREVENT MONOPOLY AND OPPRESSION (BOSTON: PRINTED BY B. EDES AND SONS, 1777).
  • Notable Editions
    • EDWARD COKE, THE FIRST PART OF THE INSTITUTES OF THE LAWS OF ENGLAND (LONDON: JOHN MORE, 1629).
    • JOHN SELDEN, MARE CLAUSUM, SEU DE DOMINIO MARIS (LEIDEN: JOHN AND THEODORE MAIRE, 1636).
    • THOMAS PAINE, COMMON SENSE (LONDON: JOHN ALMON, 1776).
    • ALEXANDER HAMILTON, JAMES MADISON, AND JOHN JAY LE FÉDÉRALISTE (PARIS: BUISSON, 1792).
  • Beautiful Bindings
    • JUSTINIAN NOVELLAE CONSTITUTIONES (VENICE: BAPTISTA DE TORTIS, JANUARY 8, 1498).
    • JOHN SKENE, REGIAM MAJESTATEM SCOTIAE: VETERES LEGES ET CONSTITUTIONES (LONDON: JOHN BILL, 1613).
    • HENRICUS ZOESIUS, COMMENTARIUS AD INSTITUTIONUM IVRIS CIVILIS LIBROS IV (COLOGNE: JOHANNES WILHELM, 1671).
  • Unique Manuscripts
    • WILLIAM LAMBARD, ARCHEION: OR, A TREATISE OF THE HIGH COURTS OF JUSTICE IN ENGLAND. (MANUSCRIPT ON PAPER, 206 PAGES, C. 1600.)
    • THE WOODART COLLECTION (11 MANUSCRIPT DOCUMENTS ON VELLUM AND PAPER, DATED 1756 – 1769.)
    • THE HENTON DEEDS COLLECTION (500 ENGLISH MANUSCRIPT DEEDS ON VELLUM, DATING FROM 1609 TO 1890.)
    • THE LETTERS OF CLARENCE DARROW
  • Striking Illustrations
    • DOMENICO BERNINI, IL TRIBUNALE DELLA S. ROTA ROMANA (ROME: STAMPERIA DEL BERNABÓ, 1717).
    • CODE PENAL, ILLUSTRATED BY JOSEPH HÉMARD (PARIS: EDITIONS LITTÉRAIRES DE FRANCE, C. 1925).
    • THE TRIAL OF GRACCHUS BABEUF BEFORE THE HIGH COURT OF VENDOME, ED. AND TRANS. BY JOHN ANTHONY SCOTT (NORTHHAMPTON, MA: THE GEHENNA PRESS, 1964).
• Law and the Struggle for Racial Justice
  • Main Exhibit
    • Address of the American Convention (1804)
    • Proceedings of the New York Anti-Slavery Convention (1835)
    • Complaint: Rachel vs. Tunis Applegate (1830)
    • Emancipation Proclamation (1863)
    • Civil Rights Bill: Blyew vs. United States (1872)
    • False Reconstruction (1876)
    • An Act to Prevent Discrimination (1883)
    • Acts Passed at the ... Session (1892)
    • Sweet Trial: Argument of Darrow (1927)
    • Harlem Riot: Subcommittee Report (1935)
    • Angelo Herndon: Let Me Live (1937)
    • Fantastic Case of the Trenton Six (1951)
    • Rosa Parks: American Heritage (1972)
    • Support Our Boycott! (1967)
    • Letter from Mayor Donald M. Fraser (1983)
    • Petition from UMN Law Student (1983)
• The Clarence Darrow Digital Collection
  • Clarence Darrow - Biography
  • The Clarence Darrow Letters
  • About the Clarence Darrow Letters
  • Cases and Topics
    • Prendergast Case - 1894
    • The Pullman Strike
    • The Oshkosh Woodworkers Strike of 1898
    • The Anthracite Coal Strike
    • The Bill Haywood Trial
    • The McNamara Brothers Trial
    • The Bribery Trials of Clarence Darrow
    • The Gitlow Case (1920)
    • The Leopold & Loeb Trial
    • The Scopes Trial (1925)
    • The Sweet Trials, Clarence Darrow and Race
    • The Massie Trial
    • State & Federal Cases
    • Illinois Cases
    • National Recovery Review Board
    • Miscellaneous Topics
• A Witness to Barbarism: Horace R. Hansen and the Dachau War Crimes Trials
  • Prosecuting Atrocity: The Dachau Trials
  • Horace Hansen's Road to Dachau
  • Bearing Witness to Barbarism
  • Documents
    • Photographs - Dachau Concentration Camp Trial
    • Photographs - Evidence of War Crimes
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    • Photographs - Liberation of Dachau
    • Photographs - Horace Hansen Images
• Böcker Har Sina Öden (Books Have Their Destinies)
  • Introduction
  • Exhibit
    • Maritime Code of the Swedish Realm, 1667.
    • The Law Books of the Realm of Sweden, 1666.
    • Provincial Laws of the Swedish Kingdom, 1675.
    • Swedish-Gothic Legal Lexicon Compiled by Johan Loccenius, 1665.
    • Johan O. Stiernhöök, on the Ancient Law of Swedes and Goths, 1672.
    • Offical Documents, Proclamations, Ordinances, Resolutions and Publications Concerning the Government, 1742.
    • The Law of the Realm of Sweden, 1736.
• Transitional Justice in Historical Perspective
  • Introduction
  • The Middle Ages
  • The Early Modern Period
  • The Modern Period
  • The Twentieth Century
• Hermann Kantorowicz Collection Catalog
• Treasures of the Riesenfeld Center
• Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery