Exhibitions

The Library's exhibition program, coordinated by Historical & Special Collections, advertises the scholarly resources available to the academic community with an immediacy that cannot be experienced in any other way—a medieval manuscript, the first edition of Littleton's Tenures, a student notebook recording Professor Langdell's lectures—all evoke the time in which they were created and give richness to the history of the law and of the Harvard Law School.

HSC's exhibits are located in the Caspersen Room, located at the north end of the Langdell Reading Room. Hours are generally 9:00am to 5:00pm, Monday through Friday (closed for special events).

Current Exhibition 

A Storied Legacy: Correspondence and Early Writings of Joseph Story. In the exhibit, selections of original documents from four HLS Library collections attest to Story’s scholarly and judicial abilities, and reveal glimpses of the close friendships he formed with the leaders of his day. All documents and visual images from these four collections have been fully digitized and are available in the Joseph Story Digital Suite.

Past Exhibitions 

Library exhibitions have featured a wide range of materials from law books in fancy dress to crime broadsides to legal portraits. See Historical & Special Collections' index of past exhibitions for more information.

Eight persons murdered! [London] : J. Catnach, Printer, [between 1836 and 1841] (detail).