Library Exhibit: New Highlights of the Rare Book Collection

On view this summer: an exhibition of new additions to the Lillian Goldman Law Library's Rare Book Collection, including:

• a set of lecture notes by an American student attending William Blackstone's lectures at All Soul's, Oxford, in 1758
• a manuscript poem composed by Blackstone as a student
• Hannah Arendt's "Eichmann in Jerusalem," in its original publication in five issues of The New Yorker (1963)
• a pirated edition of Catherine the Great's Instructions to the Legislative Commission (1769)
• a courtroom drawing of Harold Medina, as he oversaw a trial of the leaders of the U.S. Communist Party in 1949

Come meet these and other new highlights of the Rare Book Collection in this summer exhibition (June 2 – Aug. 27, 2025)