We received news from a course
offered by Michael Widener (Yale) and Ryan Greenwood (Minnesota)
in Yale coming June.
The University of Virginia’s Rare
Book School is now accepting applications for admission to its course, “Law
Books: History & Connoisseurship,” which is scheduled for June 7-12, 2020
in the Yale Law School Library, New Haven, Connecticut. Enrollment is limited
to 12 students.
The course description, advance
reading list, evaluations from previous students, and a link to the application
site are here: https://rarebookschool.org/courses/collections/c85/
Information on the application
process, program costs, etc., is available here: https://rarebookschool.org/admissions-awards/application/
This intensive, week-long course
is about building focused, interesting, and useful collections of historical
materials in Anglo-American, European, and Latin American law. It is aimed at individuals and librarians who collect
historical legal materials, and the book dealers who supply them, as well as
librarians developing collections from existing holdings. Lively discussion and
extensive hands-on activities are hallmarks of the course.
The instructors are Mike Widener
(Rare Book Librarian, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School) and Ryan
Greenwood (Curator of Rare Books and Special Collections, University of
Minnesota Law Library). This will be Widener’s seventh time teaching the
course, and the second time for Greenwood. Due to Widener’s retirement from
Yale in April 2021, future offerings of this course are uncertain. If you have
wanted to take the course, and haven’t yet attended, now is the time.
Questions about the content of
the course should go to Mike Widener at: mike.widener@yale.edu. Questions about
applications, registration, tuition, and housing should be directed to the Rare
Book School staff at rbsprograms@virginia.edu.
