We’ve linked an item from this series previously, but it deserves a post in itself: “Law’s Picture Books,” an exhibition at NYC’s Grolier Club, displayed more than 140 items from the Yale Law Library’s collection of images and writings on legal themes. In a series of ten posts at Concurring Opinions (link is to the series tag), Mark S. Weiner explores many of the highlights. They include images of courtrooms and of lawyers at work; books using mathematical and quantitative methods to address legal issues arising from water and land; images used in law teaching; tree-and-branch and other diagrams; and a 1554 treatise on criminal law whose breakthrough innovation was its inclusion of 60 woodcuts depicting specific crimes.
More in videos at Weiner’s Worlds of Law and in pictures at Mike Widener’s Flickr account. More on the steamroller cartoon in the series entry “Laughing at the Law.”
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A pingback notice just altered me to this kind post. In case your readers are interested, I wanted to let them know that just last week the catalogue for the exhibit received the Joseph L. Andrews Legal Literature Award from the American Association of Law Libraries. My co-curator, Mike Widener, writes about the good news here: https://library.law.yale.edu/news/laws-picture-books-wins-joseph-l-andrews-award