This is a shout-out to our friends at Boston College's John J. Burns Library of rare books and special collections. In honor of International Talk Like a Pirate Day on Saturday September 19, the Burns Library has an exhibit of antiquarian books about pirates on view through September 26. ...

We received this delightful book from Professor Daniel R. Coquillette as part of an important gift of books by and about Sir Francis Bacon, famous English jurist and rival of Sir Edward Coke. This copy is a manuscript, handwritten by "C.M.D." in 1912. ...

You are invited to visit our latest exhibit in the Boston College Law Library’s Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room. “Recent Additions to the Collection” features books, manuscripts, ...

Our efforts to digitize the entire collection of some 3,ooo documents in the Robert E. Brooker Collection of Early American Legal and Land use Documents are continuing apace. We now have better than 1/10 of the collection available and fully searchable in Boston College's Digital Collections. ...

If you will be attending the Annual Meeting of the American Association of Law Libraries in Washington, DC next week, please join us for a book signing, hosted by the Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

On page 4 of the spring/summer issue of BC Law Magazine is an article featuring Michael Morales, BC Law class of 2009 and collector of works by and about Simon Greenleaf. We recently featured an exhibit of Michael's Greenleaf collection in the Rare Book Room. Congratulations, Michael!

Working with colleagues from Boston College's O'Neill Library, we have begun to digitize the Robert E. Brooker III Collection of American Legal and Land Use Documents. When the project is finished, the ...

We just purchased a very special first edition of Simon Greenleaf's famous TREATISE ON THE LAW OF EVIDENCE in honor of Michael Morales, BC Law class of 2009 and collector of materials by and about Greenleaf. ...

On April 27, 2009, colleagues, friends, and family assembled to celebrate our current exhibit, "A Law Student Collects: Simon Greenleaf and Michael Morales." The exhibit features Morales' collection of ...