Visual Culture and Legal Norms: What Can We Learn from Law’s Picture Books?

Over the past decade, the Lillian Goldman Law Library has assembled a unique collection of over fifteen hundred illustrated law books, spanning eight centuries and six continents. The collection is showcased in two ongoing exhibitions, “Law’s Picture Books: The Yale Law Library Collection” at the Grolier Club in New York through November 18, and “Around the World with Law’s Picture Books” in the Law Library through December 15. How do these illustrations provide windows into legal norms and aspirations? Join exhibit curators  Mike Widener (Rare Book Librarian) and Mark Weiner ’00 (legal historian, Professor of Law at Rutgers) will be joined by Judith Resnik (Arthur Liman Professor of Law) and Laura Wexler (Professor of American Studies) for a lively discussion.

 

Lunch will be served. Following the talks, Widener will give a guided tour of “Around the World with Law’s Picture Books.”

 

SPONSORING ORGANIZATIONS:

Lillian Goldman Law Library

Arthur Liman Center for Public Interest Law

Yale Women Faculty Forum.