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The Tarlton Law Library at The University of Texas School of Law presented its third Annual Rare Book Lecture, “The Literature of Witchcraft Trials,” on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007 at the University of Texas School of Law.
The lecture featured Scott Pagel, a noted scholar in legal bibliography and director of the Jacob Burns Law Library at The George Washington University Law School.
In his talk, Professor Pagel discussed the witchcraft craze that swept through Europe during the 16th and 17th centuries. He used specific examples of manuscripts and rare books to illustrate early writers' rationale for the witchcraft trials, the procedures used in courts, and the influence of church-state relations.
Pagel is director of the Jacob Burns Law Library and professor of law at The George Washington University Law School. He has worked in academic libraries since 1977. Before becoming director of the Jacob Burns Law Library in 1993, he was director of the law library and an associate professor at the University of Oklahoma . He has also served as the assistant law librarian at Columbia Law School and as the public services librarian at Golden Gate University . In addition to his work on legal bibliography, he has written on law library management, labor law and immigration.For more information, contact Mark Lambert, Head of Special Collections at the Tarlton Law Library, (512) 232-3802, .