Welcome to Rare Books & Special Collections!
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Visit us weekdays 8-12 and 1-5, on the 6th Floor of the Tarlton Law Library. See our Visitor Information page for details.
Our mission is: (1) to support research and teaching by faculty, students, and alumni at The University of Texas and its School of Law, and by legal professionals and scholars throughout the world; and (2) to document the history of The University of Texas School of Law.
Our resources include:
News ...
- The 3rd Annual Tarlton Law Library Rare Books Lecture (February 15, 2007, 3:30pm, in the Law School's Sheffield Room) features Professor Scott Pagel, Director of the Jacob Burns Law Library at the George Washington University Law School, speaking on "The Literature of Witchcraft Trials." (1/31/2007)
- The 2nd Annual Tarlton Law Library Rare Books Lecture (Feb. 15, 2006, 3:30pm, in the Law School's Sheffield Room) features Professor Stanley Chodorow of the University of California-San Diego, speaking on "Law Libraries and the Formation of the Legal Profession in the Late Middle Ages." (1/5/2006)
- The Mildred A. O'Donohoe Collection of Williston Fish's Last Will was featured in the Winter 2006 issue of UT Law magazine. (1/4/2006)
- See the newest addition to our website, Texas Legal History: A Survey of Oral History Resources. (9/10/2005)
- Justice Tom C. Clark's files for the major U.S. Supreme Court cases of the 20th century are now available online in UT's UTopia portal. See The Papers of Justice Tom C. Clark: Civil Liberties and Civil Rights Cases of the U.S. Supreme Court.(8/18/2005)
- The finding aid for the Tom C. Clark Papers is now available online. (7/27/2005)
- Our latest exhibit, "A Look Back in Time: The University of Texas School of Law One Hundred Years Ago," allows viewers to learn about the early history of the Law School. (4/27/2005)
- Thanks to all the Law School Alumni and guests who joined Mike Widener and William Fisher (UT Law Class of 2000) for "An Introduction to Book Collecting" during Alumni Reunion on April 16, 2005. See the Introduction to Book Collecting course page for suggested readings and useful links for book collectors. See also "Listen to the Book", a summary of Mike Widener's talk on book collecting, in the Winter 2005 issue of UT Law. (2/21/2005)
- The 1846 Auction Catalogue of Joseph Story's Library is the latest title on the Tarlton Law Library Legal History series. Check our Publications page for details. (12/3/2004)
- Online guides to Tarlton archives collections are now available through Texas Archival Resources Online (TARO). (9/22/2004)
- Book Marks, in the Spring 2004 issue of UT Law, showcases several examples of interesting and significant marginalia from our Rare Book Collection. (5/10/2004)
- The 1st Annual Tarlton Law Library Rare Books Lecture took place Feb. 23, 2004. Professor Michael Hoeflich of the University of Kansas School of Law, one of the few legal historians working in the field of the history of the book, spoke on "Subscription Publishing and the Sale of Law Books in Antebellum America". (2/24/2004)
- The Dorothy C. Most Scrapbook was featured in the Winter 2003 issue of UT Law Magazine, at page 64. (12/1/2003)
- Student conservators from the Preservation & Conservation Studies Program in UT's School of Information treated a dozen books from our Rare Book Collection for their Spring 2003 Advanced Book Conservation projects. See the online portfolios of Linda Barrone, Melissa Bradshaw, Wendy Kraemer, and Lauren Streusand for images and details. Thanks to all of them and their instructor, Chela Metzger, for their fine work! (12/1/2003)
- A recent acquisition, Col. John Hallum's Address to the Jury... in Self Defense ... for Shooting a Minister of the Gospel (1911), was featured in the Spring 2003 issue of UT Law Magazine. You can read the entire pamphlet in the Tarlton E-Text Collection. (4/1/2003)
