Past Exhibits
See what we've done in the past! Library exhibits have featured a wide range of materials from faculty papers to crime broadsides to legal portraits.
Harvard Law School Faculty
Exhibits about the work of HLS faculty, which often coincide with when their papers become available to researchers.
"Achievements of an Incessantly Inquiring Mind:" The Life and Teaching of Warren Abner Seavey
Beyond Cambridge: Two Centuries of Harvard Law School Faculty Work in and on Africa
A Storied Legacy—Correspondence and Early Writings of Joseph Story
Harvard Law School History
Exhibits exploring the history of Harvard Law School, and the work of its students, and its alumni.
Charles Hamilton Houston and the Harvard Law School
Creating Community: Harvard Law School and the Bauhaus
It Was a Dark and Stormy Semester... Portrayals of Harvard Law School in Literature
Life Beyond the Law: Exploring Student Life Outside the Harvard Law School Classroom
Spicy Reforms and Crystallizing Claptrap: Student Organizations at Harvard Law School
Exploring the Collections
Take a peek at some of the discoveries that researchers and staff have made in the collection.
Centuries of Japanese Legal Tradition
Deep Cuts: The B-Side of Historical & Special Collections
Dying Speeches & Bloody Murders: Crime Broadsides Collected by the Harvard Law School Library
The Expected & Unexpected: Harvard Law School Library’s Special Collections
Legal Portrait Project Online: An Exhibit of Legal Portraiture at the Harvard Law School Library
One Text, Sixteen Manuscripts: Magna Carta at the Harvard Law School Library
Provenance Detectives—Revealing the History of Six Library Artifacts
Research Revealed—Six Scholars Explore Historical & Special Collections
Spanning the Centuries: An Exhibit of Recent Acquisitions, 1579-1868
Law & ...
Explore the intersection of law with history, art, and other topics across the humanities and social sciences.
Dred Scott v. Sanford: An exhibition to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of Dred Scott v. Sandford
Extra! Extra! Read All About It—A Tale of True Crime
History in Deed: Medieval Society & The Law in England, 1100-1600
Kids in the Collection: Prison, Work, and Play
Pursuing Human Dignity: The Legacies of Nuremberg
Queering the Collection: LGBTQ+ History ca. 1600-1970
Ruhleben Internment Camp—A British Community in Wartime Germany
Sundry Good and Needfull Ordinances: Food & Drink in the Harvard Law School Library
Visualizing Capital Punishment: Spectacle, Shame, and Sympathy
What (Not) to Wear: Fashion and the Law
“Where Mis’ry Moans”: Four Prison Reformers in 18th & 19th Century England