As this June the Social Law Library is celebrating 215 years of service to the Commonwealth’s bench and bar, we’ve assembled an array of books chronicling the development of the state’s court system and legal profession over that time. There are works about the origin and growth of the trial and appellate courts, trends and advances in the profession, and the advent of bar associations, as well as biographies of legal luminaries with connections to Social Law such as justices Lemuel Shaw, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., and Louis D. Brandeis.
In the Collection
Richard Henry Dana, Jr. : speeches in stirring times and letters to a son
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1022899?lang=eng
Boston then & now
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1136296?lang=eng
Breaking barriers : the unfinished story of women lawyers and judges in Massachusetts
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1135841?lang=eng
Fiat justitia : a history of the Massachusetts Bar Association, 1910-1985
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1005104?lang=eng
Register of members
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1135569?lang=eng
Lawyer's pictorial register
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1003669?lang=eng
Lawyers pictorial register
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1021371?lang=eng
Lawyer's pictorial register
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1002768?lang=eng
Discovering the public interest : a history of the Boston Bar Association
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1017171?lang=eng
Justice and the poor
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1034365?lang=eng
The genius of Lemuel Shaw : expounder of the common law
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1006534?lang=eng
Threshold of justice : a judge's life story
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1083312?lang=eng
Memoirs : John Graham Brooks : chronicles of a long and remarkably serendipitous life
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1135042?lang=eng
Brandeis of Boston
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1004067?lang=eng
Louis D. Brandeis : a life
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1122161?lang=eng
The justice from Beacon Hill : the life and times of Oliver Wendell Holmes
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1009540?lang=eng
Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1004147?lang=eng
History of the judiciary of Massachusetts
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1010883?lang=eng
Americanization of the common law : the impact of legal change on Massachusetts society, 1760-1830
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1004045?lang=eng
Sketches of the judicial history of Massachusetts : from 1630 to the Revolution in 1775
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1010177?lang=eng
Half a century with judges and lawyers http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1004747?lang=eng
Massachusetts judicial directory
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1024040?lang=eng
The Appeals Court at 40
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1136347?lang=eng
The Superior Court of Massachusetts : its origin and development
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1002722?lang=eng
Reflections of the justices
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1122135?lang=eng
Rough justice to due process : the District Courts of Massachusetts, 1869-2004
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1078857?lang=eng
The law of the commonwealth and Chief Justice Shaw
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1006079?lang=eng
History of the Social Law Library
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1004559?lang=eng
Boston Bar journal : November 1980
http://encore.socialaw.com/iii/encore/record/C__Rb1131036?lang=eng