The Boston College Law Library is home to rare and unique special collections, in print and online.聽 The Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room houses the Law Library鈥檚 collection of rare law books and manuscripts.聽聽 Part of the Rare Book Room collection is the .聽 The Brooker Collection contains documents and manuscripts, many of which are available online.
The Boston College Law Library is also home to , the Law School鈥檚 institutional repository.聽 LIRA collects and preserves the scholarly output the Law School community.
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Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room
The Daniel R. Coquillette Rare Book Room, located in the Boston College Law Library, houses the Library鈥檚 collection of old and rare law books and manuscripts. Represented in the collection are the books that working English and American lawyers in the sixteenth through nineteenth centuries likely would have owned in their personal libraries. Other highlights include books and manuscripts pertaining to the history of American legal education through the nineteenth century and a collection featuring works by and about St. Thomas More.
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is the Law School's institutional repository,聽collecting and preserving the scholarly output of our community.
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Part of the Rare Book Room's Collections, the聽聽consists of approximately 2,500 legal documents and manuscripts, many of which are available digitally. 聽The documents relate to land use and transfers, law and legal systems, town governance, family matters and daily life, and focus on the Boston area and New England. In Spring of 2019, the library hosted the exhibit聽Digitizing the Brooker Collection: From Dower to the Dow.
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Web Archive
The Boston College Law School web archive aims to preserve a historical record of the institution's online presence. Beginning in the fall of 2018, digital resources such as institutional websites, social media accounts, videos, and course offerings have been captured and made available on this platform.
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Robert Morris Digital Exhibit
This BC Law digital exhibit illuminates the life of Robert Morris, an early supporter of Boston College. Morris (1825-1882) was the second Black person in the U.S. to become a lawyer and had a thriving law practice in antebellum and post-Civil War Boston. He represented fugitives from slavery and was even indicted under the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 for providing aid to a freedom seeker. In addition to financial contributions, he or his wife Catharine donated Morris鈥檚 personal library to Boston College, providing the school鈥檚 foundational collection in English and American literature. Many of his books are held by the Burns Library on BC鈥檚 main campus today.
