Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections
Arthur J. Morris Law LibraryBecause of the nature of this collection, copyright status might vary across the materials. Copyright is assumed to be held by the original creator of individual items; these items are expected to pass into the public domain 120 years after their creation. The University may grant permission to publish or reproduce intellectual property that it owns in the name of The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia.
Unless otherwise noted in other parts of the finding aid, there are no restrictions on access to the materials in this collection.
Arthur J. Morris Law Library employees gathered the materials in this collection to support their historical research projects.
Periodically, Arthur J. Morris Law Library employees transfer items from their internal office files to this collection to facilitate public access to significant research materials.
This collection contains items that librarians and archivists have used while researching the history of the University of Virginia School of Law. These materials include unpublished essays, published historical articles, datasets, and research notes.
This is an unpublished draft for the introduction and first chapter of a proposed book on the history of legal education at the University of Virginia. Gordon Hylton authored the draft. He was a professor at the University of Virginia who specialized in legal history.
Cannon Lane, a research assistant working in the Arthur J. Morris Law Library, examined the borrowing of law books at the University of Virginia between 1825 and 1827. She recorded her research data and analyses in these files.
This is a single .xlsx spreadsheet file that staff at the University of Virginia School of Law Library created and maintained.