We have just missed until now a terrific series of posts by the Law Library of Congress’s Curator of Rare Books, Nathan Dorn, on In Custodia Legis. This year’s posts include:
How Robin Hood Defied King John and Brought Magna Carta to Sherwood Forest
The True Portraiture of Judge Littleton
The World’s Legal Heritage in Great Subterranean Halls, or… A Collection Big with Babylonian Perspective
John Lilburne, Oaths and the Cruel Trilemma
Law Librarians and Immortal Glory
Doodling Away the Middle Ages
Signatures, Subscription Lists and Printing for the First U.S. Congress
From Magna Carta on Trial to the Holy Experiment
Pomp, Ceremony and the Simplicity Befitting a Republic
On Despising English Liberties and Other Wisdom from the Founders