Tag: Archives and Special Collections

October is American Archives Month! Each week we’ll post a new comic to show you a day in the life of a sharkavist (a shark archivist).

Visit the new Biddle Archives Suite to meet our archivists and explore the extensive resources available to support your legal studies. Then join a brief library tour and get the inside scoop on how to navigate the library to find what you need. Thursday, Sept 12 at 9AM in the Biddle Archives Suite.

Oral history with Senator Elizabeth Warren now available at Biddle’s Archives & Special Collections. 

The Archives & Special Collections team created the permanent exhibit, “Sadie Tanner Mossel Alexander (1898-1989), Class of 1927” to honor the legacy of Sadie Alexander, the first Black woman to graduate from Penn Carey Law.

Biddle Law Library’s Archives and Special Collections intern, Abigail Boyer, reflects on working with the American Law Institute’s collections.

The National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) was founded in 1926 to provide continuing legal education to judges, lawyers, and other practitioners. The NCBJ records have been reprocessed and now document all 97 years of the organization’s history.

Roswell (Rod) B. Perkins served as the sixth president of the American Law Institute (ALI) from 1980 to 1993. His President Files are available for research in the Archives of the American Law Institute at the Biddle Law Library.

Due to upcoming renovations, Archives & Special Collections will be closed to visitors until June 19. To contact the department, send an email to biddlearchives@law.upenn.edu

Material has been added to the Henry J. Sommer Papers that document his lifelong work in bankruptcy and consumer law. The updated collection is now available for research.

New exhibition featuring some of Biddle Law Library’s more tiny books in the rare book collections of Archives and Special Collections Department. 

The Judge Joe Lee Papers are now processed and available for research at the Biddle Archives.

The Judge Arlin Adams Papers are available for research at the Biddle Archives.