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[email protected]. A Newsletter for the Friends A LEGAL of the Jacob Burns Law Library MISCELLANEAVolume 7, Number 1, Spring 2010: The George Washington University Law School SPECIAL To A HigH CourT: Alumnus Neil COLLECTIONS FOCUS: Proto Donates u.S. v. SCrAP Papers Coutumes de Normandie (1483) to Law Library uoi de neuf? At the Law Library, Qa splendor of coutumiers. The Law Library has continued to develop its collection of the cus- tomary laws of France with recent important purchases, including the very scarce 1483 incunable Coutumes de Normandie [Paris: Jean du Pré]. Other recently-acquired Normandy coutumiers include compilations from 1595, 1691, 1700, 1712, and 1742. Outside Normandy, the Library acquired coutumiers from the regions of Burgundy (1528 and 1534), Paris (1692), Brittany (1643, 1682, and 1735), Poitou (1636, 1637, and 1723), DugganClaire Amiens (1683), Angoumois (1780), Donor Neil Thomas Proto, MA ’69, JD ’72 Artois (1613), Bourbonnais (1654), Montargis (1676), Nancy (1770, and any law students dream about “making a difference” through a 17th-century manuscript), Verman- the law.