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Michael Widener Rare Book Librarian, Lecturer in Legal Research Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School P.O Michael Widener Rare Book Librarian, Lecturer in Legal Research Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School P.O. Box 208215, New Haven, CT 06520-8215 Phone: 203/432-4494; fax: 203/432-7940 E-mail: [email protected] PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS Rare Book Librarian and Lecturer in Legal Research, Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School (Aug. 2006-present). Faculty, Rare Book School, University of Virginia: “Law Books: History and Connoisseurship,” June 6-11, 2010; June 12-17, 2011; June 17-21, 2013, July 28-August 1, 2014; June 6-10, 2016. Head of Special Collections and Joseph D. Jamail Fellow in Law Librarianship, Tarlton Law Library, University of Texas at Austin (Oct. 1991-July 2006). EDUCATION Master’s of Library and Information Science, University of Texas at Austin, May 1991; concentration in archival enterprise. Bachelor of Journalism, University of Texas at Austin, May 1974. SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS Murder and Women in 19th-Century America: Trial Accounts in the Yale Law Library. New Haven, CT: Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School, 2015. With Emma Molina Widener. 250 Years of Blackstone’s Commentaries: An Exhibition. Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein Co., 2015. With Wilfrid Prest. “Morris Cohen and the Art of Book Collecting.” Law Library Journal 104:1 (Winter 2012), 39-43. “Local Statutes, Global Connections.” In Lo Statuto di Montebuono in Sabina del 1437 (Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2011), 9. “The Civil Law Collection of the Texas Supreme Court.” Yale Law School Legal Scholarship Repository, Librarian Scholarship Series. Paper 30 (June 2007). http://digitalcommons.law.yale.edu/ylss/30 Book review of Mark David Carroll, Homesteads Ungovernable: Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas. American Journal of Legal History 46:1 (Jan. 2004), 98-99. “The Jamail Rastell Dictionary and Its Hidden Surprises.” In Language and the Law: Proceedings of a Conference, December 6-8, 2001, Tarlton Law Library, The University of Texas at Austin (Marlyn Robinson, ed.; Buffalo, N.Y.: William S. Hein & Co., 2003), 3-13. “Select Bibliography for Year 2000.” Roman Legal Tradition 1 (2002), 145-149. With Joseph Custer. Public Services Issues with Rare and Archival Law Materials. New York: Haworth Information Press, 2001. [Editor; also published as Legal Reference Services Quarterly 20:1/2 (2001).] “Access to the Working Papers of State Supreme Court Justices: A Case Study from Texas.” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 20:1/2 (2001), 139-149. “Bibliography on Rare and Archival Law Materials.” With Mark W. Lambert. Legal Reference Services Quarterly 20:1/2 (2001), 79-84. Michael Widener Page 2 “Public Services Issues with Rare & Archival Law Materials: An Introduction.” Legal Reference Services Quarterly 20:1/2 (2001), 1-4. Electronic media review of Federal Judicial History Office, “History of the Federal Judiciary” website, <http://air.fjc.gov/history/>. The Public Historian 23:2 (Spring 2001), 136-138. A Texas Supreme Court Trilogy. 3 vols. Austin: Jamail Center for Legal Research, 1998. [Editor] “El derecho hispano y neorromano en la antigua biblioteca de la Corte Suprema de Texas, 1854- 1944: un estudio de procedencia.” Anuario Mexicano de Historia del Derecho 10 (1998), 797-827. Available online at <http://info.juridicas.unam.mx/publica/librev/rev/hisder/cont/10/cnt/cnt38.pdf>. Writings of the Current Faculty, University of Texas School of Law, January 1998. Austin: Jamail Center for Legal Research, 1998. [Editor] Book review of Louise Anne Fisch, All Rise: Reynaldo G. Garza, the First Mexican American Federal Judge. H-Law, H-Net Reviews (Apr. 1997). URL: http://www.h- net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=972. Book review of Discovery in the Archives of Spain and Portugal: Quincentenary Essays, 1492-1992 (Lawrence J. McCrank, ed.; 1993). American Archivist 59:1 (Winter 1996), 118-120. 12 Bibliotecarios Latinoamericanos. With Emma Molina Widener (translators). River Forest, Ill.: Rosary College, 1992. W. Page Keeton: An Oral History Interview [editor]. Tarlton Legal Bibliography Series, Number 36. Austin: Jamail Center for Legal Research, Tarlton Law Library, School of Law, University of Texas at Austin, 1992. “The Status of Users in Archival Enterprise.” Provenance 9:1 & 2 (1991), 1-23. OTHER PUBLICATIONS Yale Law Library Rare Books Blog, http://blogs.law.yale.edu/blogs/rarebooks/, April 2008- present. “Outstanding Rare Book Acquisitions at the Yale Law Library.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 17:1 (Spring/Summer 2011), 47-48. “American Trial Collections Highlight Yale’s Recent Acquisitions.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 16:4 (Fall 2010), 31. “Rare Books Library Tour”. Video presentation, 19minutes, 31 seconds. Aug. 2010. Available at http://vimeo.com/13883866. “Supreme Court Bobbleheads Find a Home at Yale Law Library.” Southwestern Archivist 33:2 (May 2010), 22. “Yale Law Library’s Recent Acquisitions.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 15:1 (Spring 2009), 17-18. “Remembering Roy Mersky” [Part II]. Legal Miscellanea (Spring 2009), 4-8. “Remembering Roy Mersky” [Part I]. Legal Miscellanea (Fall 2008), 5-7. “Yale Law Library’s Recent Acquisitions: Morris Cohen’s ‘Juvenile Jurisprudence’ and John Marshall Letter.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 14:3 (Fall 2008), 50-51. Michael Widener Page 3 “Recent Acquisitions for the Yale Law Library’s Rare Book Collection.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 14:2 (Spring/Summer 2008), 22-23. “Yale’s Roman-Canon Law Collection Now Cataloged.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 14:2 (Spring/Summer 2008), 9. “Yale Law Library Acquires German Law Collection from the Association of the Bar of the City of New York.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 14:1 (Winter 2008), 35-36. “Blackstone, Italy, Inquisitions, and Illustrations: Rare Book Acquisitions at Yale Law Library in 2007.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 13:3 (Fall 2007), 40-41. “Recent Rare Book Acquisitions: Lillian Goldman Law Library, Yale Law School.” LH&RB: Newsletter of the Legal History & Rare Books Special Interest Section of the American Association of Law Libraries 13:1 (Winter 2007), 21. “Monuments of Paper.” UT Law (Spring 2006), 72. “Williston Fish’s ‘Last Will’.” UT Law (Winter 2006), 64. “‘Listen to the Book’.” UT Law (Winter 2005), 64. “Book Marks.” UT Law (Spring 2004), 64. “Remembering Heman Sweatt” [letter to the editor]. Texas Bar Journal 67:6 (June 2004), 430. “Frontier Justice: An Indictment for Shooting a Minister of the Gospel.” With Allegra Young. UT Law (Spring 2003), 64. “Second Conference on Archives of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier.” Southwestern Archivist 25:4 (Nov. 2002), 9. “Rare Law Book: Gift Honors Dean Page Keeton.” Townes Hall Notes (Fall 1999), 77-78. “Texas High Court Oral Memoirs Published.” OHA Newsletter 33:2 (Spring 1999), 8. “Words in Common: The Alumni Writings Exhibit.” Townes Hall Notes (Fall 1995), 28. “Rare Books in the Jamail Center: A Role for Alumni/ae.” Townes Hall Notes (Spring 1994), 24. “The Gift of Memories.” Townes Hall Notes (Winter 1993), 30. PAPERS PRESENTED “Picturing the Law: The Yale Law Library Collection.” 2017 Rare Book Lecture, Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, May 18, 2017. “Illustrations in Law Books.” Faculdade de Direito do Recife, Universidade Federal de Pernambuco, Recife, Brazil, March 3, 2017. “The Yale Law Library and the Statuto di Montebuono.” Presentation of Lo Statuto di Montebuono in Sabina del 1437 (Rome: Viella Libreria Editrice, 2011); Biblioteca del Senato della Repubblica, Rome, Italy, Nov. 23, 2011. “Morris Cohen and the Art of Book Collecting.” American Society for Legal History annual conference, Atlanta, Georgia, Nov. 11, 2011. “The Civil Law Collection of the Texas Supreme Court.” To Collect the Minds of the Law: An International Symposium on Rare Law Books, Law Book Collections and Libraries (sponsored by the Pufendorf Seminar, Lund University), Malmö, Sweden, June 21, 2007. Michael Widener Page 4 “Leyes y normas en los EE.UU. sobre archivos judiciales” [“U.S. Laws and Regulations Concerning Judicial Papers”]. Segunda Reunión de Archivos de la Frontera México – Estados Unidos [2nd Conference on Archives of the U.S.-Mexico Frontier], Archivo General de la Nación, Monterrey, Mexico, July 19, 2002. “Foreign Law Books on the Texas Frontier: The Civil Law Collection of the Texas Supreme Court.” Roman Law Society, University of Kansas School of Law, Lawrence, Kansas, Aug. 26, 2000. “The Paper Chase: The Old Perils and the New Rewards of Collecting the Papers of Lawyers and Judges” [panelist]. Society of American Archivists annual conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 26, 1999. “Access to the Working Papers of Texas Supreme Court Justices.” Texas State Historical Association annual conference, Austin, Texas, March 5, 1998. “El derecho hispano y neo-romano en tres bibliotecas tejanas, 1850-1935: un estudio de procedencia” [“Hispanic and Neo-Roman Law in Three Texas Libraries, 1850-1935: A Provenance Study”]. VII Congreso de Historia del Derecho Mexicano [VII Congress on Mexican Legal History], Instituto de Investigaciones Jurídicas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City, September 15, 1997. “Access to the Working Papers of Texas Supreme Court Justices.” Society of Southwest Archivists annual conference, Galveston, Texas, May 30, 1997. “The Ordinances of the Archives of the Indies: First Modern Archives?” Archival History Roundtable, Society of American Archivists annual conference, Indianapolis, Indiana, September 8, 1994.
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