Law Library Special Collections Rare Book Room Exhibits Exploring Magna Carta This is the first printed edition of Bracton, which had circulated in manuscript for centuries. This edition was printed ...

2016-08-05T16:21:37-04:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/1c7/20160805071742003_hd.jpgWilliam Hubbard and Professor A. E. Howard talked about the impact of the Magna ...

I enjoyed the section on the Magna Carta's Anniversary, (“800 Years of Magna Carta,” NYLJ, May 1), but I think history diminished its importance. It granted rights mostly to the nobility and expressly ...

A “copy” of Magna Carta bought decades ago by Harvard Law School for just $27.50 is now understood to be an extremely rare original from 1300, according to new research. British historians were able ...

This year’s Law Day event, inspired by the 800th anniversary of the signing of the Magna Carta, discussed the traditions of due process Tuesday night. Rick Tepker, University of Oklahoma law school ...

Police in Salisbury, England, have arrested a man who, they say, tried to steal the Magna Carta — the 1215 document that established basic tenets of the rule of law. "The Magna Carta has not been ...

LONDON — Eight centuries ago, a peace treaty came into being that would become a pillar of English law and the basis of constitutional democracies in the United States and around the world hundreds of ...

LONDON — Britain is this month celebrating the 800th anniversary of Magna Carta, a document more than three times as old as the United States that established many principles of Western democracy. But ...

May 15 (Reuters) - Harvard’s law school library paid $27.50 in 1946 to acquire what was billed as a “somewhat rubbed and damp-stained” copy of the Magna Carta from 1327 to add to its robust collection ...

An original issue of the Magna Carta, which auctioneers mistakenly catalogued as a copy in the 1940s and sold for a "fairly derisory price", has been identified. An original issue of the Magna Carta, ...