Arthur W. Diamond Law Library

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The Arthur W. Diamond Law Library is the law library of Columbia Law School. Located in Jerome Green Hall at the Morningside Heights campus, it holds over 1.3 million volumes, and as of 2020 is the third largest private academic law library in the United States.[1][2]

Rare books in the possession of the library include a 1482 copy of the Corpus Juris Civilis, one of 15 printed drafts of the Constitution of India, and 22 incunabula (including three copies of Nicholas Statham's Abridgment, as well as volumes from the private collections of Richard Harison, John Jay, Samuel Johnson, James Kent, and Melvin Krulewitch.[3]

The Toshiba Library for Japanese Legal Research, located on its second floor, is one of the most comprehensive collections of Japanese law outside of Japan. It was founded in 1982 with the donation of over 13,000 items from the family of the former Justice of the Supreme Court of Japan Jiro Tanaka.[4] It holds the private papers of Tanaka as well as Justice Itsuo Sonobe.[5]

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  1. ^ "About the Law Library". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  2. ^ "2020 Law School Rankings - Library Volumes (High to Low)". www.ilrg.com. Retrieved 2021-06-18.
  3. ^ "Special Collections". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-11.
  4. ^ Kato, Naoko. "LibGuides: Columbia University: Toshiba Library". guides.nccjapan.org. Retrieved 2021-06-17.
  5. ^ "Toshiba Library for Japanese Legal Research (東芝日本法研究図書館)". www.law.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2021-05-11.

Coordinates: 40°48′26″N 73°57′37″W / 40.8071°N 73.9603°W / 40.8071; -73.9603

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