EQUAL  JUSTICE  UPDATE
Annual Report 2001

 

 To  Preserve  the  Past

To  Serve  the  Present

To Enhance the Future

National Equal     Justice Library  

Washington College of Law            4801 Massachusetts Ave. N.W.  Washington, D.C. 20016

Telephone = (202) 274-4320

FAX = (202) 274-4365 

 e-mail = nejl@wcl.american.edu 

 

Main NEJL website=              http:// nejl.wcl.american.edu

This website is made possible by contributions from California Trial Guide          Federal Civil Trial Guide and the Trial Guide series published by Matthew Bender & Company.             

 

HONOR ROLL OF MAJOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THE NATIONAL EQUAL JUSTICE LIBRARY

*SPONSORED COLLECTIONS* ($25,000)

Arnold and Porter Collection in honor of Abe Fortas on  the Constitutional Right to Counsel in Criminal Cases

James Doherty Collection on Indigent Criminal Defense in Chicago and the State of Illinois

Barbara and Earl Johnson Collection on Legal Aid in the United Kingdom              

Harriet Wilson Ellis Collection on Educational Programs

*FOUNDERS* ($10,000)

American Bar Association

Hale and Dorr

Jenner & Block

Washington College of Law

*BENEFACTORS* ($5,000)

ABA Section of Individual Rights and Responibilities

ABA Litigation Section

Philip H. Corboy

Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & GarrisonSullivan and Cromwell

*FIRST FRIENDS OF THE NATIONAL EQUAL JUSTICE LIBRARY* ($100-$3,000) presently includes over 400 individuals and law firms [for a complete list visit the Library's other website at http://nejl.wcl.american.edu] 

 FOUNDATION GRANTORS ($20,000-$250,000)

Mellon Foundation

Ford Foundation

Rockefeller Foundation

Leonardt Foundation

Cudahy Fund

Joyce Foundation

 

 


2001 Annual Report

(5)  Rare Books Collection

In 2000, the National Equal Justice Library started a collection of rare books and first editions in order to preserve the most important books ever published related to the subject of equal access to justice. We already have acquired over a dozen such volumes. The oldest book was printed in the 16th Century as the very first compilation of English statutory law and includes the “Statute of Henry VII”, the world’s first law creating a right to free counsel for poor people in civil cases. This Collection also includes several American books from the early 20th Century — such as the original 1919 edition of Reginald Heber Smith’s Justice and the Poor and John Maguire’s Lance of Justice, published in 1926 and recounting the first 50 years of the New York Legal Aid Society, the nation’s first. Several of these books along with some key historical documents are on permanent display in one of two handsome cabinets in the Library’s reading room.

 

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