The Society was launched in 2003 with the mission of preserving the legal and judicial history of the State of New York. It seeks to foster scholarly understanding and public appreciation of the rich legacy of the New York courts, the legal profession and their contributions to the State and nation.
The Society presents program on a wide variety of topics about New York's legal history that are CLE-accredited; it publishes a scholarly newsletter and is in the process of publishing several books; it has initiated a program to collect the oral history of former New York Court of Appeal Judges; it exhibits New York legal history in Court of Appeals Hall and the New York State Judicial Institute; and it has created a website that contains a rich and growing library of New York judicial history.
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Previous Historical Society Programs Available Here as Webcasts
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