Learn about Early US Law at the Eighth Annual Rare Book Lecture
February 3, 2012 — Elizabeth Haluska-RauschThe Tarlton Law Library at the University of Texas School of Law will present its eighth annual rare book lecture, “An Accidental Collector: The Making of an Historian’s Law Library” on 
Thursday, February 16, 2012, at 3:00 p.m in the Sheffield Room, TNH 2.111. The talk features Warren M. Billings, Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, University of New Orleans.
In this talk, Professor Billings discusses how his research into the history of law in early America accidentally turned him into a collector of rare books and led to the making of his law library, which in turn became fundamental to his research, writing, and teaching.
Professor Billings joined the University of New Orleans in 1968 and remained on the faculty there until he retired as Distinguished Professor of History, Emeritus, in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Formerly he held the Williams Visiting Professorship of Law at the University of Richmond and currently he is Visiting Professor of Law at the College of William and Mary. He is a past president of the Louisiana Historical Association and an honorary life member of the British and Irish Associations of Law Librarians.
For additional information contact Elizabeth Haluska-Rausch, Director of Special Collections at the Tarlton Law Library, (512) 232-3802, ehaluska@law.utexas.edu or see Press Release.
