April means showers, a fool or two, taxes due, Poetry Month & Library Week…
And, once again, it’s the month The New York Law Institute runs a contest….
Submit your favorite library memory – it could be anything from your first trip to get a card, first library job, or a more recent recollection…
Please no […]
As NYLI comes to its conclusion of celebrating Women’s History Month, we’d like to focus on a name far from household knowledge… Helen Marot.
Helen Marot part of feature article from NY Tribune article on Women’s Suffrage and the Labor Movement (NY Tribune; March 3, 1915, pg. 7)
Any one of her many careers — as […]
The New York Law Institute will close at 2 PM on Friday, March 29, 2024 for Good Friday. NYLI will reopen Monday, April 1st at 9AM.
Uniform Commercial Code…. Uniform Telehealth Act… Uniform Probate Code… Who designs and sews up these uniforms anyway, lol?
Around since 1892 (and still active!) – the Uniform Laws Commission provides all 50 States with non-partisan and well drafted legislation for vital areas of state statutory law.
The ULC has also developed Model Laws. Jurisdictions may […]
Irish immigrants have been part of the American landscape since before the American Revolution…
Great resources of Irish History…& both available in NYLI’s eBook collection….
And some early & notable members of The NY Law Institute were Irish American Lawyers. There’s Thomas Addis Emmet….
“Thomas Addis Emmet” photograph from The Emmet […]
We are in the middle of March… Women’s History Month… and who better to have on our NYLI T.V. set (which doubles as pencil holder photo frame, lol!)… than Brooklyn’s own – Shirley Chisholm!
Want to know more about the life of Shirley Chisholm? Then tune into NYLI’s eBook collection….
Available at NYLI […]
We’d like to start off March — Women’s History month — with an appreciation of Kate Stoneman, the first woman to practice law in New York. Kate Stoneman, from a farming family in upstate New York , graduated New York Normal College and taught for forty years…. And Kate was an instrumental member […]
The term polymath is rarely used — as it seldom truly applies to an individual’s breadth of talent & abilities…..
Oxford English Dictionary — ultimate authority for definitions – available electronically to NYLI members…
But polymath is the exact word for capturing the many talents of Arturo Schomburg….
Writer, Historian, Curator, & Activist…..
Arthur A. Schomburg: 1904 […]
General… President (our Country’s first)… George Washington’s reputation often resides in his role in the American Revolution…As his eulogist famously noted, Washington was “first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen”
Military Costume of the Revolution… one of NYPL’s many public domain images of G.W.
Washington’s leadership was a […]
Obviously, Abraham Lincoln is immediately identified as a U.S. President….
The Posey Building of Shawneetown, Illinois, in which Abraham Lincoln and Robert Ingersoll had law offices ; photo circa 1937 & courtesy of NYPL
But it could easily be argued that Lincoln is the still the best lawyer who ever became President….Lincoln is […]
