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Fame Figurines? SCOTUS : Supreme Court of the United States Bobbleheads at Yale Law School Library

By Andis Kaulins

Fame figurines...?

Adam Liptak has a fun piece at the New York Times as the Yale Law Library Adds Bobblehead Dolls to Its Collection. Liptak writes:

"The oldest item in Yale Law School?s rare book collection is a 1,000-year-old fragment of a medieval manuscript bound inside an Italian guidebook for notaries. The newest is a bobblehead doll depicting William H. Rehnquist, 16th chief justice of the United States.

A bobbling Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, archived for study.

Fred R. Shapiro, an associate librarian, explained the latest acquisition: ?A hundred years from now, if someone wants to study the bobbleheads, where will they go? There needs to be an archive.?

And so the Lillian Goldman Law Library, which probably has the best collection of rare law books in the world after Harvard and the Library of Congress, is now the official repository of bobbling likenesses of a dozen Supreme Court justices."

Read the whole thing.

Hat tip to Janis Fusaris.

Full post as published by LawPundit on March 25, 2010 (boomark / email).