| Law books head to Turkey 
Photo by Bill Petros
More than 300 boxes of legal material are bound for Istanbul this week to help out the library of Yeditepe University Law School, a partner school of the Washington College of Law (WCL). Twenty-six Turkish law students and a Turkish judge participated in the Yeditepe Washington Semester this summer, studying the U.S. legal system and meeting with significant legal figures, including Supreme Court associate justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. WCL students also go to the Turkish capital for a summer seminar that includes courses on trade and investment and human rights and security issues. But the law library at the Istanbul university is predictably short of U.S. legal texts. So WCL and its Pence Law Library set out to collect books for the distant partner. Books are often donated to WCL by estates, or by law firms that have merged. The donations frequently include books that the school already owns. Many of these were among the boxes donated to Turkey, which will be shipped out this week. The books would be valued at hundreds of thousands of dollars new, said Billie Joe Kaufman, associate dean of library and information resources at Pence Law Library. Among those who helped with the project were, from left, Adeen Postar, deputy director, Pence Law Library; Michael Sheib of Mail Services; law professor Robert Vaughn; Kaufman; practitioner in residence Richard Ugelow; and David Jaffe, associate dean of students. —SA |
