Building a Home for the Laws of the World

The following feature is the second, concluding portion of the edited version of Building a Foreign Law Collection at the University of Michigan Law LIbrary, 1910-1960, T© Margaret A. Leary, 2002, which orginally appeared at 94 Law Library Journal 395-425 (2002), and appears here with permission of the author. The first part of the article (46.2 Law Quadrangle Notes 46-53 [Summer 2003]) detailed how the vision of Dean Henry BAtes, generosity of graduate William W. Cook, and skills of librarian/traveler/negotiator Hobart Coffey combined to launch the building of the Law Library\u27s international collection into one of the best in the world. With comments from researchers who use the renowned collection