Each year Congress designates May as Jewish American Heritage Month, “honoring the contributions of Jewish Americans to the United States of America.”
The Law Library’s website has a page dedicated to the history of this observance.
So this year, the Collection Services Division has put together a display of items from our collection that showcases some of the contributions that Jewish Americans have made to U.S. law.Among the items being displayed:
- Footnote 27 of the Miranda decision where Chief Justice Earl Warren cites the medieval Torah scholar Maimonides regarding self-incrimination.
- Public Law 102-14 which mentions that our nation’s values and principles were handed down from the “Seven Noahide Laws“.
- Mention of another citation to Jewish law in a Supreme Court opinion, this time Garrity v. New Jersey, 385 U.S. 493 (1967)
- Photographs of prominent Jewish American jurists.
If you find yourself attending a meeting in our Multipurpose Room on the 2nd floor of the Madison Building (LM-201), stop by and take a look.