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Coutumes de Normandie (1483)
Q uoi de neuf. At the Law Library,
a splendor of coutumiers.
The Law Library has continued to
develop its collection of the cus-
tomary laws of France with recent
important purchases, including the
very scarce 1483 incunable Coutumes
de Normandie [Paris: Jean du Pre].
Other recently- acquired Normandy
coutumiers include compilations
from 1595, 1691, 1700, 1712, and
1742. Outside Normandy, the Library
acquired coutumiers from the regions
of Burgundy (1528 and 1534), Paris
(1692), Brittany (1643, 1682, and
1735), Poitou (1636, 1637, and 1723),
Amiens (1683), Angoumois (1780),
Artois (1613), Bourbonnais (1654),
Montargis (1676), Nancy (1770, and
a 17th-century manuscript), Verman-
dois (1630), plus two compilations
of general coutumes de France from
1617 and 1628.
The 1483 Coutumes die Normandie
is considered to be the first edition
of this work, and traditionally passed
as the first book printed at Rouen.
This edition is based upon the oldest
redaction of this customary law
composed in the thirteenth century;
it is regarded as one of the most
masterful redactions of the ancient
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Donor Neil ThomasuProto, MA 69, JD '72
any law students dream about making a difference through
IM the law. Neil Thomas Proto and his fellow GW Law students
did just that, in the era when crusader- attorney Ralph
Nader was setting the standard for public-interest activism, and the
importance of protecting the environment had begun irrevocably to
enter the general consciousness of a nation. The setting: GW in the
early 1970s, awash in the unrest and hope of that era. The players:
hive law students in Professor John Banzhaf's Untair Trade Practices
course, exercising the course option to engage in a Creal-world'
legal project relating to the public interest. The project: challenging
the Interstate Commerce Commission for failing to prepare an
environmental impact statement before approving a railroad surcharge
discriminatory against shippers of recyclable scrap. Thus the student
group SCRAP was born: Students Challenging Regulatory Agency
Procedures. The denouement: with justice Stewart writing for the
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