The Ames Foundation was founded in 1910 by friends of James Barr Ames with the aim of "continuing the advancement of legal knowledge and aiding the improvement of the law"."Miss I. D. Thornley", ''The Times'', 4 March 1941, p. 7. The Harvard Law Library of

Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a Private university, private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, Harvard Law School is the oldest law school in continuous operation in the United ...

partnered with the Ames Foundation "to create a publicly-available

digital library A digital library (also called an online library, an internet library, a digital repository, a library without walls, or a digital collection) is an online database of digital resources that can include text, still images, audio, video, digital ...

of important materials in legal history."

History

The Ames Foundation was founded in 1910. In 1912, the foundation was incorporated as 501(c)(3) organization.

Directors and Officers

* Christine Desan - president (Harvard Law School) * Charles Donahue, Jr. - vice-president and Literary Director (Harvard Law School) * Daniel R. Coquillette - treasurer-clerk (Boston College School of Law) * William Alford - director (Harvard Law School) *

Mary Ann Glendon Mary Ann Glendon (born October 7, 1938) is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and a former United States Ambassador to the Holy See. She teaches and writes on bioethics, comparative constitutional law, property, and human rig ...

- director (Harvard Law School) * Andrew J. Kaufman - director (Harvard Law School) *

Randall Kennedy Randall LeRoy Kennedy (born September 10, 1954) is an American legal scholar. He is the Michael R. Klein Professor of Law at Harvard University and his research focuses on the intersection of racial conflict and legal institutions in American l ...

- director (Harvard Law School) *

Kenneth W. Mack Kenneth W. Mack (born December 14, 1964) is an American historian and the inaugural Lawrence D. Biele Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he has been a member of the faculty since 2000. He is the author of ''Representing the Race: The Cr ...

- director (Harvard Law School) * Harry S. Martin, III - director (Harvard Law School) *

Martha Minow Martha Louise Minow (born December 6, 1954) is an American legal scholar and the 300th Anniversary University Professor at Harvard University. She served as the 12th Dean of Harvard Law School between 2009 and 2017 and has taught at the Law Schoo ...

- director (Harvard Law School) * David Seipp -director (Boston University Law School) * David Warrington - director (Harvard Law School)

References

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