Justice Benjamin N. Cardozo of the United States Supreme Court has given his personal library, consisting of almost 1,000 volumes to the law library of St. John’s College.
The gift was made through a former private secretary to Justice Cardozo, who is now an associate professor in the law school, Joseph M. Paley.
A special alcove in the college library, to be named the Cardozo Alcove will house the books, it was announced by Dean George W. Matheson, which will be available for reference and research.
Justice Cardozo received the first Doctor of Laws degree given by St. John’s in 1928, at the first commencement exercises of the institution which he addressed.
The St. John’s library is also to have the robe which Justice Cardozo used when presiding as Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals of New York State. The robe was given to the Cardozo Law Society of the college which in turn presented it to the library.
Many of the volumes were in the library of his father, the late Justice Albert Cardozo of the Court of Common Pleas. The date of publication of some of the volumes goes back to as far as 1730.
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