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Jenkins Law Library was founded in 1802, and is America's first law library. [1] Jenkins is a membership library, located in Philadelphia , Pennsylvania , serving the local legal community, including self-represented litigants.
The first “public” law libraries were membership libraries funded by subscribers, who were generally lawyers. The first of these appeared in 1802, when the Law Library Company of the City of Philadelphia (now called Jenkins Law Library) was founded by the lawyers of that city.
Due to a shortage of construction materials in 2006, caused in part by the need in the gulf coast due to Hurricane Katrina, construction on the building was delayed, resulting in classes being held on Drexel University's Main Campus and within the Jenkins Law Library and the auditorium of the National Constitution Center. [13]
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Terry Mutchler is an American attorney and writer. She was formerly a journalist and public servant in Pennsylvania. As a journalist, she won several awards for her reporting and was Associated Press' Bureau Chief in New Jersey and Alaska.
The largest law libraries in the world are found in the United States.The world's largest law library is the Law Library of Congress, which holds over 2.9 million volumes. [5]
Anthony Wood's Athenae Oxoniensis records several works that have been attributed to Jenkins but that were "disowned and disclaimed by him". [5] These include the aforementioned Pacis Consultum, the Exact Method for Keeping a Courth of Survey for setting for and bounding of Manors, and Some Difficult Questions in Law, proposed unto and resolved by Judge Jenkings (1657).