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Space & Telecom Law

The First LL.M. of its Kind in the U.S.

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August 26, 2009

Library

This summer the Schmid Law Library acquired a noteworthy collection of Space & Telecommunications Law Materials from the Mercer University Law School Library. The collection of over 500 titles/2000 volumes and includes a wide range of materials published since the 1950’s. It was a collection begun in the early 1960’s by Professor Mortimer Schwartz, then law librarian and professor at the University of Oklahoma, when he was the co-reporter of the “Proceedings of the Colloquium on the Law of Outer Space; International Institute of Space Law of the International Astronautical Federation.” He built the collection over several years until he moved to the University of California, Davis. Some twenty years ago the collection was transferred to Mercer University Law School Library, and maintained by Professor Leah Chanin, where it was kept until this past year. The addition of these materials makes the Schmid Law Library’s collection of Space and Telecommunications Law, among the most comprehensive in the world.