Brock Impeachment Trial (2000)

Brock Trial Records at the Franklin Pierce Law Center Library

On October 11, 2000, National Public Radio broke the news:

"NEW HAMPSHIRE STATE SENATE ACQUITS CHIEF JUSTICE DAVID BROCK OF THE FOUR ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT BROUGHT"

From that report:

In an historic impeachment trial, the New Hampshire state Senate has acquitted the state's highest judge on all charges. The state Senate yesterday voted down all four articles of impeachment against Chief Justice David Brock.

THE JUDGE HARRY E. TRAPP COLLECTION
Donated by the Children and Family in his Memory

HARRY EDWIN TRAPP
1890-1956

On the 112th anniversary of the birth of Laconia, New Hampshire, Judge Harry Edwin Trapp, the Law Library at Franklin Pierce Law Center celebrated the receipt of a collection of his old and rare law books. Seventeen old English law books from the 17th and 18th centuries form this collection. Most of the books are "nominative" or named reports published in England between 1659 and 1799.

Intellectual Property

The Franklin Pierce Law Center is consistently rated among the top five intellectual property training school in the nation. The Intellectual Property Library opened January 1, 1995, after several decades of collection development of traditional IP topics. The IP Library now develops the collection far beyond traditional IP topics to include all subjects offered in the IP curriculum such as entertainment, e-commerce, sports, publishing, multimedia, cyberspace, information technology, art and music and computer law.