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A. James (Andrew James) Casner papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601624
Overview:

Correspondence, notes, memoranda, and printed matter relating to Casner's activities in various professional organizations.

Abram Chayes papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-273
Overview:

This collection documents the professional career of Abram Chayes, including his time in the private sector, government, international law and, education. Professor Chayes successfully argued on the behalf of Nicaragua against the United States of America and notably served as the Legal Advisor for the State Department during the Kennedy Administration. The collection includes: correspondence; casework, publications, research notes, drafts, speeches, and teaching materials.

Albert Lévitt papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS601641
Overview: Materials used and collected by Lévitt for his study of the crisis in Rhodesia following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence, November 11, 1965, together with his proposals for and efforts in behalf of a reconciliation between Rhodesia and Great Britain. The 1974 addition to the collection includes papers relating to Lévitt’s teaching career, court papers, study and research material on international treaties and nationality and comparative law, and miscellaneous personal and...

Archibald Cox Papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: ALEPH 601608
Overview:

Archibald Cox's papers relate to the various aspects of his professional/private and professional/public activities, with a relatively small group reflecting on his personal life.

Arthur E. Sutherland papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601709
Overview:

This collection contains materials relating to Sutherland's teaching, writing, research and professional activities, and to his interest in constitutional law.

Austin Wakeman Scott papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601712
Overview:

The bulk of the correspondence in this collection relates to Scott's activities as law teacher and legal scholar, and to his work as an authority in the fields of trusts and civil procedure. Other material relates to his service as clerk of the Ames Foundation (1920-1966); member of the board of the Harvard Cooperative Society (1940's and 1950's); and miscellaneous writings concerning the history of the Harvard Law School and his courses at the Rutgers U. School of Banking.

Automobile Claims Study records of Robert Keeton

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601710
Overview:

This collection containes materials relating to Keeton's Automobile Claims Study. The Study was initiated in 1963 to survey the automobile insurance system, suggest reform by introducing a new concept of liability in automobile accidents, and propose legislation based on the new concept. The Study focused in particular on circumstances in Massachusetts, and it led to the passage of the Massachusetts Personal Injury Protection Act of 1970 and subsequent acts.

Calvert Magruder papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601609
Overview:

The papers of Calvert Magruder relate to his professional career as a law teacher, judge and public servant. The largest group of papers consists of materials on the cases in which he wrote opinions.

Edmund Morris Morgan papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601705
Overview:

Papers relating to Morgan's service as chief reporter for the American Law Institute's Model Code of Evidence, member of the Supreme Court's Advisory Committee on Rules for Civil Procedure, chairman of the War Shipping Panel of National War Labor Board, and chairman of the Dept. of Defense Committee on a Uniform Code of Military Justice. Also included are teaching notes, student theses, and other papers from his career at Harvard.

Eldon R. (Eldon Revare) James papers relating to his position as Adviser in Foreign Affairs to the Siamese Government

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601630
Scope and Contents: The papers of Eldon Revare James contain close to 350 personal letters that Dr. and Mrs. James sent to their respective families and close family friends in the U.S., depicting every detail of their official and unofficial life in Bangkok, and their impressions of the country and its people; official correspondence, primarily between Dr. James and Prince Devawongse, the Minister for Foreign Affairs; and some miscellaneous correspondence and other items relating to their connection with...

Erwin N. (Erwin Nathaniel) Griswold papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS1347560
Overview:

Material covers Griswold's professional career as teacher, scholar, and private consultant, also his public service. Among his papers one significant group pertains to his work as a member of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights, and of the Hague Conference on Private International Law. Other material relates to his legal writings, and to special trips he took to Africa and Russia.

Ezra Ripley Thayer papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601661
Overview:

Papers relating to Thayer's student and teaching career at Harvard Law School, work as a practicing attorney, and involvement in professional affairs. Includes notes, financial records (1884-1891), and examination questions from his student days at Harvard College and Harvard Law School, and studies for the Massachusetts Bar Association and Carnegie Foundation on the quality and content of bar examinations and methods of teaching in American law schools.

Gordon Ireland papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS601640
Overview: This collection consists of materials relating to Ireland's education at Harvard and Harvard Law School, his work as legal counsel for various Cuban sugar companies, particularly Cuban Cane Sugar Corporation, 1925-1928, teaching career at Harvard Law School, 1929-1932, and at Portia Law School, Calvin Coolidge College, and Calvin Coolidge Law School, all in Boston, 1939-1941, the establishment of Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, his work with the Bureau of...

Grant Gilmore papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601632
Overview:

Mainly manuscripts of miscellaneous writings of Grant Gilmore, student papers, and his research for vol. III of the Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. biography begun by Mark DeWolfe Howe (vol. I and II).

Heinrich Lammasch papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601673
Overview:

Contains materials relating to the drafting of revisions for criminal and/or civil law in Austrailia (1906-1910) and in post-World War I Germany. There are also materials relating to Lammasch's participation in Second Hague Peace Conference, 1907-1908.

Henry Melvin Hart papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601611
Overview:

Materials relating to Hart's career as a legal scholar, labor arbitrator, and as special assistant to the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service (1940-1941) and associate general counsel to the U.S. Office of Price Administration (1942-1945).

James Angell MacLachlan papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601614
Overview:

This collection includes materials relating chiefly to MacLachlan's activities as teacher, writer, and expert in bankruptcy law. The bulk of the collection (1932-1959) relates to his role as member of the National Bankruptcy Conference. It includes material relating to Harvard Law School matters, JAM's pre-World War II intervention activities, efforts for the Atlantic Union (1949-1959), cases in which he served as counsel, and personal affairs.

James Bradley Thayer, 1899-1976. papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601593
Overview:

Papers contain miscellaneous correspondence, moot court papers, miscellaneous teaching notes on Roman law and Thayer's research in Roman and early English law. Holograph research notes also available in photocopy and microfilm. Papers also include 2 drawers of 4"x 6" index cards.

James Bradley Thayer papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-093
Overview: This collection includes materials relating chiefly to Thayer's writing and teaching career. Includes research notes and drafts for A Preliminary Treatise on the Law of Evidence at the Common Law (1898) and his biography of John Marshall (1901); papers relating to his participation in the writing of the constitutions of North and South Dakota, 1889, and his chairmanship of a committee concerned with Indian legislation, 1887-1892; diary-like letters to his wife, Sophia Bradford (Ripley)...

James McCauley Landis collection of United States Security and Exchange Commission Records

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601645
Overview:

Contents relate to Landis' activities as a member and subsequent chairman of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (1934-1947), Landis as dean of Harvard Law School (1937-1946), the U.S. Emergency Board (Carriers and Employees, 1938), and Landis as a trial examiner for the U.S. Dept. of Labor in the deportation case of Harry Bridges (1939).

James Vorenberg papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 13277759
Overview:

The James Vorenberg Papers encompass Vorenberg's career as both an educator and a public servant. Most of the collection reflects his time at Harvard as both Law School Dean and Professor. His government work is evidenced by records from the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission and the Watergate files.

James Vorenberg records of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS601597
Overview:

Papers concerning Vorenberg's service on the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration of Justice and other professional matters.

Jens Iverson Westergard papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601676
Overview:

This collection contains materials chiefly relating to personal and family affairs, but also includes miscellaneous material relating to Westengard's work in Siam as adviser to the government, 1903-1915, and papers and notes relating to his work as a Harvard Law School professor.

John MacArthur Maguire papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601671
Overview:

Content of collection concerns Maguire's career as lawyer and professor of law at Harvard Law School, together with personal, biographical and genealogical material, papers relating to rules of evidence in Israel and New Jersey, and material relating to his student days and other associations with Colorado College, Colorado Springs.

John Pershing papers

FOUND IN: Harvard Law School Library, Historical & Special Collections
Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601706
Overview:

Pershing was an authority on public works financing and the bulk of his papers relates to his involvement in that capacity at the federal, state and municipal levels. Included is Pershing's diary from his fifteen months with the early Public Works Administration.

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