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Rome (Italy) Broadsides and Pamphlets

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 2887745
Overview:

This collection contains materials concerning most of the major developments in the Roman Republic, dating from March 1848 to November 1849.

Benedict Spinoza Deinard Motion Picture Censorship Scrapbooks and Pamphlets

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 8173391
Overview:

This collection consists of materials relating to motion picture censorship gathered by Deinard for his S.J.D. thesis, Some Legal and Historical Aspects of Motion Picture Censorship, by Benedict Spinoza Deinard (HLS '22).

Henry Wise papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 4981259
Overview:

This collection contains the papers of Henry Wise, who practiced law in Cambridge, Massachusetts in the early to mid-twentieth century. Wise focused his practice mainly on unions, housing, and the fishing industry. He was a strident supporter of collective bargaining for workers in the Boston and Cambridge area and assisted Massachusetts fishermen in their efforts to establish fishing collectives.

Harvard-Brandeis Cooperative Research on Israel's Legal Development records

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601603
Scope and Contents:

The records of the Harvard-Brandeis Cooperative Research on Israel’s Legal Development Program cover the years of 1940-1961. Materials are in English and Hebrew and include: correspondence, drafts of legislation, minutes of meetings, reciepts, vouchers, and pamphlets.

Joseph M. Stone photographs and memoranda

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 9367579
Overview:

Photographs, memoranda and books relating to Joseph M. Stone's work as a lawyer during the Nuremberg Trials.

James Bradley Thayer scrapooks

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 9899332
Overview:

Scrapbooks compiled by James Bradley Thayer from approximately 1874 to 1900, containing selected clippings on a variety of subjects, both legal and cultural.

Joseph Goodbar papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 2503604
Overview:

This collection covers Goodbar's time as a law student at Boston University and Harvard, as well as his early career as an attorney and legal scholar.

Harvard Law School Republicans Records

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-057
Overview:

The bulk of the collection relates to issues of freedom speech stemming from the disruption, and subsequent cancellation of a Harvard Law School Republicans sponsored speech given by former Nicaraguan Contra leader Adolfo Calero in October, 1987.

Sacco-Vanzetti Trial newspaper clippings

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 4395371
Overview:

Newspaper clippings printed between April and November of 1927, a letter from H. G. Wells, and two pamphlets and a petition issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee.

Elinor Ferry papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 8515811
Overview:

The papers of Elinor Ferry were compiled between the late 1940's to the early 1960's, during which period Ferry researched the Alger Hiss-Whittaker Chambers case. The intended outcome of this research were a book, "The political history of Whittaker Chambers, agent-provocateur", and the creation of a defense for Alger Hiss. Neither was realized.

Cambridge Tenants' Union records

Collection Identifier: LAW-MMC-280
Overview:

Contains materials related to the creation of Cambridge Tenants' Union and the organization's involvement in promoting rent control and other housing issues in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Sinclair Kennedy papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 9677706
Overview:

This collection contains the papers of Sinclair Kennedy, author and lecturer. Correspondence makes up the bulk of the collection, with some writings, clippings, and miscellaneous materials. The correspondence and writings mostly refer to international politics, especially Kennedy's espousal of a federation of English-speaking countries, as well as home front issues during the Second World War.

New England Watch and Ward Society records Digital

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 990006016720203941
Overview:

This collection includes material relating to financial and internal affairs of the society, vigilance associations in other states, legislation relating to gambling, prohibition, and censorship, the International Reform Federation, and theaters.

David Schwartz papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601713
Overview:

This collection includes materials relating to alien property control in the U.S., and in Belgium, Denmark, France, Great Britain, Luxemburg, and Netherlands, before, during and after World War II, with some material on controls during and after World War I.

E. (Edwin) Merrick Dodd papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 5995928
Overview:

The papers of E. (Edwin) Merrick Dodd consist of materials related to Dodd’s professional activities as professor of law, author, and legal scholar.

Charles Culp Burlingham papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601600
Overview:

Papers relating to Charles C. Burlingham's personal and professional affairs, cultural affairs in New York City, efforts on behalf of civic and judicial reform, alumni activities with Harvard College and Columbia University Law School, espousal of civil liberties causes, and work on behalf of the Episcopal Church.

Records of the Community Legal Assistance Office

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 14538531
Overview:

Papers relating to the creation and operation of the Community Legal Assistance Office, established in 1966 by Harvard Law School to provide clinical legal services to low-income residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

William H. Taylor case files

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 9007636
Overview:

Attorney Byron Scott's case files relating to his defense of William Henry Taylor in hearings before the International Organization Employees Loyalty Board

Automobile Claims Study records of Robert Keeton

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.

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

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).

Zechariah Chafee papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS601667
Overview:

This collection includes materials relating to Chafee's activities as law teacher, legal scholar, historian, and defender of civil liberties. Includes research material for drafts of the Federal Interpleader Act of 1936.

Philip Elman papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 2277376
Overview:

Materials relating mainly to Felix Frankfurter's work on the Supreme Court and Elman's work with the Solicitor General. Includes numerous notes from Frankfurter pertaining to cases before the Supreme Court, particularly the historic cases of Willie Francis, Rosenberg, Brown v. Board of Education, and Cooper v. Aaron.

Simon Greenleaf papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601717
Overview:

Contains Greenleaf's professional and personal correspondence, notes for moot court, material relating to Christ Church, Cambridge and the Massachusetts Bible Society, and miscellaneous legal materials. Papers concern temperance, Harvard Law School, and the colonization of Liberia. Correspondents include Joseph Story, Lemuel Shaw, Charles Sumner, and Willard Witte.

Albert Lévitt papers

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...

A. James (Andrew James) Casner papers

Collection Identifier: HOLLIS 601624
Overview:

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