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Logan G. Robinson Manuscript, 1978
75 pagesRobinson's typescript manuscript concerns his experiences in the Law school of Leningrad State University.
William A. Keener correspondence, 1891-1901
0.42 linear feetCorrespondence and miscellaneous items of Keener. The correspondence dates primarily from the years 1894 and 1895, and concerns mostly admissions and other procedures of the Law School. There is one letter book of outgoing correspondence, 1891-1895. The collection includes cataloged letters from Nicholas Murray Butler, Melvil Dewey, Seth Low, and Edwin R.A. Seligman.
Walter Gellhorn papers, 1930-1992
157 linear feetCorrespondence, writings, reports, memoranda, case files, and related printed materials. The papers cover the entire field of law with particular emphasis on civil rights, labor law, and family law. They include several series of office files dealing with Columbia University Law faculty, students, his course materials, and the administration of the Law School. In addition, there are numerous files for Amherst College (from which Gellhorn received his A.B. degree), arbitration cases, federal administrative procedure, legislation, the American Civil Liberties Union, the Association of American Law Schools, and Fordham University (for which he prepared a study). There are manuscripts, drafts, proofs, correspondence, and other related materials for some of his books: Administrative Law Cases and Comments (1940); Security, Loyalty and Science (1950); The States and Subversion (1952); Individual Freedom and Government Restraint (1956); When Americans Complain (1966); and Ombudsmen and others (1966).
Charles Buckingham Cole papers, 1902-1914
1 linear feetSeven volumes of notes used by Cole for his course in Common Law and Equity Pleading at the New York Law School. These notes indicate that he discussed a large variety of legal topics in his classes. Each volume contains about 250 pages of notes, and in some of the volumes, clippings from legal texts are pasted in and loose pages of notes are tipped in. Also, A HANDBOOK OF INFORMATION and CATALOGUE for the New York Law School plus a few letters pertaining to Cole's classes.
Hyde family papers, 1879-1934
1 boxMiscellaneous papers of James Nevins Hyde, Charles Cheney Hyde, and James Nevins Hyde. The collection includes monographs, account books, pamphlets, obituaries, and photographs.
Harlan Fiske Stone papers, 1911-1924
33500 itemsOffice files of Stone. Most of the correspondence is with students, faculty members, and lawyers throughout the country and deals with recommendations for positions, lectureships and appointments, alumni affairs, student affairs, the COLUMBIA LAW REVIEW, the New York State Bar Association, the Association of the Bar of the City of New York, and the Association of American Law Schools. Also, reports of school activities and notes and typescripts of Stone's lectures, as well as photographs.
A. Arthur Schiller papers, 1897-1977
64 boxesCorrespondence, manuscripts, notes, notebooks, photographs, printed materials, computer print-outs and tapes, key-punched cards, and card files of Schiller. The collection includes correspondence with his professional colleagues, foundations, and learned societies, and some personal correspondence. There are manuscripts and drafts of his books, articles, book reviews, lectures, and abstracts, his papers as a student, notebooks of readings and drafts, appointment books, mimeographed course materials, photostats, photographs, and materials relating to his computer studies of Roman law texts. Correspondents include Sir Harold Idris Bell, W.W. Buckland, W.E. Crum, Gilbert Highet, H.F. Jolowicz, Owen Lattimore, and Harold Medina.
Telford Taylor papers, 1918-1998, bulk 1949-1992
136.75 linear feetThe Telford Taylor Papers collect the work of Telford Taylor as a lawyer, legal scholar, writer, and historian. The documents include Taylor's work in Nuremberg with the International and Nuremberg Military Tribunals, his work within departments created by the New Deal, some of his legal case files (particularly on civil liberties cases), and other professional interests that Taylor had. The collection also contains Taylor's writings including drafts of his books, speeches, interviews, teaching materials, and much of the research behind these pursuits. The genre of materials includes official reports, correspondence, manuscripts, annotated texts and photographs. The collection also contains Taylor's research materials in the form of annotations, notes, and clippings.
Paul R. Hays papers, 1910-1980
51 linear feetPersonal, academic, and legal correspondence, manuscripts, documents, photographs, and memoranda. Among the legal files, there is particular emphasis on labor and welfare law. The files also contain materials about his judicial appointment, the American Law Institute, the Columbia University School of Law, and the Project on International Procedure. Among the major correspondents are: James A. Farley, Arthur J. Goldberg, Philip C. Jessup, Robert F. Kennedy, Harold R. Medina, James A. Pike, and Lionel Trilling
Otto E. Pfeiffenberger papers, 1939-1950
5 boxesThe collection includes seven volumes of scrapbooks containing clippings on current affairs roughly between 1939 and 1950 with particular reference to the trials of the German War Criminals at Nuremberg and the state of Germany after World War II. Also, general items on President Franklin Roosevelt and U.S. foreign policy. There are several complete copies of newspapers folded and inserted in the scrapbooks. The second and more important part of the collection consists of typescripts of Dr. Pfeiffenberger's writings. These occupy one and one-half manuscript boxes (Boxes 4 and 5). Included are about 45 pages of poetry in German, about 120 pages of selected stories of New York Life (in German), about 30 pages on The European State-System, 1848-1890 (in German), 127 pages of manuscript entitled "The Spirit of the Code of Hammurabi" (this is a preliminary draft in English of a short book or article by Pfeiffenberger), about 305 pages of typescript on "Compensation in the Western Zone of Germany" by Pfeiffenberger, Dr. H. Klein, and Dr. Klavehn-Berndt (there are many changes and notes in script, and this item is accompanied by another typescript of approximately the same size on the same subject), and several other items.