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Elizabeth N. Tompkins, Law 1923, first female law graduate at UVA John Edwin Roller, Law 1867 (click on images for larger view)

Manuscript Collection

The Special Collections department serves as a repository primarily for the law-related professional papers of our own faculty and alumni, but occasionally accepts collections from other sources if their subjects tie in with existing holdings. There are over 80 collections and single items, such as attorneys' record books.

Faculty donations from more than twenty professors or their families include the diaries of William Minor Lile; the Prince Edward County Free School Association papers of F.D.G. Ribble; Judge Hardy Cross Dillard's International Court of Justice files; Richard Bonnie's papers concerning the investigation of Soviet psychiatric abuse; and Frank McCulloch's papers on the International Labor Organization. Alumni whose papers are housed in Special Collections include railroad attorney Gordon Buck; Virginia lawyer and lieutenant governor Lewis Preston Collins; Charlottesville lawyer and judge R. T. W. Duke, Jr.; Justice James Clark McReynolds; Roy Morgan's files on Japanese and German internment in Virginia during World War II; the papers of Judge John Paul; Washington lawyer E. Barrett Prettyman, Jr.; and Judge George Revercomb. In addition to documenting the wide range of faculty and alumni activities, the collection is strong in records of late nineteenth and early twentieth century law practice.

An original signed copy of Brown v. Board, from the E. Barrett Prettyman Papers. Duke family portrait, R.T.W. Duke, Jr., William R. Duke, and R.T.W. Duke from the Duke & Duke papers

In 2000 the department acquired the papers of the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust. This large collection traces the history of the production and marketing of the Dalkon Shield, the intrauterine contraceptive device manufactured and sold by the A.H. Robins Company, from the company's purchase of the device through its tort litigation and subsequent bankruptcy which was resolved in 1988. The collection also documents the establishment and history of the Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust, 1988-2000, which settled over 218,000 claims.

Special Collections also houses records of the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea, both an extensive collection of the official documents of the conference and personal files of some of the negotiators.

Most recently law professor Brandon Garrett and business research librarian Jon Ashley have collected a series of organizational prosecution agreements in support of Garrett's research on structural reform prosecution. They have created a Prosecution Agreements Web site to serve as a resource for research concerning federal prosecution of organizations.

Finding Aids

Major collections are recorded in VIRGO, the library's online catalog, where they may be identified by a call number beginning with the letters MSS. All collections have finding aids available in the special collections department. See the list below for finding aids which are available via the Web.

Collection Name	Description
ACLU of Virginia	Administrative, project, and case files
Alford, Jr., Professor Neill A.	Professional papers
Bonnie, Professor Richard	Papers re insanity defense; capital punishment; Soviet psychiatric abuse; legality of marijuana
Buck, Gordon M.	Law practice files
Butzner, Judge John D.	Professional papers
Cohen, Professor Edwin S.	Papers re work at Department of Treasury
Collins, Lewis Preston	Law practice files
Crapo, William W.	Legal correspondence concerning Alabama Claims cases
Dalkon Shield Claimants Trust	History of Dalkon Shield, bankruptcy, and claims settlement
Dietz, Professor Park	Papers re pornography and the Meese Commission
Dillard, Professor Hardy Cross Mss 84-8 Mss 84-8a Mss 84-8b Mss 84-8c Mss 84-8d Mss 84-8e Mss 84-8f Mss 84-8g Mss 84-8h Mss 84-8i	Judicial, professional and personal papers Inventory of the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard, 1925-1981 Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard, 1970-1979 Inventory to the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1942, 1988 Inventory to the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1943-1944 Inventory of the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1970-1979 Inventory to the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1919-1980 Inventory to the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1962 and n.d. Inventory to the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1979 Inventory of the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1935-1969 Inventory to the Addition to the Papers of Hardy Cross Dillard 1931-1984
Dobie, Professor Armistead	Judicial and professional papers
Duke and Duke Mss 79-6 Mss 79-6a	Law practice files Inventory of the Papers of Duke and Duke 1854-1956 Inventory of the Addition to the Papers of Duke and Duke 1904-[1942-1948]-1954
Farmer, Professor Frances	Professional and personal papers
Fireside, Harvey	Papers re Soviet psychiatric abuse
Folk, Professor Ernest L.	Professional papers
Frankland, Charles and Thomas	Law practice files (England)
Garrett, Professor Brandon	Prosecution Agreements
Glenn, Professor Garrard	Professional papers
Howard, Professor A.E. Dick	Papers re Virginia Constitutional Revision
Jones, Harry Leroy	Papers re work at State Department on alien property in WWII
Kneedler, Professor H. Lane	Papers re Virginia's criminal sexual assault legislation
Lile, Professor William Minor	Diaries
Lillich, Professor Richard	Professional papers re international human rights and the Iran-U.S. Claims Tribunal
Lively, Judge Pierce	Judicial papers
Long, William F.	Law practice files
McClellan, James B.	Papers Panama Canal Treaty debates
McCoid II, Professor John C.	Law school notes
McCulloch, Professor Frank W.	Professional papers including work with UAW arbitration, and Virginia migrant workers
McFarland, Professor Carl	Professional papers including work on the Administrative Procedure Act
McReynolds, Justice James Clark	Personal papers
Meador, Professor Daniel Mss 82-3 Mss 82-3a Mss 82-3b Mss 82-3c	Professional papers including work on the establishment of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit
Minor, Professor John B.	Professional papers
Moran, Charles E.	Papers re world peace organizations
Moore, Professor John Norton	Professional papers, including the Gulf of Maine case, and work re conflicts in Central America
Morgan, Roy L.	Papers re WWII internment of foreign diplomats, and work on the Tokyo war crimes trials
Morris, Arthur J.	Personal memorabilia
Newman, J. Wilson	Papers re the Bankruptcy Commission
O'Connell, Professor Jeffrey	Professional papers
Paul, Judge John	Judicial papers
Paulsen, Professor Monrad G.	Professional papers
Pearce, Clarence B.	Law school letters
Prettyman, Jr., E. Barrett	Supreme Court clerkship papers
Priest, Professor A.J.G.	Professional papers including work with world peace organizations
Revercomb, Judge George H.	Judicial papers
Ribble, Professor F. D. G.	Professional papers, including work with the Prince Edward Free School Association
Ricks, Judge James Hoge	Papers re the Richmond Juvenile and Domestic Relations Court
Ritchie III, Professor John	Professional papers
Saltzburg, Professor Stephen	Professional papers
Schulman, Arthur I.	Virginia ACLU papers
Shah, Saleem A.	Papers re work on mental health and law issues at the National Institute of Mental Health
Shugar and Vaisey	Law practice papers (England)
Skerritt, James L.	Law cases re alien property in WWII
Spies, Professor Emerson G.	Professional papers
Taney, Chief Justice Roger B.	Law practice papers
Tavenner, Franks S.	Papers re work on the Tokyo war crimes trials
Tompkins, Elizabeth	Law school letters and personal memorabilia
Warren, Chief Justice Earl	Personal letters
Williams, G. Carrington	Papers re work on the Tokyo war crimes trials

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