INVENTORY OF THE PAPERS OF

MONRAD G. PAULSEN

MSS 85-4

University of Virginia Law Library
Charlottesville VA 22903
434/924-3023

Processed by Marsha Trimble

Biographical Sketch

Monrad Paulsen, a native of Iowa, received an A.B. in 1940 and a J.D. in 1942 from the University of Chicago. After practicing briefly in Chicago, he began his teaching career at the University of Utah. He also taught at Indiana University and the University of Minnesota, before joining the Columbia faculty in 1956. Paulsen was a respected scholar in the fields of juvenile, domestic relations, and poverty law, as well as criminal law and procedure.

When Hardy Dillard retired from the deanship, he highly recommended Paulsen to succeed him. The first dean who had not previously been a member of the Virginia law faculty, Paulsen served in that post until 1975, and in that time attracted many fine scholars to the faculty. During his deanship, the student population grew by two hundred as the 1970s saw increasing numbers of women and minority students. The growth in the faculty and student body, along with curriculum changes and new organizations, pushed Clark Hall to its limits. Near the end of Paulsen’s deanship, the Law School building at North Grounds was constructed and occupied.

In 1975, Paulsen went to New York to help establish and serve as dean of the Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University. He died in 1980.

These professional papers were left behind in the dean’s office when Paulsen moved to New York.

BOX LISTING

Box	Date and Content Description

1	1960s, 1971-72; AALS Needed Legal Services Project

	1973, n.d.; Lectures: The Child and the State, delivered at Louisiana State University; Responsible Dissent -- A Student Right

	1963-64; Mobilization for Youth

	1960s; Research material regarding legal aid in England [obtained from the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies, University of London] (2 folders)

2-4	1960s; Research and writing for unidentified projects (12 folders)

	Correspondence

4	1972; California Legal Services (OEO)

	1969, 1972; Casebook: Criminal Law and Its Processes

	1970; Child Abuse Workshop

	1972; Child Protection Committee, U.Va. Hospital

	1968-69; Council on Social Work Education

	1970-72; Day Care Licensing

	n.d.; Docket Book Study

	1968, 1971; Family Law Casebook

	1971-73; Gottingen Visit

	1968-69; Eleonore Herrmann

	1969; David Hoffman

	1973; Juvenile Court Project

	1969-72; Juvenile Courts

	1972-73; Juvenile Justice Standards Project

	1968; Sanford Kadish

	1968-69; Leo Kanowitz

	1968; John Lambert

	1968; Law and Poverty

	1970; Lawyers' Co-op

	1968; Arthur F. MacConochie

5	1973; Lutheran Church in America

	1971; National Council on Crime and Delinquency

	1970-71; National Council of Juvenile Court Judges: Lawyers' Handbook

	1970-71; National Juvenile Law Center

	1969-72; Office of Economic Opportunity

	1971-74; William Paulsen Estate

5-7	1955; 1965-76; Personal Correspondence (13 folders)

	1940s-70s; Reprints of MGP articles (ca. 40)


	Photographs

	[ca. 1960?], Formal portrait

	[1972?], MGP with Emerson Spies and Gwendolyn Jones ('72)

	[ante-1974], MGP with Hardy Dillard [in Clark Hall lounge?]

	n.d., Miscellaneous personal photos (15)