Judicial Selection – OIAJ documents pertaining to merit selection of Federal Judges and U.S. Attorneys during the administration of President Carter; Daniel J. Meador, Assistant Attorney General, Address before the Virginia Bar Association Conference of Laymen and Lawyers: Selecting Federal Appellate Judges (Nov. 19, 1977); interview by Aaron Epstein of Griffin B. Bell, Attorney General, Philadelphia Inquirer (Sept. 26, 1977); Report of the American Judicature Society, Special Committee to Study Federal Judicial Selection (Jan. 1977); newspaper clippings; correspondence with Griffin B. Bell (1978), Associate Attorney General Michael J. Egan (1978), Sen. Richard G. Lugar (1978), Sen. John W. Warner (in re: judicial selection in Va., 1981), Brooksley Landau (1981), Judge James T. Carlisle (1987), John M. Ryan (1988), A. Leo Levin (1989); Statement of Attorney General Griffin Bell on selection of Federal Judges and U.S. Attorneys (Feb. 9, 1978); Joseph D. Tydings, Merit Selection Commissions For Federal Judges: A Practical Approach, Remarks before the Rule Day Club, Baltimore (c. 1978); Statement of Larry A. Hammond: Hearing on Judicial Selection Before the H. Select Comm. on Aging, 96th Cong. (1980); Henry J. Abraham, Reflections on the Recruitment, Nomination, and Confirmation Process to the Federal Bench (Sept. 23, 1980)(University of Virginia); text of Law as an Apolitical Art, J. Harvie Wilkinson III, remarks before the Bar Association of the City of Richmond (Law Day, May 2, 1988); documents pertaining to North Carolina SB 218 and SB 219 (Session 1989) , 1976-1990
Scope and Contents
(2 folders)
Dates
- Creation: 1976-1990
Language of Materials
English
Language of Materials
English
Conditions Governing Access
There are some no restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 32 Cubic Feet (73 archival boxes, plus photographs and some oversized materials.)
Repository Details
Part of the Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections Repository
Arthur J. Morris Law Library
580 Massie Road
University of Virginia
Charlottesville Virginia 22903 United States
archives@law.virginia.edu