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     MANUSCRIPTS and ARCHIVAL MATERIAL

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

 File — Box: MSS 82-3e, Box 19

Scope and Contents

(2 folders)

Dates

  • Creation: 1976-1990

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

English

Language of Materials

From the Collection:

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

Contact:
Arthur J. Morris Law Library
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University of Virginia
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