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RG 32. School of Law

 University Record
Identifier: RG 32
Founded by Thomas Jefferson in 1819, the University of Virginia School of Law is the second-oldest continuously operating law school in the United States.

Found in 59 Collections and/or Records:

Office of the Dean records (Dean's Papers)

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-100
Scope and Contents The 1978 accession of Deans' Papers spans the years 1912-1977, although the concentration of material covers 1937-1975, and touches the terms of Deans Lile, Dobie, Ribble, Dillard, and Paulsen. Included are copies of the Dean's Reports to the president from 1904 to 1968; these reports are an excellent starting point for one researching practically any facet of the Law School's history.In the deans' correspondence files, the researcher may expect to find several issues which have...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1912-1990

Assistant/Associate Dean records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-101
Dates: Majority of material found in 1979-2001

Office of Admissions records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-102
Dates: Majority of material found in 1979

Law Library records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-106
Dates: Majority of material found in 1978-2016

The Virginia Law Weekly records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-204
Dates: Majority of material found in 1979-2009

Office of Placement records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-103
Scope and Contents

This record comprises reports on placement for female graduates; and Placement Report to the Dean, 1977.

Dates: 1977

Office of Student Affairs (formerly Office of the Dean of Students) records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-104
Scope and Contents

These records comprise academic procedures, policies, standards, calendars, curriculum, faculty rules and policies, faculty meeting minutes (1986-1989), and other administrative files. Also included are informational packages given to accepted students.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1969-1988, 2012

Student Legal Forum records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-200
Scope and Contents

The records of the Student Legal Forum are comprised of general files, correspondence, photos, newspapers clippings, card file of speakers, tapes and miscellaneous materials.

Of note is a scrapbook of clippings begun when Robert Kennedy was president of the SLF.

Dates: Majority of material found in 1946-1987

Virginia Tax Review records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-220
Scope and Contents The Records of the Virginia Tax Review [1993-2010]t (1 archival box, .3 linear ft.), consist of administrative files related to the publication of the journal. The archives retained contracts with the authors, two files of correspondence with Mortimer Caplin, an SBA file with a handbook and guidelines, and the Course Syllabus for the Alternative Dispute Resolution class taught by William L. Waddell.Orders of contract proof, distribution and offprint orders were recycled after...
Dates: Majority of material found in 1993-2019

Law School Student Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-400

Virginia Law Review records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-203
Scope and Contents The office files of the Virginia Law Review were routinely transferred to the archives between 1978 and 1985. The records consist primarily of administrative correspondence and other materials from the office of the editor-in-chief, and correspondence with writers of articles. There is also some documentation related to the organization and function of law student organizations. Initially the archives retained all editing material, but subsequently, only selected stages of the...
Dates: 1960 - 1981

Office of Career Services at the University of Virginia School of Law records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-315
Scope and Contents This collection of administrative files related to the graduation awards given to law students every year, was transferred to the Law Library Special Collections Department January and March of 2012 by Kevin M. Donovan, Senior Assistant Dean for Career Services. We also received University of Virginia Final Exercises programs, University of Virginia School of Law Commencement Exercises programs, class profile brochures and some photographs housed in floppy disks. In May 2013, Steve Hopson,...
Dates: 2013

Summer Law Class records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-402

Graduate Program for Judges records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-108

Law School Renovation Project records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-313

Faculty Building Committee records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-301
Abstract

Committe files: notes, correspondence, plans, blueprints.

Dates: 1978

Virginia Journal of International Law records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-206
Dates: Deaccession: 1981 - 1985

Virginia Law Women records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-209

Alumni Day records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-32-110