Law -- Study and teaching

The papers of Clarence B. Pearce consist primarily of letters written by Pearce to his mother as well as photographs of Pearce and the University of Virginia grounds while Pearce was a law student (1917 - 1921). His college activities included participation in the debating society and service on the editorial board of Virgina Law Review.

The David Nelson Sutton papers consist of handwritten notes taken while attending the University of Virginia Department of Law in 1919-1920, and some printed materials, including examinations and programs, that relate to his classes. There are two folders that document his nomination to the presidency of the Virginia State Bar Association in 1948, and his nomination as a member of the House of Delegates at the seventy-fifth meeting of the American Bar Association in 1953.

The Ernest L. Folk papers is comprised of professional files, working files concerning consulting work; drafts, notes, etc., for articles; and a few folders regarding his home in Ivy. In addition, there are assorted teaching materials concerning law and the arts.

This small collection consists of lithoprinted copies of the lectures of professor John B. Minor on “Personal Property” and “Remedies, including Pleading and Practice,” and a top hat.

The six original bound lectures and hat belonged to George H. Marks, of Montgomery, Alabama, Class of 1876, who attended the School of Common and Statute Law at the University of Virginia.

The first part of the collection has sixteen law student notebooks created by John C. McCoid II during his law study at Vanderbilt University between 1950 and 1953. The addendum, received in 2016, contains a University of Virginia report regarding the admission of women in 1968, and some correspondence regarding the recruitment of African American faculty members in 1972, and teaching materials.

This collection consists of examinations that the University of Virginia Law School administered to students between 1890 and 2018. It also includes a few examples of examination answers.

The examinations exist in diverse media formats. Most of them are printed on paper, and most printed examinations are bound together into volumes. The other examinations were born digital and were initially made available to students online or on digital media (e.g., CDs, DVDs).

The papers of Marion K. Kellogg contain correspondence, programs, photographs, and clippings of the Uruguayan seminar (1960) and the Bolivian seminar taught at the Law School, as well as photographs from the alumni meeting (1966). There is also one folder of correspondence with the American Bar Association Committee on International Economic Organizations from 1966-1972. Some documents are in Spanish.

This collection (1940-1976) contains professional correspondence related to the Juvenile Court Project (1973) and juvenile courts; law and poverty; personal correspondence; some student papers and lecture notes.

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