Record Source: University of Pennsylvania / Year: <span class="from" data-blrl-begin="1990">1990</span> to <span class="to" data-blrl-end="1994">1994</span> - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Jacob D. Elder Papers, Folklore Archives, 1962-1965 (bulk) 1949-2003 (inclusive)

Extent:: 5.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Born in Trinidad in 1913, Jacob Elder was a primary school tescher and community development officer before attending Penn to study for his doctorate in folklore. Elder specialized in the traditional music of Trinidad and Tobago. In addition to his scholarly studies, Elder worked to develop the Steel Band and song competitions in his native land to encourage the restless youth to find purpose and fulfillment. Manuscript holdings include approximately two linear feet of cultural material, research, working manuscript and disertation, song, lyric and interview transcriptions, folktales, stories and scripts. The West Indies Recordings contain approximately 160 hours of recorded sound collected in Trinidad, Tobago, Grenada, and St. Vincent between 1959-1965, during Elder’s dissertation fieldwork.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]

Roger D. Abrahams Papers, Folklore Archives, 1960-1994 (inclusive)

Extent:: 3.0 linear foot
Abstract:: Roger D. Abrahams is a native of Philadelphia, PA. He received his B.A. at Swarthmore College, M.A. at Columbia University, and Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania. In 1986 he came to teach in the English and Anthropology Departments at the University of Pennsylvania following many years at the University of Texas and Scripps and Pitzer Colleges. While at Penn he served as the Founding Director for the Center for Folklore and Ethnography. The Roger D. Abrahams Collection consists of three linear feet of textual records related to his research in the Caribbean Islands and publications from throughout his career. Reel-to-reel tape recordings of songs, stories, and poems from the Caribbean, as well as photographic slides and negatives are also included in the collection.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Penn Museum Archives [Contact Us]

Ralph H. Kelley papers, 1967-2004 (inclusive)

Extent:: 24 linear feet
Abstract:: Ralph H. Kelley (1928-2004) was appointed United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Sixth Federal Judicial Circuit in 1969. In 1993 he retired as Chief Judge of the Bankruptcy Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee but remained the court's senior judge. He was a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Clerks and the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges, where he served as President from 1985 to 1986. In 1980, Ralph Kelley was appointed to the Committee on the Budget of the Judicial Conference of the United States, where he served until 1990. The collection (1967-2004) includes letters and memoranda with the Administrative Office of the United States, congressional leaders, and bankruptcy judges; programs, promotional material, and other material relating to seminars, workshops, conferences, and other meetings in which Kelley was invited to participate; congressional testimony by Kelley before various congressional committees; essays and other writings generated by...(see more)

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Kenneth N. Klee papers, 1969-1999 (inclusive) 1975-1998 (bulk)

Extent:: 28.5 linear feet
Abstract:: Kenneth N. Klee spent his career analyzing bankruptcy law and advocating for pro-debtor reforms to the Bankruptcy Code. He graduated from Harvard Law School in 1974 and joined to the California bar in 1975. He began his career as Associate Counsel for the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights, a subunit of the House of Representatives' Committee on the Judiciary, where he advised Congress and helped draft legislation related to bankruptcy reform in the 1970s. He was also a consultant to the House Judiciary Committee from 1977 to 1982 and the Department of Justice from 1983 to 1985. Klee was a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, an association of scholars and practitioners committed to the study of bankruptcy legislation and reform, where he was chair of the Committee on Legislation from 1992 to 1999. He worked at Stutman, Treister and Glatt and was a founding partner of Klee, Tuchin, Bogdanoff, and Stern, LLP. The collection, 1969-1999, includes papers relating...(see more)

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Robert D. Martin papers, 1982-2000 (inclusive)

Extent:: 9 linear feet (about 4000 items.)
Abstract:: Robert D. Martin (1944-) was appointed Chief United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Wisconsin in 1978. Martin was a charter fellow of the American College of Bankruptcy and a conferee of the National Bankruptcy Conference. He was a member of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ), an organization devoted to providing to providing education and advice relating to bankruptcy legislation. Martin served on the Board of Governors of the NCBJ from 1988 to 1991, as Secretary in 1994, and as the conference's President in 1996. The collection, 1982-2000, includes materials relating to Martin's activities as a committee member, Secretary, and President of the NCBJ; as a member of the National Bankruptcy Conference, which participated in the National Bankruptcy Review Commission in the mid-1990s; as a federal judge on the Judicial Conference of the United States; as a lecturer, panelist, and participant in seminars, workshops, and meetings across the United...(see more)

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Bankruptcy Newsletter and Journal Collection, 1983-2003 (inclusive)

Extent:: 6 linear feet
Abstract:: The collection, 1983-2003, chiefly includes issues of newsletters, as well as journals, devoted to organizational and legislative activity in the field of bankruptcy law.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Myron M. Sheinfeld papers, 1993 (inclusive)

Extent:: 12 items (less than .5 linear feet.)
Abstract:: Myron M. Sheinfeld graduated from the University of Michigan Law School. He currently serves as Senior Counsel to the law firm of Akin Gump Strauss Hauer and Feld LLP, in Houston, Texas. Sheinfeld has spoken extensively at seminars, workshops, and other meetings on issues pertaining to bankruptcy. The collection, 1993, includes photocopies of articles and handwritten notes used by Sheinfeld in preparation for a presentation for a panel entitled The Future of Bankruptcy.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Joseph L. Cosetti papers, 1972-2001 (inclusive) 1989-1992 (bulk)

Extent:: 3 linear feet (about 1400 items.)
Abstract:: Joseph L. Cosetti was appointed United States Bankruptcy Judge for the Western District of Pennsylvania in 1980, where he served as Chief Judge until 1994. He served as President of the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges (NCBJ) from 1991 to 1992. The NCBJ, which provides continuing legal education to judges, lawyers and other involved professionals, aims to secure a greater degree of quality and uniformity in the administration of the bankruptcy system and to improve the practice of law in the bankruptcy courts. Papers in the collection span the period of 1972-2001, with the majority of the documents created in the years 1989-1992. Chiefly represented are materials created by the National Conference of Bankruptcy Judges and collected by the Office of the President from 1989 to 1992.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

LTV Corporation Reorganization Case Court records, 1986-1991 (inclusive)

Extent:: 48.5 linear feet
Abstract:: On July 17, 1986, the LTV Corporation filed for Chapter 11 debt relief due to underfunded pension plans. The court case resulted in a reorganization plan that involved LTV selling one of its subsidiary companies, Aerospace, in 1991. The collection, 1986-1991, include pleadings and other records filed over the course of the case.

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

Samuel Bufford papers, 1980-2010 (inclusive)

Extent:: 21 linear feet
Abstract:: The Honorable Samuel L. Bufford is a former United States Bankruptcy Judge in the Central District of California, where he served from 1985 to 2010 and presided over nearly 100,000 cases. After graduating with a B.A. from Wheaton College in Illinois, Judge Bufford earned his law degree from the University of Michigan, where he was an editor of the Michigan Law Review and of the Journal of Law Reform and a Ph.D in Philosophy from the University of Texas. He practiced corporate, bankruptcy, antitrust, securities, and other types of business law in Los Angeles, Beverly Hills, San Francisco, and New York between 1974 and his appointment to the bench, except for a stint teaching law and urban planning at The Ohio State University between 1975 and 1977. A scholar of U.S. and comparative insolvency law, Bufford has authored one book, United States International Insolvency Law (Oxford University Press, 2009), and numerous law review articles and more than 75 published opinions. In...(see more)

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library [Contact Us]

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