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Penn Carey Law Student papers

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Call Number:
BLL.001.007
Repository:
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Extent:
4.00 linear feet (6 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
[Identification of item], in the Penn Carey Law Student papers, BLL.001.007, Biddle Law Library, University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School.
Date:
1900-2015 (inclusive)
Creator:
University of Pennsylvania. Law School, Biddle Collections, Lewis, Francis A. (Francis Albert), 1857-1927, and Shils, Edward B., 1915-2004
Abstract:
This record group consists of student papers donated to the archives by Penn Carey Law alum or collected by Biddle librarians.

During the early years of the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School, students were required to write graduating essays. Biddle librarians' collected these and other student notes, manuscripts, and working papers since as early as 1886.

This record group consists of student papers donated to the archives by Penn Carey Law alum or collected by the Biddle librarians. Included are the following sub-groups:

BLL.001.007.001, Essays contains examination essays and graduating theses that were collected by Biddle librarians from 1886 to 1940. This is not a complete collection of all student essays from this time. For a full list of the student authors included in this collection, please contact the archives.

BLL.001.007.002, Essays: Law School History contains two senior honors theses written on the history of the law school. Their titles are "Nineteenth-century Legal Education in Philadelphia: Essays Exploring the Founding and Development of the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania" by Jonathan Stuart Bennett, 1990 April and "William Draper Lewis and the Development of a Modern Law School at the University of Pennsylvania" by Adam Jonathan Heft, 1993 April 2.

BLL.001.007.003, Immigration Law Seminar papers contains a bound book of student essays that were originally written for a seminar held in April of 1984. The essays do not include the authors' names.

BLL.001.007.004, International Women's Human Rights Seminar papers is a collection of papers that were created during Associate Dean Rangita de Silva De Alwis' seminar and published in 2017. Two reports from the seminar were presented to the United Nations in 2016: "The Report on Mapping the Impact of Gender Equality Lawmaking and Constitution making: A Comparative Perspective" and "The Report on Countering Terrorism: The Transformative Potential of Gender Equality Lawmaking and Policy Reform."

BLL.001.007.005, Law and Economics of Urban Government Management Course paper contains a paper by Edward B. Shils on "The History of Public Education in Philadelphia, 1682-1984" that he submitted to the professors in the spring of 1984.

BLL.001.007.006, Francis A.J. Lewis Jr. papers contains one notebook from Lewis' time as a student that he later donated to the archives. The notebook consists of law lecture notes that he took in March of 1849.

    The Penn Carey Law Student papers are arranged into the following sub-groups:
  1. Essays (BLL.001.007.001)
  2. Essays: Law School History (BLL.001.007.002)
  3. Immigration Law Seminar papers (BLL.001.007.003)
  4. International Women's Human Rights Seminar papers (BLL.001.007.004)
  5. Law & Economics of Urban Government Management Course paper (BLL.001.007.005)
  6. Francis A.J. Lewis Jr. papers (BLL.001.007.006)

Prior to their transfer to the archives, these records were located in the library stacks and librarians' offices.

Records were collected periodically from Penn Carey Law students and staff by the Biddle Library and Archives.

Processed by Jeremiah Eagen in 2010, Christian Grippe and Jordon Steele in 2011, and Elizabeth Wittrig in 2024.

For more records from the law school, see the finding aid for the Penn Carey Law School Collection.

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Publisher
University of Pennsylvania: Biddle Law Library
Access Restrictions

The archives reserve the right to restrict access to materials of a sensitive nature.

The archives follow the access policies of the University Archives and Records Center which were adopted by the Board of Trustees in 1990 and revised in 2022. This means that all administrative records of the University are closed for twenty-five years from their date of creation. More information on these protocols is available on the University Archives website.

Use Restrictions

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Collection Inventory

Graduating Essays bound volumes, 1889-1894.

A-De, 1887-1933.
Box 001001 Folder 1-19
Di-H, 1887-1936.
Box 001002 Folder 1-22
J-Mc, 1887-1940.
Box 001003 Folder 1-21
Me-Z, 1886-1936.
Box 001004 Folder 1-57
BLL.001.007.002. Essays: Law School History, 1990, 1993.
Box 002001
BLL.001.007.003. Immigration Law Seminar papers, 1984 April.
Box 003001
BLL.001.007.004. International Women's Human Rights Seminar papers, 2017 April.
Box 004001
BLL.001.007.005. Law & Economics of Urban Government Management Course paper, 1984.
Box 005001
BLL.001.007.006. Francis A.J. Lewis Jr. papers, 1849 March 13.
Box 006001

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