Law Collections
Law: Selected Modern Manuscript and Archival Collections
Print versions of finding aids for the following collections are
available in the Special Collections Research Center.
Finding aids that have been converted to digital form can be
searched in the online finding aids
database.
For more detailed information on holdings, please contact the
Special Collections
Research Center.
- Mortimer J. Adler. Papers.
- American Civil Liberties Union. Illinois Division.
Records.
- George Anastaplo. Papers.
- Archival Biographical Files. HTML
Guide
- Archival Photographic Files. HTML Guide
- Archival Serials. HTML Guide
]
- American Civil Liberities Union. Illinois Division.
Records.
- Laird Bell. Papers.
- Harry A. Bigelow. Papers.
- Walter J. Blum. Papers.
- Sophonisba P. Breckinridge. Papers. Finding Aid
- Butler-Gunsaulus Manuscript Collection.
- Chicago Citizens Police Committee. Records.
- Chicago Civil Service League. Records.
- Chicago Committee of Fifteen. Records. [Ms. 1028]
- Ronald H. Coase. Papers.
- Morris Raphael Cohen. Papers.
- Commission on Freedom of the Press. Records.
- Committee to Frame a World Constitution. Records.
- Clarence S. Darrow. Papers.
- Jefferson Davis. Trial Documents.
- Eugene V. Debs. Walls and Bars Manuscripts.
- Stephen A. Douglas. Papers.
- Reuben T. Durrett Collection on Kentucky and the Ohio River
Valley.
- William H. English. Papers.
- Ernst Freund. Papers.
- General Archival Files. HTML
Guide
- John Hansbro. Court Docket. [Ms. 962]
- Hart, Schaffner, and Marx Labor Agreement. Records.
- Philip M. Hauser. Papers.
- Robert J. Havighurst. Papers.
- William Heirens Case. Clipping File.
- Tilghman Ashurt Howard. Memorandum of Cases and Diary. [Ms.
230]
- Robert M. Hutchins. Papers.
- Hyde Park-Kenwood Community Conference. Records.
- Illinois Joint Commission for the Merit System in the Civil
Service. Records.
- Joliet Penitentiary. Testimony on Inhuman Treatment of
Prisoners.
- Harry Kalven. Papers.
- Philip M. Kurland. Papers.
- Nathan F. Leopold. Collection.
- Edward H. Levi. Papers.
- Julian H. Levi. Oral History Interview.
- Salmon O. Levinson. Papers.
- Abraham Lincoln. Law Cases.
- Karl N. Llewellyn. Papers.
- Glen A. Lloyd. Papers.
- Frank Lowden. Papers.
- Walter D. Malcolm. Papers.
- Smith McPherson. Oral Opinion in United States vs. Chicago,
Rock Island, and Pacific Railway Company. [Crerar Ms.
19]
- Bernard D. Meltzer. Papers.
- Soia Mentschikoff. Papers.
- Charles E. Merriam. Papers.
- Robert Merriam. Papers.
- Michigan Governor's Committee to Investigate the Detroit Race
Riots. Records.
- John Nuveen. Papers.
- James O'Hara. Papers.
- Merritt Willis Pickey. Testimony before Cook County Civil
Service Commission. [Ms. 193]
- Richard A. Posner. Papers.
- Ernst W. Puttkammer. Papers.
- Max Rheinstein. Papers.
- Wyndham Robertson Family. Papers.
- Theodore Roosevelt. Collection.
- Julius Rosenwald. Papers.
- Beardsley Ruml. Papers.
- Jonathan Young Scammon. Papers.
- George A. Schilling. Papers.
- Henry C. Simons. Papers.
- Slavery and Indentured Servitude. Documents.
- United Mine Workers of Illinois. Investigation into the Cherry
Hill Mines Disaster. [Crerar Ms. 118]
- United States Shipbuilding Labor Adjustment Board. Hearing
Transcripts.
- University of Chicago. Board of Trustees. Minutes.
- University of Chicago. Law School. Arbitration Study.
Records.
- University of Chicago. Law School. Faculty. Minutes.
- University of Chicago. Law School. Jury Project.
Records.
- University of Chicago. Law School. Office of the Dean.
Records.
- University of Chicago. Law School. Phi Alpha Delta Law
Fraternity. Records.
- University of Chicago. Law School. Student Association.
Records.
- University of Chicago. Law School. University of Chicago Law
Review. Records.
- University of Chicago. Office of Public Relations. Political
Investigation Files.
- University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers.
- University of Chicago. Presidents' Papers. 1889-1925.
Finding
Aid
- University of Chicago. Record Portfolios of
Departments.
- Charles Warren. The Supreme Court in U.S. History.
Call number: alcJK1561.W298
Extra-illustrated book containing letters and other
manuscripts
- Ida B. Wells. Papers.
- Timothy L. Woodruff. Papers.
- Quincy Wright. Papers.
- Hans Zeisel. Papers.
Within the special
collections of the D'Angelo Law Library of the
University of Chicago Law School are the following related
manuscript collections, among others:
William W. Crosskey Papers
Brainerd Currie Papers
Stanley Kaplan Papers
Walter V. Schaeffer Papers
For additional information on legal history sources, consult the
American Legal History
Research Guide covering the University of Chicago and
Chicago-area libraries and archives. This guide was originally
prepared for Professor Richard Ross's legal history course at Yale
University. It was updated in February 1995 by Andrew Wender Cohen
and librarians at the University of Chicago to reflect historical
resources, rare book collections, archives, and manuscripts
available in the Chicago Area.
