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
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.
