Records in the Deans' Files, 1852 to 1975, consist primarily of correspondence and topical files of Law School deans after 1900. This subseries includes all Law School records accessioned prior to 1985. The subseries contains three separate files: Correspondence Files; Topical Files; and Regents Communications, Reports, and Petitions.
Correspondence Files 1904-1971
The Correspondence Files (46.5 linear feet, 1904-1971) consist largely of correspondence maintained by deans Harry B. Hutchins, Henry M. Bates, E. Blythe Stason, Allan F. Smith, Charles Joiner (acting dean), and Francis Allen. The files covering the period 1904-1913 have been retained in the chronological order in which they were maintained. The files after 1913 were kept in their original order, alphabetically by year or range of years. The alphabetically arranged files typically contain a general folder for each letter and occasionally an individual folder for a significant topic. Unfortunately, there is no subject access or index to these files. Researchers should note that there is a fair amount of overlap between the between the files. The correspondence files continue in the subseries of individual deans.
1904-1913
Box 2
1904-March 1911
Box 3
April 1911-March 1912
Box 4
April 1912-November 1912
Box 5
December 1912-September 1913
1913-1914
Box 6
A-Z
1914-1915
Box 7
A-Z
1915-1916
Box 8
A-Z
1917-1918
Box 9
A-J
Box 10
K-Z
1918-1926
Box 11
A-Bm
Box 12
Bo-Com
Box 13
Com-G
Box 14
H-Li
Box 15
Li-O
Box 16
P-Sm
Box 17
Sm-Z
1927-1932
Box 18
A-Cn
Box 19
Co-G
Box 20
H-Mh
Box 21
Mi-Sh
Box 22
Si-Z
1933-1934
Box 23
A-E
Box 24
F-Q
Box 25
R-Z
1934-1946
Box 26
A
Box 27
B-C
Box 28
C-F
Box 29
G-L
Box 30
L-N
Box 31
O-S
Box 32
S-Z
1947-1954
Box 33
A-C
Box 34
C-H
Box 35
H-L
Box 36
L-R
Box 37
S-Z
1955-1960
Box 38
A-L
Box 38
Centennial Committee of the Law School
Box 38
Committees, Miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Box 38
Cook, William W
Box 39
M-Z;
Box 39
State Bar of Michigan
Box 39
Summer Sessions
Box 39
Supreme Court Clerkships
1960-1964
A-C
Box 39
Association of American Law Schools
(3 folders)
Box 39
Atomic Energy Studies
Box 40
C-O
Box 40
Committees, Miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Box 40
Cook, W. W
Box 40
Faculty Activities
(2 folders)
Box 40
Ford Foundation
(2 folders)
Box 40
Hatcher, Harlan
Box 40
Hawkland, William D
Box 40
Heyns, Roger W
Box 40
Lawyers Club
(3 folders)
Box 41
P-Z
1963-1964
A-Z;
Box 41
George, B. J. Jr
Box 41
Harris, Robert J
Box 41
Harvey, W. B
Box 41
Kimball, Spencer L
Box 41
Stein, Eric
1961-1966
Box 42
A-F
Box 42
Association of American Law Schools
Box 42
Case Club
Box 42
Chinese Communist Law Project
Box 42
Chuo University
Box 42
Citizens Committee for Higher Education
Box 42
Civil Rights Research Council
Box 42
Cook, W. W., Lectureship Committee
Ford Foundation
Box 42
Criminal Justice
Box 42
International Legal Studies
Box 42
New Ford Grant
Box 42
Miscellaneous
Box 43
G-S
Box 43
Institute of Continuing Legal Education
Box 43
Institute for Foreign and Comparative Law
Box 43
Institute of International Education
Box 43
Law School Fund
Box 43
Supreme Court Clerkships
Box 44
T-Z
Box 44
Television
Box 44
Visitors
1966-1968
Box 44
A-K
Box 45
L-Z
1968-1971
Box 46
A-J
Box 47
K-S
Box 48
T-Z
Topical Files 1896-1975
The alphabetically arranged Topical Files (10.5 linear feet, 1896-1975), contain records of administration, organizations, faculty activities and functions, and national and state associations. Although the records in this file date from as early as 1896, the bulk of the material is from the 1950s and 1960s. The development of various committees within the Law School, e.g. the curriculum committee, is well documented in this series as is the Lawyers Club and the role of the School during World Wars I and II. World War I documentation includes two folders relating to the military records of law students as well as material on the Students' Army Training Corps. The World War II era is particularly well documented, including the activities of the Judge Advocate General's (JAG) School which relocated from Washington, D.C. to the Law School during the war. Also noteworthy are the folders on the Association of American Law Schools (1912-1914) which include correspondence with William H. Taft and Felix Frankfurter. Additional topical files, with overlapping dates and coverage, have arrived in subsequent accessions. As such, researchers may find it advisable to consult the Topical Files maintained in the records of individual deans and the separate Topical Files subseries.
Box 48
Academic Affairs Advisory Council 1963-1966
(2 folders)
Box 48
Admissions Office 1947-1969
Box 48
Alumni 1961-1969
Box 48
Alumni Society Undated
Box 48
Alumni Surveys 1966-1969
Box 48
American Bar Association 1919-1972
(5 folders)
Box 48
American Institute of Criminal Law and Criminology 1912
(2 folders)
Box 48
American Journal of Comparative Law
Box 48
American Law Institute 1932-1941
Association of American Law Schools
Box 49
Correspondence 1912-1914
(8 folders)
Box 49
Teachers Directory 1964-1970
Box 49
Miscellaneous 1970-1972
Box 49
Atomic Energy Legal Research Program 1958-1962
Box 49
Barristers Society 1956-1963
Box 49
Benedum, Claude Worthington, Foundation 1964-1968
Box 49
Bexelius, Hon. Alfred 1968
Box 49
Broomfield Essay Competition 1961-1967
Budgets
Notes and Correspondence
Box 49
1926-1948
(3 folders)
Box 49
1966-1978
(2 folders)
William W. Cook Endowment and Research Fund
Box 49
Minutes 1939/40-1946/47
Box 49
Minutes 1949/50-1954/55
Box 49
Reports and Miscellaneous 1956-1975
Box 49
Buhl Bequest 1896-1897
Box 49
Butzel, Henry M. 1963-1965
Box 49
Class Scheduling 1966/67-1967/68
Box 49
Classroom Utilization Study 1956-1957
Box 49
COIF Award 1969-1971
Box 49
Clinical Programs 1968
Box 49
Closed Circuit Television Programs 1962
Box 49
Colombian Proposal 1968-1969
Box 49
Combined Curriculum, Students Enrolled in Law/LS&A 1896/97-1955/56
(3 folders)
Committees
Box 50
Committee on Size of the Law School 1962-1965
Box 50
Committee on Year Round Operation 1961-1962
Box 50
Committee to Educate Lawyers for Trial Experience 1965
Curriculum Committee
Box 50
File Index 1934-1963/64
Box 50
1934-1937/38
Box 50
1939/40-1941/42
Box 50
1945/1946-1953/1954
(11 folders)
Box 51
1954/55-1963/64
(14 folders)
Standing Committee 1956-1966
Box 52
Ad Hoc Committee on Honorary Degrees
Box 52
Ad Hoc Committee to Consider Law Faculty Representation on Senate Assembly
Box 52
Administrative Committee
Box 52
Curriculum Committee
Box 52
Faculty Committee Appointments
Box 52
Graduate and Research Committee
(4 folders)
Box 52
Law Review Advisory Committee
Box 52
Library Advisory Committee
Box 52
Scholarship Awards Committee
Box 52
Student-Faculty Committee
Box 52
Student Loan Committee
Standing Committee 1966/67
Box 52
Administrative Committee
Box 52
Admission Policy Committee
Box 52
Curriculum Committee
Box 52
Graduate and Research Committee
Box 52
Law Review Advisory Committee
Standing Committee 1967/68
Box 52
Administrative Committee
Box 52
Admissions Policy Committee
Box 52
Building Committee
Box 52
Curriculum Committee
Box 52
Graduate and Research Committee
Box 52
Miscellaneous Committees
Standing Committee 1968/69
Box 52
Administrative Committee
Box 52
Admissions Policy Committee
Box 52
Building Committee
Box 52
Curriculum Committee
Box 52
Miscellaneous Committees
Box 53
Concordance of Latin American Commercial Law 1967-1969
Box 53
Conference on Deans 1961-1965
Box 53
Curriculum Studies 1960-1965
(2 folders)
Box 53
Deans' Conferences Minutes 1920-1932
Box 53
Dean Selection Committee 1965
Box 53
Deanship Search Committee 1970/71
Box 53
Degree Requirements 1950-1951
Box 53
Distinguished Alumni Sesquicentennial Award Law 1967
Box 53
Durfee, Edgar Noble 1958
Box 53
Dzendzel Proposal 1966
Box 53
Ethics Lectures 1961-1965
Box 53
Executive Committee of the Summer Session 1960-1962
Faculty
Box 53
Activities 1963-1966
Memoranda
Box 53
Discussion of Law School Expansion 1965
Box 53
Goals for the Law School 1960-1970
Box 53
News of the Faculty 1964-1966
(2 folders)
Box 53
Research 1964/65
Federal Bureau of Prisons 1969-1971
Box 53
Financial Statements
Box 53
Meetings and Seminars
Box 53
Miscellaneous
Box 53
Films 1961-1965
Box 53
Fire Report 1961
Ford Foundation
Box 54
Foreign Graduate Study and Research
Box 54
Original Papers 1954-1961
(3 folders)
Box 54
Proposals 1965
(2 folders)
Box 54
Reports 1953/54-1968/69
(2 folders)
(see also Box 107)
Box 54
Grant-Atomic Legal Research 1958-1962
Box 54
International Studies Committee 1961-1962
Box 54
Grade Norms Committee 1960-1962
Box 54
Grading Regulations 1934-1949
Box 54
Graduate Office 1961-1966
Box 54
Honorary Degrees 1958-1959
Box 54
Honors and Honors Banquet 1951-1960, 1962-1970
(4 folders)
Hutchins Hall and Legal Research Building
(see also oversized material)
Box 54
Floor Plans
Box 54
Windows and Portraits
Box 54
Institute of Continuing Education
Box 54
Institutionalization of Mentally Abnormal Persons 1964-1967
Box 54
Inter-American Bar Association 1948-1949
Box 54
Jerome (Thomas Spencer) Fund 1922
Box 54
Judicial Administration-Research and Instruction 1968
Box 54
Judicial Law Clerks 1963-1966
Box 54
Juris Doctor Degree 1967-1968
Law Buildings 1923-1934
(2 folders)
Box 54
Clippings on Law Quadrangle 1924-1934
Box 54
Property Costs for Law School and Lawyers Club Site 1923
Box 54
Law Dean's Lament (Poem)
Law Library
Box 55
1963-1964
Box 55
1965-1966
Box 55
1967-1970
Box 55
Law Library Memos 1966-1970
Law Library Reports
Box 55
1955-1960
Box 55
1961-1963
Box 55
Law School Alumni Scholarship Fund 1955-1962
Box 55
Law School Centennial Fund 1960
Law School Fund
Correspondence
Box 55
1966-1968
Box 55
1968-1971
(3 folders)
Box 55
1971-1973
(3 folders)
Box 55
Memorials 1967-1972
(2 folders)
National Committee Meetings
Box 55
1967
Box 55
1968
Lawyers Club
Administrative Records 1959-1971
Box 55
1959-1964
Box 55
1965-1966
(2 folders)
Box 56
1967-1968
(2 folders)
Box 56
1968-1969
(3 folders)
Box 56
1969-1971
(3 folders)
Box 56
Special Alumni Committee 1968
Box 56
Legal Aid Clinic 1965
Box 56
Legal Education Seminar 1968
Box 56
Legal Writing-Problems and Research 1957-1964
Box 56
Michigan Law Review 1951-1970
Box 56
Michigan Legal Publications 1955-1966
Box 56
Military Service Meeting 1968
Box 56
Mozolin, Professor V.P. 1966
Box 56
Office Relocation 1966-1968
Box 56
Ohta, Tomoyaki 1966
Box 56
Pfenningstorf, Dr. Werner 1966
Box 56
Placement of Michigan Men in Washington, D.C. 1964-1965
Box 56
Placement Records 1955/56-1962/63
Box 56
Pre-Law Students Reading List 1944-1961
Box 56
Preliminary Week Instructions 1956-1966
Box 56
Procedure Courses 1963
Box 56
Professional Responsibility 1961
Box 56
Prospectus: A Journal of Law Reform 1966-1968
(3 folders)
Box 57
Publications of Law Faculty and Research Staff 1948-1961
Box 57
Required Curriculum Committee 1963
Box 57
Research in Inter-American Law 1966
Box 57
Russell Sage Foundation 1959-1961
Box 57
Schroeder, Werner 1959-1967
Box 57
Selected Recent Acquisitions 1960-1965
Box 57
Senate Advisory Committee on University Affairs 1961-1966
Box 57
Space Law Project 1960-1962
Box 57
Specific Admissions Policies 1964-1966
Box 57
Stason, E. Blythe, Portrait 1960
Box 57
Statistics, Faculty 1958-1959
Box 57
Statistics, Students 1912-1914, 1941-1946
(2 folders)
Box 57
Statement of Policy 1968, 1971 Revision 1968-1971
Box 57
Student Data File 1965-1967
Box 57
Student Organizations 1958-1963
Box 57
Summer School for Lawyers 1960-1962
Box 57
United States Steel Foundation 1967-1968
University of Michigan 1960-1965
Box 57
Accounting Office
Box 57
Calendar
Box 57
Cumiskey, Ed
Box 57
Development Council
Box 57
Gift Receiving Office
Box 57
Hatcher, Harlan
Box 57
Miscellaneous
Box 57
Niehuss, Marvin L
Box 57
Walter, Erich
Box 57
University Systems Committee 1966
(2 folders)
Box 57
Veterans and Veterans Service 1946-1951
Box 57
Visitors 1966-1971
(4 folders)
World War I 1917-1919
Box 58
Military Records of Law Students
(2 folders)
Box 58
Miscellaneous 1917-1918
Box 58
Students Army Training Corps
(4 folders)
Postwar 1923-1936
Box 58
League of Nations 1923
Box 58
Military Science and Tactics 1933
Box 58
University Peace Meeting 1936
World War II 1941-1945
Box 58
Association of American Law Schools
Box 58
Deaths of Law School Alumni
Box 58
Deferments-Selective Service
Box 58
Draft Registration
Box 58
Lectures on Military Law and War Emergency
Box 58
Manual Advisory Boards for Registrants
Box 58
Miscellaneous
Box 58
National Defense Matters
Box 58
Pamphlets
Physical Education for Men
Box 58
Conditioning Courses
Box 58
Enrollments 1942-1947
(2 folders)
Box 58
University War Board
Box 58
Veterans; Requirement for Admission
Box 58
War Ration Book One
Post-War Affairs 1945-1947
Box 58
Correspondence
Box 58
Enrollment
Box 58
Faculty Post War Problems
Box 58
Post War Committee
Box 58
Public Law 16
Box 58
Veterans Services
Judge Advocate General's (JAG) School 1942-1945
Box 58
Class Lists
Box 58
Miscellaneous
(2 folders)
Box 58
Yazawa, Makoto
Box 58
Yntema, Hessel E
Regents Communications, Reports, and Petitions 1852-1962
Regents Communication, Reports, and Petitions (0.5 linear feet, 1852-1962) is comprised of two files: Regents Communication, and Reports and Petitions. Regents Communication consists of a chronologically arranged file of the Law School's communications to the Regents from 1910 to 1962. The Reports and Petitions, 1852-1924 (scattered dates), although fragmentary in terms of coverage, contains some of the oldest material in the record group, including some documents that predate the School's founding. One, written in 1852, is a petition from 50 citizens requesting the university to establish a law school. Other documents include a report from 1859 outlining the proposed law department, and an 1862 contract for the construction of a law building.
Box 59
Regents Communication 1910-1962
(3 folders)
Reports and Petitions 1852-1924
Box 59
Petition to Establish Law Professorships 1852
Box 59
Outline of Proposed Law Department 1859
Box 59
Agreements for Erection of Law Building and Desks 1862-1863
Box 59
Student Petition Regarding $10 diploma Fee 1878
Box 59
Report and Exhibits of Charges Against Law Professors 1879
Box 59
Report on Resignation of Professor Thomas M. Cooley undated
