Oral history interview with Sally Falk Moore, 2001

Biographical Note

Professor

Scope and Contents

Childhood: early life in New York City; Barnard College, B.A. 1943, desire for more liberal curriculum; Columbia Law School, LL.B. 1945; political ambitions; member of moot court; encounters with professors; job market for female lawyer; associate attorney at Spence, Hotchkiss, Parker and Duryea; war dept. for Nuremberg Trials; Columbia University, Anthropology Ph.D. 1957; necessity of networking for job ascension; visiting Haiti; Ansley Prize recipient, Columbia University 1957; professor, University of Southern California; studying Chagga people in Africa; Legal Anthropology; professor, Harvard Law School, 1981-present; Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, 1985-1989. Transcript’s appendix includes syllabus for the course "Anthropological Approaches to Law" and an article by Moore titled "Uncertainties Undone: Fifty Turbulent Years of Legal Anthropology, 1949-1999"

Subjects

• Columbia University. School of Law--Alumni and alumnae.
• Grele, Ronald J., interviewer.
• Interviews.
• Moore, Sally Falk, 1924---Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Women lawyers--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 2001