Oral history interview with Adolf Augustus Berle, 1970.

Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Education; early law career; Justice Louis Brandeis' law office; Versailles Peace Conference; land rights 1920-24 in the Dominican Republic; Pueblo Indian land act, 1924; early teaching career; THE MODERN CORPORATION AND PRIVATE PROPERTY, 1931; impressions of Harlan Stone, Nicholas Murray Butler, Lillian Wald, Huges Jervey, Samuel E. Morison, William Z. Ripley; Henry Street Settlement; Raymond Moley, Rexford Tugwell, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the New Deal Brain Trust

Subjects

• Berle, Adolf A., Jr., 1895-1971--Interviews.
• Brandeis, Louis D., 1856-1941.
• Interviews.
• Land tenure--Law and legislation.
• Law.
• Lawyers--United States--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Scott, Douglas, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Treaty of Versailles (1919 June 28)

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1975