Reminiscences of Harold R. Medina : oral history, 1977.

Biographical Note

Judge

Scope and Contents

Family background, childhood in Brooklyn and Westhampton; education, Princeton, 1909, Columbia Law School, 1912; 1915-40, Columbia Law School professor; 1918, founded Medina & Sherpick, appellate practice; 1947-51, United States District Court, South District New York City Judge; United States Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals, 1951-58, senior circuit judge, 1958- ; legal books, including JUDGE MEDINA SPEAKS (1954) and ANATOMY OF FREEDOM (1959); public speaking career; discussion of the art of practicing law, judicial temperament; important cases argued or presided over; Anthony Kramer treason case, Corscadden mayoralty succession case, 1949 conspiracy trial of 11 Communists; private studies: Latin, Spanish, English literature, cryptology; book collecting, other hobbies. Impressions of Harlan F. Stone, Learned Hand, Christian Gauss, others

Subjects

• Columbian University. Law School.
• Edwin, Ed, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Law--Study and teaching.
• Law partnership.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• Medina, Harold R. (Harold Raymond), 1888-1990--Interviews.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Practice of law.