New York bar project : oral history, 1975-2001 bulk 1975-1979.

Scope and Contents

This series of memoirs from some of the outstanding members of the New York bench and bar is designed to preserve their observations and recollections of colleagues and significant cases for the general scholar as well as for historians of the law. The participants discuss their education, their views of courts and the law, and their concept pf professional responsibility. Many vignettes of famous jurists appear in these pages Participants and pagination of transcripts: Chauncey Belknap, 58; Albert Blumenthal; Herbert Brownell, 141; William FitzPatrick, 102; Stanley Fuld, 190; J. Edward Lumbard, Jr., 331; Harold R. Medina, 696; Bernard S. Meyer, 310; David W. Peck, 142; Frank Raichle, 104; Whitney North Seymour, Sr.,71; John Van Voorhis, 65

Subjects

• Courts--Officials and employees.
• Interviews.
• Judges--Interviews.
• Justice, Administration of.
• Law.
• Lawyers--Interviews.
• New York (N.Y.)--Politics and government.
• New York (State)--Politics and government.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Practice of law.