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Oral history interview with Leonard Boudin, 1983

Creator: Boudin, Leonard, 1912-1989
Project: Individual interviews oral history collection.
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Phys. Desc. :sound file : digital preservation master, WAV files (96 kHz, 24 bit) transcript: 477 pages
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Lawyer

Scope and Contents

Childhood and adolescence; early education; St. John's Law School, 1932-35; work for New York State Mortgage Commission, 1935-36; legal work for Louis Boudin, 1936-48, including labor law cases for United Office and Professional Workers of America; partnership in Neuberger, Shapiro, Rabinowitz, and Boudin (now Rabinowitz, Boudin & Standard) 1948- : relations with partners and other lawyers, including Osmond Fraenkel; work with Emergency Civil Liberties Committee 1951- : cases, including Coplon, 1952, Travis, 1966, House Un-American Activities Committee hearings, Vietnam opposition cases, especially Julian Bond in 1965, Benjamin Spock, William Sloan Coffin, and Philip Berrigan in 1968, Iranian litigation over frozen assets, defence of Socialist Workers Party, Church of Scientology, Unification Church; criteria for accepting clients; disputes with judges and U.S. government; personal life including relationship with daughter Kathy Boudin and reflections on her activities; opinions of American judicial system

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Copyright by The Trustees of Colombia University in the City of New York, 1983

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