Research Catalog
American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel records
- Title
- American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel records, 1938-1945.
- Author
- American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel.
- Supplementary Content
- Finding Aid
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 3.2 linear feet (8 boxes).
- Summary
- Records consist of correspondence of David Riesman, mainly with refugee lawyers, deans of American law schools, legal scholars, and practicing attorneys relative to the organization and funding of the Committee, and the provision of fellowships to refugee lawyers seeking retraining in American law schools.
- Subjects
- Photographs
- Law > United States > Fellowships, scholarships, etc
- Jewish refugees > United States
- Law schools > United States > Admission
- Law schools > United States > Societies, etc
- Jewish lawyers > United States
- Lawyers, Foreign > United States
- Lawyers > United States
- Association of American Law Schools
- University of Buffalo > School of Law
- American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel
- Genre/Form
- Photographs.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Source (note)
- Emergency Committee in Aid of Displaced Foreign Scholars
- Biography (note)
- The American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel was formed in December, 1938, as a result of a meeting in Chicago of the Association of American Law Schools. Its purpose was to provide fellowships in the United States for refugee lawyers, many of Jewish origin, who sought retraining in American law schools.
- Processing Action (note)
- Surveyed
- Cataloging updated
- Call Number
- MssCol 68
- OCLC
- NYPW89-A271
- Author
- American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel.
- Title
- American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel records, 1938-1945.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Manuscripts and Archives Division; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Biography
- The American Committee for the Guidance of Professional Personnel was formed in December, 1938, as a result of a meeting in Chicago of the Association of American Law Schools. Its purpose was to provide fellowships in the United States for refugee lawyers, many of Jewish origin, who sought retraining in American law schools. A selection committee was created to screen applicants. David Riesman of the University of Buffalo Law School and later Harvard was its secretary. Other members included Edmund M. Morgan, chairman; Arthur A. Ballantine, treasurer; Carl J. Friedrich; and Philip W. Amram.
- Finding Aids
- Collection guide available in repository and on internet.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Riesman, David, 1909-Morgan, Edmund M., Jr. (Edmund Morris), 1878-1966.Amram, Philip Werner, 1900-Ballantine, Arthur A. (Arthur Atwood), 1883-Fraenkel, Ernst, 1898-Friedrich, Carl J. (Carl Joachim), 1901-Littauer, Rudolph M.Franck, Peter Goswyn.Mendelsohn, Walter.
- Research Call Number
- MssCol 68