Louis Jaffe papers

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Louis Jaffe papers

1928-1976

This collection documents the professional career of Louis Jaffe. This collection includes correspondence, arbitration work, case notes, writings, readings, and teaching and administrative materials.

15 linear feet (in 37 boxes.)

eng, Latn

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Jaffe, Louis Leventhal, 1905-1996

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Louis L. Jaffe was born in Seattle in 1905, and spent much of his youth in San Francisco. He graduated from John Hopkins University in 1924 at the age of 19, and then entered into the Class of 1928 at Harvard Law School. As a law student he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review and ranked third in his graduating class. After he graduated, he became a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis, where he worked for three years. After completing his clerkship, he tried unsuccessfully...