James A. Rahl (1917-1994) Papers 1938-1995 1960-1989

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James A. Rahl (1917-1994) Papers 1938-1995 1960-1989

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James Andrew Rahl received his J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1942. During his career, he was employed with the Litigation Section of the Enforcement Branch, United States Office of Price Administration, and liaison officer to the Joint Congressional Committee to Investigate the Pearl Harbor Disaster. Rahl joined the faculty at the Northwestern School of Law in 1946. He served as dean of the school from 1972 through 1977 and, in 1974, was appointed Northwestern's first Owen L. Coon Professor of Law. The James A. Rahl papers are arranged into five broad categories: biographical information and general correspondence, records relating to the administration of the Northwestern University School of Law, curricular records pertaining to Rahl's teaching at Northwestern, materials germane to his consulting and legal work along with other topical files and his presentations and publications.

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Rahl, James A.

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James Andrew Rahl was born in Wooster, Ohio on October 8, 1917. He received his B.S. degree in Speech in 1939 from Northwestern University and his J.D. from the Northwestern University School of Law in 1942. In his last year at the Northwestern School of Law, he served as editor in chief of the Illinois Law Review and was also president of the school's Junior Bar Association. After graduation, Rahl moved to Washington, D.C. where he was employed with the Litigation Section of the En...