Geoffrey Cornell Hazard Papers 1947-1978

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Geoffrey Cornell Hazard Papers 1947-1978

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Correspondence, notes, drafts, clippings of cases from court reporters, all relating to Hazard's work as principal writer of Restatement of the Law: Second Judgements (St. Paul, American Law Institute Publishers, 1982).

3 linear feet (7 boxes)

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives

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American Law Institute

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The American Law Institute (ALI) is a research and advocacy group of judges, lawyers, and legal scholars established in 1923 to promote the clarification and simplification of United States common law and its adaptation to changing social needs. Members of ALI include law professors, practicing attorneys, judges and other professionals in the legal industry. ALI writes documents known as "treatises", which are summaries of state common law (legal principles that come out of state court decisions...

Hazard, Geoffrey Cornell, 1929-

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Geoffrey C. Hazard Jr. was born in 1929, received his B.A. from Swarthmore College in 1953, and his LL.B. from Columbia Law School in 1954, where he was an editor of the Law Review. After graduation from law school, Hazard was admitted to the Oregon Bar and practiced law with the firm of Hart, Spencer, McCulloch and Rockwood in Portland. In 1957 he was appointed Executive Secretary of the Oregon Legislative Interim Committee on Judicial Administration. One year later he ...