Albert Lévitt Papers

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Albert Lévitt Papers, 1817-1968

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Albert Lévitt Papers

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1817-1968

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http://id.lib.harvard.edu/ead/law00067/catalog

Abstract

The 5500 items in the papers of Judge Albert Lévitt (1887-1968) span the years 1927-1937 and 1965-1968; a small number of research items used by Judge Lévitt date back to the early 1920s and to the 1800s. The collection includes correspondence, notes, memoranda, reports, minutes of meetings, bibliographies, government and legal documents, drafts, newspaper clippings, photographs, an outline of an uncompleted manuscript, files of index cards, partial files of newspapers, pamphlets, copies of magazines, printed parliamentary debates, and books. The books are association copies, and most of them have either marginal annotations, marginal check-marks, and/or slips marking special places of reference. All of the parliamentary debates are marked with both slips and check-marks. The papers cover two distinct periods of Judge Lévitt's life. The first group covers roughly the years 1927-1937 when he taught at the Brooklyn Law School of St. Lawrence University (1927-1930), his professional and political activities in Connecticut from 1930-1933, and his service as a Special Assistant Attorney General of the U.S. (1933-1935, 1936-1937), as a Representative of the U.S. Department of Justice on a Committee of Advisors on the Codification of Nationality Laws of the U.S. (1933-1935), and as a Judge of the U.S. District Court of the Virgin Islands (1935-1936). These papers contain his study of, and research materials in, international treaties, nationality and comparative law; his court papers; and some personal/professional miscellany. The second group consists mainly of research material which Judge Lévitt collected and received in connection with his study of the crisis in Rhodesia following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence on November 11, 1965, and with his proposals and efforts for a reconciliation between Rhodesia and the British Crown. Among Judge Lévitt's correspondents were: Sir Hugh Beadle, Chief Justice, High Court of Rhodesia; Clifford Dupont, Officer Administering the Government, Rhodesia; D.W. Lardner-Burke, Minister of Justice, Rhodesia; Oliver Sprague; Sir Robert Tredgold, Rhodesia; Sir Roy Welensky, Prime Minister, Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland; Patrick Wall, M.P., House of Commons, Great Britian. The arrangement which Judge Lévitt had imposed upon his files, including Series titles and folder headings, has been preserved.

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44 boxes and 16 Paige boxes

Languages

eng, Latn

Holding Repository

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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SNAC Resource ID: 6385728

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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