John Winchester MacDonald papers, [ca. 1921-1974].

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John Winchester MacDonald papers, [ca. 1921-1974].

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Papers include professional and personal correspondence; diary, 1966; financial records; academic materials, including student files and papers, books, and notes; research files; client files; material concerning MacDonald's publications; reports to the New York State Law Revision Commission; and obituary notices. Subjects include the New Jersey Constitutional Convention, 1947; New Jersey Public Utility Statutes, ca.1947-1969; the Uniform Commercial Code; Comparative State Procedures; Fairview Heights, Ithaca, New York; Cornell Law School; the John W. MacDonald Fund; and other related topics.

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Cornell Law School.

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Permanent Editorial Board for the Uniform Commercial Code

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MacDonald, John Winchester, 1905-1981.

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Lawyer, professor of law. Cornell University Class of 1925, LL.B 1926, A.M. 1926. John W. MacDonald was a graduate of Cornell University, Canisius College, and the Army Industrial College. He joined the Cornell Law School faculty in 1930, was a visiting professor at Columbia University and at St. John's University, and lectured on crime and delinquency at St. Lawrence University. He was a director of several corporations, chaired the administrative committee of Cornell L...

New Jersey. Constitutional Convention (1947)

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New York (State). Law Revision Commission

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CURRENT FUNCTIONS. The Law Revision Commission analyzes State law and investigates issues affecting or affected by laws in order to make recommendations to the legislature for reforming and modernizing the law. It accomplishes this by examining New York State's common and statute law and current judicial decisions to discover defects and recommend reforms; receiving and considering proposed changes in the law from the American Law Institute, bar associations, the Commiss...