Michael Smith and Herbert Packer research materials on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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Michael Smith and Herbert Packer research materials on the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit

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Research materials collected by Michael Smith and Herbert Packer for a book they planned on writing about the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. The materials include court opinions, interviews about several judges who sat on the court's bench, and some of Augustus Hand's correspondence.

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Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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SNAC Resource ID: 7998880

Harvard Law School Library Langdell Hall Cambridge, MA 02138

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Professor Herbert Packer, of Stanford Law School (1956-1972) began gathering these research materials on the Second Circuit in order to write a history of the court. His research was cut short by his death in 1972 and Professor Michael Smith of Berkeley Law School took up the project. Professor Smith was not able to complete the book before his death in 2009. Professor Michael E. Smith, 1935-2009, spent his career as a professor of law at the University of California, Berkeley, School of Law, jo...

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