Boris I. Bittker papers, 1939-2006 (inclusive), 1959-1986 (bulk).

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Boris I. Bittker papers, 1939-2006 (inclusive), 1959-1986 (bulk).

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The papers consist of correspondence, legal pleadings, memoranda, newspaper clippings, reports, subject files, and writings that document Boris I. Bittker's career as a professor at Yale Law School from 1946 to 2006. In addition to voluminous materials relating to taxation, the papers also include correspondence and subject files relating to Bittker's book, Case for Black Reparations (1973), and a small amount of materials relating to his role in the prosecution of the case of Ex Parte Quirin as a lawyer in the Office of Lend-Lease Administration from 1942-1943.

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Yale Law School

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In the first decade of the nineteenth century, Seth P. Staples (Yale 1797) opened a school for law students in New Haven. In 1824 the school became affiliated with Yale College. The college conferred its first law degrees in 1843. The course of study originally extended for two years, and in 1896 it was lengthened to three years. Subsequently a college degree became a prerequisite for the Bachelor of Laws degree. Graduate courses leading to advanced degrees began in 1876. In 1926 honors courses ...

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Bittker, Boris I.

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Boris Irving Bittker was born on November 16, 1916, in Rochester, New York. He received his B.A. from Cornell University in 1938. Bittker attended Yale Law School and obtained his LL.B. in 1941. He clerked for Judge Jerome N. Frank on the U. S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Bittker worked as an attorney in the Office of Emergency Management, Foreigh Economic Administration (Lend-Lease Administration) from 1942 until he was inducted into the Army. He served as an infantryman in Europe ...