Description: Papers of Jefferson B. Fordham (1905-1994), AALS President (1970) and Dean of the University of Pennsylvania Law School (1952-70), include reports and correspondence regarding Special Committee on a Full-Time Director for the Association (1961-62), Special Committee on the Status, Function and Future of the AALS (1958), Committee on Paralegal Education (1958), Advisory Committee of the Journal of Legal Education (1962), Special Committee on Graduate Instruction (1964), John Birch Society (1961-62), and University of Mississippi Law School (1962). Correspondents include Walter Gellhorn (President, 1963), Melvin B. Shium (Editor, Journal of Legal Education), Samuel D. Thurman (President, 1962), and Paul Veblen.
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