Hardy Cross Dillard papers

Access and use

Location of collection:
University of Virginia, Special Collections Dept.
Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library
University of Virginia
P.O. Box 400110
160 McCormick Rd
Charlottesville, Virginia 22904-4110
Contact for questions and access:
POC: Brenda Gunn
Phone: (434) 924-1037
Phone: (434) 243-1776
Fax: (434) 924-4968

Summary

Extent:
41 Cubic Feet 99 archival boxes, plus some oversize folders
Language:
English

Background

Scope and content:

The addition to the Hardy Cross Dillard Papers (six linear feet in 12 boxes) contains the bulk of the records documenting his nine years on the International Court of Justice. Included are files on the cases brought to the ICJ from 1970 to 1979, as well as extensive records concerning the Beagle Channel Case heard by a Court of Arbitration on which Dillard served from 1971 to 1977. The files for each ICJ case contain memoranda and notes in addition to assorted annotated documents for most of them. Dillard was chairman of the ICJ Rules Revision Committee in the mid-70's, and that work is documented. Finally, there are miscellaneous ICJ documents, general memoranda, and correspondence. The correspondence (20 folders) here, as in the earlier gift, contains letters from personal as well as professional acquaintances; some frequent correspondents included Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga, Richard Baxter, Gerald Fitzmaurice and Phillip Jessup. Judge Dillard did much of his thinking on paper in memoranda to himself and to his colleagues on the Court. Consequently, there is substantial commentary on arguments of cases, as well as formulation of positions he felt the Court should take. The Beagle Channel Case is the most thoroughly documented, filling almost four boxes.

During World War II Dillard was quickly promoted from major to colonel. In late 1943 and early 1944 he served as director of training with the Civil Affairs Division of the First Army in England preparing for the aftermath of the invasion of France. His records of this work were filed in a box that he kept at the Law School, perhaps because for a number of years the papers were classified. The box was discovered by a secretary in a 1988 renovation move and transferred to the Archives.

[3 folders]

The bulk of this addition to the Hardy Cross Dillard Papers consists of his correspondence with personal as well as professional acquaintances for the years 1910-1971. Frequent correspondents include Phillip Jessup, Myres S. McDougal, Charlotte Kohler and Eberhard Deutsch, and occasional correspondents are such prominent figures as Robert Kennedy, Dean Rusk, John Stennis and George Kennan. Other legal scholars with whom Dillard corresponded include Lon Fuller, Arnold Wolfers and John Bassett Moore. These papers also contains several of Dillard's speeches, most of which deal with international relations. Several files pertain to his law practice, including the Almond v. Day case. Finally, several folders document Dillard's activities in university and alumni organizations.

Biographical / historical:

1902 - Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 23 October to James Hardy and Avarene Lippincott Budd Dillard

1911-1912 - Lived in France and attended a French Lycee

1915-1916 - Attended high school in Charlottesville, Virginia

1916-1919 - Attended and graduated from Virginia EpiscopalSchool, Lynchburg, Va.

1919-1920 - Attended University of Virginia

1920-1924 - Attended and graduated from United States Military Academy

1924-1927 - Attended and graduated from University of Virginia Law School

1926 - Summer law clerk, Price, Smith and Spillman, Charleston, W. Va.

1927 - Admitted to Virginia Bar

1927-1929 - Acting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Law School

1928 - Travelled in England, France, Italy and Algiers

1929-1930 - Practiced law at Gregg and Church, New York, N.Y.

1930-1931 - Carnegie Endowment Fellow, (Faculte de droit,) University of Paris

1931-1933 - Acting assistant (associate?) professor, University of Virginia Law School

1932-1933 - Summer associate, Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner and Reed, New York, N.Y.

1933-1938 - Associate Professor, University of Virginia Law School

1934 - Married Janet Gray Schauffler

1935 - Birth of Joan Jarvis Dillard

1937-1940 - Assistant Dean, University of Virginia Law School

1937-1970 - Advisory Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review

1938-1970 - Professor, University of Virginia Law School

1937 - Birth of Hardy Schauffler Dillard

1938-1942 - Director, Institute of Public Affairs

1942 - Major, U.S. Army; promoted to Lt. Colonel, same year

1942-1945 - Received command and staff assignments in Europe and Far East; awarded Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and Bronze Star Medal

1943 - Promoted to Colonel, U.S. Army

1943-1944 - Director of Academic Instruction, School for Military Government

1946 - First Director of Studies, National War College

1947-1950 - Consultant, Brookings Institution

1947 - Resumed teaching at University of Virginia Law School

1948 - Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve

1949-1952 - Member of Board of Consultants, National War College

1949 - Member, Civilian Advisory Group, National War College

1950 - Active duty in International Section, Pentagon; Legal Consultant, Office of High Commissioner for Germany; Lecturer, France and Germany

1951-1954 - Member, Board of Consultants, National War College

1952-1961 - Trustee, Virginia Episcopal School

1953 - Fulbright Lecturer, Oxford University

1957 - Summer active duty, Judge Advocate General's School

1956 - Civilian Consultant, Army War College

1956-1962 - Editor, Virginia Bar News

1957 - Carnegie Lecturer, Hague Academy of International Law

1957 - Recipient, Raven Award

1957 - Consultant, NATO Defense College in France

1958-1970 - James Monroe Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School

1962 - Secretary, Defense Committee on Non-technical Instruction in Armed Forces

1962 - Lecturer, Egyptian Society of International Law and University of Cairo

1962-1963 - Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University

1962-1963 - President, American Society of International Law

1963-1979 -Member of Council, American Law Institute

1963-1968 - Dean, University of Virginia Law School

1965 - Member, Virginia Magna Charta Commission

1965 - Member, Special Advisory Committee, Air Force Academy

1966-1970 - Permanent Advisory Council, Air Force Academy

1966 - Sibley Lecturer, University of Georgia

1967 - Recipient, Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Virginia

1967 - Member, UNESCO Committee on the Role of UNESCO in the Teaching and Dissemination of International Law

1967 - Tucker Lecturer, Washington and Lee Law School

1967 - Bailey Lecturer, Louisiana State University

1968 - Member, Virginia Commission on Constitution Revision

1970 - Recipient of Distinguished Civilian Award, U.S. Air Force

1970-1979 - Judge, International Court of Justice, The Hague

1970 - Death of Janet Schauffler Dillard

1971 - Member, Arbitral Tribunal, Beagle Channel Case between Chile and Argentina

1971 - Recipient of Honorary Degree, Tulane University

1972 - Married Valgerdur Nielsen Dent

1976 - Recipient of Honorary Degree, Washington College, Maryland

1977 - Mooers Lecturer, American University

1979 - Recipient of the Wolfgang Friedman Memorial Award, Columbia University

1979 - Honorary president, American Law Institute

1982 - Died on 12 May in Charlottesville, Virginia

Acquisition information:
The papers of Hardy Cross Dillard were donated in nine installments, the first deposited at the Law Library by Dillard beginning in 1963. His widow, Valgerdur N. Dillard, donated further papers on 31 October 1984.
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