University of Alabama - Correspondence & Memoranda – Extensive collection of correspondence and memoranda written during Daniel Meador's tenure as Dean of University of Alabama School of Law; J. Edward Thornton, Ray Forrester, & John G. Hervey, Feasibility Study on Acquisition of Jones Law School and the Operation of Same as a State-Related Law School (c. 1967); Dean Ray Forrester, Dean John G. Hervey, & J. Edward Thornton, A Memorandum Submitted to the Committee Studying the Question of Whether the State of Alabama Should Establish Another State-Supported Law School (Feb. 20, 1967); memorandum, The Alabama Law Institute (Nov. 4, 1968) [proposal for funding of a State Law Institute in Alabama, written by Daniel Meador, Hugh Merrill, David Mathews, Samuel Pipes, and L. Vastine Stabler]; Memorandum, W. Taylor Reveley III, Report on the Alabama Law Review (Oct. 21, 1968); Memorandum, Location of the University of Alabama School of Law (May, 1969) [written by UA Law faculty members]; L. Vastine Stabler, Memorandum, The Alabama Law Institute and its Relationship to the University (July 7, 1969); John Ritchie, Dean of Northwestern University School of Law, Report on the Proposed Law Center at the University of Alabama (July 28, 1969); Memorandum from Daniel Meador to Edward M. Friend Jr., Failure of the President and the Administration of the University of Alabama to support the Law School in Program of Development and Its Drive for Excellence, 1969-1970 (Mar. 3, 1970); Julian B. McDonnell, An Experiment in Southern Educational Reform: The University of Alabama School of Law, 1966-1970; correspondence with Dean Hardy C. Dillard (1965); Alex S. Pow (1965-1968); Dean M. Leigh Harrison (1965); Robert McD. Smith (1965); UA President Frank A. Rose (1966-1969); Justice Thomas Seay Lawson (1968-1969); Gov. Albert P. Brewer (1968-1969); Forrest David Mathews (1968-1969); John C. H. Miller Jr. (1968); John Gaines Hervey (1968); Howell T. Heflin (1968); Douglas Arant (1968); Raymond F. McLain, Vice. Pres. For Academic Affairs, UA (1968-1970); AG MacDonald Gallion (1968); Oakley Melton Jr. (1968); Edward M. Friend Jr. (1968-1970); Prof. Robert L. Plunkett (1969); Hugh D. Merrill Jr. (1969); Prof. L. Vastine Stabler (1969); Prof. W. Taylor Reveley III (1969-1970); Edward S. Allen (1969); A. Leo Levin (1969); Prof. Willard F. Gray (1969); Prof. Igor I. Kavass (1969); Justice Hugo L. Black (1970); Prof. Frank R. Strong (1970); James B. Kobak Jr. (1970); Fournier J. Gale III (1970)

Containers:
Box MSS 82-3e, Box 29
Scope and content:

(3 folders)

Access and use

Location of collection:
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