<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><ead xmlns="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="urn:isbn:1-931666-22-9 https://www.loc.gov/ead/ead.xsd"><eadheader countryencoding="iso3166-1" dateencoding="iso8601" langencoding="iso639-2b" repositoryencoding="iso15511"><eadid countrycode="US" mainagencycode="US-ViU-L" url="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/165362"/><filedesc><titlestmt><titleproper>Dean's Advisory Committee records - University of Virginia School of Law<num>RG.32.311</num></titleproper></titlestmt><publicationstmt><publisher>Arthur J. Morris Law Library Special Collections</publisher><p id="logostmt"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://www.law.virginia.edu/sites/default/files/styles/1_scale_large/public/images/uva_law_centered_K.png" xlink:show="embed" xlink:type="simple"/></p><address><addressline>Arthur J. Morris Law Library</addressline><addressline>580 Massie Road</addressline><addressline>University of Virginia</addressline><addressline>Charlottesville, Virginia 22903</addressline><addressline>archives@law.virginia.edu</addressline><addressline>URL: <extptr xlink:href="http://archives.law.virginia.edu/" xlink:show="new" xlink:title="http://archives.law.virginia.edu/" xlink:type="simple"/></addressline></address></publicationstmt></filedesc><profiledesc><creation>This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on <date>2026-07-02 14:01:43 +0000</date>.</creation><langusage>Description is written in: <language langcode="eng" scriptcode="Latn">English, Latin script</language>.</langusage><descrules>Describing Archives: A Content Standard</descrules></profiledesc></eadheader><archdesc level="collection">
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    <head>Scope and Contents</head>
<p>These records consist of committee memoranda.</p>  </scopecontent>
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    <head>Immediate Source of Acquisition</head>
<p>These files were transferred to the archives by Larry Wenger, then library director, in 1988.</p>  </acqinfo>
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    <head>Biographical / Historical</head>
<p>The Dean's Advisory Committee was created by Dean Richard Merrill in the early 1980s, to study the internal planning of the Law School as required by Edwin E. Floyd, University of Virginia Vice President and Provost. Members of the committee were professors Thomas F. Bergin, Harry Lane Kneedler III, Saul Levmore, Graham Lilly, Harvey S. Perlman, W. Laurens walker and Larry B. Wenger.</p>  </bioghist>
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Merrill to Edwin E. Floyd re: Academic Planning: Law School Program Components</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134368" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216268</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1982-10-18/1982-10-18">1982-10-18</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_56a6ab0215a2e1f713930eed5551e97c" level="item"><did><unittitle>Memorandum from Albert R. Turnbull to Dean Merrill re: Academic Planning: Law School Program Components</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134369" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216269</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1982-11-08/1982-11-08">1982-11-08</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_b8e9c2d84248bc2ff8c1c90fc8263981" level="item"><did><unittitle>UVA Memorandum re: Draft list of the Academic Subfields of the School of the University of Virginia (non-medical areas)</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134366" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216266</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1982-12-13/1982-12-13">1982-12-13</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_5ebc5cd7c575a3cd64f59dd578106b6e" level="item"><did><unittitle>Memorandum from Dean Merrill to Profs. Bergin, Kneedler, Levmore, Lilly, Perlman, Walker,  Wenger re: Dean's Advisory Committee</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134371" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216271</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983-01-07/1983-01-07">1983-01-07</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_2bd139a3107968e46af474f233d9a4cf" level="item"><did><unittitle>Compilation of Law School course enrollments</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134373" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216273</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1979/1980" type="inclusive">1979-1980</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_df93a4ecd779e6f5a208f71ff056ce3d" level="item"><did><unittitle>From Larry Wenger to Dean's Advisory Committee re: Library Budget Information </unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134374" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216274</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983-01-21/1983-01-21">1983-01-21</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_da8f4bf83ac8353d43b9395d174846ed" level="item"><did><unittitle>From Lane Kneedler to Dean's Advisory Committee re: Budgets for Selected Law School Administrative Offices; Non-Library Classified Personnel</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134376" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="ark-superseded"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134375" xlink:show="new">Previous Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216275</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983-02-04/1983-02-04">1983-02-04</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_64e804e738be993ce5a4a9d3c805cbb0" level="item"><did><unittitle>[UVA] Office of Institutional Planning &amp; Studies tables re: "productivity"</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134377" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216276</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983-01-21/1983-01-21">1983-01-21</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_196c7ea94a495c67b22f62b2051d4f74" level="item"><did><unittitle>University of Virginia School of Law Faculty Positions [handwritten list]</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134378" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216277</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1981/1983" type="inclusive">1981-1983</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_15c94ed0d420ae69890d834e71a8f73c" level="item"><did><unittitle>Outline of Law School Report to the Provost of 1983. Academic Planning Process</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134379" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216278</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983-02-28/1983-02-28">1983-02-28</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_0c89184f14c1c417a49ed59315217d2c" level="item"><did><unittitle>University of Virginia Law School State-Funded Faculty Positions</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134380" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216279</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983-03/1983-03">1983-03</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_4ff66c70abb67dd0739c4f7fc2cfe946" level="item"><did><unittitle>Law Library [report]</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134381" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216280</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983/1983">1983</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_33e734a01aaf60f03e6c01dac7157877" level="item"><did><unittitle>Memorandum from Edwin E. Floyd to Deans and Faculty of Provost-Area Schools re: Toward and academic plan</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134382" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216281</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1983-11-10/1983-11-10">1983-11-10</unitdate></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_c13ac8894c5c80d693f60f1452c553ef" level="item"><did><unittitle>University of  Virginia Planning Assumptions 1986-1990. Developed and Approved by the Vice Presidential Planning Group on August 14, 1984</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134383" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216282</unitid></did></c02><c02 id="aspace_36ba0928ddb19881daed47c4ab0c8a85" level="item"><did><unittitle>From Nancy Bertram to Deans R. Carey, R. Chioni, J. Cooper, H. Kelly, T. McKeon, R. Merrill, J. Robertson, J. Rosenblum, A. Sedgwick, W. Shenkir, E. Starke, D. Whitehead re: INternal and External Planning assumptions</unittitle><unitid type="ark"><extref xlink:actuate="onLoad" xlink:href="https://archives.lib.virginia.edu/ark:/59853/134384" xlink:show="new">Archival Resource Key</extref></unitid><unitid type="aspace_uri">/repositories/4/archival_objects/216283</unitid><unitdate datechar="creation" normal="1986-05-22/1986-05-22">1986-05-22</unitdate></did></c02></c01></dsc>
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