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Robert Lee Hale papers
Hale, Robert L. (Robert Lee), 1884-1969
4078851
MS#0535
English
/repositories/2/resources/2630
13 linear feet
26 boxes
1912-1958
Professional correspondence, manuscripts, course materials, and printed works documenting the education and career of Robert Lee Hale (1884-1969), economist and Columbia University professor of law.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
Source of acquisition--Hale, Robert Lee Hale, Jr. via Law Library. Method of acquisition--Gift and transfer; Date of acquisition--1976. Accession number--M-76.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Lee Hale (1884-1969) was an economist and professor of law at Columbia University School of Law.
Biographical / Historical
Robert Lee Hale was born in Albany, New York on March 9, 1884. He graduated from Harvard College in 1906 and Harvard Law School in 1909. He practiced law until 1913, then taught economics at Columbia University, where he completed a Ph.D. in economics in 1918.
Biographical / Historical
Hale joined the faculty of the Columbia University School of Law in 1918 and became a full professor of law in 1935. His classes and published works focused on the intersection of economics and law. He approached legal scholarship through the framework of legal realism, which advocated applying the principles of scientific inquiry to jurisprudence as a means of coping with the inherent ambiguity of the law. Hale's best-known works are
Valuation and Rate-Making: The Conflicting Theories of the Wisconsin Railroad Commission, 1905-17 (1918) and Freedom Through Law: Public Control of Private Governing Power (1952). Upon his retirement from full-time teaching in 1949, he was granted professor emeritus status.
Biographical / Historical
Hale married Dorothea Keep on December 20, 1913. They had one child, Robert Lee Hale, Jr. Robert Lee Hale died in Stamford, Connecticut on September 1, 1969.
Preferred Citation
Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Robert Lee Hale Papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Libraries.
Processing Information
Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 06/--/89.
Scope and Contents
Professional correspondence, manuscripts, course materials, and printed works documenting the education and career of Robert Lee Hale (1884-1969), economist and Columbia University professor of law. Prominent correspondents of Hale's include Louis Brandeis, Benjamin N. Cardozo, Felix Frankfurter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., Harlan Fiske Stone, and William Howard Taft. Many of these letters deal with contemporary cases before the Supreme Court. There are also materials Hale used in classes he taught at Columbia University. His notes, manuscripts, and typescripts for many of his articles and papers, along with correspondence relating to them, are included in the collection. In addition, there are extensive mimeographed copies of Hale's unpublished works, including the five editions of his
Legal Factors in Economic Society, which he used as a classroom text between 1935 and 1947. Finally, there are academic papers from Hale's years at Harvard College and Harvard Law School.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction
Reproductions may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.
Accruals
Gift of Warren J. Samuels, 1990.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged in three series. Subseries I.1 is arranged in alphabetical order by the correspondent's last name. The remaining materials in the collection are largely grouped by subject and are arranged in alphabetical order. Selected material cataloged; remainder listed and arranged.
Processing Information
Materials were intellectually arranged into series at the same time the finding aid was converted to EAD. The biographical note was also expanded. Nothing in the collection was physically rearranged.
Accruals
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. Contact rbml@columbia.edu for more information.
Law -- Study and teaching
College teachers
Lawyers
Law and economics
Brandeis, Louis Dembitz, 1856-1941
Cardozo, Benjamin N (Benjamin Nathan), 1870-1938
Frankfurter, Felix, 1882-1965
Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr., 1841-1935
Stone, Harlan Fiske, 1872-1946
Taft, William H (William Howard), 1857-1930
Columbia University -- : Faculty
Harvard University -- : Students
Harvard Law School -- : Students
Series I: Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220427Scope and ContentsSeries I contains Hale's professional correspondence. Much of the correspondence in Subseries I.2 discusses Hale's law review articles.
Subseries I.1: Cataloged correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220428Baruch, Bernard M./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204291Beard, Charles A./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204301Berle, Adolph A., Jr./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204311Black, Hugo L./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204321Bliven, Bruce/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204331Burlingham, Charles C./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204341Burton, Harold H./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204351Butler, Nicholas Murray/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204361Brandeis, Louis D./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204371Cardozo, Benjamin N./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204381Dewey, John/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204391Douglas, Paul H./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204401Douglas, William O./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204411Fisher, Walter L./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204421Frank, Jerome New/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204431Frankfurter, Felix/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204441Gay, Edwin F./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204451Hand, Learned/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204461Holmes, Oliver Wendell/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204471Johnson, Alvin/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204481Lerner, Max/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204491Lippmann, Walter/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204501Lowell, Abbott Lawrence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204511McAneny, George/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204521Moon, Parker T./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204531Pound, Roscoe/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204541Robinson, Geroid Tanquary/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204551Rosenberg, James N./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204561Seligman, Edwin R. A./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204571Simkhovitch, Vladimir G./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204581Stone, Harlan Fiske/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204591Taft, William Howard/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204601Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220461Academy of Political Science meeting/repositories/2/archival_objects/122046319303Berle-Hale correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204644Carbons of copies of letters from others praising Hale's articles (originals believed sent to publisher)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204654Carver article correspondence ("Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State")/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204662"Commissions, Rates, and Policies" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204672Commons-Hale correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204682"Conflicting Judicial Criteria of Utility Rates" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204692Constitutional rights against private individuals correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204702Contract impairment article correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204712Correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204721912-19589Correspondence and manuscripts from Thomas W. Holland/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204737Correspondence re: N. T. Guernsey/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204745Correspondence with H. G. Brown/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204752Correspondence with Nicholas Kelly/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204763Correspondence with publishers/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204776Correspondence with T. R. Powell/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204785Criticism of constitutional system/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204793"Duress" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204802Early letters and materials re: single tax etc./repositories/2/archival_objects/12204815"Economics and the Statesman" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204822"The 'Fair Value' Merry-Go-Round" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204832"Force and the State" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204842"Does the Ghost of Smyth v Ames Still Walk?" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204852Hale-Arthur S. Miller correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204865Hale's letters to the editor/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204873Harvard alumni bulletin/repositories/2/archival_objects/122048819125Hope natural gas article/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204892"Judicial policy" (Arthur R. Burns)/repositories/2/archival_objects/122049019413Correspondence on labor legislation as an enlargement of individual liberties/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204912Letters, scrap-book material, etc/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204925Minna L. R. brief/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204933Miscellaneous correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204942Miscellaneous correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204955Miscellaneous correspondence: "Blue Box" (first group)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204963Miscellaneous correspondence: "Blue Box" (second group)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204975Miscellaneous Hale-Stone correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204983Miscellaneous letters/repositories/2/archival_objects/12204995Miscellaneous letters and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205005Miscellaneous letters and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205015Nebbia and Lindheimer articles/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205022"Our Equivocal Constitutional Guaranties" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205032"The 'Physical Value' Fallacy in Rate Cases" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205042Political and Economic Review correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205052Public lands/repositories/2/archival_objects/122050619125"Rate Making and the Revision of the Property Concept" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205072Research Council in the Social Sciences — letters and reports/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205084Sacco-Vanzetti correspondence and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205094"The Supreme Court and the Contract Clause" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205102"Unconstitutional Acts as Federal Crimes" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205112"Unconstitutional Conditions and Constitutional Rights" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205122"Law Making By Unofficial Minorities" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205132"Valuation and Rate Making" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205142"What is a 'Confiscatory' Rate?" correspondence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205152Series II: Teaching materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220516Scope and ContentsSeries II contains materials Hale used to teach his classes in the Columbia University economics department and at Columbia University School of Law. These include course outlines, lecture notes, exams, and course readings.
Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-coercive State/repositories/2/archival_objects/122051719Columbia School of Law curriculum studies/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205183Course material: Notes and miscellaneous exams/repositories/2/archival_objects/122052022Course material: Syllabi, exams, grades, Columbia Law Faculty/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205211919-195123Conditions Governing AccessClosed to researchers until 2026.
Course outline: Law of Industrial Relations/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205223Industrial Relations course materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/122052517Course outline: Legal Factors in Economic Society/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205234Materials: Legal Factors in Economic Society/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205346Examinations — Legal Factors course (including precursor)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205243Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205261935-194712Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205271935-194713Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205281935-194714Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205291935-194715Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5)/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205301935-194716Materials from instructor period — Columbia economics department/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220531circa 1913-19185Course material: Notes (mainly on Public Utilities)/repositories/2/archival_objects/122051921Public Utilities course materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205325Social Control in Economic Life course materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205336Outlines for Social Control in Economic Life course/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205353Social Control/repositories/2/archival_objects/122053618Social Control/repositories/2/archival_objects/122053719Series III: Research and scholarship/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220538Scope and ContentsSeries III contains notes and outlines, unpublished manuscripts, legal briefs, and published works by Hale and others. It also contains a small amount of Hale's coursework from Harvard University.
Amicus Curiae in Sweatt case [Sweatt v. Painter]/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220539circa 19506Book review manuscripts/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205408Book reviews of Freedom Through Law/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205415Chapters from early attempt to systematize legal-economic thoughts/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205427Correspondence and manuscripts on international discrimination/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205431920-19216Dewey, John cataloged manuscript/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205441Gardner's papers on Commons/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205453Hague brief re: freedom of assembly/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205463Hale's miscellaneous publications/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205475Harvard College report, Economics 6/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205481905 Spring8Harvard College thesis, Government 10/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205491905 Spring8Harvard College hour exam, report, thesis, Philosophy/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205501905 Fall8Harvard College lecture notes, Economics 12b/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205511905 Fall5Harvard College exam, Economics 2/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205521906 February 68Harvard Law School lecture notes, jurisprudence, Beale/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205531909 Spring4Harvard Law School report, Jurisprudence/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205541909 Spring8Manuscripts/repositories/2/archival_objects/122055519168Manuscripts and mimeographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/122055610Manuscripts and mimeographs/repositories/2/archival_objects/122055711Manuscripts by R. L. Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205587Manuscripts of "Coercion and Distribution"/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205596Manuscripts, probably drafts of Harvard Law Review volume 53/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220560circa 1939-19407Materials on public utilities/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205614Materials re: Freedom Through Law/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205623Materials re: Restrictive Covenant Cases/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205637Minutes of a seminar on government/repositories/2/archival_objects/122056419452Miscellaneous letters, notes and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205654Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205664Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205676Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205687Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205697Miscellaneous manuscripts of Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/1220570circa 1910s2Miscellaneous manuscripts, pages, and notes/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205718Miscellaneous materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205724Miscellaneous notes and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205735Miscellaneous notes and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205746Miscellaneous notes and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205757Miscellaneous notes and materials/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205768Miscellaneous notes, letters and outlines/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205773Miscellaneous outlines and notes re: law and economics/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205783Miscellaneous papers/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205798New York College Teachers Union/repositories/2/archival_objects/122058019404National Lawyers Guild/repositories/2/archival_objects/122058119404Political and Economic Review/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205825Printed - miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/122058326Printed - miscellaneous/repositories/2/archival_objects/122058427Printed works by Robert L. Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/122058524Printed works by Robert L. Hale/repositories/2/archival_objects/122058625Publications by Hale in labor law/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205874Sacco/Vanzetti material/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205889The Valley News editorial/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205893University of Chicago Mobilization Conference/repositories/2/archival_objects/122059019514Unpublished review of Carver/repositories/2/archival_objects/12205916Works by others/repositories/2/archival_objects/122059220