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Series I: Briefs, Opinions, Speeches & Writings, 1926-1997
Series II: Columbia University
Series V: Benjamin Cardozo, 1931-1988
Series VII: Audio/Visual Material
Series VIII: Awards and Certificates

Milton Handler papers, 1923-1997

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Series III: Projects and Subjects

There are 16.5 linear feet of records in this group which is composed of several series. One series consists of records regarding commissions. Professor Handler served on several important commissions during his career. Included in the series on commissions are drafts of commission reports, correspondence, and related government studies, as well as the commission reports themselves. Handler's activity in Jewish affairs is reflected in the series of records, Jewish Interests, which documents his involvement in this area. It includes clippings, reports, correspondence, and programs. Notable is his co-authored brief entitled "Basic Equities of the Palestine Problem" which was submitted to the United Nations to effect acceptance and establishment of the State of Israel. Considerable documentation on the Truman Centre for the Advancement of Peace and other key activities involving the growth and development of Hebrew University also can be found in this series. Professor Handler helped to draft important legislation during the administration of Franklin D. Roosevelt. Some of the background material for this and later antitrust legislation, such as the bill to overrule Illinois Brick and the Hart-Scott Amendment, is in Record Group III, Series 5, Legislation & Senate Hearings, A-Z.

Subseries III.1: Clippings File


Box 113 Clients, 1960-1978

Box 113 Corporations, 1962-1974

Box 113 Court Justice, 1977-1979

Box 113 Crime in U.S., 1967-1970

Box 113 Foreign Policy, 1961-1980

Box 113 Miscellaneous, 1980-1986, (4 folders)


Box 114 "Asking For Trouble in South Africa."--The Atlantic Magazine, 1977

Box 114 Supreme Court, 1968-1979

Box 114 Utilities, 1961-1966

Box 114 Vatican Council, 1965

Subseries III.2: Commissions

Attorney General's National Committee to Study Antitrust Laws


Box 115 Background Material, 1950-1955, (5 folders)


Box 116 Correspondence, 1953-1956, (6 folders)


Box 117 Drafts and Reports, 1954-1955


Box 118 Drafts and Reports, 1954-1955


Box 119 Drafts and Reports, 1954-1955


Box 120 Drafts and Reports, 1954-1955

Commission on Revision of Federal Court Appellate System

Box 120 Correspondence, 1975

Box 120 Preliminary Report, 1975

Box 120 Testimonies, 1974-1975

Box 120 Commission to Study the FTC, 1978-1979


Box 121 Commission to Study the FTC, 1980

Box 121 State Study Commission for New York City--1971

Subseries III.3: Projects and Subjects


Box 122 Correspondence, 1979-1982, (5 folders)


Box 123 General, 1981, (5 folders)

Subseries II.4: Jewish Topics


Box 124 American Jewish Commission on the Holocaust Report, 1983, (4 folders)

Box 124 Analysis of Report, 1983, (4 folders)


Box 125 American Jewish Commission on the Holocaust Report--Related Correspondence,, 1983-1985, (2 folders)

Box 125 American Jewish Commission on the Holocaust Report--Related Material,, 1983, (2 folders)


Box 126 Jewish Academy of Arts and Sciences

Box 126 American Jewish Committee--MH presents the "Learned Hand Award" to George Katz,, 1985

Box 126 Milton Handler Series (Musical Composition)--Sheet Music of No. 36 "Uv'chayn Tayn Pachd'chaw" by Robert Segal

Jewish Relief

Box 126 American Zionist Movement, 1944-1945 1988, 1944-1945, 1988

Box 126 Correspondence, 1944-1945

Box 126 Newspaper Clippings, 1944-1945


Box 127 American Friends of Hebrew University

Box 127 Addresses, 1961-1977

Box 127 Correspondence, 1952-1970


Box 128 Correspondence, 1971-1976

Box 128 American Friends of Hebrew University for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem,, 1966-1977

Box 128 American Friends of Hebrew University, 1965

Box 128 Scopus Award, 1963

Box 128 Honorary Doctorate in Law

Box 128 Operating Manual, 1966

Box 128 Scrapbook, 1969

Box 128 Israel and the Middle East, 1962-1964

Box 128 American-Israeli Shipping Co., Inc.

Box 128 Philanthropies, 1942-1980


Box 129 Israel and the Middle East--Arab Boycott, 1962-1977

Box 129 Israel and the Middle East--General, 1949-1970

Box 129 Clippings, 1967-1975


Box 130 Israel and the Middle East--General, 1970-1983

Subseries III.5: Legislation and Senate Hearings


Box 131 List of MH Appearances before Congressional Hearings

Box 131 Albert-Marano Bill--Correspondence, 1960

Box 131 Amendment, 1973

Box 131 Anti-Ballistic Missile System--Correspondence Supporting Delay in Deployment,, 1969

Box 131 Department of Justice--Antitrust Law Study, 1977

Box 131 Antitrust Review and Revision, 1971

Box 131 Jackson Memo, undated

Box 131 Testimony before House Committee on the Judiciary--Emanual Celler Statements,, 1949-1952

Box 131 Testimony before House Committee on the Judiciary--Correspondence, 1949-1951

Box 131 Testimony before House Committee on the Judiciary--Newspaper Clippings,, 1949

Box 131 BMI Memos, 1956

Box 131 Clayton Act Amendments, 1950

Box 131 H.R. 7698 S. 311, Section 7--Memos and Correspondence, 1960-1961, 1960-1961


Box 132 Committee to Study the Antitrust Laws, 1960

Box 132 Coordination of State Activities (New York), 1957

Box 132 Consumer Class Action Legislation, 1969-1971

Box 132 Donnelly Act Revision--ABCNY Proposal, 1983

Box 132 Franchised Dealer Act S. 997, 1959

Box 132 GI Bill of Rights--Correspondence and Press Releases, 1944


Box 133 GI Bill of Rights, 1943-1944

Hart-Scott Antitrust Improvement Act

Box 133 ABA Resolution re: S. 1284 1975-1976, 1975-1976, (2 folders)

Box 133 Addresses by MH, 1975-1976

Box 133 Background Material, 1968-1976


Box 134 Congressional Record, 1975-1976, (5 folders)


Box 135 Congressional Record, 1976

Box 135 Correspondence, 1975, (4 folders)


Box 136 Correspondence, 1975-1976

Box 136 Form Letters, 1975-1976

Box 136 Remarks by Joe Sims, 1976

Box 136 Report of the Committee on the Judiciary, 1975-1976

Box 136 Testimony by Walker B. Comegys, 1975


Box 137 Updated Versions, 1975-1976, (2 folders)

Box 137 Hatch Act

Box 137 H.R. 3816 (Federal Trade Commission Amendments), 1977, 1977, (2 folders)

Box 137 Illinois Brick--Background Material, 1978


Box 138 Illinois Brick

Box 138 Briefs, 1976-1977

Box 138 Correspondence and Memoranda, 1977-1980, (4 folders)

Box 138 Pass-On Under The Antitrust Laws, by Jay Wishingrad and Douglas, 1980

Box 138 Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly--Hearing on S. 1874--Statement by Milton Handler and Michael Blechman

Box 138 Senate Committee on the Judiciary, Subcommittee on the Courts Hearing on S. 704 -- Bill to establish inter-circuit panel--MH article "What to Do with the Supreme Court's Burgeoning Calendars" submitted to hearing by Senator Edward Kennedy,, 1985


Box 139 Lasker/Newman Committee

Box 139 Background Material, 1978-1980


Box 140 Background Material, 1978-1980

Box 140 Correspondence, 1974-1975

Box 140 Correspondence, 1978-1981


Box 141 Correspondence, 1983

Box 141 National Economic Research Associates Report, 1979

Box 141 Random Thoughts, 1978

Box 141 Report of the Advisory Committee on Planning for the District Courts,, 1978

Box 141 Report of the Subcommittee on the Courts' External Environment, 1979

McCarran-Ferguson Act

Box 141 Articles and Statements, 1978-1980


Box 142 Articles and Statements, 1980

Box 142 Related Correspondence, 1979-1981

Box 142 Monopoly and Common Law Practice: Historical Survey

Box 142 Municipal Finance, 1972-1977, (2 folders)

Box 142 N.I.R.A. and the Antitrust Laws--Memorandum, 1934

Box 142 National Labor Board Decisions, 1933-1934

Box 142 National Labor Relations Act--"Labor Under the Blue Eagle" by Peter Irons,, 1980

Box 142 Patent Interchange Agreement, 1942-1947

Box 142 Robinson-Patman Act Amendment, 1957


Box 143 Select Committee on Small Business, 1950

Box 143 Sherman Act

Box 143 Tariff Act--Memoranda re: Legislation to Repeal Section 526, 1959

Box 143 Law Revision Commission of the State of New York--Trademark Law Revision,, 1948-1953, (3 folders)


Box 144 Volunteer Pension and Annuity Plans for the Self-Employed, 1956-1957

Subseries III.6: Organizations


Box 145 American Law Institute, 1942-1955, (2 folders)

Box 145 Antitrust Investigation Group, 1961-1963

Box 145 Association of the Bar of the City of New York--Milton Handler Lecture #1: "The Scope of 'Attempt to Monopolize'" by Donald Turner,, 1975

Box 145 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, 1972-1979

Box 145 Committee on Lectures and Continuing Education, 1978-1979

Box 145 General, 1963-1971


Box 146 Association of the Bar of the City of New York--General, 1972-1980

Kaye, Scholer, Fierman, Hays and Handler

Box 146 Assignments, 1978

Box 146 Contributions, 1976-1979

Box 146 Training Program, 1980

Subseries III.7: Other


Box 147 English Antitrust Law, 1956-1965

Box 147 Post World War II Treatment of Germany, 1944

Box 147 Einstein Papers--Correspondence re: MH's negotiation for Einstein's papers on behalf of Hebrew University

Subseries III.8: Additional Biographical Information


Box 206 Yearly Planners., 1939-1955


Box 207 Yearly Planners., 1956-1961


Box 208 Yearly Planners., 1961-1964


Box 209 Yearly Planners., 1965-1980


Box 210 Tributes to Milton Handler

Box 210 75th Birthday Cards and Letters, 1978

Box 210 80th Birthday Celebration, 1983

Box 210 85th Birthday Celebration, 1988

Box 210 Biographical File

(Contains "Who's Who" Articles and Index of Some Awards, and an Autobiographical Lecture)

Box 210 Miscellaneous Tributes and Articles

Box 210 Cornell University Library Oral History Project--Transcript of Interview,, 1970

Box 210 Oral History Notes and Memos

Box 210 Consumers' Research Magazine--Interview by M.C. Philips, 1976