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Series II: Teaching materials
Series III: Research and scholarship

Robert Lee Hale papers, 1912-1958

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Series I: Correspondence

Series 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


Box 1 Baruch, Bernard M.

Box 1 Beard, Charles A.

Box 1 Berle, Adolph A., Jr.

Box 1 Black, Hugo L.

Box 1 Bliven, Bruce

Box 1 Burlingham, Charles C.

Box 1 Burton, Harold H.

Box 1 Butler, Nicholas Murray

Box 1 Brandeis, Louis D.

Box 1 Cardozo, Benjamin N.

Box 1 Dewey, John

Box 1 Douglas, Paul H.

Box 1 Douglas, William O.

Box 1 Fisher, Walter L.

Box 1 Frank, Jerome New

Box 1 Frankfurter, Felix

Box 1 Gay, Edwin F.

Box 1 Hand, Learned

Box 1 Holmes, Oliver Wendell

Box 1 Johnson, Alvin

Box 1 Lerner, Max

Box 1 Lippmann, Walter

Box 1 Lowell, Abbott Lawrence

Box 1 McAneny, George

Box 1 Moon, Parker T.

Box 1 Pound, Roscoe

Box 1 Robinson, Geroid Tanquary

Box 1 Rosenberg, James N.

Box 1 Seligman, Edwin R. A.

Box 1 Simkhovitch, Vladimir G.

Box 1 Stone, Harlan Fiske

Box 1 Taft, William Howard

Subseries I.2: Arranged correspondence


Box 3 Academy of Political Science meeting, 1930


Box 4 Berle-Hale correspondence

Box 4 Carbons of copies of letters from others praising Hale's articles (originals believed sent to publisher)


Box 2 Carver article correspondence ("Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-Coercive State")

Box 2 "Commissions, Rates, and Policies" correspondence

Box 2 Commons-Hale correspondence

Box 2 "Conflicting Judicial Criteria of Utility Rates" correspondence

Box 2 Constitutional rights against private individuals correspondence

Box 2 Contract impairment article correspondence


Box 9 Correspondence, 1912-1958


Box 7 Correspondence and manuscripts from Thomas W. Holland


Box 5 Correspondence re: N. T. Guernsey


Box 2 Correspondence with H. G. Brown


Box 3 Correspondence with Nicholas Kelly


Box 6 Correspondence with publishers


Box 5 Correspondence with T. R. Powell


Box 3 Criticism of constitutional system


Box 2 "Duress" correspondence


Box 5 Early letters and materials re: single tax etc.


Box 2 "Economics and the Statesman" correspondence

Box 2 "The 'Fair Value' Merry-Go-Round" correspondence

Box 2 "Force and the State" correspondence

Box 2 "Does the Ghost of Smyth v Ames Still Walk?" correspondence


Box 5 Hale-Arthur S. Miller correspondence


Box 3 Hale's letters to the editor


Box 5 Harvard alumni bulletin, 1912


Box 2 Hope natural gas article


Box 3 "Judicial policy" (Arthur R. Burns), 1941


Box 2 Correspondence on labor legislation as an enlargement of individual liberties


Box 5 Letters, scrap-book material, etc


Box 3 Minna L. R. brief


Box 2 Miscellaneous correspondence


Box 5 Miscellaneous correspondence


Box 3 Miscellaneous correspondence: "Blue Box" (first group)


Box 5 Miscellaneous correspondence: "Blue Box" (second group)


Box 3 Miscellaneous Hale-Stone correspondence


Box 5 Miscellaneous letters

Box 5 Miscellaneous letters and materials

Box 5 Miscellaneous letters and materials


Box 2 Nebbia and Lindheimer articles

Box 2 "Our Equivocal Constitutional Guaranties" correspondence

Box 2 "The 'Physical Value' Fallacy in Rate Cases" correspondence

Box 2 Political and Economic Review correspondence


Box 5 Public lands, 1912


Box 2 "Rate Making and the Revision of the Property Concept" correspondence


Box 4 Research Council in the Social Sciences — letters and reports

Box 4 Sacco-Vanzetti correspondence and materials


Box 2 "The Supreme Court and the Contract Clause" correspondence

Box 2 "Unconstitutional Acts as Federal Crimes" correspondence

Box 2 "Unconstitutional Conditions and Constitutional Rights" correspondence

Box 2 "Law Making By Unofficial Minorities" correspondence

Box 2 "Valuation and Rate Making" correspondence

Box 2 "What is a 'Confiscatory' Rate?" correspondence

Series II: Teaching materials

Series 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.


Box 19 Coercion and Distribution in a Supposedly Non-coercive State


Box 3 Columbia School of Law curriculum studies


Box 22 Course material: Notes and miscellaneous exams


Box 23 Course material: Syllabi, exams, grades, Columbia Law Faculty, 1919-1951

Closed to researchers until 2026.


Box 3 Course outline: Law of Industrial Relations


Box 17 Industrial Relations course materials


Box 4 Course outline: Legal Factors in Economic Society


Box 6 Materials: Legal Factors in Economic Society


Box 3 Examinations — Legal Factors course (including precursor)


Box 12 Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5), 1935-1947


Box 13 Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5), 1935-1947


Box 14 Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5), 1935-1947


Box 15 Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5), 1935-1947


Box 16 Legal Factors in Economic Society (editions 1-5), 1935-1947


Box 5 Materials from instructor period — Columbia economics department, circa 1913-1918


Box 21 Course material: Notes (mainly on Public Utilities)


Box 5 Public Utilities course materials


Box 6 Social Control in Economic Life course materials


Box 3 Outlines for Social Control in Economic Life course


Box 18 Social Control


Box 19 Social Control

Series III: Research and scholarship

Series 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.


Box 6 Amicus Curiae in Sweatt case [Sweatt v. Painter], circa 1950


Box 8 Book review manuscripts


Box 5 Book reviews of Freedom Through Law


Box 7 Chapters from early attempt to systematize legal-economic thoughts


Box 6 Correspondence and manuscripts on international discrimination, 1920-1921


Box 1 Dewey, John cataloged manuscript


Box 3 Gardner's papers on Commons

Box 3 Hague brief re: freedom of assembly


Box 5 Hale's miscellaneous publications


Box 8 Harvard College report, Economics 6, 1905 Spring

Box 8 Harvard College thesis, Government 10, 1905 Spring

Box 8 Harvard College hour exam, report, thesis, Philosophy, 1905 Fall


Box 5 Harvard College lecture notes, Economics 12b, 1905 Fall


Box 8 Harvard College exam, Economics 2, 1906 February 6


Box 4 Harvard Law School lecture notes, jurisprudence, Beale, 1909 Spring


Box 8 Harvard Law School report, Jurisprudence, 1909 Spring

Box 8 Manuscripts, 1916


Box 10 Manuscripts and mimeographs


Box 11 Manuscripts and mimeographs


Box 7 Manuscripts by R. L. Hale


Box 6 Manuscripts of "Coercion and Distribution"


Box 7 Manuscripts, probably drafts of Harvard Law Review volume 53, circa 1939-1940


Box 4 Materials on public utilities


Box 3 Materials re: Freedom Through Law


Box 7 Materials re: Restrictive Covenant Cases


Box 2 Minutes of a seminar on government, 1945


Box 4 Miscellaneous letters, notes and materials

Box 4 Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale


Box 6 Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale


Box 7 Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale

Box 7 Miscellaneous manuscripts by Hale


Box 2 Miscellaneous manuscripts of Hale, circa 1910s


Box 8 Miscellaneous manuscripts, pages, and notes


Box 4 Miscellaneous materials


Box 5 Miscellaneous notes and materials


Box 6 Miscellaneous notes and materials


Box 7 Miscellaneous notes and materials


Box 8 Miscellaneous notes and materials


Box 3 Miscellaneous notes, letters and outlines

Box 3 Miscellaneous outlines and notes re: law and economics


Box 8 Miscellaneous papers


Box 4 New York College Teachers Union, 1940

Box 4 National Lawyers Guild, 1940


Box 5 Political and Economic Review


Box 26 Printed - miscellaneous


Box 27 Printed - miscellaneous


Box 24 Printed works by Robert L. Hale


Box 25 Printed works by Robert L. Hale


Box 4 Publications by Hale in labor law


Box 9 Sacco/Vanzetti material


Box 3 The Valley News editorial


Box 4 University of Chicago Mobilization Conference, 1951


Box 6 Unpublished review of Carver


Box 20 Works by others