Max M. Laserson Papers, 1900-1951

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Series II: Writings, 1919-1951

The series comprises published and unpublished works of Max Laserson, including articles, monographs, talks, reports, etc. Arranged in five subseries.


Subseries II.1: Articles and Monographs, 1927-1951

(Manuscripts, typescripts, notes and drafts of Laserson's complete and incomplete works. Also includes reprints and books. Arranged alphabetically)


American Impact on Russia: Diplomatic and Ideological, 1784-1917, undated



Box 2 Folder 1-12 Typescritp (1st copy of the original)


Box 2 Folder 13-19 Manuscript



Box 3 Folder 1-7 Manuscript (cont.)


Box 3 Folder 8-11 Drafts and notes


Box 3 Folder 12 Highlights of Ameican Imapct on Russia (for a journal)


Box 3 Folder 13 Reviews


Box 3 Folder 14 Various



Box 5 Folder 2 Democracy as a regulative idea and as an established regime: the democratic tradition in Russia and Germany (reprint), 1947


Development of Soviet foreign policy in Europe, 1917-1942: a selection of documents (New York, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, Division of Intercourse and Education), 1943



Box 4 Folder 2-4 Germany and Russia, 1940s-1950s, undated

(notes and research materials, including clippings and publications)


Box 4 Folder 5-6 Hebrew Roots of International Law, undated

(typescript, manuscript, notes, drafts)



Box Unknown Folder Unknown John Selden and the Commandments to International Law: see Hebrew Roots of International Law, undated



Box 4 Folder 7-14 Law, Ethics and Politics (alternative title - Law and Politics in the Making), 1946-1947

(typescripts, manuscripts, notes, drafts, research and reference materials)



Box 5 Folder 1-6 Law, Ethics and Politics (cont.), undated


Box 5 Folder 7 Memorandum on Unexplained Absence in Latvian Law, undated

(typescript, notes)


Box 5 Folder 8 On the Making of the Constitution of Israel, 1950

(includes Laserson's biographical note)


Box 5 Folder 9 On the Mandate of Palestine, [1948]


Box 5 Folder 10 On Universal and Regional Federalism (reprint), 1940a


Box 5 Folder 11 Political history of Latvian Jewry (1918-1934), undated


Box 5 Folder Unknown Reflection on the Israeli Consitution, undated



Box 4 Folder 8 Rights, Righthandedness, and Uprightness (reprint), undated



Box 5 Folder 13 Russische Rechtsphilosophie (Berlin-Grunewald: Rothschild), 1933



Box 6 Folder 1 Spinoza, undated


Box 6 Folder 2 Staat, souveranitat und minoritat (Riga, Berlin: Bernhard Lamey Verlag), 1927


Box 6 Folder 3 Work of Leon Petrazhitskii: inquiry into the psychological aspects of the nature of law (reprint), 1951



Box 1 Folder 26 Zur Lage der Jud. Mindarheit in Lettland (Addendum re: Jewish minority in Latvia. See Correspondence with Organizations, box 1, folder 26), undated


Subseries II.2: Loose Notes and Drafts, 1946-1950, undated

(Fragments, loose pages, notes, notebooks, research and reference materials on various subjects including law, social philosophy, politics and others. Related to his writings and university courses)



Box 6 Folder 4-7 Fragments, loose pages, undated


Box 6 Folder 8-11 Notebooks, 1946-1950

(Latvijas parlament un Zidivinos; Soviet [legal and] social philosophy; untitled)


Subseries II.3: Lectures, Talks, Reports, 1919, undated

(In alphabetical order)


Box 6 Folder 12 On Soviet foreign policy (lecture), undated


Box 6 Folder 13 Reports on Latvia and Estonia (in relation to minority rights), undated


Box 6 Folder 14 Sushchnost' i razvitie estestvennogo prava (talk abstract and notes), 1919


Subseries II.4: Diary


Box 6 Folder 15 Personal entry, [1931]


Subseries II.5: Bibliography of Works of Max Laserson


Box 6 Folder 16 Bibliography of chief works and scholarly articles, 1947, undated