Arthur J. Morris Law Library 580 Massie Road University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia 22903 archives@law.virginia.edu URL: http://archives.law.virginia.edu/
2.8 Linear Feet, 7 archival boxes, plus one box of personal items.
Creator
Paulsen, Monrad G., 1918-1980
Language
English
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Abstract
This collection (1940-1976) contains professional correspondence related to the Juvenile Court Project (1973) and juvenile
courts; law and poverty; personal correspondence; some student papers and lecture notes.
Monrad Paulsen, a native of Iowa, received an A.B. in 1940 and a J.D. in 1942 from the University of Chicago. After practicing
briefly in Chicago, he began his teaching career at the University of Utah. He also taught at Indiana University and the University
of Minnesota, before joining the Columbia faculty in 1956. Paulsen was a respected scholar in the fields of juvenile, domestic
relations, and poverty law, as well as criminal law and procedure.
When Hardy Dillard retired from the deanship, he highly recommended Paulsen to succeed him. The first dean who had not previously
been a member of the Virginia law faculty, Paulsen served in that post until 1975, and in that time attracted many fine scholars
to the faculty. During his deanship, the student population grew by two hundred as the 1970s saw increasing numbers of women
and minority students. The growth in the faculty and student body, along with curriculum changes and new organizations, pushed
Clark Hall to its limits. Near the end of Paulsen's deanship, the Law School building at North Grounds was constructed and
occupied.
In 1975, Paulsen went to New York to help establish and serve as dean of the Cardozo Law School at Yeshiva University.
These professional papers were left behind in the dean's office when Paulsen moved to New York. Monrad Paulsen died in 1980.
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