West Virginia University College of Law Archives

Overview Papers and other materials of C. Edwin Baker (1947–2009) of Madisonville, Kentucky, an internationally prominent and prolific legal scholar, author of over 75 publications, and holder of the Nicholas Gallicchio Professor of Law and Communication at the University of Pennsylvania at the time of his passing. Baker authored four books: Human Liberty and Freedom of Speech (1989), Advertising and a...

Scope and Contents This collection contains twenty years of documented research for DiSalvo’s well received biography on Gandhi’s time as an attorney in South Africa: M.K. Gandhi, Attorney at Law: The Man Before the Mahatma (2012). Notable materials include facsimiles of rare South African newspaper articles collected from libraries and repositories around the world. DiSalvo and his team read over 10,000 issues in all to put together this valuable resource...

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This collection primarily contains bound legal documents relating to legal cases resulting from the Buffalo Creek flood of February 26, 1972: Dennis Prince et al. v. the Pittston Company, Justice et al. v. the Pittston Company, West Virginia v. the Pittston Company, and the Governor’s Ad Hoc Commission of Inquiry papers. Testimonies, maps, illustrations, and photographs are included.

Scope and Contents Collection documents the Friends of Blackwater’s project to highlight the life and career of J.R. Clifford, a Black West Virginia lawyer and newspaper owner. It includes play scripts, programs, flyers, book marks, social studies lesson plans, press releases and press coverage, and photographs. Project administrative materials (mostly Box 4 and some in Box 8) include contracts and agreements, grant applications, correspondence, tax exempt status documents, funding, personnel matters,...

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Papers and other materials of Justitia, the Law Students Wives’ Club (1952 – 1983) of West Virginia University College of Law. Founded by June Santee and Pat Simonton in 1957, Justitia was a women’s organization designed to offer a community of support to law student wives, to create an opportunity to socialize, and support their husbands and the WVU College of Law through meetings, publications, fundraisers and activities.

Scope and Contents The collection outlines 100 years of women in law at West Virginia University. Starting with the first women law graduate to the graduates in the early 1990s, the project explores the lives and achievements of the individuals who obtained their law degree from West Virginia Univeristy College of Law. Records in this collections includes research materials on the women who graducated from West Virginia University through the College of Law from 1895 through 1996, celebrating 101 years of...