| Creator: | Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory |
| Title: | American Bar Association Section on Legal Education Oral History |
| Collection No.: | ohrc110 |
| Dates: | 2001 |
| Quantity: |
Quantity: 1 Interview (Audio files, transcripts, and collateral materials ) |
| Abstract: | In this project, James P. White, the American Bar Association consultant on legal education, discusses the history, changes, goals, conflicts, and mission of that institution. He describes his involvement in legal education activities and the occasionally rocky relations between the association and the Section of Legal Education and Admission to the Bar. Law schools, legal specialization, and the commercialization of the legal profession are also major topics within this interview. |
| Location: | Interviews are housed in Franklin Hall, Room 0030A. Contact ohrc@indiana.edu for more information. Copies of interview transcripts are also held by the IU Libraries University Archives. For other locations housing the interviews from this project, please contact the Center for Documentary Research and Practice office. |
| Language: | Materials are in English . |
| Repository: | Center for Documentary Research and Practice Franklin Hall 0030B 601 E. Kirkwood Avenue Bloomington, Indiana 47405 Business Number: 812-855-2856 ohrc@indiana.edu URL: https://cdrp.mediaschool.indiana.edu/ |
This collection contains one interviews conducted in 2001. The interview is 115 minutes and consists of audio tapes, a typed transcript, and collateral materials.
The archive of the Center for Documentary Research and Practice at Indiana University is open to the use of researchers. Copies of transcript pages are available only when such copies are permitted by the deed of gift. Scholars must honor any restrictions the interviewee placed on the use of the interview. Since some of our earlier (pre-computer) transcripts do not exist in final form, any editing marks in a transcript (deletions, additions, corrections) are to be quoted as marked. Audio files may not be copied for patrons unless the deed of gift permits it, and a transcript is unavailable for that interview. The same rules of use that apply to a transcript apply to the audio interview. Interviews may not be reproduced in full for any public use, but excerpted quotes may be used as long as researchers fully cite the data in their research, including accession number, interview date, interviewee's and interviewer's name, and page(s).
[interviewee first name last name] interview, by [interviewer first name last name], [interview date(s)], [call number], [project name], Center for Documentary Research and Practice, Indiana University, Bloomington, [page number(s) or tape number and side if no transcript; if digital audio and no transcript, cite time when quote occurs].
Oral history interviews conducted by the Indiana University Center for the Study of History and Memory from 1968 to the present, with particular focus on the history of twentieth-century America and the Midwest.
No(s): 01-005
Physical Description: 24 pages; 2 tapes, 1 3/4 ips, 115 minutes; index; interviewee's curriculum vitae, list of publications, monographs, articles, lectures, and seminars by interviewee, American Bar Association 1999-2000 annual report
Scope and Content Note: James P. White, born in 1931, discusses his legal education and law school experiences, his work with the United States Air Force Judge Advocate General, and his involvement with the American Bar Association, or ABA, primarily as the ABA consultant on legal education. He speaks of the dynamic relationship between the American Bar Association and the American Bar Association Section on Legal Education and Admission to the Bar, as well as problems within the ABA revolving around tensions between practicing lawyers and academic members. In addition, Mr. White comments on the increasing specialization and commercialization in the field of law, and he describes the mission statement of the American Bar Association and the steps it has taken to increase diversity within the profession.
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Access Status: Open