Dean Rusk Personal Papers, Series III: Law School Files

Descriptive Summary
Title: Dean Rusk Personal Papers, Series III: Law School Files
Creator: Rusk, Dean, 1909-1994
Inclusive Dates: 1970-1986
Language(s): English
Extent: 5 box(es) (2.25 linear feet)
Collection Number: RBRL055DR_III
Repository: Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
Abstract: Dean Rusk Personal Papers, Series III: Law School Files contains course notes, clippings, articles, schedules and lists of students advised by Dean Rusk while he was a professor at the University of Georgia.

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Collection Description

Biographical Note

Dean Rusk was born on February 9, 1909 in Cherokee County, Georgia. He attended Lee Street Elementary and Boys' High School in Atlanta, Georgia. Rusk obtained an A.B. degree from Davidson College, North Carolina in 1931, and a B.S. (Rhodes Scholar) and M.A. in 1933 and 1934 from St. John's, Oxford, England. He returned to the United States to become Associate Professor of Government and Dean of Faculty at Mills College, Oakland, California, from 1934 to 1940 and studied law at the University of California, Berkeley, class of 1940.

Rusk served in the United States Army from 1940 to 1946 in the China-Burma-India theater. At first he served with the Third Infantry Division, then later with the Military Intelligence Service. Rusk was released from duty with the rank of colonel.

After his military career ended, Rusk joined the Department of State from 1947 to 1952, as Assistant Secretary of State for United Nations Affairs and for Far Eastern Affairs. From 1952 to 1960 he was president of the Rockefeller Foundation. In 1961, President John F. Kennedy appointed Rusk to the office of Secretary of State. He remained in this position until 1969, through the administrations of Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson.

Rusk was in office during the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, when East Germany began constructing the Berlin Wall, and as the world teetered on the brink of nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis. He was also Secretary of State during the height of the Vietnam Conflict.

In 1970, Rusk came to the University of Georgia's School of Law as the Samuel H. Sibley Professor of International Law, and he later established the Dean Rusk Center for International and Comparative Law. Rusk served the University of Georgia until his death on December 20, 1994.

Rusk married Virginia Foisle in June, 1937. They had three children together, David Patrick, Richard Geary and Margaret Elizabeth. In 1990, As I Saw It , the book he co-authored with his son, Richard, was published.

Scope and Content

Dean Rusk Personal Papers, Series III: Law School Files contains course notes, clippings, articles, schedules and lists of students advised by Dean Rusk while he was a professor at the University of Georgia.

Organization and Arrangement

Arrangement is alphabetical.

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Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Dean Rusk Personal Papers, Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies, University of Georgia Libraries, Athens, Georgia, 30602-1641.

Processing Note

Clippings have been copied onto bond paper for protection of content. Photographs, audiovisual material and artifacts have been removed from the papers for preservation purposes and inventoried.

User Restrictions

Library acts as "fair use" reproduction agent.

Copyright Information

Before material from collections at the Richard B. Russell Library may be quoted in print, or otherwise reproduced, in whole or in part, in any publication, permission must be obtained from (1) the owner of the physical property, and (2) the holder of the copyright. It is the particular responsibility of the researcher to obtain both sets of permission. Persons wishing to quote from materials in the Russell Library collection should consult the Director. Reproduction of any item must contain a complete citation to the original.

Finding Aid Publication

Finding aid prepared on: 2008.

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Related Materials and Subjects

Subject Terms

Related Collections in this Repository

Dean Rusk Oral History Collection

Richard B. Russell, Jr. Collection

William Tapley Bennett, Jr. Papers

Martin Hillenbrand Papers

D.W. Brooks Oral History Collection

Related Collections in Other Repositories

Dean Rusk Papers, Rockefeller Archive Center, Sleepy Hollow, New York

Dean Rusk Oral Histories, Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library and Museum, Austin, Texas

Dean Rusk Personal Papers, John F. Kennedy Library, National Archives and Records Administration, Boston, Massachusetts

Dean Rusk Files, Department of State Records, National Archives

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Series Descriptions and Folder Listing

 

III. Law School Files

5 box(es)

(2.25 linear feet)

This series contains course notes, newspaper clippings, articles, schedules and lists of students advised by Dean Rusk while he was a professor at the University of Georgia. Arrangement is alphabetical.

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III.1

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Activities Schedule (monthly), undated

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Admissions - law school, undated

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3

Awards, Honors, etc., undated

III.1

4

BALSA - Black American Law Students Association, undated

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5

Beaird, Dean Ralph, undated

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6

Board of Visitors, undated

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Brussels Seminar, undated

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9

Catalogue of Student Papers, undated

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Cowen, Dean Lindsey, undated

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11

Rusk Center, undated

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12

Commencement Address - UGA, June 10, 1977, May 17, 1986

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13

"Congressional Executive Relations and the Foreign Policy Consensus" by Roger Hilsman, 1958

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14

Constitution and Foreign Affairs Seminar, Winter 1974

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Constitution and Foreign Affairs Seminar, Spring 1982

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Contributions to Scholarship Fund to be acknowledge by Dean Rusk, undated

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Course Materials, undated

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Dean, undated

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Dean (Assistant - Law School), undated

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Dean's Report, 1970-1986

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Dean's Report - Dean Report, undated

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Material for Dean's Report, undated

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Equal Opportunity in the Foreign Service, 1981

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Faculty - General, undated

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First Years Dinner, undated

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12

First Year Students- DR adviser, undated

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Foreign Affairs and the Constitution Seminar, Winter 1980

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Foreign Affairs and the Constitution Seminar, Spring 1978

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Foreign Affairs and the Constitution Seminar, Winter 1977

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Foreign Affairs and the Constitution Seminar, Winter 1976

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Georgia Journal of International and Comparative Law, undated

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Georgia Law Review, undated

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Georgia Society of International and Comparative Law, undated

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Graduate Studies Committee, undated

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Hague (the), undated

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Hastings - Foreign Affairs and Constitution lecture notes, undated

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Hastings - General, (Summer 1979)

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4

Handbook on the Constitutions of the United States and Georgia, 1971

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Independent Research, undated

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6

International Law Handout, undated

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International Law 535, undated

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International Law I, Fall 1982

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International Law 353, Fall 1981

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International Law 535, Fall 1980

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International Law 535, Fall 1979

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International Law 535, Fall 1978

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International Law 535, Fall 1977

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International Law, 1971-1976

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International Law II, 1971-1983

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International Law Course Notes, undated

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International Law Course Notes, undated

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Law Dames, undated

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Law and Diplomacy, 1975-1977

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Law and Environment, 1972

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Law School Association, undated

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Library Committee, undated

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Moot Court, undated

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Newspaper clippings, undated

III.4

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Overbrook Fund, undated

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Placement (law school), undated

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Records of President Carter's Administration, 1979

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14

Report of the Secretary General, 1982

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Schedules, 1970-1984

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Rusk Scholarship Fund, undated

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Sibley Lectures, undated

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Student Bar Association, undated

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RC - student export project, undated

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Summaries of Judicial Decisions under the Immigration and Nationality Act, 1952-1980

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Woodruff Chair in International Law, undated

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Writing Requirements - letter of support, undated