Law Student Life in Moscow: The Letters and Course Notes of John N. Hazard,1934-1939: Materials for the History of the Soviet Legal System
- Location: McKeldin Library
Call number: Microfiche KF373.H392A6 1978 - Hazard, John Newbold. Law Student Life in Moscow:
The Letters and Course Notes of John N. Hazard,
1934-1939: Materials for the History of the Soviet
Legal System.
(40 fiche)
Description
John N. Hazard is an American who, under the sponsorship of the Institute of Current World Affairs, studied law in Moscow during the 1930's. This collection consists of his letters back to the institute and, also, his course notes.This material is organized in two parts. First, on 4 microfiche, there is a section of typed letters, arranged in chronological order. The bulk of the collection, 36 microfiche containing course notes and seminar notes, then follows. The course notes and seminar notes, written in long hand, are arranged in order by course.
After graduating from Harvard Law School in 1934, John Newbold Hazard spent the years from 1934 through 1937 in the U.S.S.R. studying the Soviet legal system as it was then taught in Soviet Law schools. He again returned to the U.S.S.R. in 1939 for an extended visit.
This collection consists of 200 or so pages of typed letters, which discuss his experiences, to his sponsors at the Institute of Current World Affairs in New York. Also, it contains, somewhere around 2,500 handwritten pages of course notes which review his day to day studies in Soviet Law at the Moscow Juridical Institute.
There is a printed guide to this collection, a small eight page pamphlet. It gives the user a little background material, includes a microfiche contents list and includes no indexing whatsoever. The contents list on page 1 of this guide lists the particular fiche which correspond to particular sets of course notes.
Index/Guide
The following source provides more detailed information about the contents of each microfilm reel in the collection:- MCK REF KF373.H392A36 1978 GUIDE
- Hazard, John Newbold. Law Student Life in Moscow: The Letters and Course Notes of John N. Hazard, 1934-1939: Materials for the History of the Soviet Legal System. With an introduction by William E. Butler.
