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Interview with Lydia Messmer: oral history.
University Archives UPB 1.9 MM
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- Format:
- Other
- Author/Creator:
- Honnold, John O.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- University of Pennsylvania. Law School--Faculty.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- Career development.
- United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.
- Law--Study and teaching--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.
- Law.
- American Bar Association.
- African American lawyers.
- Women lawyers.
- Minority lawyers.
- University of Pennsylvania--History--20th century.
- Physical Description:
- 2 videotapes (1 U-matic tape and 1 VHS): accompanying material in the manuscript section of the collection.
- Contained In:
- University of Pennsylvania. School of Arts and Sciences. Computing Facilities and Services. Multimedia Educational Technology Services. Records, 1969-1991
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia, Pa.: University of Pennsylvania, c[1987].
- Biography/History:
- John O. Honnold graduated from the University of Illinois with an A.B. in 1936 and from Harvard with an L.L.B. in 1939. He practiced in New York City from 1939 to 1941, served on the staff of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1941 and on the staff of the Office of Price Administration from 1942 to 1946. He joined the law faculty of the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. He was member of the Committee on Foreign Establishments, member of the U.S. Council of the International Chamber of Commerce, and member of the Commercial Law Committee. Honnold served as U.S. representative to the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law in 1975 and as chief of the UN's International Trade Law Branch from 1969 to 1975.
- Summary:
- The interviewee reviewed why he took law as his career and recalled faculty members and student-faculty relations in the forties. He also discussed his involvement with the Constitutional Law, women and minorities in law, American Bar Association, and teaching at the Law School of the University of Pennsylvania and teaching abroad.
- Notes:
- Produced by the Multimedia Educational Technology Services, University of Pennsylvania.
- OCLC:
- 1346384714
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