Collection: Benjamin N. Cardozo Papers
Description: The project will digitize the selected papers of Benjamin N. Cardozo, a rare and unique archival collection held by the Dr. Lillian & Dr. Rebecca Chutick Law Library, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, Yeshiva University.
Benjamin N. Cardozo served as Chief Judge of the New York Court of Appeals from 1917 until his appointment to the United States Supreme Court in 1932. His legal reasoning continues to have enduring influence on American jurisprudence and legal education. Rooted in New York’s courts and civic life, his work is central to the legal history of New York City and the metropolitan region. The collection’s combination of working notes, draft and final manuscripts, and correspondence offers unusually direct evidence of Cardozo’s methods of legal analysis and writing, as well as the day-to-day realities of judicial work in the early twentieth century.