Archives at Cornell

Bertram F. Willcox papers

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: 18-2-2372

Scope and content

Bound volumes of his class notes as a law student at Harvard, 1919-1922. Also, survey responses from, with copies of acknowledgement letters to various New York City and upstate judges and doctors, 1960-1961, from the Special Committee on the Study of Commitment Procedures of the Association of the Bar of the City of New York and the Cornell Law School. Bertram F. Willcox served as director.

Dates

1919-1961.

Creator

Willcox, Bertram F. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Professor of law, lawyer. Bertram Francis Willcox (b. 1895) received a B.A. from Cornell University in 1917 and an LL.B from Harvard University in 1922. He taught at Cornell from 1946 to 1967, serving as McRoberts Professor in the Administration of Law from 1954 to 1967. Prior to his teaching career, he practiced with Hughes, Rounds, Schurman & Dwight and was a partner in Schurman, Wiley & Willcox and successor firms, 1923-1943.