Guide to the Gray Thoron Papers,
1922-1987

Before teaching law at Cornell University, Gray Thoron engaged in private law practice and was Assistant to the Solicitor General of the United States Department of Justice. He later joined the Cornell faculty, and from 1956 to 1963 was Dean of the Law School. His field of teaching and research includes criminal law, procedure (criminal and civil), professional ethics, and practice. He has participated in many national programs, in the activities of Bar Associations; in educational programs at Universities, including Texas, Michigan, and the Salzburg Seminar in American Studies. He served on the Overseers Committee to the Harvard Law School from 1960-1966. He is a Fellow of the American Bar Foundation and a member of the New York State Bar Association's Committee on State Constitutional Revision and the Association of American Law Schools' Committee on Academic Freedom and Tenure.

Files of Gray Thoron include correspondence, surveys, memoranda, applications, reports, announcements, and other materials pertaining to Cornell Law School admissions, students, curricula, and examinations; personnel recruitment information and applications; budgets, endowments, fundraising, scholarships, and fellowships; alumni; the International Legal Studies Program; academic freedom and tenure; faculty members; policies; and other papers relating to Thoron's position as Law School dean.

Also, correspondence of previous deans, including Robert S. Stevens, William H. Farnham, George C. Bogert, and Charles K. Burdick. Also included are papers concerning Thoron's involvement with various organizations, conventions and committees, including the American Law Student Association, the American Bar Association (including admission to the bar and exam questions),

State Bar Associations, the New York State Constitutional Convention, the Association of American Law Schools, and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.