David Lyons papers, 1960-2013
Collection Number: 18-2-4109
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
David Lyons papers, 1960-2013
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
18-2-4109
Abstract:
Files relating to Cornell and Boston University courses, seminars, fellowship materials,
professional associations, books and journals, papers and presentations, Cornell 1969,
and miscellaneous professional, Boston University, and Cornell activities
Creator:
Lyons, David, 1935-
Quanitities:
16 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
David Lyons is an authority an legal philosophy and has written extensively on utilitarianism
and the moral aspects of legal theory. He received a B.A. from Brooklyn College, and
an M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University. He also completed a Knox Fellowship at
Oxford University. He came to Cornell in 1964, received a Guggenheim Fellowship in
1970, became a full professor in 1971, and served as Chairman of the Philosophy Department
(Sage School of Philosophy) from 1978 to 1984. He also began teaching in the Law School
in 1979. He retired from Cornell in 1995, and continues to teach legal philosophy
at Boston University.
Files relating to Cornell and Boston University courses, seminars, fellowship materials,
professional associations, books and journals, papers and presentations, Cornell 1969,
and miscellaneous professional, Boston University, and Cornell activities
INFORMATION FOR USERS
David Lyons Papers, #18-2-4109. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell
University Library.
Names:
Cornell University. Department of Philosophy
Cornell Law School
Sage School of Philosophy
Boston University. School of Law
Boston University. College of Arts and Sciences
Subjects:
Law -- Philosophy.
Utilitarianism.
Law and ethics.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Cornell courses taught
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Cornell courses taught
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Cornell courses taught
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Boston University courses taught
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Boston University courses taught
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Boston University courses taught
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Boston University appointments, law people, philosophy department
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Seminars for lawyers, judges, faculty, fellowship material, associations, journals
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Seminars for lawyers, judges, faculty, fellowship material, associations, journals
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Lyon's papers, notes and presentations
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Lyon's papers, notes and presentations
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Lyon's papers, notes and presentations
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Papers relating to Lyon's books
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Miscellaneous papers
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Correspondence
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Boston University activities
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Cornell Papers, BU research assistants, JD/MA program
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Cornell Papers, BU research assistants, JD/MA program
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| Box 16 |
BU Reports, Race/color line course materials, writings on legal interpretation, lectures
in Oslo, Cornell 1969, Selective Service, Book with Lyon's undergraduate notations
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