David Lyons papers

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Identifier: 18-2-4109

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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

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

Dates

1960 - 2013

Creator

Lyons, David, 1935- (Person)

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

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.

Extent

16 cubic feet. (16 cubic feet.)

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Physical Description

Course materials, publications, and manuscripts.

General

Contact Information:: Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:: RMC Staff
Date completed:: November 2017
EAD encoding:: RMC Staff, November 2017
Date modified:: Marcie Farwell, February 2018