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1967, 1970-1979. Correspondence with Justice Haim Cohn, the Supreme Court of Israel regarding scholarly and personal matters. The correspondence includes detailed information about the work and scholarly interests of both men. Konvitz and Cohen discuss Spinoza and Maimonides in several letters. Also correspondence on the subject of imprisonment from both biblical and practical perspectives. Also discussion on the intellectual activities of both men.

Scope and Contents 1947-1956, 1959. Correspondence with Mister Huntington Cairns, Counsel to the National Gallery of Art, regarding Konvitz's proposal to the Fund for the Republic to establish a Civil Liberties Institute at Cornell University. An exchange with Professor Robert K. Carr, Department of Government at Dartmouth College and Executive Secretary of the President's Committee on Civil Rights. Konvitz was a member of a panel of lawyers who examined and proposed civil rights bills which were prepared for...

Scope and Contents 1966-1969, 1971-1981. Correspondence with Professor Gerald Caplan, M.D., Director of the Laboratory of Community Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School regarding a critique of the Quaker Report, "Search for Peace in the Middle East." Konvitz provides extensive detailed comments on the critique of the Quaker Report (May 3, 1971). Correspondence with Rabbi Doctor Alexander Carlebach, English Editor of Niv Hamidrashia, regarding relationships among religious establishments in Israel (October...

Scope and Contents 1959, 1962-1964. Personal correspondence with Doctor Robert K. Carr, President of Oberlin College (March 24, 1960). Correspondence with Clifford P. Case, United States Senator, regarding the Senator's bill to establish a commission on Congressional Reorganization (March 15, 1963). Correspondence with M.P. Catherwood, New York State Department of Labor Industrial Commissioner, in which Catherwood provides a detailed explanation of the reason Ives chose Cornell University as the site of the...

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Copy of the Interim Report of the Cornell Labor Law Project "Damage Actions against Unions" (April 17, 1956). Business Week article "Do Suits Threaten Unions?" which describes Konvitz's labor law research project on sits against unions for damages (January 17, 1957)

Scope and Contents Correspondence with various people including Arthur J. Goldberg, General Counsel to the Industrial Union Department, American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations and United Steelworkers of America; Dean Catherwood; William J. Isaacson, Counsel to Amalgamated Clothing Workers of America; and Will Shafroth, Chief of the Division of Procedural Studies for the Administrative Office of the United States Courts, regarding the labor law research project on damage suits against...

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1948-1952, 1954-1956, 1959, 1961-1964, 1967. Correspondence with Professor Edmond Cahn, New York University School of Law, on law school teaching techniques (March 21, 1962). Other routine correspondence.

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Correspondence relating to Konvitz's role as Chairman of the Necrology Committee

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1954-1955, 1957-1959

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Correspondence with Michael H. Cardozo, Executive Director of the Association of American Law Schools on summary memoranda that Konvitz wrote pending Supreme Court cases as well as regarding particular Supreme Court cases. A confidential letter from Konvitz regarding the plans of Doctor Bernard Lander and Doctor Aaron Schreiber, of Touro College, to establish a law school.