MSS 90-03

Inventory of the Papers of Neill H. Alford, Jr.

Dates

Creation: 1942-1989

Extent

7 Linear feet
17 archival boxes

Abstract

This collection of professional papers reflects Professor Alford's private legal practice and professorship at the UVA School of Law. There is correspondence, records and briefs, speeches and articles, and teaching materials on international law, legal history, trusts and estates, contracts, administrative law, economic warfare, insurance.

Access Restrictions

There are no restrictions.

Biographical / Historical Note

Neill H. Alford, Jr., born in 1919, received his B.A. from The Citadel in 1940. After serving in Europe during World War II, he obtained his LL.B. in 1947 from the University of Virginia. In 1966 he received a J.S.D. from Yale University.

Alford began his long teaching career at the University as soon as he earned his degree in 1947, and became a full professor in 1956. After that time, he was absent from the Law School for only brief periods: during the 1961-62 academic year, when he held the Chair of International Law at the Naval War College, and from 1974 to 1976, when he was dean and Joseph Henry Lumpkin Professor of Law at the University of Georgia. Upon his return to the Law School, Alford became Percy Brown, Jr., Professor of Law. He held this post until his retirement in 1990.

Professor Alford's professional interests included administrative law, international law, economic warfare, legal history, and trusts and estates. The author of many legal works, Alford was perhaps best known for his Cases and Materials on Decendents' Estates and Trusts. Professor Alford died aged 88 in 2007.

Physical Description

This collection consists of 13 boxes (5 linear feet).

Preferred Citation

Papers of Neill H. Alford, Jr., 1942-1989, MSS 90-3, Box Number, Special Collections, University of Virginia Law Library.

Scope and Content

This collection is comprised of personal correspondence, records, and briefs from Alford's private legal practice, speeches and articles, and teaching materials. Materials dealing with Alford's legal practice primarily concern wills and estates. Alford wrote and spoke on a variety of topics, and his articles and speeches fill 45 folders. By far the greatest portion of the collection is devoted to teaching materials, principally for courses in international law, legal history, and trusts and estates.