MSS 90-2
The Papers of Ernest L. Folk III
Overview
Professional consulting files related to corporation law and teaching files (1963-1989).
Dates |
1963-1989 [Inclusive] |
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Extents |
4.5 Cubic Feet (12 archival boxes) |
Scope & Contents
The Folk collection is comprised of 12 boxes of professional files, working files concerning consulting work; drafts, notes, etc., for articles; and a few folders regarding his home in Ivy. There are 4 boxes of assorted teaching materials concerning law and the arts.
Collection Description
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Biographical / Historical
A graduate of Roanoke College and of UVA Law School in 1958, Ernest Linwood Folk was a known scholar in the fields of corporate and securities law, as well as arts and entertainment law. At UVA, he earned both an LL.B. and M.A., and was a member of the editorial board of the <em>Law Review</em> and elected to the Order of the Coif. He joined the UVA law faculty after teaching at the law schools of the University of North Carolina and the University of South Carolina. He had previously been an attorney with the U.S. Department of Justice, Antitrust Division, from 1956-59, as well as a visiting professor at Columbia, Michigan, and Duke law schools. He was a Reporter for the 1967 revision of the Delaware General Corporation Law, a statute governing more than half the nation’s Fortune 500 companies. From 1970 to 1976, he edited the <em>Securities Law Review</em>. As a professor at UVA, he taught such classes as Corporate Finance, Non-Profit Corporations, Business Planning, Law and the Visual Arts, Law and the Performing Arts, and Securities Regulation. He published <em>The Delaware General Corporation Law: A Commentary and Analysis</em>.
Folk, who himself was wheelchair-bound, impacted the community by raising awareness of the issue of handicapped access, serving as Chairman of the University’s Handicapped Concerns Committee. In this role, he succeeded in obtaining from the Virginia General Assembly special appropriations to pay for handicapped access to sidewalks and special handicapped parking spaces throughout campus. When Folk died suddenly in 1989, the <em>Virginia Law Weekly</em> noted, “He will best be remembered by the student body as a friendly professor who made every effort to interact with his students.”
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
This collection was donated to the Law School by the executor of his estate in March of 1990.
fileConsultation: Caplin, Drysdale, Lockwood , 1973 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileCary & Folk Casebook: Suggestions for Changes, 1965-1974 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
seriesCorporation Law | |
fileAmerican Law Institute: Correspondence, 1980 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileBar Review of Delaware, 1972-76 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileBar Review of Delaware, 1977-80 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileComparisons of Delaware and New York Model Acts, 1967-68 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileCorporation Service Company: Article on New Delaware Law, 1967 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileCorporation Service Company: Revision of "Red Book", 1967 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileCorporations: Successes and Failures of Prominent Businessmen, 1972-75 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileCumulative Voting: Memo to Willimon , 1965 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
fileDelaware Commentary, 1976-77 | MSS 90-2, Box 3 |
fileDelaware Corporation (DCL), 1977-78 | MSS 90-2, Box 3 |
fileDCL: Correspondence, 1979 | MSS 90-2, Box 3 |
fileDCL Revision: "The Folk Report", 1964 | MSS 90-2, Box 3 |
fileDCL Law Review Article, 1967-68 | MSS 90-2, Box 3 |
fileDCL: Publicity, 1967 | MSS 90-2, Box 3 |
fileDelaware Correspondence , 1968-75 | MSS 90-2, Box 4 |
fileDelaware Correspondence, 1971-72 | MSS 90-2, Box 4 |
fileDelaware Court of Chancery, 1980-1981 | MSS 90-2, Box 4 |
fileDelaware Incorporations, 1968 | MSS 90-2, Box 4 |
fileGeneral Corporation Law (GCL) Revisions: Correspondence and Minutes, 1964-67 | MSS 90-2, Box 4 |
fileGhana Partnership Article: Notes and Draft, 1963-66 | MSS 90-2, Box 5 |
fileLecture: Delaware Bar Association, 1967 | MSS 90-2, Box 5 |
fileMiscellaneous, 1972-75 | MSS 90-2, Box 5 |
fileSequestration, 1973-77 | MSS 90-2, Box 5 |
fileSequestration and Foreign Attachment Cases: Delaware, 1970 | MSS 90-2, Box 6 |
fileVirginia National Bank; Memo, 1973 | MSS 90-2, Box 6 |
fileCorrespondence, 1980-88 | MSS 90-2, Box 6 |
fileCorrespondence: Pulled from clipping files , 1972-84 | MSS 90-2, Box 6 |
fileCumulative List of Publications, 1964-73 | MSS 90-2, Box 6 |
fileFoundation Correspondence , 1964 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileGEICO Registration Statement, 1976 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileGeneral Housewares Corporation, 1974 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileGeneral Housewares Corporation: Gordon Erikson, 1977-78 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileGraduate Students, 1985-87 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileChamie Grandy, 1986-87 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileGreat Books, 1979 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileIvy Home: Reconstruction of Guest Room , 1982 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileIvy Home: Utility Charges, 1979-80 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |
fileCary & Folk Casebook: Correspondence, 1969-1975 | MSS 90-2, Box 2 |
seriesLaw and the Visual Arts (LVA) | |
fileArt and the Law: Bibliography, 1980-81 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileArt and the Law: Surveillance File, 1981-83 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileArt and the Law: Education, Symposia, Books, Jobs, 1978-79 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileArts in Virginia, 1985-88 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileArt Law Correspondence, 1983-87 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileBibliographies, 1979, 1988 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileEdward Damich Correspondence, 1988 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileExam Samples, 1989 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileFine Art and Law: Student Assistants , 1980 | MSS 90-2, Box 8 |
fileLaw, Policy, Ethics, and Philosophy , 1988 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileLectures: Art of the High Renaissance in Rome, 1977 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileLectures: Italian Trecento , 1972 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileMerryman and Elsen: Chapter 7, 1988 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileMiscellaneous, 1981, 1988 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileOutlines, 1979-1980 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileOutline: Law and the Performing Arts, 1985 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
filePotential Guests and Speakers, 1974-85 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileProjected Course , 1980 | MSS 90-2, Box 9 |
fileSupplemental Materials, 1982-83 | MSS 90-2, Box 10 |
fileLVA Clipping Material: Entertainment Law, 1986-87 | MSS 90-2, Box 10 |
fileLVA Teaching Material: Volumes 2-4, 1987 | MSS 90-2, Box 10 |
fileLecture: Close Operations, 1967 | MSS 90-2, Box 10 |
fileLecture: Comparative Observations of DCL, 1967 | MSS 90-2, Box 10 |
fileLecture: Corporation in Modern Society , 1972-73 | MSS 90-2, Box 10 |
fileLecture: New Developments in Corporation Law, 1972 | MSS 90-2, Box 10 |
fileLecture: Review of Corporation Law Developments , 1973 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileHenry G. Manne: Corporations in Modern Society correspondence, 1972-73 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileMemo to William C. Brashares, 1976 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileMemo to Nizer Frim: DCL, Section 271, 1971 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileMerrill Lynch Case , 1977 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileMiscellaneous , 1981-82 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileNational Student Marketing, 1976 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileNew Home Landscaping, 1978-81 | MSS 90-2, Box 11 |
fileNew York Apartments, 1980 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileNew York Law Journal Article, 1977-78 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileNotes of Previous Research Assistants, 1980 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileOffice File, 1981-82 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
filePaul, Hastings, Janofsky, and Walker Consultation, 1977 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileRecommendation Letters, 1984-87 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileRohr Industries, Inc.: Opinion, 1973 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileSummer Research Grant, 1988 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileGabriel Vasquez; IFC Galleries, 1971 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileUniform Commercial Code, Section 8, 1972-76 | MSS 90-2, Box 12 |
fileCary & Folk Casebook: Chapter III, 1975 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileCary & Folk Casebook: Chapter II , 1975 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileCary & Folk Casebook: Chapter I, 1975 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileCary & Folk Casebook: Introductory Chapter, 1973-76 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileAvco Memoranda: Final Drafts, 1971 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileAirline Transportation of the Disabled, 1968-73 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileAmerican Association of Law Schools (AALS), 1982 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileAirlie House, 1975 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileAcademic Career, 1970-79 | MSS 90-2, Box 1 |
fileSouth Carolina Business Corporation Act of 1962. Notes and Recommendations for 1963 Technical Amendments Act. Draft., 1963-01-04 | MSS 90-2, Box 7 |