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The Metropolitan Placement Unit was a New York State agency created to develop community residences for Willowbrook class members. This subseries consists of the Willowbrook Review Panel's files related to the MPU. It includes reports on MPU activities, correspondence from MPU director Barbara Blum, reports on the development of community residences, and other related files.

The series is divided into essayistic contributions, reviews, encyclopedia articles, and early translations by Fried from Italian into German. The essays and translations are arranged chronologically, while reviews and encyclopedia articles are arranged alphabetically by author and title.

Hard Cases: Science, Policy, and Values was a course focused on providing the intellectual skills to interperate atypical cases that require more context and nuance than explicit laws provide. The course included studies of law and morality in cultures such as ancient Athens and the Dani of New Guinea. Students read from a variety of postmodern thinkers including Albert Camus, Michel Foucault, Ronald Dworkin, Sophocles, Carlo Ginzburg, and Cesare Beccaria. The class also examined odd legal scenarios such as the return of Martin Guerre.

This subseries documents ASLF's projects in the Northeast states, including: Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont. The majority of the northeast projects are from ASLF's home state of New York. The first ever Right-to-Know Act citizen suit was settled in 1990 by ASLF in a landmark settlement involving ARO Corporation, located in Buffalo. In Syracuse, Onondaga Lake, which was considered one of the most polluted lakes in the United States during the late 1980s, was a focus of ASLF efforts. ASLF settled several cases, including one against Bristol Meyers Squib, to reduce pollutions discharged in to the lake and remediate damages.

The teaching series contains an overview of Professor David C. Baldus and his courses and teaching methodology.

Despite not having children of her own, Helen Quirini was very involved in Schenectady County day care. She originally represented labor on the Child Care Coordinating Council during World War II. She chaired the Schenectady County Child Care Council and was also a board member of the New York State Child Care Coordinating Council. She worked directly with day care centers such as the Christ Church Day Care center and the Refreshing Springs Day Care where she was an administrator alongside her longtime friend Reverend Georgetta Dix, who founded and ran the center.