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This series contains correspondence between Dr. Newman as Dean with faculty and prospective faculty as well as with students, former students, friends, and colleagues about their careers and projects. The files on individuals often contain correspondence that dates before his appointment as Acting Dean in 1977. Included are correspondence with famed criminologist Marvin E. Wolfgang (1961-83) and the former Dean of the School of Criminal Justice and School President Vincent O'Leary (1968-77). The bulk of the material dates between 1968 and 1983.

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This series consists of the materials the department produced and used before transitioning to the use of digital media. The materials in this series are from the period in which the department was known as Creative Services. Some photographic materials were created by the department while older materials in the series were produced elsewhere and retained by them for the creation of promotional material.

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The David C. Baldus Papers document the distinguished legal research career of David C. Baldus, which includes the most sophisticated challenges to capital punishment in the United States since the reinstatement of the Death Penalty in 1976. Included is material from the Georgia Charging & Sentencing Study, which was used as evidence in the McCleskey v. Kemp (1987) decision. Similar studies involving capital sentencing in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the U.S. Military are also detailed, as is Baldus's formal reports to the supreme courts of a number of other states. Also present is material documenting Baldus's long career as the Joseph B. Tye Professor of Law at the University of Iowa Law School. This includes teaching material, presentations, publications, and material documenting faculty service.