| Cornell Archiving Summers’ Labor Law Papers |
Legendary law professor Clyde
Summers will have his papers and files placed in
the Kheel Archive at the Martin P. Catherwood
Library at the Cornell School of Industrial and
Labor Relations. The Kheel Center is the preeminent
labor-management archive of original
source material in North America. Used by researchers
and professionals, it covers the history
of labor and the workplace. Summers’ papers
range from articles and speeches to correspondence
and class notes.
Summers is considered the most influential
U.S. Labor Law scholar in the latter half of the
20th century. The Commission of Uniform State
Laws’ Model Employment Termination Act was
modeled after an article written by Summers
advocating statutory protection against unjust
dismissal. He contributed to the draft of the
Landrum Griffin Act, co-edited five casebooks
and published more than 125 law review articles
and contributions to symposia. Summers taught
at Penn Law School for 30 years.
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