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Josiah M. Daniel III

Dean Page Keeton and Academic Freedom at UT Austin: Three Archival Letters

October 9, 2019

One bonus of archival research is discovering documents irrelevant to the topic but so evocative that they can’t be ignored. In the State Bar of Texas archives, I found three letters from June 1960 between Werdner Page Keeton (1909-1999), Dean of the School of Law of The University of Texas, and two lawyers. Those letters […]

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