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James Dickson Phillips

1922–2017 as the Library of Congress records it · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Judge James Dickson Phillips, Jr. : A digital collection / by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library.

Kathrine R. Everett Law Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

An online collection assembled by the Kathrine R. Everett Law Library at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on James Dickson Phillips, Jr., 1922 to 2017, who taught at the university's law school before serving on the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit. Topics include judges and law teachers in North Carolina.

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  1. George Esser and Alexander McMahon join the Institute of Government Recruited by Coates at Harvard Law School that spring, Esser and McMahon started the same day, joining new Carolina law graduates Donald McCoy and Dickson Phillips; Philip Green came a few months later. It was the largest group of assistant directors Coates had yet employed, and he put them to work on the Charlotte-Mecklenburg study. People: James Dickson Phillips, Albert CoatesSearch the index · Howard E. Covington Jr., The Good Government Man: Albert Coates and the Early Years of the Institute of Government (2018), p. 215

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