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Daniel D. Smith International School of Law collection, C0086, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries.
Donated by Daniel D. Smith in 2008.
Processed by Tom Duncan in 2010. EAD markup completed by Tom Duncan in 2010.
Daniel D. Smith is a lawyer and a co-founder of the International School of Law in 1972, now the George Mason University School of Law. After receiving a law degree at the University of Virginia School of Law in 1969, Smith was admitted to the Virginia Bar and to the District of Columbia Bar shortly thereafter. When the International School of Law opened in 1972, Smith held the position of Administrative Dean. He later served as Acting Dean and then Associate Professor until he moved from teaching to private practice in 1978. He served as a member of the American Bar Association and the Virginia Bar Association and helped found and chaired several organizations, including Young Life of Loudoun County, the Loudoun Vocational Education Fund, and Loudoun Healthcare Foundation.
This collection contains materials related to Smith's role in creating the International School of Law, which later became the George Mason University School of Law, including correspondence, publications and faculty and board meeting minutes.
Series 1 of this collection provides information on the founding of the law school, the policies it held and the Judeo-Christian principles under which it was founded.
Series 2 contains the minutes from faculty and Board of Trustee meetings, arranged by date. These meetings discussed various topics from faculty appointments and dismissals on how to win American Bar Association accreditation.
Series 3 deals with the accreditation issue more directly. The International School of Law spent years attempting to gain the American Bar Association approval and suffered a number of setbacks and rejections. Series 3 contains the letters between the law school and the Association, suggestions for improvements and the actions taken by the school.
Series 4 contains a number of writings by Daniel Smith, including notes from the Contract Law course he taught for the law school while there.
Series 5 contains a number of publications by the International School of Law, in the form of newsletters, as well as correspondence with several States' Supreme Courts and the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners in attempts to allow their non-accredited graduates to sit for the bar exam. This series also contains material on the mergers and affiliations that the International School of Law tried to develop in order to gain accreditation. The merger with George Mason University is the last and most successful of these.
Series 6 contains information on the day-to-day administration of the International School of Law, complete with hirings and salaries as well as disciplinary action for Deans and professors who were dismissed and replaced during the law schools independency. This last series also contains the personal log book that Smith kept while employed by the law school.
The Special Collections Research Center holds other collections pertaining to the establishment of George Mason University and the development of academic departments.
Organized into six series.
This series contains information on the founding of the International School of Law, the principles behind the school and its administrative policies.
Declaration of Trust, Christian Basis, Statements of Purpose, Institution's Philosophy
General Policies, Academic Regulations, Academic Programs
This series contains the minutes from meetings of the faculty and Board of Trustees for the International School of Law.
Minutes from the Board of Trustees meetings, Deans Annual Reports
This series contains correspondence between the International School of Law and the American Bar Association, attempts to become accredited, and notes and suggestions how to win Bar approval.
James P. White, Tightening Accreditation Standards, Recommendations
International School of Law Relocation and Remodeling, Letters of Recommendation and Rejection, The International School of Law's Critique of the American Bar Association
This series contains correspondence and writing by Daniel D. Smith while at the International School of Law.
Notes for Smith's Contract Law class, "Evolution and Jurisprudence", Thoughts on moral law
This series includes publications by the International School of Law, correspondence with states' Supreme Courts and the Virginia Board of Bar Examiners, and information on International School of Law mergers and affiliations.
International School of Law Newsletter, International School of Law "Evidence"
Requests for International School of Law graduates to be permitted to sit for bar examinations.
The Latin American Institute, Southeastern University, George Mason University
This series contains faculty directories, salary information, correspondence between faculty and staff, and incidents among the faculty.
John Brabner-Smith, Budget Concerns, John Montgomery, Tony Nania
Ralph Norvell, Faculty Member Publications, Review of John Brabner-Smith and Dismissal, Daniel D. Smith's Request for Leave of Absence
Personal log book with notes taken while at the International School of Law