The papers of Hardy Cross Dillard were donated in nine installments, the first deposited at the Law Library by Dillard beginning in 1963. His widow, Valgerdur N. Dillard, donated further papers on 31 October 1984.
1902 - Born in New Orleans, Louisiana on 23 October to James Hardy and Avarene Lippincott Budd Dillard
1911-1912 - Lived in France and attended a French Lycee
1915-1916 - Attended high school in Charlottesville, Virginia
1916-1919 - Attended and graduated from Virginia EpiscopalSchool, Lynchburg, Va.
1919-1920 - Attended University of Virginia
1920-1924 - Attended and graduated from United States Military Academy
1924-1927 - Attended and graduated from University of Virginia Law School
1926 - Summer law clerk, Price, Smith and Spillman, Charleston, W. Va.
1927 - Admitted to Virginia Bar
1927-1929 - Acting Assistant Professor, University of Virginia Law School
1928 - Travelled in England, France, Italy and Algiers
1929-1930 - Practiced law at Gregg and Church, New York, N.Y.
1930-1931 - Carnegie Endowment Fellow, (Faculte de droit,) University of Paris
1931-1933 - Acting assistant (associate?) professor, University of Virginia Law School
1932-1933 - Summer associate, Davis, Polk, Wardwell, Gardiner and Reed, New York, N.Y.
1933-1938 - Associate Professor, University of Virginia Law School
1934 - Married Janet Gray Schauffler
1935 - Birth of Joan Jarvis Dillard
1937-1940 - Assistant Dean, University of Virginia Law School
1937-1970 - Advisory Editor, Virginia Quarterly Review
1938-1970 - Professor, University of Virginia Law School
1937 - Birth of Hardy Schauffler Dillard
1938-1942 - Director, Institute of Public Affairs
1942 - Major, U.S. Army; promoted to Lt. Colonel, same year
1942-1945 - Received command and staff assignments in Europe and Far East; awarded Legion of Merit with Oak Leaf Cluster and Bronze Star Medal
1943 - Promoted to Colonel, U.S. Army
1943-1944 - Director of Academic Instruction, School for Military Government
1946 - First Director of Studies, National War College
1947-1950 - Consultant, Brookings Institution
1947 - Resumed teaching at University of Virginia Law School
1948 - Colonel, U.S. Army Reserve
1949-1952 - Member of Board of Consultants, National War College
1949 - Member, Civilian Advisory Group, National War College
1950 - Active duty in International Section, Pentagon; Legal Consultant, Office of High Commissioner for Germany; Lecturer, France and Germany
1951-1954 - Member, Board of Consultants, National War College
1952-1961 - Trustee, Virginia Episcopal School
1953 - Fulbright Lecturer, Oxford University
1957 - Summer active duty, Judge Advocate General's School
1956 - Civilian Consultant, Army War College
1956-1962 - Editor, Virginia Bar News
1957 - Carnegie Lecturer, Hague Academy of International Law
1957 - Recipient, Raven Award
1957 - Consultant, NATO Defense College in France
1958-1970 - James Monroe Professor of Law, University of Virginia Law School
1962 - Secretary, Defense Committee on Non-technical Instruction in Armed Forces
1962 - Lecturer, Egyptian Society of International Law and University of Cairo
1962-1963 - Visiting Professor of Law, Columbia University
1962-1963 - President, American Society of International Law
1963-1979 -Member of Council, American Law Institute
1963-1968 - Dean, University of Virginia Law School
1965 - Member, Virginia Magna Charta Commission
1965 - Member, Special Advisory Committee, Air Force Academy
1966-1970 - Permanent Advisory Council, Air Force Academy
1966 - Sibley Lecturer, University of Georgia
1967 - Recipient, Thomas Jefferson Award, University of Virginia
1967 - Member, UNESCO Committee on the Role of UNESCO in the Teaching and Dissemination of International Law
1967 - Tucker Lecturer, Washington and Lee Law School
1967 - Bailey Lecturer, Louisiana State University
1968 - Member, Virginia Commission on Constitution Revision
1970 - Recipient of Distinguished Civilian Award, U.S. Air Force
1970-1979 - Judge, International Court of Justice, The Hague
1970 - Death of Janet Schauffler Dillard
1971 - Member, Arbitral Tribunal, Beagle Channel Case between Chile and Argentina
1971 - Recipient of Honorary Degree, Tulane University
1972 - Married Valgerdur Nielsen Dent
1976 - Recipient of Honorary Degree, Washington College, Maryland
1977 - Mooers Lecturer, American University
1979 - Recipient of the Wolfgang Friedman Memorial Award, Columbia University
1979 - Honorary president, American Law Institute
1982 - Died on 12 May in Charlottesville, Virginia
The addition to the Hardy Cross Dillard Papers (six linear feet in 12 boxes) contains the bulk of the records documenting his nine years on the International Court of Justice. Included are files on the cases brought to the ICJ from 1970 to 1979, as well as extensive records concerning the Beagle Channel Case heard by a Court of Arbitration on which Dillard served from 1971 to 1977. The files for each ICJ case contain memoranda and notes in addition to assorted annotated documents for most of them. Dillard was chairman of the ICJ Rules Revision Committee in the mid-70's, and that work is documented. Finally, there are miscellaneous ICJ documents, general memoranda, and correspondence. The correspondence (20 folders) here, as in the earlier gift, contains letters from personal as well as professional acquaintances; some frequent correspondents included Eduardo Jimenez de Arechaga, Richard Baxter, Gerald Fitzmaurice and Phillip Jessup. Judge Dillard did much of his thinking on paper in memoranda to himself and to his colleagues on the Court. Consequently, there is substantial commentary on arguments of cases, as well as formulation of positions he felt the Court should take. The Beagle Channel Case is the most thoroughly documented, filling almost four boxes.
During World War II Dillard was quickly promoted from major to colonel. In late 1943 and early 1944 he served as director of training with the Civil Affairs Division of the First Army in England preparing for the aftermath of the invasion of France. His records of this work were filed in a box that he kept at the Law School, perhaps because for a number of years the papers were classified. The box was discovered by a secretary in a 1988 renovation move and transferred to the Archives.
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The bulk of this addition to the Hardy Cross Dillard Papers consists of his correspondence with personal as well as professional acquaintances for the years 1910-1971. Frequent correspondents include Phillip Jessup, Myres S. McDougal, Charlotte Kohler and Eberhard Deutsch, and occasional correspondents are such prominent figures as Robert Kennedy, Dean Rusk, John Stennis and George Kennan. Other legal scholars with whom Dillard corresponded include Lon Fuller, Arnold Wolfers and John Bassett Moore. These papers also contains several of Dillard's speeches, most of which deal with international relations. Several files pertain to his law practice, including the Almond v. Day case. Finally, several folders document Dillard's activities in university and alumni organizations.
These papers were given to the library by his daughter, Joan Dillard, in March of 1990.