Guide to the John Kaplan papers SC1647
Enid Ocegueda
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
December 2023; January 2024
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Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: John Kaplan papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC1647
Physical Description:
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2 half msbs
Date (inclusive): 1970-1983
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John Kaplan obtained his bachelor of science degree in physics from Harvard University. He
then worked in a Naval research lab for several years before returning to Harvard to attend
Law School. He later became a law clerk for US Supreme Court Justice Thomas C. Clark. He
began his teaching career teaching law at Northwestern University in 1962 and then at
University of California Berkeley. In 1965 he joined the law faculty at Stanford University
where he became the Jackson Eli Reynolds Professor of Law and later elected chair of the
Faculty Senate for the 1988-1989 year.
Throughout his career, he served on various government committees, advising on drug laws,
criminal law, and social issues - being best known for his work linking sociological
research with legal policies as it applied to drug regulation.
This collection contains John Kaplan's manuscripts: "Marijuana, the New Prohibition" (1970)
and "The Hardest Drug" (1983).
[identification of item], John Kaplan papers (SC1647). Department of Special Collections
and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Public policy
Drug control -- United States
Marijuana -- United States
Marijuana Use--legislation & jurisprudence
Papers
Box 1, folder 1-3
"Marijuana, the New Prohibition" Manuscript ARCH-1985-046 1970
Box 2, folder 1-3
"The Hardest Drug" Manuscript ARCH-1985-046 1983