The Reserve also holds several archive collections of different types. They are currently being catalogued on Calames.
Administrative archives :
- Archives of the Faculté de droit d'Aix :
course and thesis posters 18th-20th centuries, all on https://odyssee.univ-amu.fr/exhibits/show/histoire_universite/histoire-universite-04
registration forms and diplomas from 1830 to around 1950...
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Thèse pour le baccalauréat en droit canonique et civil, Aix, 1774.
- Archives of the former Bibliothèque universitaire droit-lettres (1880-1975 approx.).
Historical archives
- Jean-Etienne and Joseph-Marie Portalis fonds (acquired at auction in 2012): various archives, currently being digitized: drafts, unpublished works, correspondence, concerning the philosophy of law (Sovereignty of the people...), draft laws (press, 1809-1830, literary property, 1825-1826...), organization of religions (1802-1809), works and reports to sovereigns (freedom of conscience, criminal law of armies...), a livre de raison...
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Jean-Etienne Portalis: De l'usage et de l'abus de l'esprit philosophique pendant le 18e siècle (On the use and abuse of the philosophical mind during the 18th century) (preparatory manuscript for the printed edition of 1834)
- Handwritten notes from a 1930s Aix law course taken by a student (Pierre Coen)...
Scientific archives:
- Consultation by Auguste Dumas (1881-1968), professor of legal history at Aix, for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in the Minquiers and Ecréhous case (subsequently settled by an ICJ ruling of November 17, 1953)
- Handwritten notes by Jean-Claude Venezia (1929-2016), professor of administrative law in Aix and Paris.
- Handwritten notes by André Viala (1923-1920), professor of legal history at Aix-en-Provence
