Constitution-making in the U.S. 1777-1779 lessons for Washington & Santiago

 "How a small number of shrewd and lucky men brought off a coup, the results of which still govern us "

CHARLES FRIED

From September, 1995 until June, 1999 Charles Fried was an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, while teaching constitutional law at Harvard Law School.  On July 1, 1999 he returned to Harvard Law School as a full time member of the faculty and Beneficial Professor of Law.  He has served on the Harvard Law School faculty since 1961.  From 1985-1989 he was Solicitor General of the United States.

He is the author of Medical Experimentation: Personal Integrity and Social Policy (new and enlarged edition, 2016); Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation – second edition (2015); Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy and Presidential Power In The Age Of Terror with Gregory Fried (2010),  Modern Liberty and the Limits of Government (2006), Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court (2004),Making Tort Law: What Should Be Done and Who Should Do It with David Rosenberg (2003), andOrder and Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution(1991); Right and Wrong (1978); and An Anatomy of Values (1970).

He has served as counsel to a number of private clients, and in that capacity argued several major cases--including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical Co., both in the Supreme Court, and  World Trade Center Properties v. St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Co. in the Second Circuit (whether the attack on the Twin Towers  was one occurrence or two).

Born in Prague, Czechoslovakia in 1935, Mr. Fried became a United States citizen in 1948.  After receiving the Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton in 1956, he attended Oxford University, where he earned a bachelor's in 1958, and received the J.D. degree from Columbia University School of Law in 1960.  He served as law clerk to Associate Justice John Marshall Harlan during the 1960 October Term.

He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences' Institute of Medicine, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Law Institute.

Professor Fried was keynote speaker at the inauguration in 2016 of a new course of studies named for Gonzalo Figueroa in recognition of his distinguished career in civil law at the University of Chile.

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