CHARLES NESSON

'Charles Rothwell Nesson' (born February 11, 1939) is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is author of ''Evidence'', with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case and consulted on the case against W.R. Grace that was made into the film ''A Civil Action''.

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Early life and education

Current activities

External links

Early life and education

Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, and Harvard Law School. After joining the list of only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude from the Law School, Nesson was a Law Clerk to Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the United States Supreme Court, 1965 term. After working in the Department of Justice, Nesson joined the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1966, and was tenured in 1969.

Current activities

He is currently leading a project to reify university as a meta player in cyberspace, to legitimize and teach poker and the value of strategic poker thinking, and to advance restorative justice in Jamaica. He teaches courses in the law and practice of Evidence (how to prove the "truth"), CyberOne: Law In the Court of Public Opinion, Trials in Second Life, and a reading group with Fern Nesson on Freedom.

External links

Nesson's blog "eon"


★ Nesson's courses and projects


★ Harvard Crimson feature piece