Transcripts of interviews with four Harvard Law School professors : Clark Byse, Abram Chayes, Archibald Cox, and Paul Freund

Freund, Paul Abraham, 1908-1992

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Paul Abraham Freund, 1908-1992, was a preeminent legal scholar. Under the guidance of Professor Thomas Reed Powell, Felix Frankfurter and others, Freund became a standout student at Harvard Law School, and was elected as President of the Harvard Law Review from 1930-1931. After receiving his S.J.D. magna cum laude in 1932, Freund spent a year as clerk to Supreme Court Justice, Louis Brandeis. He remained in Washington for the rest of the decade, working as a government...

Byse, Clark

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Cox, Archibald, 1912-2004

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Lawyer, educator, LL. B. Harv. Law S. 1937, LL. D., 1975. Admitted to Bar, 1937. In law practice in Boston, 1938-1941. Prof. of law, Harv. U., 1945-1961, 1965- Solicitor general of U.S., 1961-1965. Prosecutor of U.S. Dept. of Justice Watergate Special Prosecution Force. Author of The Warren Court (1968), co-author Cases on Labor Law (1948, 1976, with D.C. Bok). From the description of Papers, 1862-1978. (Harvard Law School Library). WorldCat record id: 236047245 From the des...

Harvard Law School

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Law clubs were established to provide students an opportunity to practice preparing and arguing law cases as realistically as possible. Law clubs began to be founded at Harvard in the 19th century; one of the earliest was the Marshall Club, founded in 1825. In 1910, the Board of Student Advisers was formed, and the more formal Ames Competition in Appellate Brief Writing and Advocacy was established. From the description of General information by and about Harvard Law School clubs, 18...

Chayes, Abram, 1922-2000

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Abram Joseph Chayes (1922-2000) was admitted to the Bar of Connecticut in 1950, in the District of Columbia in 1953, and in Massachusetts in 1958. He was a legal adviser to the governor of Connecticut from 1949 to 1950, and general counsel for U.S. President's Materials Policy Commission from 1950 to 1951. From 1951 to 1952, he was a legal clerk to Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter, and from 1952 to 1955 served with the law firm of Covington & Burling in Washington, D.C. From 1961 to 1...