September 27, 2010
Cambridge, MA
Charles Fried, the Beneficial Professor of Law, has been teaching at Harvard Law School since 1961. He was Solicitor General of the United States from1985 to 1989,
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and an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court ofMassachusetts from1995 to 1999. His scholarly and teaching interests have beenmoved by the connection between normative theory and the concrete institutions of public and private law. During his career at Harvard he has taught Criminal Law, Commercial Law, Roman Law, Torts, Contracts, Labor Law, Constitutional Law and Federal Courts, Appellate and Supreme Court Advocacy, and in recent years he has taught Constitutional Law and Contracts. During his time as a teacher he has also argued a number of major cases in state and federal courts,most notably Daubert v.Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, in which the Supreme Court established the standards for the use of expert and scientific evidence in federal courts. He is the author of many books and articles, including Anatomy of Values (1970), Contract as Promise (1980), Order & Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution (1991), Making Tort Law (2003, with David Rosenberg), Saying What the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court (2004), and Modern Liberty (2006). His most recent book is Because It Is Wrong: Torture, Privacy, and Presidential Power in the Age of Terror (2010, with Gregory Fried). He was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in 1997.
Gregory Fried, is Professor and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Suffolk University. He has taught ethics, political philosophy, and the history of philosophy at the University of Chicago, Boston University, and California State University, Los Angeles. At Suffolk, Fried, together with his colleagues in the department and in other programs at the university, has founded a new interdisciplinarymasters programin Ethics and Public Policy, which seeks to integrate the study of ethical and political question in the philosophical tradition with the techniques and politics of policy analysis and implementation. His research has focused on defending the classical Enlightenment tradition against some of itsmost serious critics,most particularly the German philosopher,Martin Heidegger. He is the author of Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics.With Richard Polt, he is also the translator of two of Heidegger's works, Introduction to Metaphysics and Being and Truth.
