Charles Fried

Charles Fried ( born April 15, 1935 in Prague) is an American lawyer, lawyer, professor at Harvard Law School and a former United States Solicitor General.

Life

Charles Fried was born in 1935 in the former Czechoslovakia. In 1948 he became an American citizen. He attended the Lawrenceville School, received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1958 and reached the Bachelor and Master of Laws in 1960 from the University of Oxford. Also in 1960 he received the degree of Juris Doctor from Columbia Law School.

First, Fried was active as a legal advisor and lawyer at various U.S. courts, including the Supreme Court of the United States and several United States Court of Appeals and the Federal Court of Appeals for the Federal District.

In 1981 he began working for the American government with an advisory role in the Ministry of Transport. In 1982 he became an adviser to President Ronald Reagan and in 1983 he filled the same position in the Ministry of Justice. 1984 to 1985 he was assistant to the Attorney General of the United States. It was also Charles Fried deputy United States solicitor general. In October 1985, he was named Ronald Reagan to the United States Solicitor General. Fried represented in this position, the U.S. government in 25 cases before the Supreme Court of the United States. With the end of the Reagan years Fried returned from his government position at the Harvard Law School.

From September 1995 to June 1999 he was active in addition to his teaching at Harvard as a judge of the Supreme Court of the State of Massachusetts. On 1 July 1999 he became a full time member and a professor at Harvard Law School. There he lectured on the subjects of appeal, commercial law, constitutional law, contract law, criminal law, labor law, the federal courts of the United States, tort law, legal philosophy and ethics, and medical ethics.

Charles Fried has published seven books and over 30 articles in professional journals. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Law Institute.

Work

  • 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 )
  • Order and Law: Arguing the Reagan Revolution - A Firsthand Account ( 1991)
  • Contract as Promise: A Theory of Contractual Obligation ( 1981)
  • Right and Wrong ( 1978)
  • Medical Experimentation: Personal Integrity and Social Policy (1974 )
  • An Anatomy of Values: Problems of Personal and Social Choice ( 1970)
Benjamin Bristow Samuel F. Phillips John Goode George A. Jenks Orlow W. Chapman Lawrence Maxwell, Jr. Holmes Conrad John K. Richards Henry M. Hoyt (Solicitor General) Lloyd Wheaton Bowers Frederick William Lehmann William Marshall Bullitt John W. Davis Alexander Campbell King William L. Frierson James M. Beck William D. Mitchell Charles Evans Hughes, Jr. Thomas D. Thacher James Crawford Biggs Stanley Forman Reed Robert H. Jackson Charles H. Fahy J. Howard McGrath Walter J. Cummings, Jr. J. Lee Rankin Archibald Cox Thurgood Marshall Erwin Griswold Robert Bork Wade H. McCree Rex E. Lee Ken Starr Drew S. Days, III Walter E. Dellinger III Seth P. Waxman Barbara D. Underwood Theodore Olson Paul Clement Gregory G. Garre Edwin Kneedler Elena Kagan Integrated Authority File
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