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Charles Fried is a prominent American jurist and lawyer. He served as
United States Solicitor General from 1985 to 1989. He is currently a professor at
Harvard Law School. He is sometimes described as a conservative, but his political views are perhaps better characterized as consonant with those of
classical liberalism.
Born in
Prague, Czechoslovakia in
1935, Fried became a United States citizen in 1948. After studying at the
Lawrenceville School and receiving his Bachelor of Arts degree from
Princeton University in 1956, he attended
Oxford University, where he earned a Bachelor's and a
Master's degree in Law in 1958 and 1960, respectively, and was awarded the Ordronnaux Prize in Law (1958). In 1960, Fried received the Juris Doctor (J.D.) degree from
Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar.
Fried is admitted to the bars of the
United States Supreme Court,
United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts, and numerous U.S. courts of appeals. He has served as counsel to a number of major law firms and clients, and in that capacity argued several major cases, perhaps the most important being
Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceutical Co., both in the Supreme Court and in the Ninth Circuit on remand (see
Daubert standard).
Fried's government service includes a year as Special Assistant to the
Attorney General of the United States (1984-85) and a consulting relationship to that office (1983), as well as advisory roles with the
Department of Transportation (1981-83) and President
Ronald Reagan (1982). In October 1985, President Reagan appointed Fried as
Solicitor General of the United States. Fried had previously served as Deputy Solicitor General and Acting Solicitor General. As Solicitor General, he represented the Reagan Administration before the Supreme Court in 25 cases. In
1989, when Reagan left office, Fried returned to
Harvard Law School.
From September
1995 until June
1999, Fried served as an Associate Justice of the
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, while teaching constitutional law at Harvard Law School as a Distinguished Lecturer. Prior to joining the court, Fried held the chair of
Carter Professor of General Jurisprudence at Harvard Law School. On
July 1,
1999, he returned to Harvard Law School as a fulltime member of the faculty and Beneficial Professor of Law. He has served on the
Harvard Law School faculty since
1961, teaching courses on appellate advocacy, commercial law, constitutional law, contracts, criminal law, federal courts, labor law, torts, legal philosophy, and medical ethics.
Fried has published extensively. He is the author of seven books and over thirty journal articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen collections. Unusually for a law professor without a graduate degree in philosophy, he's published significant work in moral and political theory only indirectly related to the law;
Right and Wrong, for instance is an impressive general statement of a Kantian position in ethics with affinities with the work of Thomas Nagel, John Rawls, and Robert Nozick. Fried has been Orgain Lecturer at the
University of Texas (1982), Tanner Lecturer on Human Values at
Stanford University (1981), and Harris Lecturer on Medical Ethics at the
Harvard Medical School (1974-75). He was awarded a
Guggenheim Fellowship in 1971-72. Fried is a member of the
National Academy of Sciences's Institute of Medicine, the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the
American Law Institute.
In September
2005, Fried testified before the
Senate Judiciary Committee in support of the nomination of
John Roberts to become
Chief Justice of the United States. After the nomination of
Samuel Alito to the U.S. Supreme Court, Fried praised Alito as an outstanding judge but dismissed claims that Alito is radical, saying, "He is conservative, yes, but he isn't radically conservative like Scalia." Fried testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of Alito, as well.
Quotes
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"There was the abortion brief and also the brief in the Wygant case. I'd a big hand in writing it, and so did Sam Alito, who had this marvelous phrase saying that a particular African American baseball player wouldn't have served as a great role model if the fences had been pulled in every time he was up at bat, a point which some people were greatly offended by because they thought it to be pamphleteering. I thought it was entirely appropriate."
-Charles Fried (Solicitor General 1985 to 1989) in 2003.
Works
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) Further Information
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