Professor Charles R. Nesson

Degrees Harvard College: A.B. 1960
Harvard Law School: J.D. 1963
Sears Prize (twice)
Summa Cum Laude
Fay Diploma
Occupation William F. Weld Professor of Law, Harvard Law School
Prior Experience Clerk to Mr. Justice Harlan on the United States Supreme Court, 1965 Term
Special Assistant, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
Activities Joined Harvard Law School Faculty in 1966, tenured in 1969
Associate Dean, 1979-1982
Organizer and President of the Lawyers' Military Defense Committee, 1969-1972
Director of Harvard Evidence Film Project, 1974-1979
Founder and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School
Specialty Course: Evidence
Additional Courses: Internet, Torts, Criminal Law, Advocacy, Ethics
Publications Green, Nesson & Murray, Evidence (3rd ed. Aspen)

Constitutional Hearsay: Requiring Foundational Testing and Corroboration under the Confrontation Clause, 81 Va. L. Rev. 149 (1995), with Yochai Benkler

Incentives to Spoliate Evidence in Civil Litigation:
The Need for Vigorous Judicial Action, 13 Cardozo L. Rev. 793 (1991).

Agent Orange Meets the Blue Bus: Factfinding at the Frontier of Knowledge, 66 B.U.L. Rev. 521 (1986)

The Evidence or the Event? On Judicial Proof and the
Acceptability of Verdicts, 98 Harvard Law Review 1357 (1985)

Reasonable Doubt and Permissive Inferences: The
Value of Complexity, 92 Harvard Law Review 1187 (1979)
Litigation

Eldred v. Ashcroft, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  537 U.S. 186 (2003)

 

Barclays Bank PLC v. Franchise Tax Bd., SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  512 U.S. 298 (1994)

 

Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharms., SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  509 U.S. 579 (1993)

 

Johnson v. Robison, SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES,  415 U.S. 361 (1973)

 

Microsystems Software, Inc. v. Scandinavia Online AB, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT, 226 F.3d

35 (1st Cir., 2000)

 

Swan v. Peterson, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE NINTH CIRCUIT 6 F.3d 1373 (9th Cir. 1993)

 

Anderson v. Beatrice Foods Co., UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT 900 F.2d 388 (1st Cir., 1990)

 

Anderson v. Cryovac, Inc., UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT 862 F.2d 910 (1st Cir.,1988)

 

In re Grand Jury Matters,  UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT,751 F.2d 13 (1st Cir., 1984

 

Ellsberg v. Mitchell, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA CIRCUIT,  709 F.2d 51 (D.C. Cir., 1983)

 

In re Boston & P. R. Corp., UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT,501 F.2d 545 (1dt Cir., 1974)

 

In re Dellinger, UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE SEVENTH CIRCUIT, 461 F.2d 389 (7th Cir., 1972)

 

In re Grand Jury Matters, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, 593 F. Supp. 103 (U.S.D.C. N.H., 1984)

 

Ellsberg v. Mitchell, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA,  353 F. Supp. 515 (U.S.D.C D.C., 1973)

 

Lee v. Macon County Board of Education, UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA,

EASTERN DIVISION,  253 F. Supp. 727 (M.D. Ala., 1966)

 

United States v. Alabama,  Civ. A. No. 2255-N,  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA, 252 F. Supp. 95 (M.D. Ala., 1966)

 

Sims v. Baggett,  UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE MIDDLE DISTRICT OF ALABAMA,  247 F. Supp. 96 (M.D.Ala., 1965)

 

 
Commonwealth v. Edelin, Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts 371 Mass. 497; 359 N.E.2d 4 (1976)

Media Television and Seminar Moderator for the Fred Friendly Seminars (Media & Society Program of the Columbia University) (1974-1990)
Moderator for the PBS series The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, produced by Fred Friendly and Media & Society Seminars of Columbia University (1986)
Ethics in America (1989)
Moderator for CBS, Eye on the Media: Media and Business (1982)
Moderator for Granada Television programs on The Right to Die, International Bribery, and Terrorism
Advocate on The Advocates (WGBH)
Narrator for the film Three Appeals (about the appellate process of the State of New York, made by WNET, 1977)
The Shooting of Big Man (a commentary about a murder, made for ABC, 1978)
Family Married to Fern Leicher Nesson
Two daughters, Rebecca and Leila