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Harvey A. Silverglate
Harvey A. Silverglate
HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE
Lawyer & Writer
607 Franklin Street
Cambridge, MA 02139
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PERSONAL
Born 1942, New York City (Brooklyn)
EDUCATION
Bogota High School, Bogota, New Jersey, 1960.
A.B., cum laude (history), Princeton University, 1964.
LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1967.
BAR ADMISSIONS
Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts (1967)
United States Supreme Court (1971)
United States Court of Military Appeals (1970)
United States Courts of Appeals for the:
Books:
In the Name of Justice: Leading Experts Reexamine the Classic Article "The
Aims of the Criminal Law” (Timothy Lynch, editor)
CHAPTER “Federal Criminal Law: Punishing Benign Intentions – A Betrayal of
Professor Hart’s Admonition to Prosecute Only the Blameworthy,” by Harvey A.
Silverglate
Washington, DC: Cato Institute, 2009
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FIRE’s Guide to First-Year Orientation and Thought Reform on Campus
By Jordan Lorence & Harvey A. Silverglate
Philadelphia: Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, 2005
Journalism Awards:
“Civil Liberties and Enemy Combatants: Why the Supreme Court’s Widely Praised
Rulings Are Bad For America,” REASON magazine, January 2005.
"Illegal Thoughts: Hate speech, hate crime and the First Amendment," Media
Studies Journal (Fall 2000).
“Starr Teachers: Think independent counsels use dirty tricks? Check out the
Justice Department’s regular prosecutors” (with Andrew Good), REASON
magazine, May 1999.
Numerous by-lined articles during high school, college, and law school, for
The Ridgewood (N.J.) Newspapers and The Bergen (N.J.) Record.
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Selected Columns:
Civil liberties and criminal law columnist ("Freedom Watch", formerly "Brief
Cases") on a regular basis on legal (particularly criminal justice and civil
liberties) subjects for The Real Paper, and then (currently) The Boston
Phoenix (which acquired The Real Paper) (1976-present).
Civil Liberties "Forum" columnist, The National Law Journal (regularly 1994-
2002, with occasional columns to the present).
"The JDL Informer and the Bizarre Bombing Case," with Alan M. Dershowitz and
Jeanne Baker, The Civil Liberties Review (April/May 1976).
Board of Editors, Criminal Law Advocacy Reporter (Matthew Bender & Co., New
York), requiring 2 articles contributed annually (1990-1994).
"The 1970s: A Decade of Repression?" in With Justice for Some, ed. Bruce
Wasserstein and Mark J. Green (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970).
"In the Marketplace of Free Ideas: A Look at the Passage of the Marihuana Tax
Act" in J. L. Simmons (ed.), Marihuana: Myths & Realities (Brandon House,
1967).
“Sects and Drugs,” The New York Times Sunday Book Review (April 25, 2001).
Co-author, “Mistrial: The Capturing the Friedmans DVD sheds new light on the
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case,” Slate Online Magazine (February 27, 2004).
LITIGATION EXPERIENCE
Represented Leona Helmsley in appeal of her federal tax conviction, and her
New York state tax indictment (dismissed);
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Represented newspaper reporters in grand jury investigations;
Represented Sen. Mike Gravel (D. Alaska) in the “Pentagon Papers” case in
which Sen. Gravel’s aide was subpoenaed by a federal grand jury – the case
made it to the U. S. Supreme Court and was the subject of a Harvard Law
Review article co-authored by me;
ACADEMIC EXPERIENCE
Appointment as Lecturer-in-Law at Harvard Law School to teach a course in
Professional Responsibility and Criminal Defense Strategy in the Spring
Semester of 1987.
For several years in the late 1970s and the 1980s, guest teacher, along with
Professor Alan M. Dershowitz, of "Professional Responsibility," a Harvard Law
School course dealing with ethical issues primarily in criminal cases.
Advisory Committee member, National Center for Reason and Justice, 2002-
Present.
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Chair, Independent Privacy Board, Predictive Networks, Inc., Cambridge, MA
(with authority to review the company’s Internet privacy policies and
practices), 2000-2002.
Chairperson, Long Range Planning Committee of the Martin Luther King, Jr.,
Open School, Cambridge, MA, 1982-1985.
Debated Harvard Law School Professor Alan Dershowitz on the use of torture
and “torture warrants” in an age of terrorism, at Boston’s Ford Hall Forum,
on February 12, 2002. (A recording of the debate is available here.)
Participated annually since 2001 in “Shakespeare and the Law” program co-
sponsored by the Federalist Society of Boston/Lawyers Division and the
Commonwealth Shakespeare Company, consisting of performance of a Shakespeare
play followed by a panel discussion on a legal issue raised by the play.