1. Charles Rothwell Nesson was born on February 11,1939 and is an American legal scholar.
14 Facts About Charles Nesson
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Charles Nesson is the author of Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the US Supreme Court, including the landmark case Daubert v Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.
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In 1971, Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case.
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Charles Nesson was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case against W R Grace and Company that was made into the book A Civil Action, which was, in turn, made into the film of the same name.
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Charles Nesson took the law school boards junior year, earning a nearly perfect score, but he was initially rejected early admission from Harvard Law School for his grades.
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Charles Nesson is rumored to have achieved the highest grade point average since Felix Frankfurter graduated in 1907.
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Charles Nesson was a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II, 1965 term.
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Charles Nesson then worked as a special assistant in the United States Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under John Doar.
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Charles Nesson joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1966, and was tenured three years later.
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In 2006, Charles Nesson taught CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion with Rebecca Charles Nesson and Gene Koo.
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Charles Nesson teaches courses in the law and practice of evidence, Trials in Second Life, where he is represented by his avatar "Eon", and a reading group on Freedom with Fern Nesson Charles Nesson teaches a class on the American Jury.
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Charles Nesson led projects to "reify university as a meta player in cyberspace", to advance restorative justice in Jamaica, and to legitimize and teach poker and the value of strategic poker thinking.
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In 2009, Charles Nesson acted as defense lawyer for Joel Tenenbaum, who was accused of downloading and sharing 31 songs on the Kazaa file-sharing network; the jury came to a $675,000 verdict against Tenenbaum.
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Charles Nesson had encouraged Tenenbaum to admit that he had downloaded and shared the 31 songs after he had denied it in depositions.