14 Facts About Lewis Sargentich

Lewis Daniel "Lew" Sargentich was born on 1944 and is an American legal scholar.

Lewis Sargentich has been a professor at Harvard Law School since 1973, where he teaches courses tort law and jurisprudence.

Lewis Sargentich co-authored the popular tort law casebook Tort and Accident Law: Cases and Materials with Gregory Keating and Robert Keeton.

Lewis Sargentich grew up in Alhambra, California, and is the son of Peggy and Daniel Sargentich, a first-generation American.

Lewis Sargentich's brother, Thomas O Sargentich, was a professor at American University School of law.

Lewis Sargentich has two sisters, Sue Sargentich and Karen Sargentich Stafford.

Lewis Sargentich attended Alhambra High School, where he was an acclaimed student orator.

Lewis Sargentich won both the prestigious National Forensic League Boys Domestic Extemporaneous Speaking tournament and the Lions Club National Speaker Contest in 1961.

Lewis Sargentich received a Marshall Scholarship to study at Sussex University then graduated from Harvard Law School in 1965.

Lewis Sargentich clerked during the height of the Vietnam War protest era, when the Court was on security alert from time to time.

Lewis Sargentich then worked for a year as associate general counsel for the United Mine Workers in Washington.

Lewis Sargentich currently teaches jurisprudence and torts at Harvard Law; he became a lecturer at the school in 1973 at the age of 29, an assistant professor in 1974, and a full professor in 1979.

Lewis Sargentich is commonly cited for his unpublished manuscript Complex Enforcement written in March 1978 and on file at the Harvard Law School Library.

Lewis Sargentich is married to Valerie Bradley, the long-time president of the Human Services Research Institute, an organization involved in assisting states and the federal government to enhance services and supports to people with mental illness and people with intellectual disabilities.