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...Areeda returned briefly to Washington in 1969 to serve as executive director of the President's Cabinet Task Force on Oil Import Control and again from 1974 to 1975 as counsel to President Ford. As Areeda remarked in an interview, "those were excursions--my life has been teaching and writing...
...Areeda was revered by generations of Harvard law students who knew him as a master of the Socratic method of teaching As Areeda put it. "Part of my mission is to do all I can to induce students to verbalize their thoughts, to put them on the table before me and 150 of their peers...
...School Class of 1994 recognized Areeda's excellence in teaching by bestowing on him the Albert M. Sacks-Paul A. Freund Award for Teaching Excellence, an honor that is given to one professor each year by vote of the graduating class...
...spring of 1995, Areeda donated more than $5 million to the Campaign for Harvard Law School. "I am grateful to Harvard, which has essentially been my home since I first arrived as a student with a scholarship in 1947," Areeda explained. The gift was the second-largest to the Law School from an individual in the school's history...
This year the U.S. Department of Justice gave Areeda the John Sherman Award in recognition of his contribution to the field of antitrust law. Attorney General Janet Reno, speaking at the award ceremony, called Areeda "a guiding light and an inspiration to generations of lawyers, economists, judges and Supreme Court justices. His writings and teachings have furthered the cause of economic freedom and opportunity as a central principle in American society...