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...publications were many, including several books on his mentor, Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, for whom he had clerked in the early 1940s. Countryman carried on a lifelong relationship with Douglas, who, like Countryman, was both a bankruptcy expert and a civil liberties hawk...
...Vern Countryman, Royall Professor of Law, emeritus, at Harvard Law School (HLS) died of heart failure on Sunday...
...years, Countryman was one of the nation's top commercial law scholars, but he had an equally large impact on the law as a political activist...
...Countryman's political crusade began in the 1950s, while he was teaching at Yale Law School. He fought fiercely against McCarthyism, which was at its height at the time, and he was also a thorn in the side of FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover for many years...
Backed by Griswold, Countryman joined the HLS faculty in 1964 and assumed the Royall professorship in 1973, embarking on a long academic career, principally as a bankruptcy expert...