Word: crs
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...What was your favorite class at Harvard? CRS: I think my favorite class was Walter Jackson Bate’s [’39] famous course on Samuel Johnson. It was a magnificent class and inspirational. The class that most influenced me, though, was taught by Lloyd L. Weinreb, who later became a close friend of mine. His course introduced me to questions of justice and law. It wasn’t as theatrical as the Bate course, but it was extremely good and it has had a huge impact on my career...
...used to be quite the squash player, even playing for Harvard. Do you still play? CRS: I do. However, for all its virtues, Chicago is a small squash town compared to Boston and New York. The most I played squash recently was last spring when I visited HLS. I played three or four times a week. Now I play either squash or tennis three or four times a week...
...When did you know you wanted to go into law? CRS: My senior year in college I was torn between graduate school in English and law school. I thought that law would have more opportunities, and you could take a lot of different paths if you went into law. So not knowing exactly what to do, I took the path that seemed interesting and useful and also kept options open...
...constitutional law? CRS: After law school, I worked for the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice, which focused on constitutional questions. I also clerked for Thurgood Marshall and Benjamin Kaplan. Originally, constitutional law was the glamor field of law teaching. I thought that it would be really great if I had a chance to get involved in an area that helped define the nation’s understanding of itself and possibly make a contribution. [...] It was endlessly exciting and an area in which if you figure something out you could help the system and that would...
...What was clerking for Thurgood Marshall like? CRS: It was an adventure. There was frequent drama because there were cases involving abortion, voting rights, the meaning of the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and more. Marshall himself was larger than life—not self-important. He was full of amazing stories about presidents and civil rights leaders and great figures in American history—many of whom he actually knew, such as the Kennedys, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. Marshall was one of the world’s best storytellers and I would say that every...