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...time when American liberties were under attack from sexists, racists and McCarthyites alike, Griswold often stood alone as a champion of civil rights...
Leading the Law School toward his vision of internationalization, Griswold doubled the size of the faculty without changing the size of the student body. He was responsible for the development of the Law School's International Legal Studies Program and the International Tax Program...
...Griswold firmly believed in the necessity of applying legal concepts to current concerns...
...Harvard Law School, through its faculty activity and teaching, could shift its concern from the narrow objectives of much traditional legal scholarship, we might increase our contribution," Griswold said in 1967 at the 150th anniversary of the Law School in what many consider to be his greatest speech...
When the Law School admitted its first women students in 1950, Griswold oversaw and initiated the transformation. In fact, he lived to see one of those first female students--Ruth Bader Ginsberg--take her place on the Supreme Court...