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...attorneys prepared papers for their historic confrontation before the nine robed Justices. All 300 seats in the chamber were full and newsmen stood shoulder to shoulder in the press alcove. At precisely 11 a.m., the red velvet curtains parted, the Justices took their seats, and Solicitor General Erwin N. Griswold, distinguished former dean of Harvard Law School, launched a 53-minute opening argument...
...until the time he was named to succeed Erwin N. Griswold, now Solicitor General of the United States, as Law dean, Bok was a professor of Law and little else. He often resisted the practice of indulging in committee proceedings and he was careful not to overcome himself to extracurricular activities. Bok studied labor law, taught it and wrote about it (with Archibald Cox, he published Cases and Materials on Labor...
During his two and a half years as Law dean, Bok gained a remarkable degree of admiration from a highly critical group of students and faculty. As the successor to Griswold, a crusty figure as dean, Bok managed to usher the School into the 70's with a minimum of abrasions and an impressive list of accomplishments...
Reaction among academics to the Bok appointment has also been favorable. Yale President Kingman Brewster, a friend and former teacher of Bok, called him "a superb choice, not just for Harvard but for the sake of all of higher education." Solicitor General Enwin Griswold, who brought both Bok and Brewster to the Law School when he was Dean, was "delighted by the appointment...
...seventh dean of the Law School took office July 1, 1968, as successor to Erwin N. Griswold, now U.S. Solicitor General, and in his first two years presided over one of the more turbulent eras in the school's 155-year history...