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...Beacon Hill yesterday morning to protest a provision of a gaming bill—sponsored by Law School graduate Deval L. Patrick ’78—that would criminalize online poker in Massachusetts. About 30 poker aficionados, led by veteran Harvard law professor Charles R. Nesson ’60, assembled near the State House, arguing that banning Internet poker would deny card players a legitimate source of entertainment and income. Under the terms of the ban, online gambling would be punishable by up to two years’ imprisonment and a $25,000 fine. The Harvard demonstrators...
Poker is no longer just a game. The Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, recently founded by Harvard Law School Professor Charles R. Nesson ’60, has put the pedant back into poker. “It’s about teaching thinking,” remarks Nesson, founder of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society. “Strategic games like poker really lead into the mathematics of social interactions and economics.” GPSTS, he says, is “an effort to legitimate poker as an educational tool and strategy.” Nesson...
...wide audience (Bill Clinton rocking shades and a sax on The Arsenio Hall Show in 1992), change their public image (Richard Nixon socking it to them on Laugh-In during the 1968 race) or remind voters that they're not actually Chevy Chase (Gerald Ford's press secretary, Ron Nesson, hosting Saturday Night Live at the start of the 1976 campaign). Recently Barack Obama, in need of a boost in the polls, popped up on both The Ellen DeGeneres Show...
Professors and students at the Law School are placing their bets on the legal legitimacy of online poker. Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, the founder of Harvard’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society, is exploring the possibility of a bill that will remove congressional limitations on online gaming. In 2006, Congress passed the Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act, barring U.S. banks from transferring money to online gaming companies. But this April, Rep. Barney Frank ’61 (D-Mass.) introduced a bill...
Weld Professor of Law Charles R. Nesson ’60, who moderated the debate and dealt the questions, pressed the speakers on whether poker was a game of chance or skill, arguing that a distinction needs to be made between the two if a legal standard is to be applied...