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This is the 15th Nobel Prize awarded to a Harvard scientist, and the sixth in the last seven years...
Born in 1919 in Philadelphia, Pa., Riesman received his A.B. and LL.B. at Harvard in 1931 and 1934 respectively. Lawyer, educator, Social Scientist, Riesman served as Law Clerk to Mr. Justice Brandeis in 1935-36 before he became a professor of Law at the University of Buffalo the following year. Riesman has been at Harvard since...
...presidents of big corporations and founding fathers of the Peace Corps. We know not much more than Tocqueville had already noticed about the role of the lawyer in America, or what this presently means for our combativeness and cooperativeness, suspiciousness and trust, dependency and anarchy. What sociologists and political scientists have written about law and social control has seemed to me thin stuff. Yet it should be evident from what I have said that the law does offer to the academic social scientist one avenue for understanding our society and what makes it different from those like Japan, where...
...scientist who is closer to the pertinent field put it in less provocative terms. "The idea that human races differ in adaptively significant traits is emotionally repugnant to some people," wrote Geneticist Theodosius Dobzhansky in Mankind Evolving. "Any inquiry into this matter is felt to be dangerous, lest it vindicate race prejudice." Undeniably, racial prejudice is social or cultural in origin rather than biological, and it is understandable that anthropologists, who hesitate to make value judgments on the basis of biological fact, would hesitate also to enter what is fundamentally a sociological-and highly emotional-controversy. Anthropologist Morton Fried says...
Westin, a 37-year-old Columbia University lawyer and political scientist, is regarded by many as the leading U.S. specialist on privacy. His writings on the subject have been cited by the Supreme Court and used as a basis for legislation. In his new book published by Atheneum, Westin insists that the right to privacy must nolonger be taken for granted. The mounting psychological and electronic assault on private lives poses a threat that cannot be exaggerated, he points out, and "we have only a few years of lead time before the problem will outgrow our capacity to apply controls...