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Feller will also be remembered for the assistance he provided Thurgood Marshall in preparations for the historic Brown v. Board of Education case in the 1950’s, friends...
...also served a judicial clerkship with the late Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall, and was appointed to a tenured position at the Harvard Law School by his mid-30s. Around Harkness Commons, he’s known for his contrarian teaching style, as he cherishes the devil’s advocate and argues with obvious glee...
Ogunlesi, whose father was the first Nigerian-born medical professor tenured in his home country, studied philosophy, politics and economics at Oxford and then earned law and business degrees from Harvard. He clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall--who, unable to pronounce his name, dubbed him "Obeedoogee." (Most friends and colleagues today call him Bayo.) Ogunlesi joined the top-shelf New York City law firm Cravath, Swain & Moore, where he jumped at the chance to advise First Boston on a Nigerian gas project. Success in that effort landed him a better job at First Boston (which was acquired...
Carter isn't the first lawyer to go over the wall into fiction, but he may be the most distinguished. A third-generation jurist, Carter clerked for Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall in 1980, and he went on to become the first tenured black professor at Yale Law School. At 47, he is the author of seven books on such weighty matters as affirmative action and the relationship between law and religion. So what's he doing slumming with private eyes and crooked cops? "I wanted to write a novel from the time I was very small," Carter confesses. "Most...
...What? Sam Adams was never president? I guess next you’ll tell me that I can’t honor Justice Thurgood J. Icehouse on Supreme Court...