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...While Tribe spent a year studying mathematics as a graduate student, he soon realized that the field was lonely and that he lacked the innate genius needed to make truly meaningful contributions. Alschuler, meanwhile, had enrolled at the Law School...
...Tribe entered the Law School in the fall of 1963. He eventually did well—graduating magna cum laude—but his first-year grades weren’t good enough for him to gain a spot on the law review. His clerkship with Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart proved to be his big break, and Tribe was offered a job as an assistant professor when it ended...
...reunion of Tribe students would bring together leading figures from both houses of Congress and the Judiciary, including Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. ’76; Rep. Barney Frank ’62, a 1977 Harvard Law grad; and Sen. Barack H. Obama, whom Tribe describes as “a political and rhetorical genius...
...forged his strongest relationships with students who were also his research assistants. One of them, Columbia law professor Michael C. Dorf ’86, says that Tribe was “unusual in the trust he places in his research assistants...
...Peter J. Rubin, another of his former research assistants, says: “Harvard has an outstanding law faculty, but there are a few people who have stood out. The ones who truly have, I would say, are Joseph Story and Felix Frankfurter, the Supreme Court justices, and Larry Tribe...