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Alan M. Dershowitz, professor of Law, points to Vorenberg's moderate philosophy as critical in his new position of leadership. "American law today is looking for leadership. People like Chief Justice Warren Burger are trying to fill that vacuum in the wrong way. I think Jim Vorenberg will fill the void in a progressive, liberal way," he says...
...Vorenberg's principal interest is in criminal law. From 1964 through 1967, he served concurrently as the first director of the Office of Criminal Justice in the Department of Justice and as executive director of the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and the Administration off Justice. In 1969, he established the Center for Criminal Justice at Harvard to study criminal...
...Vorenberg does not take a strong stand on his favorite issue. On the president's crime commission, he made proposals for the better training of police and correction officers and court justices. By his own acknowledgement, these were designed more to make prisons less savage than to prevent crime...
...strong advocate of the rights of minorities and the poor, Vorenberg is a director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's Legal Defense Fund and counts Vernon Jordan as one of his friends. In a news conference after the announcement of his selection as dean, he said that one of his priorities would be to increase the number of minorities on the Law School faculty...
...Vorenberg has not always been so liberal. Rather, his career has shown a steady liberalizing of his views and attitudes. "There have been some major changes in his thinking. He has become more progressive and more open-minded," Dershowitz says...