Charles Nesson

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Charles Rothwell Nesson (b. February 11, 1939) is William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society. He is author of Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case and consulted on the case against W.R. Grace that was made into the film A Civil Action.

Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, and Harvard Law School. After joining the list of only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude from the Law School, Nesson was a Law Clerk to Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the United States Supreme Court, 1965 term. After working in the Department of Justice, Nesson joined the Harvard Law School Faculty in 1966, and was tenured in 1969.

In 2002, he came under fire for stating publicly that he smokes marijuana before class[1].

He is currently leading a project for restorative justice in Jamaica. During the academic year, he teaches a course in Evidence, as well as seminars in Biotechnology and Digital Democracy. In the Fall of 2006, he is teaching Cyber One: Law In the Court of Public Opinion, which welcomes the participation of the internet community at large.