James Vorenberg

James Vorenberg, born in Boston, Massachusetts,^[1] in 1927, was the Roscoe Pound Professor of Law and ninth Dean of Harvard Law School, former Watergate Associate Special Prosecutor, and first chair of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission.^[2] Vorenberg attended Harvard College, from which he graduated magna cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1948, and Harvard Law School, which bestowed on him the Juris Doctor degree in 1951. His first year at Harvard Law was academically very successful, as he received the Sears Prize for the highest grades in his first year class.^[2] During his attendance at Harvard Law, he served as the president of the Harvard Law Review.^[2]

Vorenberg joined the Harvard Law School faculty as Professor of Law in 1962. From 1973 to 1975, he served as Professor Archibald Cox's principal assistant in the Watergate Special Prosecutor's Office.^[3] He was the first Chairman of the Massachusetts State Ethics Commission from 1978 to 1983, enforcing the state's conflict of interest laws.^[4] He served as Associate Dean from 1977 to 1981, and then became Dean and Roscoe Pound Professor of Law in 1981.^[5] "I've tried to encourage students to follow diverse, varied patterns out of law school," Vorenberg told The New York Times in 1989.^[2] He stepped down at the end of June 1989.^[6]

Vorenberg and Jack Greenberg, Dean of Columbia Law School, wrote Dean Cuisine, a cookbook that The New York Times reviewed in 1991, saying: "a modest tome that should be required reading for all those tiresome people who say they never cook anymore.^[7]

For his last 14 years Vorenberg had Parkinson's disease.^[8] He died on April 12, 2000, of cardiac arrest.^[2]

References

External links

• "Finding aid for James Vorenberg, Papers, 1965–1979.". Harvard Law School Library. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/findingAidDisplay?_collection=oasis&inoid=4861. 

James Vorenberg in German, French and Italian in the online Historical Dictionary of Switzerland.