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:''"Nesson" redirects here. For the French poet, see Pierre de Nesson.'' Charles Rothwell Nesson (born February 11, 1939) is the William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://gpsts.org/about-gpsts/ )〕 He is author of ''Evidence'', with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court, including the landmark case ''Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals''.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work=The New York Times / FindLaw )〕 In 1971, Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case.〔 He was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case against W. R. Grace and Company that was made into the book ''A Civil Action'', which was, in turn, made into the film of the same name. Nesson's nickname in the book, Billion-Dollar Charlie, was given to him by Mark Phillips, who worked with him on the W.R. Grace case. Nesson is currently "interested in advancing justice in Jamaica, the evolution of the Internet, as well as national drug policy."〔Estes, Adam Clark (2011-02-17) (Can celebrities get busted for bragging about pot smoking? ), ''Salon.com''〕 ==Early life and education== Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate, studying mathematics. He took the law school boards junior year, earning a nearly perfect score, but he was initially rejected early admission from Harvard Law School for his grades.〔 After improving his grades, Nesson was accepted. Nesson surprised himself by achieving and retaining a ranking of first out of five hundred students.〔 He became among only a handful of people in history to have graduated ''summa cum laude'' from the law school,〔 and is rumored to have achieved the highest grade point average since Felix Frankfurter graduated in 1907.〔 Nesson was a law clerk to Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the United States Supreme Court, 1965 term. He then worked as a special assistant in the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division under John Doar.〔 His first case, ''White v. Crook'', made race-based and gender-based jury selection in Alabama unconstitutional. Nesson joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1966, and was tenured three years later.〔 In 1998, he co-founded Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Charles Nesson」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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