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Who is Harvey?
Harvey A. Silverglate was born in Brooklyn, NY, on Mother's Day -- May 10, 1942. He was educated at Bogota (NJ) High School (Class of 1960), Princeton University (Class of 1964, cum laude in History), and Harvard Law School (Class of 1967).
Silverglate, counsel to the Boston law firm of Good & Cormier , specializes in criminal defense, civil liberties, and academic freedom and student rights law, and has represented students in trouble since he served as trial counsel for the students charged with taking over University Hall at Harvard during an anti-war demonstration in 1969. He has taught at Cambridge Rindge & Latin School (a public secondary school in Massachusetts), University of Massachusetts College III (in Boston), and Harvard Law school. He is a long-time member of the American Civil Liberties Union and has served the Massachusetts state affiliate as a member of its Board of Directors for some three decades, serving two terms as its Board president. During his presidency, he initiated the Bill of Rights Education Project focusing on secondary schools, and a Campus Chapters project resulting in the formation of ACLU-related student groups on college campuses around the state. He is a long-time affiliate of Dunster House at Harvard College, where he conducts "law tables" with undergraduates. His law practice has ranged widely and has included drug prosecutions, draft and riot cases in the 60s and 70s, bank and securities fraud, bribery and extortion, espionage, tax evasion, police misconduct, murder and manslaughter, habeas corpus proceedings, money laundering, and desertion (tried at a court martial).
Silverglate has for nearly three decades been the criminal law and civil liberties columnist for The Boston Phoenix, a weekly, and, more recently, did a stint as the regular bi-monthly civil liberties columnist for The National Law Journal, where he still occasionally contributes commentaries. His column appeared as well in Inc. Technology magazine. His op-ed pieces have appeared in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, The Boston Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and elsewhere. His articles and book reviews have been published in the Harvard Law Review, The New York Times Book Review, Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly, The Harvard Civil Rights-Civil Liberties Law Review, Media Studies Journal, Cato Journal, The Wilson Quarterly, The Chronicle of Higher Education, the now defunct Civil Liberties Review, a number of other professional journals, Reason magazine, and elsewhere. He has contributed to books on political repression (1970) and the criminalization of drugs (1978). The Shadow University (with Alan Charles Kors) is his first full-length published book; published in hardcover by The Free Press in October 1998, it is now available in paperback under the Harper/Perennial imprint from HarperCollins (published October 1999).
