Harvey A. Silverglate

Harvey A. Silverglate, Of Counsel to the Boston law firm of Good & Cormier, has specialized in grand jury investigations and the defense of criminal prosecutions for more than 30 years, with emphasis on white collar cases in recent years. He writes a criminal justice and civil liberties column ("Freedom Watch") for The Boston Phoenix, a Boston weekly, as well as The National Law Journal and has written regular articles for Criminal Law Advocacy Reporter (Matthew Bender & Co.). He has an interest in the clash between effective criminal defense strategies and the limitations imposed by recent innovations in the law governing obstruction of justice, interference with witnesses, legal ethics, and other doctrines purporting to limit what a lawyer may and may not do for and with a client, which was the subject of a course he taught at the Harvard Law School during a Sabbatical in the spring of 1987. Mr. Silverglate is also the co-author, along with Alan Charles Kors, of The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (Free Press, October 1998). In 1998 Massachusetts Lawyers Weekly named Harvey Silverglate one of its "Lawyers of the Year." 

Education:
Bogota High School, Bogota, New Jersey (graduated 1960).
A.B., cum laude (history), Princeton University, 1964.
LL.B., Harvard Law School, 1967.

Areas of specialization:
Criminal defense, civil liberties, academic freedom, and legal ethics.

Academic Experience:
Lecturer-in-Law at Harvard Law School, Spring Semester of 1987. Harvard Law School (with Prof. Alan Dershowitz) (1973) - "The Actual Administration of Justice in the Lower Criminal Courts." Formerly instructor of law at the University of Massachusetts at Boston, College III Program.

Major Community and Legal Service:
Member, Supreme Judicial Court Standing Advisory Committee on the Rules of Criminal Procedure Served as Counsel, Member of the Advisory Committee, President (1986-88), and currently member of the Board of Directors of the ACLU of Massachusetts; one- time member of CLUM Ad Hoc Committee on Academic Freedom, Campus Chapters Program Advisory Committee, Drug Policy Task Force, and Bill of Rights Education Project.

Selected Publications:
The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America's Campuses (with Alan Charles Kors), The Free Press, October 1998. Book Web site at http://www.shadowuniv.com/

"The JDL Informer and the Bizarre Bombing Case," with Alan M. Dershowitz and Jeanne Baker, The Civil Liberties Review (April/May 1976).

"Legislative Privilege and the Separation of Powers," with Robert J. Reinstein, 86 Harvard Law Review 1748 (1971).

"The 1970s: A Decade of Repression?" in With Justice for Some, ed. Bruce Wasserstein and Mark J. Green (Boston: Beacon Press, 1970).

Columnist ("Freedom Watch", formerly "Brief Cases") on criminal justice and civil liberties subjects for The Real Paper, and then The Boston Phoenix (which acquired The Real Paper) (1976-present).

Civil Liberties "Podium" columnist, The National Law Journal(1994- ).

Op-ed pieces in The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, and The Philadelphia Inquirer, among others.

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