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Lloyd L. Weinreb (October 9, 1936 – December 15, 2021) was an American law professor. Emeritus at
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(a chair once held by
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), he was first appointed to the HLS faculty in 1965 and became a full professor in 1968.


Biography

Weinreb received bachelor's degrees from
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(1957) and
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(1959; M.A., 1963) before taking his
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from Harvard Law School in 1962. He has spent several semesters as a visiting professor at Fordham Law School. Prior to beginning his teaching career, Lloyd Weinreb served as a
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for
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of the
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, and then as a criminal prosecutor in
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His research interests included criminal law, criminal procedure, intellectual property, and legal and political philosophy. Lloyd Weinreb has an extensive bibliography and authored several casebooks on criminal law, as well as many law review articles. Despite lacking the celebrity professor status of some of his colleagues at Harvard Law School, Professor Weinreb was highly regarded by students and faculty. He was described as "a remarkable model of competence and clarity". The ''
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'' ranked him among the 'ten professors whose classes you won't want to miss'.''Harvard Law Record'', April 10, 2003


Notable publications

* ''Leading Constitutional Cases on Criminal Justice'' (
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2007)

* ''Legal Reason. The Use of Analogy in Legal Argument'' (
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2005)

* ''Oedipus at Fenway Park:What Rights Are and Why There Are Any'' (
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1994)


Recent law review articles

* "A Secular Theory of Natural Law," 72 ''
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'' 2287 (2004)

* "Integrity in Government," 72 ''Fordham Law Review'' 421 (2003)


See also

*
List of law clerks of the Supreme Court of the United States (Seat 9) Law clerks have assisted the justices of the United States Supreme Court in various capacities since the first one was hired by Justice Horace Gray in 1882. Each justice is permitted to have between three and four law clerks per Court term. Mos ...


References


External links


Profile at Harvard Law School website
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