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Harvard Law School Harvard Law School (Harvard Law or HLS) is the law school of Harvard University, a private research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1817, it is the oldest continuously operating law school in the United States. Each class ...
. He was previously Herbert Wechsler Professor of
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. He is an expert on international
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, comparative constitutional law, and
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and nationality law. Prof. Neuman was elected to the
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in September 2010 and served on the Committee until December 2014. He graduated from
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and earned a PhD in Mathematics from the
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in 1977.Gerald L. Neuman, JD, PhD Biography
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