Phillip Elias Areeda (January 28, 1930 – December 24, 1995) was an American legal scholar known for his scholarship on

U.S. antitrust law In the United States, antitrust law is a collection of mostly federal laws that regulate the conduct and organization of businesses to promote competition and prevent unjustified monopolies. The three main U.S. antitrust statutes are the Sherman ...

. Areeda was a law professor at Harvard University from 1961 until his death in 1995.

Life and career

Areeda was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1930. He was of Lebanese ancestry. He studied economics at Harvard University, graduating in 1951 with an A.B. ''summa cum laude''. He then attended the

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, becoming an editor of the ''

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'' and graduating in 1954 with an LL.B. ''summa cum laude''. After law school, Areeda served in the U.S. Air Force for two years. In 1956, he was appointed Special Assistant in the White House Office, and in 1958 he was appointed Assistant Special Counsel to the President.Government Printing Office. ''United States Government Organization Manual 1958-59''. Washington, DC: GPO. p. 58 As Assistant Special Counsel, he helped draft and research White House staff studies dealing with economic and legal matters. Areeda continued in these duties until the end of the

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. In 1961 he accepted a position on the Harvard Law School faculty, and published a book, ''Antitrust Analysis'', in 1967. In the autumn of 1974 and winter of 1975, he briefly served as a White House Counsel in the Ford Administration. Areeda was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983. He died of leukemia in 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts aged 65. A building at Harvard Law, Areeda Hall, is named in his honor.

References

External links

Papers and Records of Phillip E. Areeda, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
* ttp://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/06.06/TheLatePhillipA.html Posthumous teaching award from Harvard* Harvard Law School alumni Harvard Law School faculty 1930 births 1995 deaths Deaths from leukemia Scholars of competition law American people of Lebanese descent Lawyers from Detroit Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American legal scholars Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts 20th-century American lawyers John M. Olin Foundation {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub