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Simon Stern, Professor, Faculty of Law

Simon SternB.A. (Yale), Ph.D., English (UC Berkeley), J.D. (Yale), member of the Washington, D.C. Bar. While in law school he was Editor-in-Chief of the Yale Journal of Law & the Humanities. After law school he clerked for Ronald M. Gould on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, practiced litigation at Shea & Gardner (now Goodwin Procter) in Washington, D.C., and served as a Climenko Fellow and Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School. Prof. Stern’s current research topics include the adoption of the analytical method in the nineteenth century and its effects on modern legal reasoning and writing; the development of the “reasonable man” standard (and its precursors and analogues) since the eighteenth century; the history of the case method and the form of the case; and the history of authorship and copyright law. Visit Prof. Stern’s Faculty page to see a select list of his recent publications.