Charles R. Nesson
Weld Professor of Law

Faculty Co-Director, Berkman Center for Internet & Security

Degrees	Harvard College: A.B. 1960 Harvard Law School: J.D. 1963 Sears Prize (twice) Summa Cum Laude Fay Diploma
Prior Experience	Clerk to Mr. Justice Harlan on the United States Supreme Court, 1965 Term Special Assistant, Civil Rights Division, Department of Justice
Activities	Joined Harvard Law School Faculty in 1966, tenured in 1969 Associate Dean, 1979-1982 Organizer and President of the Lawyers' Military Defense Committee, 1969-1972 Director of Harvard Evidence Film Project, 1974-1979 Founder and Director of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard Law School Specialty Course: Evidence Additional Courses: Internet, Torts, Criminal Law, Advocacy, Ethics
Publications	Green, Nesson & Murray, Evidence (3rd ed. Aspen) Constitutional Hearsay: Requiring Foundational Testing and Corroboration under the Confrontation Clause, 81 Va. L. Rev. 149 (1995), with Yochai Benkler Incentives to Spoliate Evidence in Civil Litigation: The Need for Vigorous Judicial Action, 13 Cardozo L. Rev. 793 (1991). Agent Orange Meets the Blue Bus: Factfinding at the Frontier of Knowledge, 66 B.U.L. Rev. 521 (1986) The Evidence or the Event? On Judicial Proof and the Acceptability of Verdicts, 98 Harvard Law Review 1357 (1985) Reasonable Doubt and Permissive Inferences: The Value of Complexity, 92 Harvard Law Review 1187 (1979)
Media	Television and Seminar Moderator for the Fred Friendly Seminars (Media & Society Program of the Columbia University) (1974-1990) Moderator for the PBS series The Constitution: That Delicate Balance, produced by Fred Friendly and Media & Society Seminars of Columbia University (1986) Ethics in America (1989) Moderator for CBS, Eye on the Media: Media and Business (1982) Moderator for Granada Television programs on The Right to Die, International Bribery, and Terrorism Advocate on The Advocates (WGBH) Narrator for the film Three Appeals (about the appellate process of the State of New York, made by WNET, 1977) The Shooting of Big Man (a commentary about a murder, made for ABC, 1978)