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About Charles Nesson
- Charles Rothwell Nesson (born February 11, 1939) is the William F.
- Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society and of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society.
- He is author of Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated in several cases before the U.S.
- Supreme Court, including the landmark case Daubert v.
- Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.In 1971, Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case.
- He was co-counsel for the plaintiffs in the case against W.
- R.
- Grace and Company that was made into the book A Civil Action, which was, in turn, made into the film of the same name.
- Nesson's nickname in the book, Billion-Dollar Charlie, was given to him by Mark Phillips, who worked with him on the W.R.
- Grace case.Nesson is currently "interested in advancing justice in Jamaica, the evolution of the Internet, as well as national drug policy."
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