Charles Fried
| Charles Fried | |
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| Associate Justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court | |
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In office September 1995 – June 1999 |
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| Appointed by | William Weld |
| Preceded by | Joseph Nolan |
| Succeeded by | Judith Cowin |
| Solicitor General of the United States | |
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In office June 1, 1985 – January 20, 1989 Acting: June 1, 1985 – October 23, 1985 |
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| President | Ronald Reagan |
| Preceded by | Rex Lee |
| Succeeded by | William Bryson (Acting) |
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April 15, 1935 Prague, Czechoslovakia (now Czech Republic) |
| Political party | Republican |
| Spouse(s) | Anne Summerscale |
| Children | 2 |
| Education |
Princeton University (BA) University of Oxford (BA) Columbia University (LLB) |
Charles Fried (born April 15, 1935) is an American jurist and lawyer. He served as United States Solicitor General under President Ronald Reagan from 1985 to 1989. He is a professor at Harvard Law School and has been a visiting professor at Columbia Law School.
Fried is the author of nine books and over 30 journal articles, and his work has appeared in over a dozen collections.
Fried was born in 1935 in Prague, Czechoslovakia, where his father was an important industrialist and Czech patriot. The Frieds left Czechoslovakia in 1939 to escape the anticipated Nazi persecution of Jews, lived in England for almost two years and came to the United States in 1941 via Montreal, Canada. He and his parents became United States citizens in 1948, after the communist takeover of Czechoslovakia. After graduating from the Lawrenceville School in 1952 and receiving a Bachelor of Arts degree from Princeton University in 1956—where he was a member of the Princeton Charter Club and Phi Beta Kappa—Fried attended the University of Oxford, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degree in Jurisprudence, in 1958 and 1960, respectively, and was awarded the Ordronnaux Prize in Law (1958). In 1960, Fried received his Bachelor of Laws (LL.B.) degree from Columbia Law School, where he was a Stone Scholar. Subsequently, he served as law clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Marshall Harlan II.
Fried is admitted to the bars of the United States Supreme Court, United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and numerous U.S. courts of appeals. He argued 25 cases in front of the Supreme Court while in the Solicitor General's office. He has served as counsel to a number of major law firms and clients, and in that capacity argued several major cases, perhaps the most important being Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, both in the Supreme Court and in the Ninth Circuit on remand.
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