While he was at the Law School he became a close friend of Kingman Brewster who, Bok says, interested him in teaching. He spent a year in Paris as a Fulbright Scholar where he met Sissela Myrdal, daughter of Swedish sociologist Gunnar Myrdal. They were married in 1955.

He received an M.A. degree in economics at George Washington University and his wife received her B.A. and M.A. in psychology. (She received a Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard last June.)

Bok then joined the Law School faculty and became a full professor in 1961. He became a member of the faculty of Public Administration in 1965.

A specialist on labor and anti-trust law, Bok has mediated a number of disputes and has written a respectable, if not unusual, number of articles and books.

He is the co-author with Dean Dunlop-reportedly the other leading candidate for the presidency-of Labor in the American Community, published last year. He also co-authored Labor Law in 1962 with Archibald Cox, Williston Professor of Law.