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...And Then There Were Eight

The Search Committee Does Not Want You to Know the Names of These Men. Because Only One of Them Is Going to Be the Next President of Harvard.

Strengths: Popular professor. Highly respected administrator.

Weaknesses: No experience at Harvard.

Personal: Married, no children.

Trivia: Enjoys watching baseball games; a Mets fan.

GERHARD CASPER

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Age: 53

Occupation: Provost, University of Chicago since 1989.

Education: Universities of Freiberg i.Br. and Hamburg, law degree 1961.

Yale Law School, LL.M. 1962.

University of Freiberg i.Br., Dr. Iur, utr. 1964.

Academic Field: Constitutional law and history.

Experience: Dean, U. of Chicago Law School 1979-87.

Professor of Law, U. of Chicago 1969-present.

Assoc. Professor of Law, U. of Chicago 1966-69.

Professor of Political Science, U. of Chicago 1967-78.

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