Charles Nesson of the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society

May meeting of the Manhattan Libertarian Party. Our guest speaker will be
Charles Nesson, Founder and President of the Global
Poker Strategic Thinking Society, speaking about
legalizing internet (and in-person) poker.

http://gpsts.org...

The William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law
School and the founder of the Berkman Center for
Internet & Society, Charles Nesson is the author of
Evidence, with Murray and Green, and has participated
in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court,
including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals.
Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers
case and consulted on the case against W.R. Grace that
was adapted into the film A Civil Action.

Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate,
and Harvard Law School. After joining the list of only
a handful of people in history to have graduated summa
cum laude from the Law School, he was a Law Clerk to
Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the United States
Supreme Court, 1965 term. After working in the
Department of Justice, Nesson joined the Harvard Law
School faculty in 1966, and was tenured in 1969.

He is currently leading a project to reify the
university as a meta player in cyberspace, to
legitimize and teach poker and the value of strategic
poker thinking, and to advance restorative justice in
Jamaica. During the academic year, he teaches a course
in the law and practice of evidence. In the fall of
2006, he taught CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public
Opinion, which welcomed the participation of the
Internet community at large through the Second Life
virtual world. In 2007 he is teaching, in addition to
CyberOne, Trials in Second Life and a reading group on
freedom.

He blogs regularly at eon:
http://cyber.law.harv...