Charles A. Reich

Charles A. Reich
Born (1928-05-20) May 20, 1928
New York City, New York, USA
Alma mater Oberlin College
Yale University (J.D., 1952)
Occupation Lawyer, professor, writer
Employer Cravath, Swaine & Moore, Arnold & Porter, Yale Law School, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of San Francisco
Known for The Greening of America

Charles A. Reich (born May 20, 1928) is an American legal and social scholar as well as writer who was a Professor at Yale Law School when he wrote the 1970 paean to the 1960s counterculture and youth movement, The Greening of America. Excerpts of the book first appeared in The New Yorker,[1] and its seismic reception there[2] helped the book to leading The New York Times Best Seller list.

Life

Reich was born in New York City. He attended City and Country School and Lincoln School in the city prior to undergraduate studies at Oberlin College.[3] As a law student, he was editor-in-chief of the Yale Law Journal for 1951–1952[4] and he clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo L. Black during the 1953-1954 term. Prior to his academic career he worked for six years as a lawyer at the leading firms Cravath, Swaine & Moore in New York[5] and Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C..[6][7]

Reich was a professor at Yale Law School from 1960-1974. Both Bill Clinton and Hillary Rodham Clinton were students of Professor Reich when he was writing The Greening of America and he is mentioned in their biographies. Reich left Yale in 1974 to move to San Francisco, although he continued as a visiting professor from 1974-1976. He returned to teach at Yale from 1991–1994 and in February 2011.[2] The Yale Law School Association selected Reich for its Award of Merit in 2008.[8]

Reich is gay, and came to terms with this in San Francisco during the 1970s era of rapidly advancing gay rights and liberation. He eventually became actively out during this early period of the modern LGBT rights movement and in his autobiography he details his activism and the process of coming to terms with his then long-repressed homosexuality.[6] Decades later Reich was less active in LGBT affairs and explicitly stated that his need to live alone "trumped" sexual orientation as meaningful in his life.[3]

Publications

Articles

Reich has written numerous articles. The following is a selection:

Books

Reich has also authored and co-authored a number of books. The following is a selection:

References

  1. ↑ Reich, Charles A. (1970-09-26). "Reflections: The Greening of America". The New Yorker: 42.
  2. 1 2 Schwartz, Daniel (2010-09-27). "The Greening of America turns 40: Q&A: Charles Reich". CBC News.
  3. 1 2 Ghiglione, Loren (2012). "Before Occupy Wall Street there was The Greening of America". Traveling with Twain: In Search of America's Identity. Northwestern University Medill School of Journalism. Retrieved 2013-02-02.
  4. ↑ The Yale Law Journal, May 1952, 6 (5)
  5. ↑ Swygert, Michael I. (1971). "Charles A. Reich, The Greening of America". Valparaiso University Law Review 5 (3).
  6. 1 2 Reich, Charles A. (1976). The Sorcerer of Bolinas Reef. New York: Random House.
  7. ↑ Citron, Rodger D. (Jul 2007). "Charles Reich's Journey From the Yale Law Journal to the New York Times Best-Seller List: The Personal History of The Greening of America" (). New York Law School Law Review (New York: New York Law School) 52 (3).
  8. ↑ Award of Merit

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