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Political Scientist. Gerhard Casper (born December 25, 1937) [2] is a political scientist who is a former president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000, a former Dean of the University of Chicago Law School from 1979 to 1987, and a former provost of the University of Chicago from 1989 to 1992. [3] Casper was president of the American ...
Inaugural Address by Gerhard Casper. On March 17, when I first arrived on the Farm in my new role as President-elect, I was put to what you might call an "advanced placement test." I flunked it -; as my fellow first-year students will be reassured, if not delighted, to learn. I had dinner with a group of excellent people to discuss the ...
T he day after he announced plans to resign as Stanford president, Gerhard Casper was back at his desk in Building 10. He did a phone interview with the New York Times, joined a conference call hosted by the Association of American Universities, presided over a fund-raising lunch and attended a 21/2-hour meeting on the troubled medical center merger.
12Chris Ponce to Gerhard Casper, “H&S Memorandum,” March 1, 1996, 1, Taube Center for JewishStudies Archive. 13Ann Guss to Sue Dambrau and Rob Franklin, “Re: Use of Aaron-Roland Fund (352A016),” February 25, 1999, 1, Taube Center for Jewish Studies Archive. 14Clebsch to Roland, September 23, 1969, 1. 15Ibid., 2. 16Ibid.
From 1977 to 1991, he was an editor of The Supreme Court Review. Casper was the president of Stanford University from 1992 to 2000 and served as director of FSI from September 2012 through June 2013. Before coming to Stanford, he was on the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School (starting in 1966), served as dean of the law school from ...
Born in 1937, Gerhard Casper grew up in Hamburg, Germany. Mr. Casper studied law at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, where, in 1961, he earned his first law degree. He attended Yale Law School, obtaining his Master of Laws degree in 1962. He then returned to Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1964.
Professor of Law, Emeritus. President Emeritus of Stanford University. Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education, Emeritus. Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI Stanford) Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research (SIEPR) gcasper@stanford.edu. 650 723.2482.
