Derek Bok

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Derek Curtis Bok (born March 22, 1930) is an American lawyer and educator. He was born in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and graduated from Stanford University (B.A., 1951) and Harvard Law School (LL.B., 1954). He taught law at Harvard from 1958, where he served as dean of the law school (1968-1971) and then as university president (1971-1991). Bok currently serves as the Faculty Chair at the Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard and continues to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is scheduled to reassume the presidency of the university on an interim basis after Larry Summers' resignation takes effect on June 30, 2006. He expects to have the job for about a year.

His wife, the sociologist and philosopher Sissela Bok, née Myrdal (daughter of the Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal and the politician and diplomat Alva Myrdal, both Nobel laureates) is also affiliated with Harvard, where she received her doctorate in 1970. His daughter, Hilary Bok, is a philosophy professor at Johns Hopkins University.

Works

• Labor and the American Community, 1970
  
• Beyond the Ivory Tower, 1984
  
• Higher Learning, 1986
  
• The State of the Nation, 1997
  
• The Trouble with Government, 2001
  
• Universities in the Marketplace, 2003
  
• Our Underachieving Colleges, 2005
  

External links

• Harvard Graduate S. of E.
• Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations

• Derek Bok's current Faculty Profile

• Association of American Colleges and Universities | National Leadership Council for Liberal Education

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