Charles Fried
Beneficial Professor of Law, Harvard Law School, Harvard University

Charles Fried was the Beneficial Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, where he taught from 1961 to 2023. Most recently, Fried has taught Contracts and Constitutional Law. He was also the Solicitor General of the United States from 1985 to 1989, where he argued 25 cases in front of the Supreme Court. Fried was also an Associate Justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts from 1995 to 1999. Fried authored many books, including Anatomy of Values, Right and Wrong, Modern Liberty, Contract as Promise, Making Tort Law, and Saying Where the Law Is: The Constitution in the Supreme Court, in addition to more than 30 journal articles.

Faculty Courses

Online

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Available now
Online

Contracts are a part of our everyday life, arising in collaboration, trust, promise and credit. How are contracts formed? What makes a contract enforceable? What happens when one party breaks a promise?

Price
Free*
Duration
8 weeks long
Registration Deadline
Opens Jan 15