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. 22 March is the 81st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (82nd in Leap years). ... 1930 (MCMXXX) is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Bryn Mawr is located in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania and Delaware County, Pennsylvania, just west of Philadelphia, along U.S. Highway Route 30 (Lancaster Avenue). ... The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly known as Stanford University (or simply Stanford), is a private university in Stanford, California, USA. It is incorporated as The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. ... A Bachelor of Arts (B.A. or A.B.) is an undergraduate academic degree awarded for a course or program in the arts and/or sciences. ... Harvard Law School (HLS) is one of the professional graduate schools of Harvard University. ... The degree of Bachelor of Laws is the principal academic degree in law in most common law countries. ... Harvard University is a private university in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, and a member of the Ivy League. ... The President is the chief administrator of Harvard University. ... Harvard Graduate School of Education The Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University, and is considered by many as one of the top education schools in the United States. ... Larry Summers Lawrence Henry Summers (born November 30, 1954) is an American economist, politician, and academic. ...

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. Gunnar Myrdal (December 6, 1898 – May 17, 1987) was a Swedish economist and politician. ... Alva Reimer Myrdal (January 31, 1902 – February 1, 1986) received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1982. ... Hilary Bok, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and Luce Professor in Bioethics and Moral and Political Theory, received her B.A. from Princeton University and her Ph. ... The Johns Hopkins University is a private institution of higher learning located in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. ...

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