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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). As of 2004, Bok continues to teach at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

Works

Labor and the American Community, 1970
Beyond the Ivory Tower, 1984
The State of the Nation, 1997
The Trouble with Government, 2001
Universities in the Marketplace, 2003

External Links

Harvard Graduate S. of E. (http://gseweb.harvard.edu/)

Preceded by:
Nathan M. Pusey

President of Harvard University

Succeeded by:
Neil L. Rudenstine

Categories: 1930 births | Presidents of Harvard University

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Derek Bok - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (146 words)
	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. 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).
	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.

Derek Curtis Bok Biography / Biography of Derek Curtis Bok Biography (238 words)
	Derek Curtis Bok (born 1930) served as dean of the Harvard Law School until he was named president of Harvard University in 1970.
	Derek Curtis Bok was born March 22, 1930, in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, to Curtis and Margaret Plummer Bok.
	Bok attended Stanford University, where he received a B.A. degree in 1951 and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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