The Big Mahatma
My blogs
| Gender | Male |
|---|---|
| Industry | Law |
| Occupation | J. Alfred Prufrock University Professor, HLS |
| Location | Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Introduction | Hi! I'm Larry. I've written about, taught, and practiced constitutional law for many years, having joined the Harvard law faculty in the fall of 1968, just before I turned 27. Recently Harvard named me a "University Professor," one of only nineteen. Even more recently, in The Weekly Standard I was described as "the big mahatma of American law"; in the Harvard Crimson, as "America's leading and most creative constitutional scholar"; and in the Harvard Law Record, as "the leading thinker in the domain of constitutional law." In this weblog, my first, I hope to compete for eyeballs on style points with two other colorful and controversial legal figures, my good friends Alex ("The Easy Rider") Kozinski and Dick ("The Giant Hedgehog") Posner. Realistically, I know there's no way I'll be able to beat out Alex. But if I manage to outmuscle Dick in charm and panache, I'll be happy. |
| Interests | Constitutional law, reincarnation, astronomy, astrophysics, pure math, a unified theory of everything, stuff about black holes, e to the i Pi = -1, brilliant magenta sunsets, eating (especially unagi), the fish tank at MGH, looking at the ocean, dreaming about impossible things, New Yorker cartoons, Monet, Vermeer, working on the third edition of my treatise, my kids Mark and Kerry, my wife Carolyn, life (sometimes) |
| Favorite movies | Good (and even not-so-good) movies |
| Favorite music | Mozart, Simon & Garfunkel, Joan Baez |
| Favorite books | Time's Arrow, The Hotel New Hampshire, The Great Gatsby, Ethan Fromme [sic] |
You've just inherited a manufacturing plant that specializes in plastics. What are you going to make?
Plastic trees. Then I'll sit down and think of ways not to think of them.