Gerhard Casper
Senior Fellow, Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor of Law, Professor of Political Science, President Emeritus, Stanford University

Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus of Stanford University.  He also is the Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education and holds appointments as Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Professor of Law, and Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) at Stanford.  Mr. Casper studied law at the Universities of Freiburg and Hamburg, where, in 1961, he earned his first law degree.  He went to Yale Law School in 1961, obtaining his Master of Law degree a year later.  He then returned to Freiburg, where he received his Doctorate in 1964.  That same year, Mr. Casper immigrated to the United States, spending two years as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of California at Berkeley.  In 1966, he joined the faculty of the University of Chicago Law School (and, one year later, also the Political Science Department), and between 1979 and 1987 served as Dean of the Law School.  He has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence.  From 1977-91, he was an editor of The Supreme Court Review.  His most recent book is Separating Power: Essays on the Founding Period (Harvard University Press, 1997).  In 1989, Mr. Casper became Provost of the University of Chicago, a post he held until he accepted the presidency of Stanford University in 1992.  Mr. Casper is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Order Pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts.  During the fall of 2006, he held the Kluge Chair in American Law and Governance at the Library of Congress.