Harshbarger Named Visiting Professor at Law School

September 16, 1999

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Former Massachusetts Attorney General Scott Harshbarger has been appointed Visiting Professor of Law from Practice at the Law School for the fall term.

He will teach the course Government Lawyer: Criminal, Prosecution.
The course will examine the role and responsibility of the government lawyer in applying and modifying the law. It will examine criminal and civil enforcement issues, including white-collar crime, health care fraud, urban and family violence, gun and tobacco litigation, hate crimes, the impact of race and ethnic bias, the evolution of "new" environmental and high-tech crimes, and the development and effectiveness of legal sanctions and remedies for social, moral, and economic problems. The course will offer an optional clinical component that will allow students to earn credit for work in the U.S. Attorney’s Office or the state Office of the Attorney General.

Harshbarger is a 1968 graduate of Harvard Law School, where he was president of the Harvard Voluntary Defenders, which since1949 has provided free legal assistance to juvenile and adult indigents accused of crimes. He received his undergraduate degree from Harvard College in 1964.

Harshbarger was elected attorney general of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in 1990 and reelected in 1994. He was the Democratic Party’s nominee for governor in 1998. He served as Middlesex County District Attorney from 1982 to 1990. Harshbarger also was recently elected president of Common

Cause.

Harshbarger is also a visiting professor at Northeastern University School of Law and College of Criminal Justice, where he teaches courses in criminal justice policy and legal ethics. He has been a lecturer in professional responsibility at Boston University Law School for 20 years.