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# Harvey A. Silverglate 

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Harvey Silverglate is counsel to the Boston law firm Zalkind, Rodriguez, Lunt & Duncan. There he specializes in criminal defense, civil liberties, academic freedom, and student rights law. He has taught at Harvard Law School and has been a criminal law and civil liberties columnist for the *Boston Phoenix* and the *National Law Journal*. He has had op-eds published in the *Wall Street Journal*, *Los Angeles Times*, *Boston Globe*, *Philadelphia Inquirer*, and elsewhere. His academic writing has appeared in the *Harvard Law Review* and elsewhere.

Silverglate is cofounder (with Alan Charles Kors) and currently chairman of the board of directors of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, a nonprofit dedicated to preserving and enlarging academic freedom, particularly due process, freedom of speech, and freedom of conscience on American college campuses. Silverglate’s first major book (coauthored with Kors) was *The Shadow University: The Betrayal of Liberty on America’s Campuses* (The Free Press, 1998; paperback from HarperPerennial, 1999). His latest, *Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent* (Encounter Books, September 2009), explores how the U.S. Justice Department, since the mid-1980s, has used increasingly broad and vague federal statutes to prosecute innocent individuals.

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