Harvard Law School

Christopher Fairfield Edley Jr., an adviser to three presidents and a leading civil rights expert who spent over two decades on the Harvard Law School faculty, died in California on May 10 at age 71 after complications from surgery.

Charles J. Ogletree Jr., the renowned Harvard law professor who rose from poverty in a family of itinerant California tenant farmers to make a profound global impact as a teacher, courtroom attorney and social activist, died last week at age 70 after a long and public struggle with Alzheimer’s disease.