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DESCRIPTION: [Full details at http://upcoming.yahoo.com/event/516817/ ] Our guest speaker for our May 12 meeting will be Charles Nesson\, Founder and President of the GlobalPoker Strategic Thinking Society\, speaking about legalizing internet (and in-person) poker.
      
      http://gpsts.org
      
      The William F. Weld Professor of Law at Harvard Law School and the founder of the Berkman Center for Internet & Society\, Charles Nesson is the author of Evidence\, with Murray and Green\, and has participated in several cases before the U.S. Supreme Court\, 
      including Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals. Nesson defended Daniel Ellsberg in the Pentagon Papers case and consulted on the case against W.R. Grace that was adapted into the film A Civil Action.
      
      Nesson attended Harvard College as an undergraduate\, and Harvard Law School. After joining the list of only a handful of people in history to have graduated summa cum laude from the Law School\, he was a Law Clerk to Justice John Marshall Harlan II on the United States Supreme Court\, 1965 term. After working in the Department of Justice\, Nesson joined the Harvard Law School faculty in 1966\, and was tenured in 1969.
      
      He is currently leading a project to reify the university as a meta player in cyberspace\, to legitimize and teach poker and the value of strategic poker thinking\, and to advance restorative justice in Jamaica. During the academic year\, he teaches a course in the law and practice of evidence. In the fall of 
      2006\, he taught CyberOne: Law in the Court of Public Opinion\, which welcomed the participation of the Internet community at large through the Second Life virtual world. In 2007 he is teaching\, in addition to CyberOne\, Trials in Second Life and a reading group on freedom.
      
      He blogs regularly at eon: 
      http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/nesso
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