Phillip Elias Areeda (January 28, 1930 – December 24, 1995) was an American legal scholar known for his scholarship on U.S. antitrust law. Areeda was a law professor at

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from 1961 until his death in 1995.

Life and career

Areeda was born in

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, in 1930. He was of Lebanese ancestry. He studied

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, graduating in 1951 with an

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''summa cum laude''. He then attended the Harvard Law School, becoming an editor of the '' Harvard Law Review'' and graduating in 1954 with an

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''summa cum laude''. After law school, Areeda served in the

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for two years. In 1956, he was appointed Special Assistant in the

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Office, and in 1958 he was appointed Assistant Special Counsel to the President.Government Printing Office. ''United States Government Organization Manual 1958-59''. Washington, DC: GPO. p. 58 As Assistant Special Counsel, he helped draft and research White House staff studies dealing with economic and legal matters. Areeda continued in these duties until the end of the

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. In 1961 he accepted a position on the Harvard Law School faculty, and published a book, ''Antitrust Analysis'', in 1967. In the autumn of 1974 and winter of 1975, he briefly served as a

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in the

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. Areeda was elected a Fellow of the

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in 1983. He died of

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in 1995 in

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aged 65. A building at Harvard Law, Areeda Hall, is named in his honor.

References

External links

Papers and Records of Phillip E. Areeda, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library
* ttp://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/06.06/TheLatePhillipA.html Posthumous teaching award from Harvard* Harvard Law School alumni Harvard Law School faculty 1930 births 1995 deaths Deaths from leukemia Scholars of competition law American people of Lebanese descent Lawyers from Detroit Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences American legal scholars Deaths from cancer in Massachusetts 20th-century American lawyers John M. Olin Foundation {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub