Strategy Through Games: Poker & Education
by Professor Charles Nesson
Speaker: |
 Professor Charles NESSON William F. Weld Professor of Law Harvard Law School |
Date: |
23 Aug 2007 (Thursday)
Seats are limited. Please register online by
22 Aug 2007. |
Synopsis
Please join us for an interactive, hands-on workshop with Harvard Law Professor Charles Nesson on games and their use in education. We will focus on poker as a tool for strategic thinking, analysis, and learning. We will begin by exploring poker more broadly, when Prof. Nesson will give an introduction to the game. We will then teach participants how to play a basic version of the game, and examine the strategy behind the game play. No previous knowledge is necessary to participate.
About the Speaker
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 made 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 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.