Phillip Areeda
{{short description|American legal scholar known for his treatise on antitrust law}}
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{{Infobox person
| name = Phillip E. Areeda
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1930|01|28}}
| birth_place = Detroit, Michigan, U.S.
| death_date = {{Death date and age|1995|12|24|1930|01|28}}
| death_place = Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.
| occupation =
| education = Harvard University (AB, LLB)
}}
Phillip Elias Areeda (January 28, 1930 – December 24, 1995){{cite book|title=Who Was Who in America (1993-1996)|year=1996|publisher=Marquis Who's Who|location=New Providence, N.J.|isbn=0837902258|page=[https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinameri11marq/page/8 8]|chapter=Areeda, Phillip|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/whowaswhoinameri11marq}} was an American legal scholar known for his scholarship on U.S. antitrust law. Areeda was a professor at Harvard Law School from 1961 until his death in 1995.
Life and career
Areeda was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1930. He was of Lebanese ancestry.{{Cite web |url=http://www.proud2blebanese.com/famous_lebanese.cfm?p2bl_id=211 |title=Famous Lebanese People: Phillip Areeda |access-date=2008-12-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090316085548/http://www.proud2blebanese.com/famous_lebanese.cfm?p2bl_id=211 |archive-date=2009-03-16 |url-status=dead }} He studied economics at Harvard University, graduating in 1951 with an A.B., summa cum laude. He then attended Harvard Law School, where he was an editor of the Harvard Law Review and graduated in 1954 with an LL.B., summa cum laude.
After law school, Areeda served in the U.S. Air Force for two years. In 1956, he was appointed Special Assistant in the White House 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 Eisenhower Administration. 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 an assistant White House counsel in the Ford Administration.
Areeda was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1983.{{cite web|title=Book of Members, 1780-2010: Chapter A|url=http://www.amacad.org/publications/BookofMembers/ChapterA.pdf|publisher=American Academy of Arts and Sciences|accessdate=22 April 2011}} He died of leukemia in 1995 in Cambridge, Massachusetts aged 65.{{cite news|url=https://www.thecrimson.com/article/1996/1/5/law-scholar-areeda-antitrust-guru-dies/|title=Law Scholar Areeda, 'Antitrust Guru,' Dies|author= Andrew L. Wright|date=January 5, 1996|work=The Harvard Crimson}} A building at Harvard Law, Areeda Hall, is named in his honor.
References
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External links
- [http://eisenhower.archives.gov/Research/Finding_Aids/A.html Papers and Records of Phillip E. Areeda, Dwight D. Eisenhower Presidential Library]
- [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9E07E4D61539F934A15751C1A963958260 Obituary from the New York Times]
- [http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/06.06/TheLatePhillipA.html Posthumous teaching award from Harvard] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111008171201/http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/1996/06.06/TheLatePhillipA.html |date=2011-10-08 }}
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Category:Harvard Law School alumni
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Category:Deaths from leukemia in Massachusetts
Category:Scholars of competition law
Category:American people of Lebanese descent
Category:Fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Category:American legal scholars
Category:20th-century American lawyers
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