Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Archibald Cox
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
===Teaching again=== Cox spent the academic year from September 1974 to spring 1975 at the University of Cambridge as the [[Pitt Professor of American History and Institutions]].{{efn|The professorship had been offered before Cox's appointment as Watergate prosecutor. Cox chose to deliver lectures at [[Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge|Sidney Sussex College]].{{sfn|Gormley|1997|pp=393β394}}}} During that year Cox and his wife were able to travel throughout Britain and Ireland meeting judges, lawyers and other dignitaries. Cox lectured to packed houses, including at Oxford where he delivered the [[Chichele Lectures]] at [[All Souls College, Oxford|All Souls College]]. The Coxes also occasionally socialized with the Richardsons, Elliot having been appointed by President [[Gerald Ford|Ford]] as the Ambassador to the [[Court of St James's]]. They were even able to spend a weekend in Scotland with David Graham-Campbell, the commander of the corps that Cox's brother Robert served in when he died during World War II.{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=394}} When Cox returned to Harvard in the fall of 1975 he returned to teaching and writing full-time. His interests were now almost exclusively constitutional law, but he occasionally would teach a course in labor law. Faculty members and students noticed a change in his style of teaching. Whereas once he was known as the austere, dominating law professor drilling students with the [[Socratic method]], and even was considered a possible basis for the fictional [[The Paper Chase (Osborn novel)|Professor Kingsfield]],<ref>{{cite news|url=http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?men_tab=srchresults&handle=hein.journals/hlrec60&size=2&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=1&id=38|last=Sisson|first=Frank E.|title=Paper Chase Finally Comes Home|work=Harvard Law Record|volume=60|number=3|date=February 14, 1975|page=6|access-date=May 1, 2016|url-access=subscription|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605083932/http://heinonline.org/HOL/Page?men_tab=srchresults&handle=hein.journals%2Fhlrec60&size=2&collection=journals&set_as_cursor=1&id=38|archive-date=June 5, 2016|url-status=live|df=mdy-all}}</ref> he was now referred to in student evaluations as "interesting, kind, decent." Derek Bok concluded: "He developed an affection for people."{{sfn|Gormley|1997|p=397}}
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Archibald Cox
(section)
Add topic