William Benjamin Gould IV

College of Law welcomes scholar-in-residence

William Benjamin Gould IV will be a 2003-2004 Scholar-in-Residence at the NIU College of Law Wednesday, Oct. 1, and Thursday, Oct. 2.

Gould is the Charles A. Beardsley Emeritus Professor of Law at Stanford Law School, where he has been professor of law since 1972, and the William M. Ramsey Distinguished Professor of Law at Willamette University College of Law.

He is also the former chairman of the National Labor Relations Board, a position he held from 1994 to 1998, and served on the Commission of the Future of Worker-Management Relations in 1993.

In academe, he was professor of law at Wayne State Law School from 1968 to 1971, visiting professor of law at Harvard Law School from 1971 to 1972 and visiting professor of law at Howard Law School in 1989.

He is the author of more than 50 law journal articles and numerous newspaper articles. He is also the author of eight books, the most recent of which is “Diary of a Contraband: The Civil War Passage of a Black Sailor” (Stanford University Press, 2002).

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