Daniel R. Coquillette

Daniel R. Coquillette
Coquillette in 2016
TitleJ. Donald Monan University Professor of Law
Dean Emeritus
(1985-1992); Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History
Academic background
EducationWilliams College (BA 1966)
University College, Oxford (BA 1969, MA 1980)
Harvard Law School (JD 1971)

Daniel R. Coquillette is the J. Donald Monan University Professor of Law and Dean Emeritus at Boston College and the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History at Harvard Law School.[1] He is the author of 13 books and 27 articles.

Education

Coquillette Received a B.A. Summa Cum Laude from Williams College (1966) and earned a Fulbright Program Scholarship to study law at University College, Oxford where he earned a B.A. in Juris. (1969) and an M.A. (1980).[2] He received a J.D. Magna Cum Laude from Harvard Law School (1971), where he served as an Editor of the Harvard Law Review.[3]

Career

Upon graduating from Harvard Law School, Coquillette clerked for Associate Justice Robert Braucher of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court from 1971-1973, and for Chief Justice Warren E. Burger on the Supreme Court from 1972-1973.[1] He began his career in education teaching legal ethics as part of the faculty at Boston University School of Law, and later taught as a Visiting Professor at Cornell Law School and Harvard Law School.[3]

He then went on to practice for six years at the Boston law firm Palmer & Dodge, where he specialized in complex litigation and was a Partner.[1]

After working at the firm, he became Dean of Boston College Law School from 1985-1993, and was named J. Donald Monan University Professor in 1996.[1] He was named the Lester Kissel[4] Visiting Professor of Law at Harvard from 2001-2007 and the Charles Warren Visiting Professor of American Legal History 2008-date. Coquillette taught Professional Responsibility, English Legal History, and currently teaches a seminar on the History of American Legal Education.

Publications

Coquillette's many books and publications include:

  • Coquillette, Daniel R.; Kimball, Bruce A. (2020). "The Intellectual Sword: Harvard Law School, the Second Century". Harvard University Press. pp. 880 pages, 64 photos, 11 illus. ISBN 9780674737327.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link) Belknap Press Award.[5]
  • On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, The First Century (with Bruce Kimball).[6] Peter Dobkin Hall Prize.
  • Real Ethics for Real Lawyers, (2016).[7]
  • Scope and Purpose and One Form of Action, Vol. 1 Moore's. Federal Practice (3rd ed., Lexis Nexis, 2013)[8]
  • The Federal Law of Attorney Conduct, Vol. 30 (3rd ed., Lexis Nexis, 2012).
  • Portrait of a Patriot: The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior (Co-Editors: Daniel R. Coquillette and Neil Longley York).[9]
  • The Anglo-American Legal Heritage[10]
  • Lawyers and Fundamental Moral Responsibility (Cincinnati, 1995).[11]
  • Francis Bacon (Stanford, Edinburgh University Presses, 1992).[12]
  • The Civilian Writers of Doctors' Commons, London (Berlin, 1988), Duncker & Humbolt Publishers (Comparative Studies in Continental and Anglo-American Legal History, Henkel Foundation, Prof. Dr. Knut Wolfgang Norr, gen. ed.).[13]
  • Law in Colonial Massachusetts (Boston, 1984), Volume Editor, Colonial Society Research Volume, University of Virginia Press. Author, "Introduction: The 'Countenance of Authoritie'" and "Justinian in Braintree: John Adams, Civilian Learning, and Legal Elitism, 1758-1775."[14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Marquis Who's Who Honors Daniel Robert Coquillette with Inclusion in Who's Who in the World". 24-7 Press Release Newswire. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
  2. ↑ "Daniel Robert Coquillette | Lawyer". martindale.com. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
  3. 1 2 "Daniel R. Coquillette". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  4. ↑ Staff, Harvard Law News. "In Memoriam – Spring 2001 Bulletin". Harvard Law School. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  5. ↑ Caplan, Lincoln (2020-12-07). "Review of Kimball and Coquillette, "The Intellectual Sword," by Lincoln Caplan | Harvard Magazine". www.harvardmagazine.com. Retrieved 2026-04-30.
  6. ↑ Coquillette, Daniel R.; Kimball, Bruce A. (2015). "On the Battlefield of Merit: Harvard Law School, the First Century". Harvard University Press. pp. 688 pages, 67 halftones, 1 graph, 14 tables. ISBN 9780674967663.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: periodical has ISBN (link)
  7. ↑ Real Ethics for Real Lawyers, Third Edition (9781611638769). Authors: Daniel R. Coquillette. Carolina Academic Press.
  8. ↑ "Moore's Federal Practice, Full Set with SVC". store.lexisnexis.com. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  9. ↑ "Volume 78: Portrait of a Patriot, The Major Political and Legal Papers of Josiah Quincy Junior, Volume Five". Colonial Society of Massachusetts. 2009. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  10. ↑ The Anglo-American Legal Heritage: Introductory Materials, Second Edition (9781594600388). Authors: Daniel R. Coquillette. Carolina Academic Press. 2004.
  11. ↑ "Lawyers and fundamental moral responsibility : materials. by Coquillette, Daniel R.: Signed by Author(s) | Steven Wolfe Books". www.abebooks.com. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
  12. ↑ Brooks, Christopher (2014). "Daniel R. Coquillette. Francis Bacon. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press. 1992. Pp. x, 358. $39.50". Albion. 25 (3): 484–485. doi:10.2307/4050890. ISSN 0095-1390.
  13. ↑ Coquillette, Daniel R. (1988). The Civilian Writers of Doctors' Commons, London: Three Centuries of Juristic Innovation in Comparative, Commercial and International Law. Duncker & Humblot. ISBN 978-3-428-06177-8.
  14. ↑ "Justinian in Braintree: John Adams, Civilian Learning, and Legal Elitism, 1758–1775". Colonial Society of Massachusetts. Retrieved 2026-04-17.
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