Lloyd L. Weinreb ’57

Lloyd L. Weinreb ’57 passed away peacefully in his sleep on December 15, 2021, in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with his children and his wife at his bedside. Lloyd came to Dartmouth from Lawrence (New York) High School. He was a senior fellow and belonged to Pi Lambda Phi, the Forensic Union, and Phi Beta Kappa. In 1959 he earned a B.A. in philosophy, politics, and economics from the University of Oxford (United Kingdom) and an LL.B. from Harvard Law School in 1962. He clerked for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harlan. As an attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Lloyd was named to the Warren Commission after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. He taught for several years at Fordham Law School, then moved to Colombia for a year to study the criminal justice system. Lloyd joined Harvard Law School in 1965 to teach criminal law, criminal procedure, intellectual property, political and legal philosophy, and jurisprudence. In the 1990s he began teaching copyright law. During his half-century tenure at Harvard, he was known nationwide as a leading authority on criminal and copyright law and on campus as a professor whose classes were not to be missed. Life outside the law included studying classical Greek and serving as president of the Abbey Theatre Foundation of America. He retired in 2014. Lloyd loved spending time with his family, chopping wood, building rock walls, hiking, and time with animals. He is survived by Ruth, his wife of 58 years, and children Jenni, Lizzie, and Daniel.