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Lawyerly Lairs: Professor Laurence Tribe's $3.4 Million Mansion

The eminent constitutional scholar has a lovely, albeit eccentrically decorated, home.

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Professor Laurence Tribe

Professor Laurence Tribe

If you asked constitutional law professors to name the top five or ten among their ranks, Professor Laurence Tribe would show up on pretty much everyone’s list. Here’s his Harvard Law School bio:

Laurence H. Tribe, the Carl M. Loeb University Professor and Professor of Constitutional Law at Harvard, has taught at its Law School since 1968 and was voted the best professor by the graduating class of 2000. The title “University Professor” is Harvard’s highest academic honor, awarded to just a handful of professors at any given time and to just 68 professors in all of Harvard University’s history.

Born in China to Russian Jewish parents, Tribe entered Harvard in 1958 at 16; graduated summa cum laude in Mathematics (1962) and magna cum laude in Law (1966); clerked for the California and U.S. Supreme Courts (1966-68); received tenure at 30; was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences at 38 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2010; helped write the constitutions of South Africa, the Czech Republic, and the Marshall Islands; has received eleven honorary degrees, most recently a degree honoris causa from the Government of Mexico in March 2011 that was never before awarded to an American and an honorary D. Litt. From Columbia University; has prevailed in three-fifths of the many appellate cases he has argued (including 35 in the U.S. Supreme Court); was appointed in 2010 by President Obama and Attorney General Holder to serve as the first Senior Counselor for Access to Justice; and has written 115 books and articles, including his treatise, American Constitutional Law, cited more than any other legal text since 1950.

Former Solicitor General Erwin Griswold wrote: “[N]o book, and no lawyer not on the [Supreme] Court, has ever had a greater influence on the development of American constitutional law,” and the Northwestern Law Review opined that no-one else “in American history has… simultaneously achieved Tribe’s preeminence… as a practitioner and… scholar of constitutional law.”

To quote another famous Harvard grad, “How do you like them apples?”

But we are not here to talk about Professor Tribe’s contributions to American constitutional law (or his controversial tweets about Donald Trump). We are here to talk about… his contributions to the real-estate tax revenues of Cambridge, Massachusetts.

A reader reports:

While casually browsing real estate in my area, I saw this listing:

https://www.redfin.com/MA/Cambridge/33-Fresh-Pond-Pkwy-02138/home/11591652

I saw the… ahem… traditional decor in the office, complete with those stereotypical caselaw books that I think all lawyers of a certain age have, but I think haven’t been opened in decades. And I thought, “Either a lawyer or a pretender… probably a lawyer.”

Then, I saw what must be a Supreme Court photo in the bathroom, and I thought, “This guy must be a heavy.”

So I went to http://www.masslandrecords.com/middlesexsouth/, selected “property search” under the “search criteria” menu at the top of the screen, and put in the address. (Do not put the “pkwy” label in the query), and learned that the place is owned by a guy named Laurence H. Tribe.

I think y’all could have fun with the listing. The decor seems… ripe for comment.

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And commenting on decor is what Lawyerly Lairs is all about, right? So let’s take a tour of this Tribal reservation, on the market for $3.395 million…..

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