Gerhard Casper '62 LL.M., '00 LL.D.
Atherton, California
After stepping down from the presidency of Stanford University in 2000, Gerhard Casper returned to teaching there as Peter and Helen Bing Professor in Undergraduate Education and as a professor of law. He is also a Senior Fellow at Stanford's Institute for International Studies. He studied law at the universities of Freiburg and Hamburg before receiving his law degree from Yale, then returned to Freiburg, where he earned his Ph.D.
After an initial teaching position at the University of California at Berkeley, Mr. Casper was recruited two years later by the University of Chicago, where he spent twenty-six years, served as dean of the law school, and rose to become provost before being appointed Stanford's president in 1992. Yale awarded him an honorary degree in 2000, and he was appointed Successor Fellow in September 2000.
