Prof. Gerhard Casper is President Emeritus of Stanford University. He is also the Peter and Helen Bing Professor, Emeritus; Professor of Law, Emeritus; Professor of Political Science (by courtesy) Emeritus; and a Senior Fellow at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies at Stanford. Prof. Casper studied law at the universities of Freiburg, Hamburg, and Yale University, and then returned to Freiburg, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1964.
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. He served as dean of the law school, and, in 1989, became provost, a post he held until he accepted the presidency of Stanford University in 1992. He has written and taught primarily in the fields of constitutional law, constitutional history, comparative law, and jurisprudence.
Prof. Casper is a member of the Council of the American Law Institute, a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a Fellow of the American Philosophical Society, and a member of the Order Pour le mérite for the Sciences and Arts.