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Ralph Nader: Responsive Law
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After Princeton, Nader attended Harvard Law School, where he edited the Harvard Law Record, and graduated with distinction in 1958. It was at Harvard that he first became interested in auto safety. After studying auto injury cases, in 1958 he published his first article on the subject, "American Cars: Designed for Death," in the Harvard Law Record. It contained a thesis that he would bring to national attention in the mid-1960s: auto fatalities result not just from driver error, as the auto industry had maintained, but ... from poor vehicle design. Nader followed his law degree with six months of service in the Army and then a period of personal travel through Latin America, Europe, and Africa. Upon his return, he established a private law practice in Hartford, created an informal legal aid society, and lectured from 1961 to 1963 at the University of Hartford.
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Nader became a leader in the consumer-protection movement. He organized investigative teams of young lawyers, consumer specialists, and students, popularly called Nader’s Raiders, to conduct surveys of numerous companies, federal agencies, and the U.S. Congress. However, some of his investigations have at times been criticized as superficial and biased against big business and government.
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Unmentioned is the inconvenient fact that Nader himself has a long record of financial ties to powerful trial lawyers. Moreover, even as he rails against moneyed interests, Nader, who claims to subsist on an annual income of $15,000, reportedly commands five-figure speaking fees, resides in a $1.5 million townhouse, and guests at luxury hotels.
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