Harvard Law School professor Charles Nesson, best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film "A Civil Action," has a new cause: poker. Nesson has formed the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society to promote poker as a fun learning tool and to redefine it as a game of skill rather than a game of chance. He's also lobbying Congress to overturn or amend a U.S. law that effectively bans online gambling.
November 14, 2007 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
A Harvard Law School professor best known for defending the man who leaked the Pentagon Papers and for helping parents sue chemical companies in a case popularized by the film “A Civil Action” has a new cause: poker.
Charles Nesson wants governments to relax restrictions on poker players. He has formed the Global Poker Strategic Thinking Society with some of his students to promote poker as a fun learning tool and to redefine it as a game of skill rather than a game of chance.
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