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Professor Robert
M. Spector
A.B., M.A., M.Ed., Ph.D., Boston University;
LL.B. ( J.D.) from Boston College Law School.
Present position: Professor, Worcester state College;
Senior Lecturer in Law, University College, Northeastern University.
While teaching at Worcester State College, I did consultant work
and practiced law until I gave up the law practice in 1992, and have since then devoted
myself primarily to teaching and writing in the fields of history and the law. My
particular areas of teaching and writing lie in areas of United States History and
Anglo-American Law, especially the fields of English and American legal history and
jurisprudence.
The theme that runs throughout my
teaching is summed up in the oft-repeated phrase that if Democracy is humankind’s
best form of government, the solution to the problems of democracy lie not in
totalitarianism but in adherence to more democracy. History has shown that the
greatest societies have been societies composed of diverse religion, ancestry, race, and
intellectual background, that the great democracies are nations of minorities, and that at
the same time that democracy encourages the competition that produces strength and
vitality of body and mind, it also encourages the cooperation that is productive of
ultimate strength and vitality.
As for evaluations of my teaching, let the students
make their own evaluations not so much now as ten to twenty years hence. In addition to
Worcester State College, both day and evening, I have taught at Holy Cross, Assumption
College, Anna Maria, Clark University, and Northeastern University. Since 1960 through the
present time, I have been senior lecturer since 1960 at University College, Northeastern
University, teaching History and Business Law in addition to my lecturing at Worcester
State College.
My students go into a variety of occupations, but a
good many generally go on to law school, legal research and writing, libraries and
museums, teaching in public school and on college levels, or into para-legal programs.
I
advise students who are planning to obtain their Bachelor’s degree to major in
History and minor either in Political Science or English or take a double minor in both
Political Science and English.
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