Background
Ronald Chester was born on 20 September 1944, in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States. He is a son of an attorney Charles Gaines Chester and Mary Carol Chester.
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Ronald Chester studied at Columbia University.
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In 1971 Ronald Chester got the Diploma in Criminology at Cambridge University (Trinity College).
Ronald Chester was a member of the executive committee, the section on real property at the American Association of Law Schools
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Ronald Chester is a member of the Sippican Tennis Club (Marion, MA).
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In 1966 Ronald Chester became Bachelor of Arts at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Ronald Chester was born on 20 September 1944, in Jacksonville, Illinois, United States. He is a son of an attorney Charles Gaines Chester and Mary Carol Chester.
In 1966 Ronald Chester started to study law at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts and became a Bachelor of Arts. Later he studied at Columbia University, where he became a Juris Doctor/Master of International Affairs. In 1971 Ronald Chester got the Diploma in Criminology at Cambridge University (Trinity College).
Ronald Chester started his career in 1968 as an intern in the Division of Civil Rights and Labor Relations. In 1969 he took a position of summer associate at Tweed, Hadley & McCloy law firm in New York. Between 1970 and 1973, he was associate for McCutchen, Doyle. Brown & Enersen law firm in San Francisco, and Gadsby & Hannah law firm, in Boston, Massachusetts, and Washington, District of Columbia.
In the New England School of Law, Boston, Ronald Chester began as an assistant professor, and in 1973 he became a professor of law. He has been a tenured professor of law since 1976, an associated scholar at the Center for International Law and Policy, lecturer in Charles Hamilton Houston Program, and co-founder of a summer school program. Also, he was a fellow in law and humanities at Harvard Law School and a visiting scholar at Harvard University in 1975-19776. Since 1975 he has been a visiting professor for numerous universities, such as Indiana University, Bloomington in 1979-1980, Southern Methodist University in 1986-1987, University of California, Davis in 1988-1989. He had the position of adjunct professor in 1993-1995 at Suffolk University and at Boston College, Boston during 1998-1999.
In 1991-1993 he was a part-time legal adviser to Division of Public Charities at the Office of the Massachusetts Attorney General. Since 2000 Ronald Chester is a chairperson at the Law Professors Advisory Group on Trust and Estates, chairperson.
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Quotations:
“Although most of my writing is professional in nature (I have tried one unsuccessful ‘road’ novel and am contemplating a historical novel on the English in America up to the Revolution), I define ‘professional’ very broadly indeed. I guess I want to be heard, primarily on major societal issues of our time (crime, wealth distribution, the conflict between liberty and equality, women’s issues, the restructuring of legal education, human cloning, the new reproductive technologies, law reform, etc.). What most influences my work is the conflict between what might be and what is."
“My writing process is to try to write out a very shortened argument for a book or article and then to research it. The research, of course, adds to the depth and length of my argument, and it provides the footnotes usually necessary to scholarly work! I like to (but cannot always) write one thing at a time, from start to finish."
“My inspiration is the United States and its infinite complexity, superficiality, inconsistency, hypocrisy - and greatness.”
Ronald Chester was married to Nia Lane, but they divorced. On 8 May 1993, he married Emily DiMaggio. He has two sons and one stepson.